Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

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

John Chester

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 756 
  • Father:
  • Leonard Chester 
  • Mother:
  • Bridget Sharpe   
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  • Death Date:
  • Sep 1628 
  • Death Location:
  • Blaby, Leicestershire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dorothy Hooker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jun 1609 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Birstall, Leicestershire, England 
  • Child:

  Leonard Chester (Ahnentafel No:378 )

• Sources for John Chester

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 166.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 194.
  • 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 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 984.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1753.
  • ⁶ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 55.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁸ 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.