Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

Temperance Gorham

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Jordana Brewster — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1213 
  • Father:
  • John Gorham 
  • Mother:
  • Desire Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1646 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Mar 1714/1715 
  • Death Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Sturgis Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1664 
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  Joseph Sturgis

  Samuel Sturgis

  Desire Sturgis

  James Sturgis

  Edward Sturgis (Ahnentafel No:606 )

  Thankful Sturgis

  Fear Sturgis

• Additional marriages for Temperance Gorham

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  • Spouse:
  • Thomas Baxter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jan 1679/1680
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

• Sources for Temperance Gorham

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, p. 165.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 591.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 10/06/2014).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 84, 122, 127, 136, 157, 330, 372, 453, 494, 510, 515, 525, 796.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 11, 14-17, 101,103.

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