Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Richard Douglas

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1624 
  • Father:
  • William Douglas Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abiah Hough   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jul 1682 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Feb 1734/1735 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ancient Cemetery, New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Abell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1704 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  William Douglas (Ahnentafel No:812 )

• Sources for Richard Douglas

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 102, Marriage record for Richard Douglass and Margaret Abell.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/28/2016).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1877, Vol. 31, p. 166.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 6, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 194.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).

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