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William Keith

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• • 12th Great-grandfather of Wernher von Braun — 15th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 30064 
  • Father:
  • Robert Keith 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Douglas   
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1581 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Keith
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF Jun 1538 
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  William Keith (Ahnentafel No:15032 )

  Elizabeth Keith

  Agnes Keith

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  • 3rd Earl of Marischal

• Sources for William Keith

  • ¹ Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall, Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce, in Aberdeenshire: Showing Descent from the First Known . . ., Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson (1885), 174.
  • ² Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 1610.
  • ³ Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed., The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. 6, Edinburgh: David Douglas (1909), 43, 46-51.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 3, p. 177.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 102.