Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

William Spencer

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2346 
  • Father:
  • Gerard Spencer 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Whitbread   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Oct 1601 
  • Christening Location:
  • Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • AFT 4 May 1640 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Agnes Harris
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Spencer

  Sarah Spencer (Ahnentafel No:1173 )

  Samuel Spencer

• Sources for William Spencer

  • ¹ Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches . . ., Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1901), 100.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1958, Vol. 34, p. 67.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1950, Vol. 27, p. 162.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1960, Vol. 37, pp. 7-9.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1721-1725.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 315.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 425.
  • ⁸ Edwards, William H., Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge, Mass., and their Descendants: A Genealogy, Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company (1903), 1.
  • ⁹ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 100-101.
  • ¹⁰ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 11.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#53 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Major Historical Figures Descended from Anne (Lloyd) (Yale) . . .", (accessed 12/13/2016).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/04/2014).
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 175.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 549, 573.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 924.
  • ¹⁶ 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), 229.

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