Ancestry of
Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

Catherine Frances Bennett

View famous kin of Catherine Frances Bennett

• • Mother of Thomas Pynchon — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1909 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Nov 1996 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Memorial Cemetery of Saint John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Nassau, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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  • Child:

  Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Catherine Bennett's given name is also seen as Katherine.

• Sources for Catherine Frances Bennett

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Nassau County, 1940, Oyster Bay, E.D. 30-305, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 44.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/29/2018).
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ⁴ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Catherine Pynchon.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • 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), 188.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 04/07/2015).