Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Elizabeth Drake

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Christopher Reeve — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2335 
  • Father:
  • John Drake 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 9 Jan 1624 
  • Christening Location:
  • Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jun 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Elderkin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Mar 1660 
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  Anne Elderkin (Ahnentafel No:1167 )

  John Elderkin

• Additional marriages for Elizabeth Drake

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  • Spouse:
  • William Gaylord
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Feb 1653/1654
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for Elizabeth Drake

  • ¹ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FHL No 4291976, Image 24, Baptism for Elizabeth Drake.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, p. 201.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 742.
  • ⁴ Johnson, Alfred, History and Genealogy of One Line of Descent from Captain Edward Johnson Together with his English Ancestry, 1500-1914, Boston: The Stanhope Press (1914), 197-198.
  • ⁵ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, pp. 447-450.

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