Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Robert Wingfield

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6786 
  • Father:
  • Robert Wingfield 
  • Mother:
  • Margery Quarles   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1532 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Mar 1580 
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  • Burial Date:
  • 2 Apr 1580 
  • Burial Location:
  • Castor, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Cecil
  • Marriage Date:
  • Sep 1555 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Robert Wingfield

  John Wingfield

  Cecil Wingfield

  Richard Wingfield

  Peregrine Wingfield

  Elizabeth Wingfield

  Dorothy Wingfield (Ahnentafel No:3393 )

• Sources for Robert Wingfield

  • ¹ Bracken, Evelyn Claypool, The Claypoole Family in America, Vol. 1, Indiana, Pennsylvania: Typewritten Manuscript (1971), 9.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 160.
  • ³ Dennis, G. Ravenscroft, The Cecil Family, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1914), 13.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, pp. 383-384.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 353.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 23.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Richard Cecil (courtier)", (accessed 08/29/2014).

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