Ancestry of
Donnie Wahlberg

Singer and Movie Actor

William Read

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Donnie Wahlberg — 14th Generation
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  • 16042 
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  • ABT 1587 
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  • from 9 Apr 1656 to 31 Oct 1656 
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  • Mabel -----
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  • ABT 1629 
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  George Read

  Ralph Read

  Abigail Read (Ahnentafel No:8021 )

  Israel Read

  Rebecca Read

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  • William Read's surname is also seen as Reed.

    William Read and his wife Mabel arrived in New England aboard the Defence in 1635.

    Some sources claim that William is the son of Sir Thomas Reed and Mary Cornwall. However, Robert Charles Anderson in his The Great Migration series suggests that William may have been from Newcastle-upon-Tyne as this is where William settled after returning to England.

• Sources for William Read

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, Fall 2005, Vol. 6, Iss. 4, p. 40.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 52.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 30-35.
  • ⁴ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 379.
  • ⁵ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 371.
  • ⁶ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 392-393.
  • ⁷ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 123.
  • ⁸ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#83 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: A Third Set of Ten Hollywood Figures . . .", www.americanancestors.org/third-set-of-ten-hollywood, (accessed 06/26/2014).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 42.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 502.
  • ¹² Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, pp. 323-327.

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