Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Caroline Word

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Taylor Swift — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 125 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Adams Word 
  • Mother:
  • Justianna Dickinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1799 
  • Birth Location:
  • North Carolina 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 4 Aug 1860 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Joseph Faulkner
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1 Jun 1816 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Surry County, North Carolina 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Clark Falkner

  James Word Falkner (Ahnentafel No:62 )

• Sources for Caroline Word

  • ¹ Federal Census, MO, Ste Genevieve County, 1850, Union, Image 2 of 20.
  • ² Federal Census, MS, Tippah County, 1860, Ripley, p. 208, Image 9 of 11.
  • ³ North Carolina, U.S., Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868, Marriage bond for William Faulkner and Caroline Word.
  • ⁴ Gresset, Michel, A Faulkner Chronology, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (1985), 4.
  • ⁵ Williamson, Joel, William Faulkner and Southern History, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (1993), 15.

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