Ancestry of
Dick Van Dyke

TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Elijah Child

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Dick Van Dyke — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 208 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Child 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Johnson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Apr 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • Thompson, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1796 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel Palmer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Mar 1759 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  David Child (Ahnentafel No:104 )

• Sources for Elijah Child

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dudley Marriages, Page 152.
  • ² Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 440, 444-445.
  • ³ Johnson, Paul Franklin, et. al., Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts: Generations I to XIV, Los Angeles, California: Privately printed by The Commonwealth Press, Inc. (1951), 33.

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