Ancestry of
Kelsey Grammer

TV and Movie Actor

Mary Bennett

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Kelsey Grammer — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 81 
  • Father:
  • (probable) John Bennett Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Betsey -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1772 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Aug 1825 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Matthias Weeks III
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 May 1794 
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  • Child:

  Charles G. Weeks (Ahnentafel No:40 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give the name of Mary Bennett's father as Winthrop Bennett, while the published Leonard Weeks genealogy (1889) has it as John Bennett, Winthrop Bennett's father. The latter seems more likely as Winthrop would have been a young teenager when Mary was born.

• Sources for Mary Bennett

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A121564.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 238.
  • ³ Chapman, Rev. Jacob, Leonard Weeks of Greenland, N. H. and Descendants, 1639-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1889), 32, 75-76.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 416.

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