Ancestry of
Sigourney Weaver

Movie Actress

Charles Benjamin Weaver

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sigourney Weaver — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Sheffield Weaver 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Read   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1811 
  • Birth Location:
  • Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jan 1887 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Louis, Missouri 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachael M. Read
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Dec 1834 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Francis E. Weaver

  Francis Milton "Frank" Weaver (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Charles Benjamin Weaver

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A123423.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Bristol County, 1860, Fall River Ward 5, p. 283, Image 1 of 36.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Fall River, Vol. 16, p. 73, Birth record for son, Francis E. Weaver.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Fall River, Vol. 32, p. 47, Death record for son Francis E. Weaver.
  • ⁵ Reed, William Field, The Descendants of Thomas Durfee of Portsmouth, R. I., Vol. 1, Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders (1902), 178-179.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 636.
  • ⁷ Weaver, Lucius E., History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family, Rochester, New York: The Dubois Press (1928), 207, 352.