Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

Sarah Bulkeley

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Robert Gould Shaw — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 755 
  • Father:
  • Edward Bulkeley 
  • Mother:
  • Olive Irby   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1580 
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  • ABT 1611 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Oliver St. John
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1597 
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  Elizabeth St. John (Ahnentafel No:377 )

• Sources for Sarah Bulkeley

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 463.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 480.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 118.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 443.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 498.
  • ⁸ Scoville, S. G., Smith, Morrill, and Allied Families, Somerville, New Jersey: American Historical Society (1930), 282.
  • ⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 40, 88.
  • ¹⁰ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873), 39.