Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Grace Wells

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Christopher Reeve — 12th Generation
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  • 2337 
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  • (probable) John Wells 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Norton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 May 1631 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shelton Parish, Bedfordshire, England 
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  Mary Norton

  Thomas Norton Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1168 )

  John Norton

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  • Spouse:
  • Francis Bushnell

• Sources for Grace Wells

  • ¹ Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1905), 9.
  • ² History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, Vol. 2, New York: J. B. Beers and Co. (1885), 216.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1900, Vol. 54, pp. 269-270.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, p. 221.
  • ⁵ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p 1103, Marriage record for Thomas Norton and Grace Wells.
  • ⁶ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p 1103, Marriage record for Francis Bushnell and Grace Wells.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1978, Vol. 54, pp. 179-180.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1980, Vol. 56, pp. 170-172.
  • ⁹ The American Genealogist, 1972, Vol. 48, p. 136.

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