Ancestry of
John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

William Raleigh

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of John Dryden — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 152 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1420 
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  • ABT 1460 
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  • Elizabeth Greene
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  • ABT 1440 
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  Edward Raleigh (Ahnentafel No:76 )

• Sources for William Raleigh

  • ¹ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 262.
  • ² Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650, Lancaster, Mass: (1950), 34.
  • ³ Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 62-63.