Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Washington Lithgow

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• • Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Arthur Lithgow 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Maria Pelegrin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Jul 1840 
  • Birth Location:
  • Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 1925 
  • Death Location:
  • Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ellen Prentiss Peirce
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jun 1863 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ellen Maria "Nellie" Lithgow

  Arthur Washington Lithgow (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  William Pierce Lithgow

  Mary Lithgow

• Additional marriages for Washington Lithgow

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  • Spouse:
  • Maria Altagracia Lithgow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Mar 1887
  • Marriage Location:
  • Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

• Sources for Washington Lithgow

  • ¹ Dominican Republic, Civil Registration, 1801-2010 (República Dominicana, Registro Civil, 1801-2010), Birth record for daughter Elsie Mercedes Lithgow.
  • ² Dominican Republic, Select Marriages, 1743-1929, Marriage record for Washington Lithgow and Maria Altagracia Lithgow.
  • ³ Federal Census, NJ, Union County, 1880, Plainfield, E.D. 183, p. 52, Image 52 of 79.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1870, Charlestown Ward 2, p. 96, Image 96 of 208.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798-1950, 13 APR 1855, Naturalization record for Washington Lithgow.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Grand Lodge of Masons Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Membership card for Washington Lithgow.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Charlestown, Vol. 163, p. 67, Marriage record for Washington Lithgow and Ellen P Pierce.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1911-1915, Melrose, Vol. 611, p. 639, Marriage record for son Arthur W Lithgow and Ina B Robinson.
  • ⁹ U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907-1918, 28 DEC 1910, Certificate for Washington Lithgow.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 26 JAN 1881, Application for Washington Lithgow.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 14 NOV 1917, Application for daughter Elsie Mercedes Lithgow.
  • ¹² U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974, Death record for Washington Lithgow.
  • ¹³ Bridge, Rev. William Dawson, Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America, 1632-1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1924), 429, 434-436.
  • ¹⁴ Bridge, William Frederick, An Account of the Descendants of John Bridge, Cambridge, 1632, Boston: J.S. Cushing and Company (1884), 86-87.

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