Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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George Whittemore

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • Alvan Fosdick Whittemore 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Pratt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 May 1820 
  • Birth Location:
  • Essex, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Aug 1860 
  • Death Location:
  • Covington, St. Tammany, Louisiana 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Cordelia Jenkins Dozer
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  • Child:

  Mary Whittemore (Ahnentafel No:17 )

• Sources for George Whittemore

  • ¹ Federal Census, LA, Jefferson Parish, 1860, Jefferson, p. 7, Image 7 of 110.
  • ² History of Middlesex County, Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men, New York: J. B. Beers and Co. (1884), 365.
  • ³ Chapman, Rev. Frederick W., The Pratt Family: Or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook . . ., Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company (1864), 126.
  • ⁴ Duke University Libraries, Funeral Notice, George Whittemore, (accessed 05/10/2015).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 355.
  • ⁶ 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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