Ancestry of
Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor

Lydia Townsend

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Ed Helms — 10th Generation
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Gershom Fletcher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 May 1733 
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  • Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  Lydia Fletcher (Ahnentafel No:483 )

• Sources for Lydia Townsend

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Westford, Image 258, Birth records for children of Gershom and Lydia Fletcher.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 164, Marriage record for Gershom Fletcher and Lydia Townshend.
  • ³ Fletcher, Edward H., Fletcher Family History: The Descendants of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass., Boston: Rand, Avery and Co. (1881), 33-34.
  • ⁴ Hodgman, Rev. Edwin R., History of the Town of Westford, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, 1659-1883, Lowell, Massachusetts: Morning Mail Company, Printers (1883), 447.
  • ⁵ Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 98 [note 3].

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