Ancestry of
Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Thomas French

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Joseph Smith — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Thomas French 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Riddlesdale   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Nov 1608 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Edmund's, Assington, Suffolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 8 Aug 1680 
  • Death Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1632 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary French

  Mary French (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  John French

  Thomas French

  Sarah French

  Samuel French

  Ephraim French

• Sources for Thomas French

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Baptism record for daughter Mary French.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 42.
  • ³ 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), 53, 84-86, see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 703-706.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 64.
  • ⁷ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 412, 419-425.