Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Joanna Lowell

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Herman Melville — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 91 
  • Father:
  • Percival Lowell 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1619 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 or 18 JUN 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Gerrish
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Apr 1645 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Gerrish (Ahnentafel No:45 )

  Moses Gerrish

  Mary Gerrish

  John Gerrish

• Additional marriages for Joanna Lowell

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  • Spouse:
  • John Oliver

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  • Spouse:
  • John Oliver

• Sources for Joanna Lowell

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 191, Marriage record for William Gerrish and Joanna Oliver, w. of John.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 596, Death record for Joanna Gerrish.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 191, Marriage record for William Gerrish and Joanna Oliver.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1994, Vol. 11, p. 203.
  • ⁵ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 28.
  • ⁶ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 1, p. 610, Marriage of William Gerrish and Joanna Olliver.
  • ⁷ Appleton, William S., Ancestry of Mary Oliver, Who Lived 1640-1698, and was Wife of Samuel Appleton, of Ipswich, Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son (1867), 6.
  • ⁸ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press (1947), 217-218.
  • ⁹ Goodwin, John Samuel, comp., The Goodwins of Kittery, York County, Maine, Chicago: Orrin Sheller Goodwin, Printer and Publisher (1898), 39, gives Joanna's maiden name as Goodale.
  • ¹⁰ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 198-199.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 147.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174, 183.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 177.
  • ¹⁴ Stackpole, Everett S., Old Kittery and Her Families, Lewiston, Maine: Press of Lewiston Journal Company (1903), 443.
  • ¹⁵ Standeven, Hazel M, Brown - Duncan and Associated Families, Kittery, Maine, Piscataqua and New Castle, N.H., Coos Bay, Oregon: Typed manuscript (1981), 48.
  • ¹⁶ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 3, Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2007), 5.