Ancestry of
George Lane Gere

(1848–1932)

Elkanah Elmes

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of George Lane Gere — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30 
  • Father:
  • Ignatius Elmes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Bennett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Sep 1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Nov 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Lazell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elkanah Elmes

  William Elmes

  Eliphalet Elmes

  Mary Elmes

  Ruth Elmes (Ahnentafel No:15 )

  Ignatius Elmes

  Abner Elmes

  Ansel Elmes

  Elmes

• Sources for Elkanah Elmes

  • ¹ Middleborough, MA: Vital Records, Vol. 1, p. 116, Birth record for daughter Ruth Elms.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1934, Vol. 88, p. 263.
  • ³ Lazell, Theodore Studley, John Lazell of Hingham and Some of His Descendants, Haverhill, Massachusetts: The Record Publishing Company (1936), 12.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 324-325, 760.
  • ⁶ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 176.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 427-428.