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Amelia Earhart

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Walter Gaylord

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 866 
  • Father:
  • William Gaylord 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1626 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Aug 1689 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Stebbins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Joseph Gaylord

  Joanna Gaylord

  Mary Gaylord (Ahnentafel No:433 )

  Benjamin Gaylord

  • Notes: 

  • Sources disagree on the marriage date in April 1648 for Walter Gaylord and Mary Stebbins giving 16, 22, and 29 as possibliities. The Windsor vital records gives the day as blank.

• Additional marriages for Walter Gaylord

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Rockwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Mar 1658
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

• Sources for Walter Gaylord

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 111, Marriage record for Walter Gaylord and Mary Stebens.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 742.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1596, 1753.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 328.
  • ⁶ Hibbard, Augustine George and Lewis Mills Norton, History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with Genealogies and Biographies, Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1897), 453.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).

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