Ancestry of
William Wharton

(1790–1856)

William Wharton

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Charles Wharton 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Redwood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jan 1790 
  • Birth Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jan 1856 
  • Death Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
  • 18 Jan 1856 
  • Burial Location:
  • Fair Hill Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give William Wharton's birthdate as 27 JUN 1790, but this appears to be a mistake as the date is actually 01 1st mo. 1790 which would indicate JAN was the month as it was after the change to the Gregorian calendar in 1752.

• Marriages for William Wharton

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  • Spouse:
  • Deborah Fisher
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1817
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pine Street Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania

• Sources for William Wharton

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A134856.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ³ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Birth record for William Wharton.
  • ⁴ Historic Fair Hill, Obituaries and Interment Records, Burial record for William Wharton.
  • ⁵ Jones, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886, Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott (1886), 44, 58, 74, 97.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 619.
  • ⁷ Wharton, Anne H., Genealogy of the Wharton Family of Philadelphia, 1664 to 1880, Philadelphia: Collins, Printer (1880), 17, 28-29.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Deborah Fisher Wharton", (accessed 09/24/2015).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Joseph Wharton", (accessed 09/24/2015).