Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Rhoda Fosdick

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ellen DeGeneres — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 137 
  • Father:
  • Ezekiel Fosdick 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Wright   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Nov 1751 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Nov 1837 
  • Death Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel W. Whittemore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Alvan Fosdick Whittemore (Ahnentafel No:68 )

• Sources for Rhoda Fosdick

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 320, Birth record for son Alvin Fosdick Whittemore.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 108, Birth record for Rhoda Fosdick.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 245.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 264.
  • ⁵ Fosdick, Raymond, B., Annals of the Fosdick Family, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1953), 159.
  • ⁶ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 108.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ 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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