Ancestry of
Julia Child

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Edward Spalding

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Julia Child — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1900 
  • Father:
  • Edward Spalding 
  • Mother:
  • Diana Mowling   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 10 May 1601 
  • Christening Location:
  • Alburgh, Norfolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 26 Feb 1669/1670 
  • Death Location:
  • Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Elliott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Sep 1623 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Redenhall, Norfolk, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Grace Spalding

  John Spalding

  Samuel Spalding

  John Spalding (Ahnentafel No:950 )

• Additional marriages for Edward Spalding

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  • Spouse:
  • Rachel - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT Aug 1640

• Sources for Edward Spalding

  • ¹ Braintree Massachusetts Vital Records, p. 2915, Birth record for son Benjamin Spalding.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chelmsford, Vol. 1, p. 440, Death record for Edward Spalding.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chelmsford, Vol. 1, p. 319, Marriage record for son Benjamin Spalding and Olive Farwell.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2019, Vol, 173, pp. 220-231.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2023, Vol. 177, p. 87.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1948, Vol. 24, p. 222.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 314.
  • ⁸ Backus, Mary E. N., The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb and Gauss Co., Printers (1949), 169-170.
  • ⁹ Spalding, Charles Warren, The Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay . . ., Chicago: American Publishers' Association (1897), 49-59.
  • ¹⁰ Spalding, Samuel J., Spalding Memorial: A Genealogical History of Edward Spalding, of Massachusetts Bay, and His Descendants, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son, Printers (1872), 14-19.

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