Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Martha Billington

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1123 
  • Father:
  • Francis Billington 
  • Mother:
  • Christian Penn   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1638 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 9 Jun 1704 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Eaton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jan 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mercy Eaton (Ahnentafel No:561 )

  Sarah Eaton

  Samuel Eaton

  Bethiah Eaton

• Additional marriages for Martha Billington

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  • Spouse:
  • Robert Crossman
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 7 Dec 1687

• Sources for Martha Billington

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 609.
  • ² Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 7, 11.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 9.
  • ⁶ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 3, 5-6.

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