Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Mary Beckett

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2253 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1603 
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  • Death Date:
  • Dec 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Soule
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  • BEF 1627 
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  John Soule (Ahnentafel No:1126 )

  Nathaniel Soule

  George Soule

  Susanna Soule

  Mary Soule

  Patience Soule

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  • Mary Beckett's maiden name is also seen as Becket, Buckett and Bucque. She may have been the daughter of Jan Bucque.

• Sources for Mary Beckett

  • ¹ Soule Kindred Newsletter, Tempe, Arizona: Soule Kindred in American, Inc., https://soulekindred.org, 2021, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1, 3.
  • 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), 1706.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 13, 161, 176, 219, 324, 346, 390, 404, 431, 474, 593, 687, 698, 724, 743, 747, 755.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 615.
  • ⁶ Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th ed., Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 1-3.

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