Ancestry of
Alan Shepard

Mercury and Apollo Astronaut

Rebecca Dudley

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Alan Shepard — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 327 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Dudley 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 17 Dec 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Francis Lyford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Nov 1681 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Lyford (Ahnentafel No:163 )

  Stephen Lyford

  • Notes: 

  • Rebecca is mentioned in the 1723 will of her husband. Some online websites give her death year as 1734, but none as of this writing cite a valid source for that information.

• Sources for Rebecca Dudley

  • ¹ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 6, 15, gives death date as 20 DEC 1774.
  • ² Welch, William Lewis, Francis Lyford of Boston and Exeter, and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for the Essex Institute (1902), 8.