Ancestry of
Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft

Desire Gorham

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Bill Gates — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7039 
  • Father:
  • John Gorham 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Apr 1644 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1700 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Hawes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Oct 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Mary Hawes (Ahnentafel No:3519 )

  Edmund Hawes

  John Hawes

  Joseph Hawes

  Jabez Hawes

  Ebenezer Hawes

  Isaac Hawes

  Desire Hawes

  Benjamin Hawes

  Experience Hawes

• Sources for Desire Gorham

  • ¹ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1184.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 249.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 82.
  • ⁴ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 3, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 18.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 27, 66, 90, 132, 140, 147, 308, 339, 402, 455, 477, 483, 525, 642, 812.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 423.
  • ⁷ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68-69.
  • ⁸ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 170.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 13.
  • ¹⁰ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 11, 13-14.

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