Ancestry of
Kevin Bacon

Movie Actor

Richard Willets

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Kevin Bacon — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 182 
  • Father:
  • Richard Willets 
  • Mother:
  • Elisabeth Ridgeway   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Oct 1707 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1758 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Butcher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1734 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Silence Willets (Ahnentafel No:91 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Barton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1732

• Sources for Richard Willets

  • ¹ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriage record for Richard Willets and Patience Butcher.
  • ² Bunker, Mary Powell, Long Island Genealogies: Families of Albertson, Andrews . . . Willets, Williams, Willis, Wright and other Families, Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons (1895), No. 24, p. 88.
  • ³ Hook, James W., Smith, Grant and Irons Families of New Jersey's Shore Counties: Including the Related Families of Willets and Birdsall, New Haven, Connecticut: Unknown (1955), 97.
  • ⁴ Mason, Freeman C., History of the Borton and Mason Families in Europe and America, Dowagiac, Michigan: H. E. AG~EW (1908), 31.

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