Ancestry of
John Lithgow

Stage, TV, and Movie Actor

Ellen Prentiss Peirce

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• • Great-grandmother of John Lithgow — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • William Peirce 
  • Mother:
  • Ellen Prentiss   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Aug 1839 
  • Birth Location:
  • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Apr 1885 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Washington Lithgow
  • 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

• Sources for Ellen Prentiss Peirce

  • ¹ Federal Census, NJ, Union County, 1880, Plainfield, E.D. 183, p. 52, Image 52 of 79.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1870, Charlestown Ward 2, p. 96, Image 96 of 208.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Andover, Vol. 1, p. 305, Birth record for Ellen Prentiss Pierce.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Charlestown, Vol. 163, p. 67, Marriage record for Washington Lithgow and Ellen P Pierce.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1911-1915, Melrose, Vol. 611, p. 639, Marriage record for son Arthur W Lithgow and Ina B Robinson.
  • ⁶ Bridge, Rev. William Dawson, Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America, 1632-1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1924), 434-435.
  • ⁷ Bridge, William Frederick, An Account of the Descendants of John Bridge, Cambridge, 1632, Boston: J.S. Cushing and Company (1884), 87.

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