Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

William Ingersoll Bowditch

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of James Spader — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Bowditch 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ingersoll   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Aug 1819 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Aug 1819 
  • Christening Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 24 Jan 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 26 Jan 1909 
  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Rhea Higginson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Sep 1844 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Frederic Channing Bowditch (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for William Ingersoll Bowditch

  • ¹ Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 07 OCT 1919, p. 3, Obituary for spouse Sarah Rhea Higginson Bowditch.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/16/2016).
  • ³ Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, Death certificate for William Ingersoll Bowditch.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925, Death certificate for spouse Sarah Rhea Higginson Bowditch.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 105, Baptism record for William Ingersoll Bowditch.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Milton, Vol. 470, p. 495, Marriage record for son Frederick Bowditch and Elizabeth Forster.
  • ⁷ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 37.

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