Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Mary Sharpe

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 379 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Sharpe 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1608 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Nov 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Leonard Chester
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1632 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Chester

  Dorcas Chester (Ahnentafel No:189 )

  • Notes: 
  • Mary's maiden name is said to be that of Wade, Sharpe, or Neville.

• Additional marriages for Mary Sharpe

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  • Spouse:
  • - - - - - - Wade

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Russell
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 9 Aug 1654

• Sources for Mary Sharpe

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 163.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 195.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 347.
  • ⁴ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 55.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 757.