Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

Comedienne and TV Personality

Abigail Goodrich

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ellen DeGeneres — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 551 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Goodrich 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Crafts   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Nov 1694 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jul 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Wright
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jan 1717/1718 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Wright

  Abigail Wright (Ahnentafel No:275 )

• Sources for Abigail Goodrich

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 307, Birth record for daughter Abigail Wright.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 312, Marriage record for Samuel Wright and Abigail Goodrich.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 121, Birth record for Abigail Goodrich.
  • ⁴ 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), 35.
  • ⁵ Crafts, James M. and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft . . ., Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Company (1893), 63.
  • ⁶ Wright, William Henry and Gertrude Wright Ketcham, History of the Wright Family Who Are Descendants of Samuel Wright (1722-1789) of Lenox, Mass. . . ., Denver: The Williamson-Haffner Co. (1913), 46-48.

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