Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Joseph Curtis

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 208 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Curtis 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Merriman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Oct 1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • Jan 1756 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Collins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Mar 1712 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Peter Curtis (Ahnentafel No:104 )

• Sources for Joseph Curtis

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wallingford, p. 86, Marriage record for Joseph Curtis and Marah Collins.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wallingford, p. 86, Birth record for Joseph Curtis.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wallingford, p. 88, Birth record for son Peter Curtis.
  • ⁴ Curtiss, Frederic Haines, A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family: Being a Record of the Descendants of Widow Elizabeth Curtiss Who Settled in . . ., Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press (1903), 8, 16-17.
  • ⁵ Smith, Tenney, Charles Smith and Rachel Amy Bryant: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Brattleboro, Vermont: Vermont Printing Company (1938), 172.

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