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John Wayne

Movie Actor

George Way

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Wayne — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 362 
  • Father:
  • George Way 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Nest   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 2 May 1703 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Mar 1760 
  • Death Location:
  • Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Sprague
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jul 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lebanon, New London, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Way

  Dorcas Way (Ahnentafel No:181 )

• Sources for George Way

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 173, Birth record for daughter Dorcas Way.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Lebanon, p. 173, Birth record for daughter Mary Way.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 171.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1934, Vol. 11, pp. 108-109.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 119.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 640.
  • ⁸ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 13.