Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

William Whitgift

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9890 
  • Father:
  • Henry Whitgift 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Dynwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1535 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 2 Aug 1615 
  • Burial Location:
  • Clavering, Essex, England 
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth Whitgift (Ahnentafel No:4945 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Barley

• Sources for William Whitgift

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, pp. 27-36.
  • ² Corlis, Augustus W., Old Times: A Magazine Devoted to the Publica and Publication of Documents . . . of N. Yarmouth, ME, Vols. 5-8, Yarmouth, ME: Privately Printed (1881), 719.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 612-613.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 829.

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