Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Sarah Bennett

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 285 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Bennett 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Coombs   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Mar 1707 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jul 1789 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ignatius Elmes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Dec 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elkanah Elmes (Ahnentafel No:142 )

  John Elmes

  Ignatius Elmes

  Ebenezer Elmes

• Sources for Sarah Bennett

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1934, Vol. 88, p. 263.
  • ² Lazell, Theodore Studley, John Lazell of Hingham and Some of His Descendants, Haverhill, Massachusetts: The Record Publishing Company (1936), 12.
  • 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), 324, 760.
  • ⁵ 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), 57, 175-176.
  • ⁶ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 427.

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