Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Rebecca Cornell

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Bill Gates — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6567 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Cornell 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Briggs   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 31 Jan 1629/1630 
  • Christening Location:
  • Saffron Walden, Essex, England 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 5 Feb 1713 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • George Woolsey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Dec 1647 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Woolsey (Ahnentafel No:3283 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rebecca's maiden name may have been Cornell.

• Sources for Rebecca Cornell

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1881, Vol. 12, p. 172.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 107, Baptism record for Rebecca Cornell.
  • ³ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I., New York: Press of T.A. Wright (1902), 17, 31-32.
  • ⁴ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 334, 338.
  • ⁵ Shotwell, Ambrose M., Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Prosperity, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith and Co., Printers and Binders (1895), 264.

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