Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Nathaniel Russell Sturgis

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• • Grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Russell Sturgis 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Perkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Feb 1779 
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  • 27 Sep 1856 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Parkman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Sep 1804 
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  Sarah Blake Sturgis (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Russell Sturgis

  • ¹ Breck, Samuel, Genealogy of the Breck Family Descended from Edward of Dorchester and His Brothers in America, Omaha: Rees Printing Company (1889), 28.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 224.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 328.
  • ⁴ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), Introduction prior to page 1, p. 1.