Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Edward Wood

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4900 
  • Father:
  • Lewis Wood 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Holmes   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 29 Oct 1598 
  • Christening Location:
  • Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 27 Nov 1642 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Feb 1619/1620 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Wood (Ahnentafel No:2450 )

  Ruth Wood

  • Notes: 
  • The Genealogist Magazine (Spring 1988),. Vol. 9, No. 1, contains an article about the English origins of Edward Wood. The article is supposedly about 70 pages long beginning on page 90. Pages 126 to 129 might be of particular interest. (Copy at Winnetka, IL Public Library)

• Sources for Edward Wood

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 8, Death record for Edward Wood.
  • ² England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Christening for Edward Wood.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 26.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1944, Vol. 21, pp. 123-131.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, p. 52.
  • ⁶ Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to 1850 (Online Database), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2008), 8, [Death].
  • ⁷ Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812, Nuneaton, 1600-1649, Marriage record for Edward Wodd and Ruth Lee.
  • ⁸ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1988, Vol. 9, Iss. 1, p. 90.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 382.
  • ¹⁰ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 153.
  • ¹¹ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 45.
  • ¹³ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 473, [Christening].

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