Ancestry of
Brian Wilson

Co-Founder of The Beach Boys

Huldah Gifford

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Brian Wilson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 113 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Gifford 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Thomson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1775 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Mar 1828 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, Tompkins, New York 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Groton, Tompkins, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abraham Finney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1794 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ezra Thompson Finney

  infant Finney

  Senah Finney

  Abraham Finney Jr. (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  Huldah Finney

  Phebe Finney

  Uri Finney

  Lydia Finney

  Rhoda Finney

  Huldah Finney

  John Finney

  Parley Finney

  Pleadis Finney

• Sources for Huldah Gifford

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Sylvanus Finney.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lee, Vol. 1, p. 134, Marriage record for Abraham Finney and Huldah Gifford.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lee, Vol. 1, p. 41, Birth records for children of Abraham and Huldah Finney.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5. p. 39.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1978, Vol. 132, p. 298.
  • ⁶ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1923, Vol. 54, p. 77.
  • ⁷ Records of the Town of Lee from Its Incorporation to A.D. 1801: All the Extant Records of the Town Clerks . . ., Lee, Massachusetts: Press of The Valley Gleaner (1900), p. 137, Marriage record for Abraham Finney ahd Huldah Gifford.
  • ⁸ Records of the Town of Lee from Its Incorporation to A.D. 1801: All the Extant Records of the Town Clerks . . ., Lee, Massachusetts: Press of The Valley Gleaner (1900), 154, 280, 282-283.
  • ⁹ Finney, Howard, Sr., Finney-Phinney Families in America: Descendants of John Finney of Plymouth and Barnstable, Mass. and . . ., Richmond, Virginia: The William Byrd Press, Inc. (1957), 46.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 369.

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