Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Oliver Wendell

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• • Great-grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Wendell 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Oliver   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Mar 1732 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jan 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Jackson
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  Sarah Wendell (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Oliver Wendell

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, Birth record for Oliver Wendell.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 785, Death record for Oliver Wendell.
  • ³ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 8, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A. W. Brownell, Printer (1893), 860.
  • ⁴ Gray, George Arthur, The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, 1594-1908, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1908), 352.
  • ⁵ Kennedy, William Sloane, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist, Boston: S. E. Cassino and Company (1883), 13, 19-20.
  • ⁶ Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot and James Jackson Putnam, The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Unknown: Privately printed (1907), 27.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.