Ancestry of
Gene Roddenberry

Creator of Star Trek

Joanna Downham

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Gene Roddenberry — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1529 
  • Father:
  • John Downman 
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  • AFT 1 Dec 1694 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Pray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 May 1657 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ephraim Pray (Ahnentafel No:764 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joanna Downham's maiden name is also seen as Downman.

• Sources for Joanna Downham

  • ¹ Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, Vol. 1, p. 125, Marriage record for John Pray and Joanna Dowman.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, pp. 280-281.
  • ³ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 214.
  • ⁴ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 325.

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