Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

John Loomis

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1236 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Loomis 
  • Mother:
  • Mary White   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1622 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Sep 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Scott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1648/1649 
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  John Loomis Jr. (Ahnentafel No:618 )

  Daniel Loomis

  Nathaniel Loomis

  Samuel Loomis

  Elizabeth Loomis

• Sources for John Loomis

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 171, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Loomis.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/02/2015).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 21.
  • ⁴ Abell, Horace A., The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English Ancestry and his Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company (1940), 61.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 217.
  • ⁶ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 571.
  • ⁷ Loomis, Elisha S., Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America: And His Antecedents in the Old World, Berea, Ohio: unknown (1909), 128-130.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 44.
  • ¹⁰ Warner, Lucien C. and Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols, The Descendants of Andrew Warner, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1919), 46.

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