Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

John Jenny

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1478 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1589 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 28 Dec 1643 to 5 May 1644 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Cary
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1614 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leiden, Holland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Jenny

  Abigail Jenny

  Sarah Jenny (Ahnentafel No:739 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Jenny's surname is also seen as Jenney.

    His marriage record states that he is from Norwich, England.

    John Jenny arrived in New England aboard the Little James in 1623.

    John Jenny's surname is also seen as Jenney, Jeney, and Jene.

• Sources for John Jenny

  • ¹ The Mayflower Descendant, 1998, Vol. 48, p. 13.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1089-1094.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1498.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 184.
  • ⁵ Griffeth, Bill, By Faith Alone, Harmony Books, New York, 2007, Introduction pages.
  • ⁶ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 124-126.
  • ⁷ Pope, Franklin Leonard, Genealogy of Thomas Pope (1608-1683) and Some of His Descendants, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1888), 6.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 506.