Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

Ruth Elmes

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Richard Gere — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 71 
  • Father:
  • Elkanah Elmes 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Lazell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Mar 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 29 Nov 1767 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Congregational Church, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jan 1845 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Clark Cemetery, Lemon, Wyoming, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Consider Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Feb 1777 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lucinda Fuller (Ahnentafel No:35 )

• Sources for Ruth Elmes

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/07/2013).
  • ² Middleborough, MA: Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 91, Marriage record for Consider Fuller and Ruth Elms.
  • ³ Middleborough, MA: Vital Records, Vol. 1, p. 116, Birth record for Ruth Elms.
  • 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).
  • 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), 323-324.
  • ⁶ Weston, E. A., A History of Brooklyn, Susquehanna Co., Penn'a: Its Homes and Its People, Brooklyn, PA: W. A. Squier, Printer (1889), 166, [Death].
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 428.

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