Ancestry of
Jake Gyllenhaal

Movie Actor

Oliver St. John

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Jake Gyllenhaal — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8390 
  • Father:
  • John St. John 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Waldegrave   
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1582 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Agnes Fisher
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 8 Feb 1542/1543 
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  Thomas St. John

  Margaret St. John (Ahnentafel No:4195 )

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  • 1st Baron St. John of Bletso

• Sources for Oliver St. John

  • ¹ thePeerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe, (accessed 10/18/2012).
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 288-289.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 839.
  • ⁵ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873), 39.

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