Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

Elias Keyes

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 928 
  • Father:
  • Robert Keyes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1643 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Blandford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Sep 1665 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Keyes (Ahnentafel No:464 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources incorrectly give the name of Elias Keyes's mother as Elena Coke.

• Sources for Elias Keyes

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 1, p. 11, Birth record for Elias Keyes.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 82, Birth record for son Thomas Keeys.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1966, Vol. 120, p. 163.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 64.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1129.
  • ⁶ Bollenbach, Willard M., Jr., The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (2003), 148.
  • ⁷ Keyes, Asa, Genealogy: Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633, Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass, 1653 . . ., Brattleboro: Geo. E. Selleck, Printer (1880), 1-2.