Ancestry of
John Kerry

68th U.S. Secretary of State

John Murray Forbes

View famous kin of John Murray Forbes

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Kerry — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • James Grant Forbes 
  • Mother:
  • Frances Elizabeth Blackwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1807 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1885 
  • Death Location:
  • Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Howell
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1837 
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  • Child:

  Francis Blackwell Forbes (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Additional marriages for John Murray Forbes

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  • Spouse:
  • Emily Anthony
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1870

• Sources for John Murray Forbes

  • ¹ Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, Death record for son Francis B Forbes.
  • ² New York Marriages, 1686-1980, Marriage record for son Frank Blackwell Forbes and Isabel Clarke.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 573.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 923.
  • ⁵ Tayler, Alistair and Henrietta, The House of Forbes, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press Limited (1937), 385.