Ancestry of
Richard Gere
Movie Actor
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- 3rd Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 6th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 50
- Father:
- Stephen Hempstead
- Mother:
- Martha Tinker
- Birth Date:
- 14 Aug 1799
- Birth Location:
- New London, New London Co., Connecticut
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 2 Nov 1866
- Death Location:
- Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Brooklyn Universalist Cemetery, Brooklyn, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
- Spouse Name:
- Mary L. Newton
- Marriage Date:
- 6 May 1821
- Marriage Location:
- Groton, New London, Connecticut
- Children:
Orlando Gurdon Hempstead
Julia Anne Hempstead (Ahnentafel No:25 )
- Notes:
Gurdon Hempstead's given name is also seen as Gordon.
Gurdon Douglass Hempstead
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Sources for Gurdon Douglass Hempstead
- 1 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/04/2018).
- 2 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 28, New York: James T. White and Company (1940), 184.
- 3 Leonard, Ermina Newton, Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical: Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1915), 765.
- 4 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
- 5 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 325.
- 6 White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Groton, p. 176, Marriage record for Gurdon Hempstead and Mary L. Newton.
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