Ancestry of
Richard Gere

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William Wetherell

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6508 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1602 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Apr 1684 
  • Death Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Fisher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Mar 1627 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Mildred, Canterbury, Kent, England 
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  Daniel Wetherell (Ahnentafel No:3254 )

  Sarah Wetherell

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  • William Wetherell's surname is also seen as Wetherill.

    No evidence has been found linking this William Wetherell to a man by the same name who appeared in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1643.

• Sources for William Wetherell

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Peter Hobart (m. 1628), p. 6.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 318-323.
  • ³ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 137.

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