Ancestry of
Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

Rebecca Russell

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 155 
  • Father:
  • Richard Russell 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Cary   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1746 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Feb 1800 
  • Death Location:
  • Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Cordis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jun 1770 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Rebecca Cordis (Ahnentafel No:77 )

• Sources for Rebecca Russell

  • 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 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.

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