Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Thomas French

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Joseph Smith — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 132 
  • Father:
  • Jacob French 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Warren   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Oct 1584 
  • Christening Location:
  • Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 Nov 1639 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Riddlesdale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Sep 1608 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Assington, Suffolk, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas French (Ahnentafel No:66 )

  Alice French

  Amy French

  Dorcas French

  Susan French

  Anne French

  Margaret French

  John French

  Mary French

• Sources for Thomas French

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, pp. 41-42.
  • ² Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), 83-85, see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 491.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1026.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1414.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 122.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 704.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 547.
  • ⁹ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 63-64.
  • ¹⁰ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 412-429.