Ancestry of
Richard Gere

Movie Actor

William Douglas

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Richard Gere — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 812 
  • Father:
  • Richard Douglas 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Abell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Jan 1708 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Nov 1787 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Denison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Mar 1730/1731 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  William Douglas Jr. (Ahnentafel No:406 )

  Richard Douglas

• Sources for William Douglas

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 103, Marriage record for William Douglass and Sarah Denison.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 103, Birth record for son William Douglass.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 104, Death record for William Douglass.
  • ⁴ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 6, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 194-195.
  • ⁵ 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), 272.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 279, 325.
  • ⁸ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 341.

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