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Benedict Cumberbatch

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John Kneeland

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1228 
  • Father:
  • John Kneeland 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hawkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Nov 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Aug 1740 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Green
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1692 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Kneeland (Ahnentafel No:614 )

• Sources for John Kneeland

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 108, Birth record for John Kneeland.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1950, Vol. 104, p. 83.
  • ³ Kneeland, Stillman Foster, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family, New York: Published by the Author (1897), 50-52.
  • ⁴ Torry, Clarence, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), Vol. 2, p. 904, Marriage record for John Kneeland and Mary Green.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 322.

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