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George H. W. Bush

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George H. W. Bush

41st U.S. President


    William Read

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of George H. W. Bush — 12th Generation
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    • 2396 
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    • ABT 1587 
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    • from 9 Apr 1656 to 31 Oct 1656 
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    • ABT 1629 
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    • George Read

      Ralph Read

      Abigail Read

      Israel Read (Ahnentafel No:1198 )

      Rebecca Read

    • Notes: 
    • William Read's surname is also seen as Reed.

      William Read and his wife Mabel arrived in New England aboard the Defence in 1635.

      Some sources claim that William is the son of Sir Thomas Reed and Mary Cornwall. However, Robert Charles Anderson in his The Great Migration series suggests that William may have been from Newcastle-upon-Tyne as this is where William settled after returning to England.

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  • Sources for William Read

    • 4 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 379.
    • 5 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 371.
    • 6 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 392-393.
    • 7 Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 123.
    • 8 McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
    • 9 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#83 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: A Third Set of Ten Hollywood Figures . . .", www.americanancestors.org/third-set-of-ten-hollywood, (accessed 06/26/2014).
    • 12 Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, pp. 323-327.