Ancestry of
Julia Child

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Elizabeth Cushing

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Julia Child — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 113 
  • Father:
  • Elisha Cushing 
  • Mother:
  • Leah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 May 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 May 1799 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Mitchell Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Dec 1738 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Edward Mitchell

  Cushing Mitchell

  Elisha Mitchell

  William Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  Elizabeth Mitchell

• Sources for Elizabeth Cushing

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2011, Vol. 12.2, p. 41.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 12489, Membership application for James Bryant Conant.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 12489, Supplemental No. 3, Application for James Bryant Conant.
  • ⁴ Hingham, MA: Vital Records, 1637-1845, Vol. 1, p. 57a, Birth record for Elizabeth Cushing.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1859, Vol. 13, p. 124.
  • ⁶ The Mayflower Descendant, 1918, Vol. 20, p. 140.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 172, 469.
  • ⁹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 598.

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