Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Mary Abell

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1625 
  • Father:
  • Caleb Abell 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Post   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1685 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Jan 1751 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Richard Douglas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1704 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  William Douglas (Ahnentafel No:812 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Abell's given name is also seen as Margaret.

• Additional marriages for Mary Abell

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  • Spouse:
  • Joseph Tracy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Dec 1705
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Mary Abell

  • 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 Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth record for daughter Irena Tracy.
  • ⁴ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 61, Marriage record for Joseph Tracy and Mary Abell.
  • ⁵ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 61, Birth records for children of Joseph Tracy and Mary Abell.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, ed., Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievements of her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 657.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 52, 696.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ¹⁰ Tracy, Evert E., M.D., comp., Tracy Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., 1660, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 28.
  • ¹¹ 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), 32.

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