Ancestry of
Julia Child

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Thomas Leonard

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Julia Child — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 206 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jul 1774 
  • Death Location:
  • Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Walker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 JUN 1725 or 1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  Sarah Leonard (Ahnentafel No:103 )

  Paul Leonard

  Gamaliel Leonard

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  • No evidence has been found to support the claim that Thomas Leonard was the son of Thomas Leonard and Johanna Pitcher.

• Sources for Thomas Leonard

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Raynham, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth record for daughter Sarah Leonard.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Raynham, Vol. 1, p. 12, Marriage record for Thomas Leonard and Sarah Tucker [sic].
  • ³ Baker, Peggy M., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 19, 2nd ed., Thomas Rogers, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 445-446.
  • ⁴ Byram, John Arnold, Byrams in America, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1996), 18.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 301, 760.

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