Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

Benjamin Tasker

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 530 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Tasker 
  • Mother:
  • ----- Brooke   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1690 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jun 1768 
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Ann's Churchyard, Annapolis, Maryland 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Bladen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Jul 1711 
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  Rebecca Tasker (Ahnentafel No:265 )

  Anne Tasker

• Sources for Benjamin Tasker

  • ¹ Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1980), 425-426.
  • ² Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 84.
  • 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), 186.

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