Ancestry of
Kevin Bacon

Movie Actor

Hope Willets

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Kevin Bacon — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 728 
  • Father:
  • Richard Willets 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Washburne   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Sep 1652 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hempstead, Nassau, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 12 Nov 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Jerusalem, Long Island, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Langdon
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1676 
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  Richard Willets (Ahnentafel No:364 )

  Timothy Willets

  John Willets

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Hope Willets's birth date as JUL 1652, however it appears that the date was in the seventh month which would actually be SEP 1652 according to the Julian calendar.

• Sources for Hope Willets

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 7, p. 802.
  • 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. 86.
  • ³ Gribbel, John, Gribbel and Elkins Families: Wood - Latta - Bingham - McIntire - Fox - Crozer and Allied Families, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania: Privately published by J. Gribbel (1962), 33.
  • ⁴ 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), 95-96.

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