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John Lithgow

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William Waldegrave

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• • 14th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 17th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 74366 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Waldegrave 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Fray   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1465 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1527 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margery Wentworth
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1483 
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  George Waldegrave

  Anthony Waldegrave

  Margaret Waldegrave

  Dorothy Waldegrave (Ahnentafel No:37183 )

• Sources for William Waldegrave

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, pp. 207, 209.
  • ² The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Vol. 1, London: Printed for W. Owen, L. Davis, and J. Debrett (1790), 257.
  • ³ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 448.
  • ⁴ Brydges, Sir Egerton, Collins's Peerage of England: Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, Vol. 4, London: T. Bensley, Printer (1812), 235.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 159.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 418, 420.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 397.
  • ⁸ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 184.
  • ⁹ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873), 39.

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