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Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Lydia Alden

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Jodie Foster — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 305 
  • Father:
  • John Alden 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah White   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Dec 1710 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Mar 1803 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Eddy Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1732/1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathan Eddy

  Joshua Eddy

  Susanna Eddy

  Samuel Eddy (Ahnentafel No:152 )

  Seth Eddy

• Additional marriages for Lydia Alden

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  • Spouse:
  • John Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Apr 1762
  • Marriage Location:
  • Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Lydia Alden

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleborough, Vol. 1, p. 59, Birth record for son Samuel Eddy.
  • ² Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 98-99.
  • ³ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 30.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 333.
  • ⁵ Stover, Margaret Harris and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 10, Samuel Fuller, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 24.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 79.
  • ⁷ 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), 108, 373-375.

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