Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Samuel W. Whittemore

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 136 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Whittemore Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Appleton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jun 1751 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Feb 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rhoda Fosdick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Alvan Fosdick Whittemore (Ahnentafel No:68 )

• Sources for Samuel W. Whittemore

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 320, Birth record for son Alvin Fosdick Whittemore.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, pp. 24, 245.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 356.
  • ⁴ Whittemore, Bernard Bemis, A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family: Including the Original Whittemore Family of . . ., Nashua, New Hampshire: Francis P. Whittemore, Book and Job Printer (1890), 80.

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