Ancestry of
Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Jessica Harriet MacMaster

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• • Mother of Ted Danson — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • James Eric MacMaster 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lucile Johnston   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Nov 1916 
  • Birth Location:
  • Seattle, King, Washington 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 2006 
  • Death Location:
  • Sedona, Coconino, Arizona 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sedona Community Cemetery, Sedona, Coconino, Arizona 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Bridge Danson Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1942 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pasadena, Los Angeles, California 
  • Child:

  Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jessica MacMaster's given name is also seen as Jess.

• Sources for Jessica Harriet MacMaster

  • ¹ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1940, Pasadena, E.D. 19-485, Sheet 6A, Image 11 of 28.
  • ² Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1930, Los Angeles, E.D. 19-114, Sheet 26B, Image 51 of 61.
  • ³ Federal Census, WA, King County, 1920, Seattle, E.D. 156, Sheet 7A, Image 13 of 20.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/29/2015).
  • ⁵ The Desert Foundation: Circle of Friends, Reflections on the death of Jessica MacMaster-Danson.
  • ⁶ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 08 MAY 1924, Passport application for father James Eric MacMaster.
  • ⁷ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Jessica M. Danson.
  • ⁸ United States Obituary Collection, The Arizona Daily Sun, 13 JAN 2006, Obituary for Jessica MacMaster Danson.
  • ⁹ Fuller, Stewart D., Johnston-Black Genealogy, Unknown: Typescript (1966), 47.
  • ¹⁰ Phinney, Mary Allen, Allen Genealogy: A Brief History of Lewis Allen (of Fisher's Island and New London, Conn.) and His Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1954), 148.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 321.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Ted Danson", (accessed 01/29/2015).

Ted Danson photo by Rob Dicaterino (CC BY 2.0)