Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

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Mary Green

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1229 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Samuel Green 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Sarah Clark   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Nov 1669 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Kneeland
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1692 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Kneeland (Ahnentafel No:614 )

  • Notes: 

  • Most published sources give Mary Green as a daughter of Samuel Green Jr. and his wife Hannah Butler. However in an article in the NEHGR (Vol. 104, p. 83), the claim is made that she is actually the daughter of Samuel Green Sr. and his second wife Sarah Clark.

• Sources for Mary Green

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 307, Birth record of Mary Greene.
  • 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), 51-52.
  • 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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