Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Janna Meigs Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 626 
  • Father:
  • Janna Meigs 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Willard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Apr 1699 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Feb 1772 
  • Death Location:
  • Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Center Cemetery, Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Dudley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 May 1724 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Meigs

  Esther Meigs (Ahnentafel No:313 )

• Sources for Janna Meigs Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth records for children of Janna and Elizabeth Meigs.
  • ² Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Janna Meigs.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/06/2019).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 91, Janna's name is given as Joanna.
  • ⁵ Meigs, Henry B., Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs, Who Came From Dorsetshire, England, to America About 1635, Baltimore, Maryland: John S. Bridges and Co. (1901), 15, 19-20.
  • ⁶ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Marriage record for Janna Meigs Jr and Elizabeth Dudley.

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