Ancestry of
Cornelius Vanderbilt

(1843–1899)

Cornelius Vanderbilt II

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Henry Vanderbilt 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Louisa Kissam   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Nov 1843 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Dorp, Staten Island, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Sep 1899 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp (Staten Island), Richmond, New York 

• Marriages for Cornelius Vanderbilt II

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  • Spouse:
  • Alice Claypoole Gwynne
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Feb 1867
  • Marriage Location:
  • Church of the Incarnation, New York, New York

• Sources for Cornelius Vanderbilt II

  • ¹ American Biographical Library, Entry for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A022878.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2014).
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, pp. 22, 24.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1935, Vol. 89, pp. 261-262.
  • ⁶ New York World (New York, New York), 13 SEP 1899, pp. 1-2, Obituary for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • ⁷ New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, Marriage record for son Reginold Vanderbilt and Gloria Morgan.
  • ⁸ Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950, Death record for son Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.
  • ⁹ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 01 DEC 1897, Application for Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 162.
  • ¹¹ Duyckinck, Whitehead Cornell and Rev. John Cornell, The Duyckinck and Allied Families: Being a Record of the Descendants of Evert Duyckinck Who Settled in . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright, Publisher (1908), 66, 86-87.
  • ¹² Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 47.
  • ¹³ Kissam, Edward, The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825, New York: Dempsey and Carroll's Art Press (1892), 49.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 10.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 393.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 48, 57.
  • ¹⁸ Wikipedia, "Cornelius Vanderbilt II", (accessed 12/01/2014).