Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Hugh Calkins

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12998 
  • Father:
  • Rowland Calkins 
  • Mother:
  • Elen Payne   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Apr 1603 
  • Christening Location:
  • Waverton, Cheshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1690 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne -----
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  Sarah Calkins (Ahnentafel No:6499 )

  John Calkins

  David Calkins

• Sources for Hugh Calkins

  • ¹ England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000, Baptism record for daughter Sara Calkin.
  • ² England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000, Baptism record for Hugh Calkins.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 296, Marriage record for daughter Sarah.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1869, Vol. 23, Pages 396-398.
  • ⁶ Calkins, Kenneth W., ed., Calkins Family in America, Golden, Colorado: Calkins Family Association (2000), 7.
  • ⁷ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 1209.
  • ⁸ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 48.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ¹⁰ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 12-13.
  • ¹¹ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 15.

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