Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Willis Wilbur Thompson

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Annice Knapp   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Aug 1852 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Dec 1940 
  • Death Location:
  • Warren, Warren Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
  • 1 Jan 1941 
  • Burial Location:
  • Foster Cemetery, Lander, Warren, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Barbara Maria Jane "Jennie" Kingsley
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1877 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Bernice Maude Thompson (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Margia A. Thompson

• Sources for Willis Wilbur Thompson

  • ¹ Federal Census, PA, McKean County, 1900, Kane, E.D. 111, Sheet 1B, Image 2 of 44.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1880, Lander, E.D. 269, p. 23, Image 1 of 3.
  • ³ Federal Census, PA, Elk County, 1910, Ridgway Ward 5, E.D. 47, Sheet 21B, Image 18 of 22.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, PA, Elk County, 1920, Ridgway Ward 5, E.D. 17, Sheet 8B, Image 16 of 24.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1930, Warren, E.D. 31, Sheet 4B, Image 8 of 18.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1940, Warren, E.D. 62-34, Sheet 6A, Image 11 of 24.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1860, Farmington, p. 137, Image 9 of 27.
  • ⁸ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1870, Farmington, p. 17, Image 17 of 28.
  • ⁹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/24/2016).
  • ¹⁰ Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, Marriage record for Archie Dean Swift and daughter Bernice Maude Thompson.
  • ¹¹ Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968, Death certificate for spouse Jennie Kingsley Thompson.
  • ¹² Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968, Death certificate for Willis Wilbur Thompson.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 378.

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