Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Lydia Grinnell

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ellen DeGeneres — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 557 
  • Father:
  • Pabody Grinnell 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Nettleton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Aug 1723 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Nov 1810 
  • Death Location:
  • Westbrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1743 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Spencer Jr. (Ahnentafel No:278 )

• Sources for Lydia Grinnell

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 29, pp. 174-176.
  • ² 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.
  • ³ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 291.

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