Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Herman Melville

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Allan Melville 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Gansevoort   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Aug 1819 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Sep 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Author of Moby Dick

• Marriages for Herman Melville

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Shaw

• Sources for Herman Melville

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 117.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Herman Melville", (accessed 12/18/2015).