Ancestry of
Henry Lee Higginson

Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Catherine Chaucer

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• • 13th Great-grandmother of Henry Lee Higginson — 16th Generation
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  • John Chaucer 
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  • Agnes de Copton   
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  • Simon Manning
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  John Manning (Ahnentafel No:16544 )

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  • Katherine, wife of Simon Manning, is shown to be the sister of English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in the Manning pedigree given in the Kent Visitation of 1619.

• Sources for Catherine Chaucer

  • ¹ Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 159-162, 176, 185.