Ancestry of
Kelsey Grammer

TV and Movie Actor

Peter Melick

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Kelsey Grammer — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • John V. Melick 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Brunt Able   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Nov 1818 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Germantown, Hunterdon, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Oct 1890 
  • Death Location:
  • Mendham, Morris, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Peapack Union Cemetery, Gladstone, Somerset, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Elizabeth LaTourette
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Sep 1842 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Gertrude Melick (Ahnentafel No:21 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sources disagree on the death date for Peter Melick. New Jersey death records give 20 OCT 1890 as the date of his death, while his tombstone has 30 OCT 1890. Also the published Wyckoff genealogy has 10 NOV 1890.

• Sources for Peter Melick

  • ¹ Federal Census, NJ, Somerset County, 1850, Bedminster, Image 27 of 44.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/29/2016).
  • ³ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, 01 OCT 1842, Chrisian Intelligencer, Marriage for Peter Melick and Margaret LaTourette.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #16615, Application for John W. Melick.
  • ⁵ Chapman, Rev. Jacob, Leonard Weeks of Greenland, N. H. and Descendants, 1639-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1889), 76.
  • ⁶ Snell, James P., History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of . . ., Philadelphia: Everts and Peck (1881), 474.
  • ⁷ The Wyckoff Association in America, The Wyckoff Family in America: A Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1950), 52.

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