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John Wayne

Movie Actor

Dorcas Way

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Wayne — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 181 
  • Father:
  • George Way 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Sprague   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Jul 1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1794 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonathan Murray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Apr 1740 
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  • Child:

  Eber Murray (Ahnentafel No:90 )

• Sources for Dorcas Way

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, Page 173, Birth record for Dorcas Way.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1934, Vol. 11, p. 109.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 119.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 641.