Ancestry of
Oliver Platt

Movie Actor

Caleb Bishop

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Oliver Platt — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1018 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Bishop 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Fobes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Mar 1714/1715 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Feb 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Keziah Hibbard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Apr 1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lucy Bishop (Ahnentafel No:509 )

• Sources for Caleb Bishop

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Guilford, p. 19, Death record for Caleb Bishop.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 98.
  • ³ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 327, Marriage record for Caleb Bishop and Keziah Hebard.
  • ⁴ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History, Volume 4, July 1778-June 1792, New York: Henry Holt and Company (1907), 620.
  • ⁵ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 60.
  • ⁶ Kidd, Charles, Debrett Goes to Hollywood, New York: St. Martin's Press (1986), 122.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 578.

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