Ancestry of
George Clooney

Movie Actor

Lucy Hanks

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of George Clooney — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 231 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Hanks 
  • Mother:
  • Ann "Nanny" Lee   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1766 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Richmond County, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1826 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Mercer County, Kentucky 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Sparrow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Apr 1790 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mercer County, Kentucky 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ann "Polly" Sparrow (Ahnentafel No:115 )

  Margaret Sparrow

  Lucinda Sparrow

  Elizabeth Sparrow

  • Notes: 

  • There are two opposing theories to the parentage of Lucy Hanks. One theory says that she is the daughter of Joseph and Nanny (Lee) Hanks and had Nancy Hanks, President Abraham Lincoln's mother, out of wedlock. The other theory says Lucy was a widow to an unidentified son of Joseph Hanks and Nancy Hanks was his daughter. On 21 OCT 2015, the results of a mtDNA study on the matrilineal kin of Lucy Hanks appears to have finally put this issue to rest. Lucy is a Hanks and not a Shipley. To learn more about this controversy, read The Lincoln-Hanks Debate.

• Additional marriages for Lucy Hanks

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  • Spouse:
  • Unknown
  • Marriage Date:
  • NOT MARRIED

• Sources for Lucy Hanks

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2016, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 55-57.
  • ² American Ancestors Magazine, 2016, Vol. 17, No. 3, p. 55-57.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A127718.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, Winter 2003, Vol. 4.1, pages 25-29, 55.
  • ⁵ Hallstrom, Suzanne W., et. al., "Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study: Unlocking the Secrets of Abraham Lincoln's Maternal Ancestry", (accessed 05/05/2020).
  • ⁶ Shipley, H. Burton and others, The Shipley's of Maryland: A Genealogical Study, Baltimore: Reese Press (1938), 36.
  • ⁷ Warren, Louis A., "The Shipley Ancestry of Lincoln's Mother", Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 1933), 206-207, 211.