Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Rebecca Wheelwright

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Christopher Reeve — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1237 
  • Father:
  • John Wheelwright 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hutchinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Dec 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Bradbury
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Mar 1671/1672 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jacob Bradbury

  Thomas Bradbury (Ahnentafel No:618 )

  • Notes: 
  • Widow of Samuel Maverick.

• Additional marriages for Rebecca Wheelwright

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  • Spouse:
  • Samuel Maverick Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Dec 1660
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Rebecca Wheelwright

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury Marriages, p. 283.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury Deaths, p. 530.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1942, Vol. 96, p. 238.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 380.
  • ⁵ Kilpatrick, Marian Douglas Jones, The Kilpatrick Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick, Beatrice, NB: Privately Printed (1930), 152, [Death].
  • ⁶ Lapham, William Berry, Bradbury Memorial: Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Bradbury of Agamenticus (York) in 1634 and . . ., Portland, Oregon: Brown Thurston (1890), 67.
  • ⁷ Lowell, Mary Chandler, Old Foxcroft, Maine: Traditions and Memories, with Family Records, Concord, NH: Rumford Press (1935), 163, [Death].
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/02/2014).
  • ⁹ Wells-Cushing, Gertrude W., Genealogy of the Wells Family and Families Related, Milwaukee: S.E. Tate and Company, Printers (1903), 161.

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