Ancestry of
Julia Child

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Jane Washburn

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Julia Child — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 101 
  • Father:
  • Nehemiah Washburn 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Howard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 May 1790 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Dean
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Aug 1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Josiah Dean Jr. (Ahnentafel No:50 )

• Sources for Jane Washburn

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Raynham, Vol. 1, p. 7, Birth record for son Josiah Dean.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rayhnam, Vol. 1, pp. 7, 27, Marriage record for Josiah Dean and Jane Washburn.
  • ³ Howard, Heman, The Howard Genealogy: Descendants of John Howard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from 1643 to 1903, Brockton, Massachusetts: The Standard Printing Co. (1903), 8.
  • ⁴ Nahum, Mitchell, Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Reprinted in facsimile., Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Reprinted by Henry T. Pratt (1897, originally 1840), 342.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 173.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 256.

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