Ancestry of
Thomas Hunt Morgan

Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine

Francis Scott Key

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• • Great-grandfather of Thomas Hunt Morgan — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • John Ross Key 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Phebe Penn Dagworthy Charlton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Aug 1780 
  • Birth Location:
  • Terra Rubra, Frederick (now Carroll), Maryland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jan 1843 
  • Death Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick Co., Maryland 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Tayloe Lloyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jan 1802 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Phoebe Key (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Maria Lloyd Key

  Francis Scott Key

  John Ross Key

  Anna Arnold Key

  Edward Lloyd Key

  Daniel Murray Key

  Philip Barton Key

  Ellen Lloyd Key

  Mary Alicia Lloyd Nevins Key

  Charles Henry Key

  • Notes: 

  • Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

    Many historians have linked Mary (Jenkins) Surratt, co-conspirator of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as a cousin of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Francis Scott Key. This appears to be incorrect as the link is actually through Mary's son John Harrison Surratt's wife Mary Victorine Hunter.

• Sources for Francis Scott Key

  • ¹ Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III - Biography, New York / Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 513-514.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A065323.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/12/2018).
  • ⁴ Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. II, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1980), 178.
  • ⁵ Hanson, George Adolphus, Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland; Notes Illustrative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County, Maryland . . ., Baltimore: John P. Des Forges (1876), 47.
  • ⁶ Key-Smith, F.S., Francis Scott Key, Author of The Star Bangled Banner, What Else He Was and Who, Washington, D.C.: Key-Smith and Company (1911).
  • ⁷ Lane, Mrs. Julian C., Key and Allied Families, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company (1931), 58-59.
  • ⁸ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: Grafton Press (1907), 300-301.
  • ⁹ Papenfuse, Edward C., et. al., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, Volume 2: I-Z, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1985), 770.
  • ¹⁰ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 96.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 88.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Francis Scott Key", (accessed 11/19/2012).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Terra Rubra", (accessed 11/19/2012).