Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

John Powers Tupper

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• • Great-grandfather of Ken Burns — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Lorenzo Baker Tupper 
  • Mother:
  • Caroline Louise "Carrie" Powers   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Nov 1863 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 9 Jan 1920 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Francis Howard McMannus
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1886 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Fernando Alexander Tupper

  George Bancroft Tupper (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Tupper was enumerated twice in the 1870 census.

• Sources for John Powers Tupper

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1900, Manhattan, E.D. 932, Sheet 3A, Image 5 of 39.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Westchester County, 1910, Yonkers Ward 3, E.D. 154, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 15.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1870, New York Ward 12, District 3, p. 39, Image 39 of 81.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1870, New York Ward 12, District 15, p. 25, Image 24 of 83.
  • ⁵ New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962, Birth record for son George Bancroft Tupper.
  • ⁶ New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962, Birth record for son Fernando Alexander Tupper.
  • ⁷ New York, Marriages, 1686-1980, Marriage record for John Powers Tupper and Francis Howard McMannus.
  • ⁸ West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, Marriage record for George son Bancroft Tupper and Lyla Morris Smith.
  • ⁹ Tupper, Eleanor, Ph.D., Tupper Genealogy 1578-1971, North Conway, New Hampshire: The Reporter Press (1972), 404.

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