Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Richard Wright

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1124 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jun 1608 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Jun 1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hester Cooke
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1644 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  Adam Wright (Ahnentafel No:562 )

  John Wright

  Esther Wright

  Isaac Wright

  Samuel Wright

  Mary Wright

• Sources for Richard Wright

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2012, Vol. 166, p. 129.
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant, 1922, Vol. 24, Pages 83-86.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 470.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 61.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 219, 323, 347, 391.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 9.
  • ⁸ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 55-61.

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