Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Sarah Lazell

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 143 
  • Father:
  • Simon Lazell 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Cooke   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Apr 1732 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 27 Feb 1769 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elkanah Elmes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elkanah Elmes

  William Elmes

  Eliphalet Elmes

  Mary Elmes

  Ruth Elmes (Ahnentafel No:71 )

  Ignatius Elmes

  Abner Elmes

  Ansel Elmes

  Elmes

  • Notes: 

  • Twin

• Sources for Sarah Lazell

  • 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), 165, 427-428.

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