Ancestry of
Julia Child

American Chef, Author and TV Personality

Elisha Mitchell

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Julia Child — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • William Mitchell 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ward   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1790 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Apr 1871 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dawes Cemetery, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucinda Brewster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Jan 1818 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Clark Ward Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for Elisha Mitchell

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2016).
  • ² Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 1, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 237.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 20.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 172-173.

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