Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Lydia Bucknam

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 85 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Bucknam 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Sprague   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1704 
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  • 31 Oct 1776 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Peter Tufts
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  • Child:

  Timothy Tufts (Ahnentafel No:42 )

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  • Some older published sources give Lydia Bucknam's parents as Joses and Judith (Worth) Bucknam. More recent publications give it as Samuel and Deborah (Sprague) Bucknam.

• Sources for Lydia Bucknam

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, pp. 304-305.
  • ² Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1753.
  • ³ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 63.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).