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Ellen DeGeneres

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Ellen DeGeneres

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    John Goodrich

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 2204 
    • Birth Date:
    • AFT 1611 
    • Birth Location:
    • prob. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • Apr 1680 
    • Death Location:
    • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1645 
    • Marriage Location:
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    • Children:

    • Elizabeth Goodrich

      Jonathan Goodrich (Ahnentafel No:1102 )

      Hannah Goodrich

    • Notes: 
    • John Goodrich first appears in New England at Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1643 when he signed a declaration regarding the defamation of Henry Smith.

  • Additional marriages for John Goodrich


    • Spouse:
    • Mary Foote
    • Marriage Date:
    • AFT 4 Apr 1674

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  • Sources for John Goodrich

    • 4 Bergen, Tunis Garret, Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in . . ., Long Island Edition, Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1915), 623.
    • 5 Case, Lafayette Wallace, M.D., The Goodrich Family in America: A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., . . ., Chicago: Fergus Printing Company (1889), 33.
    • 6 Foote, Abram W., Foote Family Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his Descendants, Vol. 1, Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press - The Tuttle Company (1907), 23.
    • 7 Goodrich, Hiram P., The Goodrich Family Memorial, Part One: Containing the English History of the Family, Chicago: Unknown (1883), 23.
    • 8 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 552-555.
    • 9 Patterson, Williams, John Stoddard of Wethersfield, Conn., and His Descendants, 1642-1872, Newark Valley, New York: Printed for Private Circulation (1873), 13.
    • 10 Rose, Christine, Descendants of Robert Rose of Wethersfield and Branford, Connecticut: Who Came on the Ship Francis from . . ., San Jose, California: Privately published by Rose Family Association (1983), 20.
    • 11 Tracy, Evert E., M.D., comp., Tracy Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Tracy of Norwich, Conn., 1660, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 23.
    • 12 Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 3, p. 593.
    • 13 White, Almira Larkin White, ed., Ancestry of John Barber White and of his Descendants, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of C.H. Webster (1913), 207.

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