Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Francis Eaton

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2244 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1595 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • from 25 Oct 1633 to 8 Nov 1633 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1620 
  • Marriage Location:
  • England 
  • Child:

  Samuel Eaton (Ahnentafel No:1122 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mayflower passenger

    The name of Francis Eaton's second wife, married about 1622 after Sarah but before Christion Penn, is unknown. She is thought to be the maid servant of John Carver. She died soon after the marriage without any known issue.

• Additional marriages for Francis Eaton

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  • Spouse:
  • Unknown
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1622
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Christian Penn
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1624
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

• Sources for Francis Eaton

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 174, 608-610.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1423.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 102.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 417.
  • ⁵ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 6, 11.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 4, 195, 307, 324, 346, 528, 535, 774, 805, 809.
  • ⁸ 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), 53.
  • ⁹ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 3-4.
  • ¹⁰ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 414.

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