Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

John French

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1938 
  • Father:
  • William French 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Newes   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1610 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Twinstead, Essex, England 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 16 Feb 1645/1646 
  • Burial Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Syday
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Aug 1631 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Great Tey, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John French

  Sarah French (Ahnentafel No:969 )

  Joseph French

  Nathaniel French

  • Notes: 

  • There is some speculation that the father of John French was William French, son of Jacob and Susan (Warren) French. Evidence is needed to confirm or reject this claim. It is interesting that John's brother William named a son Jacob.

• Sources for John French

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 388.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, pp. 31-44.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 122.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 592.
  • ⁵ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 489.
  • ⁶ Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 950.