Ancestry of
Brian Wilson

Co-Founder of The Beach Boys

Lydia Thomson

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Brian Wilson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 227 
  • Father:
  • John Thomson 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Wood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jun 1752 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Aug 1844 
  • Death Location:
  • Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Gifford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1770 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Huldah Gifford (Ahnentafel No:113 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Ephraim Sheldon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 May 1794

• Sources for Lydia Thomson

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1978, Vol. 132, p. 298.
  • ² 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.
  • ³ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 99.
  • 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), 369.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 151.
  • ⁶ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., ""Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 520.

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