Ancestry of
Taylor Swift

Singer and Songwriter

Alanson Kingsley

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • Orin Kingsley Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Buchanan   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1815 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Annsville, Oneida, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1881 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Foster Cemetery, Lander, Warren, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Laura Ann Jackett
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  • Child:

  Barbara Maria Jane "Jennie" Kingsley (Ahnentafel No:19 )

• Additional marriages for Alanson Kingsley

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  • Spouse:
  • Polly H. - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 14 Jul 1870 to 10 Jun 1880
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• Sources for Alanson Kingsley

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Chautauqua County, 1850, Gerry, Image 15 of 32.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Indiana County 1860, Montgomery, p. 424, Image 26 of 36.
  • ³ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1870, Farmington, p. 2, Image 2 of 28.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, PA, Warren County, 1880, Farmington, E.D. 269, p. 11, Image 11 of 22.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/24/2016).
  • ⁶ Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1970, Death certificate for daughter Jennie Kingsley Thompson.
  • ⁷ Kingsley, William Arthur, Kingsley Family of America: Ancestry, Records, Sketches of John Kingsley of Dorchester and Rehoboth, Mass. with . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1980), 233, 319.
  • ⁸ 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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