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Ellen DeGeneres

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William Gascoigne

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• • 16th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 19th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 272026 
  • Father:
  • William Gascoigne 
  • Mother:
  • Jane de Neville   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1450 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Mar 1487 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Percy
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1469 
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  William Gascoigne

  Henry Gascoigne

  Thomas Gascoigne

  Henry Gascoigne

  John Gascoigne

  Thomas Gascoigne

  Margaret Gascoigne

  Eleanor Gascoigne

  Maud Gascoigne

  Joan Gascoigne

  Agnes Gascoigne (Ahnentafel No:136013 )

  Elizabeth Gascoigne

  Dorothy Gascoigne

• Sources for William Gascoigne

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  • ² Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 40.
  • ³ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 201.
  • ⁴ Burke, J. Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland for 1852, Vol. 1, A to O, London: Colburn and Company (1852), 394.
  • ⁵ Burke, John, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (1831), 516.
  • ⁶ Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London: Harrison, Bookseller to her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (1866), 413.
  • ⁷ Creasey, James, Sketches Illustrative of the Topography and History of New and Old Sleaford in the County of Lincoln . . ., Sleaford, England: James Creasey (1825), 274-275.
  • ⁸ Maddison, Rev. Canon Maddison, et. al., Lincolnshire Notes & Queries: A Quarterly Journal, Vol. 8, January 1, 1904 to October 1, 1905, Horncastle, England: W. K. Morton (1905), 198.
  • ⁹ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, pp. 79-80.
  • ¹⁰ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 63.
  • ¹¹ 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.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 186, 198, 210.
  • ¹³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 6-7.
  • ¹⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 64.
  • ¹⁵ Wikipedia, "Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland", _3rd_Earl_of_Northumberland, (accessed 02/21/2010).
  • ¹⁶ Wikipedia, "Margaret Percy (1447)", (accessed 02/21/2010).

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