Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Arthur Washington Lithgow Jr.

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• • Father of John Lithgow — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Arthur Washington Lithgow 
  • Mother:
  • Ina Berenice Robinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Sep 1915 
  • Birth Location:
  • Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 2004 
  • Death Location:
  • Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Jane Price
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1939 
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  • Child:

  John Arthur Lithgow (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • American actor and director who founded two Shakespeare festivals.

• Sources for Arthur Washington Lithgow Jr.

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1940, New York, E.D. 24-37A, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 34.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1920, Melrose Ward 3, E.D. 337, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 14.
  • ³ New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924, FHL 7678696, Image 421, 1916, Arrival of Lithgow family from Dominican Republic.
  • ⁴ Newsday (Long Island, New York), 26 MAR 2004, Obituary for Arthur Lithgow.
  • ⁵ The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 OCT 1977, p. 52, Obituary for mother Ina B (Robinson) Lithgow.
  • ⁶ The Price Family Tree: A Keepsake for the Descendants of Thomas Davis Price (1826-1900) and His Wife Sarah Jane Jones ..., New City, New York: Unknown (1957), 13.
  • ⁷ Bridge, Rev. William Dawson, Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America, 1632-1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1924), 435.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 313-314.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Arthur Lithgow", (accessed 02/12/2016).

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