Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

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Joseph Cordis

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 154 
  • Father:
  • Cord Cordis 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1743 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Russell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jun 1770 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Rebecca Cordis (Ahnentafel No:77 )

• Sources for Joseph Cordis

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), pp. 5820-5821, Family of Joseph Cordis.
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Death record for spouse Rebecca Cordis.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 429, Marriage record for Joseph Cordis and Rebecca Russell.
  • ⁴ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 51.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 260.
  • ⁶ Putnam, Eden, ed., Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine Devoted to Genealogy, History and Archaeology, Salem: The Salem Press, 1896, Vol. 4, p. 257.

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