Ancestry of
James Spader

TV and Movie Actor

Laurent Clerc

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of James Spader — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Francois Clerc 
  • Mother:
  • Marie Élisabeth Candy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Dec 1785 
  • Birth Location:
  • La Balme, Cremieu, Isere, France 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jul 1869 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Crocker Boardman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1819 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cohoes Falls, near Waterford, Saratoga, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Victoria Clerc (Ahnentafel No:21 )

  Francis J. Clerc

  • Notes: 

  • Co-Founder of the American School for the Deaf, the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States.

• Sources for Laurent Clerc

  • ¹ Barnard, Henry, Tribute to Gallaudet: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character and Services of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, Hartford: Brockett, Hutchinson and Co. (1854), 102-112.
  • ² Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf . . ., Washington: Government Printing Office (1899), 279.
  • ³ Hinman, Royal R., R. R. Hinman's Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1852), 279-280.
  • ⁴ Kingsbury, Frederick John and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford Press: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1905), 234.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Laurent Clerc", (accessed 01/18/2016).

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