Ancestry of
Edward Norton

Movie Actor

Hester Hyde

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Edward Norton — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5095 
  • Father:
  • William Hyde 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1632 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Nov 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Post
  • Marriage Date:
  • Mar 1652 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Margaret Post

  Elizabeth Post (Ahnentafel No:2547 )

  Sarah Post

  Mary Post

  Samuel Post

  Lydia Post

• Sources for Hester Hyde

  • ¹ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Post.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 36.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 2006, Vol. 160, Page 33.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2002, Vol. 156, p. 364.
  • ⁵ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 2, p. 358.
  • ⁶ Saybrook, CT: Vital Records, 1647-1834, Page 5, Marriage record for John Post and Esther Hide.
  • ⁷ Vital Records of Norwich Connecticut, 1659-1848 (Online database), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 26, [Death].
  • ⁸ Abell, Horace A., The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English Ancestry and his Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company (1940), 49-50, 58.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 499.
  • ¹⁰ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Connecticut, Saratoga Springs, NY: G.W. Ball (1882), 84.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/09/2014).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 58.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 69.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 474.
  • ¹⁵ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 3-5.
  • ¹⁶ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 13, 15.

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