Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Ina Berenice Robinson

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• • Grandmother of John Lithgow — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Edwin B. Robinson 
  • Mother:
  • Melvina Amanda Knowles   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jan 1881 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saylesville, Providence, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Oct 1977 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Arthur Washington Lithgow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 May 1912 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Marion Ina Lithgow

  Jeannette Edna Lithgow

  Arthur Washington Lithgow Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  William Edwin Lithgow

  Marjorie Lithgow

  Frank Lithgow

• Sources for Ina Berenice Robinson

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1920, Melrose Ward 3, E.D. 337, Sheet 4A, Image 7 of 14.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1900, Brockton Ward 2, E.D. 1097, Sheet 16A, Image 31 of 47.
  • ³ Florida, U.S., State Census, 1885, Levy, Cedar Key, p. 8, Image 8 of 38.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Index, 1970-2003, Death record for Ina B Lithgow.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1911-1915, Melrose, Vol. 611, p. 639, Marriage record for Arthur W Lithgow and Ina B Robinson.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, Melrose, Vol. 86, p. 34, Birth certificate for daughter Marjorie Lithgow.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, Melrose, Vol. 74, p. 366, Death certificate for daughter Marjorie Lithgow.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, Melrose, Vol. 641, p. 792, Birth record for son William Edwin Lithgow.
  • ⁹ New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924, FHL 7678696, Image 421, 1916, Arrival of Lithgow family, gives Ina birth year as 1883.
  • ¹⁰ The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts), 13 OCT 1977, p. 52, Obituary for Ina B (Robinson) Lithgow.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for son William Edwin Lithgow.
  • ¹² U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Ina Lithgow.
  • ¹³ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for son William Edwin Lithgow.
  • ¹⁴ Bridge, Rev. William Dawson, Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America, 1632-1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1924), 435.
  • ¹⁵ 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.
  • ¹⁶ Wikipedia, "Arthur Lithgow", (accessed 02/12/2016).

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