Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Joseph Gillett Jr.

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 310 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Gillett 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hawks   
  • Birth Date:
  • 02 or 20 NOV 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 4 Mar 1745/1746 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Griswold
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 May 1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Dorothy Gillett (Ahnentafel No:155 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Gillett Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Esther Gull
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1687
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 19 Dec 1719

• Sources for Joseph Gillett Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 118, Birth record for Joseph Gillett.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1998, Vol. 152, p. 178.
  • ³ McGhan, Judith, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2006), 43, 47-52.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).

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