Ancestry of
Ted Danson

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Edward Bridge Danson

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• • Grandfather of Ted Danson — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Richard Danson 
  • Mother:
  • Frances "Fanny" Hickson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Nov 1862 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wallasey, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Feb 1927 
  • Death Location:
  • Glendale, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
  • 3 Feb 1927 
  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Louise Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Nov 1907 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Glendale, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Edward Bridge Danson Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Although Edward Danson gave his birthplace as Egremont in his 1921 U.S. passport application, the census for Egremont in 1871 where he was living gave the nearby village of Wallasey as his birth place. This latter is believed to be the correct location.

• Sources for Edward Bridge Danson

  • ¹ England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, Birth record for Edward Bridge Danson.
  • ² England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, 30 JUL 1927, Probate record for Edward Bridge Danson.
  • ³ England Census, 1881, Gloucestershire, Horfield, Dist. 23, p. 22, Image 23 of 41.
  • ⁴ England Census, 1871, Cheshire, Liscard, Dist. 5, Egremont, p. 75, Image 74 of 96.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, OH, Hamilton County, 1920, Springfield, E.D. 513, Sheet 9B, Image 18 of 36.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, OH, Hamilton County, 1910, Springfield, E.D. 345, Sheet 9B, Image 18 of 36.
  • ⁷ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/29/2015).
  • ⁸ Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953, Death record for Edward B Danson.
  • ⁹ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 27 MAY 1921, Passport application for Edward Bridge Danson.
  • 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), 146.
  • 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.

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