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Ellen DeGeneres

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William de Plumpton

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• • 22nd Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 25th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17409606 
  • Father:
  • Robert de Plumpton 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy de Ros   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1294 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 1362 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Christiana de Mowbray
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1344 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England 
  • Child:

  Alice Plumpton (Ahnentafel No:8704803 )

• Sources for William de Plumpton

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 139.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 4, p. 204.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 416.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 399.
  • ⁵ Sherborn, Charles Davies, A History of the Family of Sherborn, London: Mitchell and Hughes (1901), 12.
  • ⁶ Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaelogia Aeliana: or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Series 3, Vol. I, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: R. Robinson & Company (1904), 64.
  • ⁷ Stapleton, Thomas, ed., Plumpton Correspondence: A Series of Letters ... in the Reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation (1889), xx-xxi.
  • ⁸ Urban, Sylvanus, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle: From December to June, 1824, Vol. 135, London: John Nichols and Sons (1824), 515.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "House of Mowbray", (accessed 10/23/2013).

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