Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Joan Kember

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 167 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1584 
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  • Death Date:
  • May 1661 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Peter Coffin
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  Tristam Coffin

  Mary Coffin (Ahnentafel No:83 )

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  • Joan Kember's maiden name is also seen as Thember and Thumber.

• Sources for Joan Kember

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register , 1870, Vol. 24, pp. 149-150, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ² Cornell, Thomas C. , Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants , Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890) , 322, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ³ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins , Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England , Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870) , 1-2, FamilySearch.org (Online Database).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 1 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998) , 148, 174, 193, 204.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd , Notable Ki n, Volume 2 , Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999) , 126.
  • ⁶ Starbuck, Alexander , The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers , Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924) , 698, Ancestry.com (Online Database).