Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Richard Olmstead

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• • 11th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 14th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15240 
  • Father:
  • James Olmstead 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Bristow   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 22 Mar 1579 
  • Christening Location:
  • Great Leighs, Essex, England 
  • Death Date:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 16 Nov 1641 
  • Burial Location:
  • Fairsted, Essex, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances Slaney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1606 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Richard Olmstead (Ahnentafel No:7620 )

  John Olmstead

  Rebecca Olmstead

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Olmstead's surname is also seen as Homesteed.

• Sources for Richard Olmstead

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 451.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2007, Vol. 82, pp. 36-37.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1359.
  • ⁴ Olmsted, Henry King and Rev. George K. Ward, Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmsted and . . ., New York: A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, Ltd. (1912), chart on page xiv.

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