Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Thomas Gilbert

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2372 
  • Father:
  • Richard Gilbert 
  • Mother:
  • Margery Morken   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 25 Apr 1589 
  • Christening Location:
  • Yardley, Worcestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 5 Sep 1659 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Bennett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Aug 1610 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yardley, Worcestershire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Gilbert (Ahnentafel No:1186 )

  Jonathan Gilbert

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Gilbert may have been married to the Lydia Gilbert who was accused of witchcraft in 1654. Lydia may have been his daughter and not his wife.

• Sources for Thomas Gilbert

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pp. 216-217, confuses Thomas Gilbert with his son Thomas.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1992, Vol. 67, pp. 161-166.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 130.
  • ⁴ Brainard, Homer Worthington, et. al., The Gilbert Family: Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582(?)-1659 of Mt. Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield, Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press (1953), 9-24.

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