Ancestry of
Kevin Bacon

Movie Actor

Robert Comly

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• • Great-grandfather of Kevin Bacon — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Charles B. Comly 
  • Mother:
  • Debby Ann Newbold   
  • Birth Date:
  • Feb 1843 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Townsend Atkinson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Oct 1869 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pilesgrove, Salem, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Helen Atkinson Comly (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • Marriage records for Robert Comly and Lydia Atkinson disagree on the date and location of the marriage. Quaker Meeting records in Philadelphia give the date and location as 29 OCT 1869 in Mullica Hill, New Jersey which is in Gloucester County. New Jersey marriage records give 28 OCT 1869 in Pilesgrove, Salem County, New Jersey. The Philadelphia records were created decades after the event so the New Jersey records should be given preference over the Philadelphia records.

• Sources for Robert Comly

  • ¹ Federal Census, PA, Philadelphia County, 1900, Philadelphia Ward 24, E.D. 578, Sheet 4A, Image 13 of 25.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Philadelphia County, 1880, Philadelphia, E.D. 483, p. 27, Image 27 of 34.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5, p. 40.
  • ⁴ New Jersey, Marriages, 1678-1985, Marriage record for Robert Comly and Lydia T. Atkinson.
  • ⁵ U.S., Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940, Marriage record for Ellis W. Bacon and daughter Helen Comly.
  • ⁶ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriage record for Ellis Williams Bacon and daughter Helen Atkinson Comly.
  • ⁷ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Green Street Monthly Meeting, Birth record for daughter Helen A. Comly.
  • ⁸ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriage record for Robert Comly and Lydia Atkinson.
  • ⁹ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Death record for spouse Lydia T. Comly.
  • ¹⁰ Atkinson, John B., The Atkinsons, of New Jersey, from the Records of Friends Meetings, and from Offices of Record in the State, Earlington, Kentucky: Earlington Bee Print (1890), 22.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 09/17/2014).
  • ¹² Sterling, Albert Mack, The Sterling Genealogy, New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 1139.

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