Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Rebecca Merrick

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 831 
  • Father:
  • William Merrick Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Hopkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Nov 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 May 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Sparrow Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1690 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Sparrow

  Joseph Sparrow

  John Sparrow

  Hannah Sparrow (Ahnentafel No:415 )

  Abigail Sparrow

  Rebecca Sparrow

• Sources for Rebecca Merrick

  • ¹ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 20, 24, 90-91, 166, 201, 203.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 179.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 99, 193, 275, 663.