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Thomas Walley

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 306 
  • Father:
  • John Walley 
  • Mother:
  • Bethiah Eyre   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Nov 1725 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Sep 1806 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Kneeland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mary Walley (Ahnentafel No:153 )

• Additional marriages for Thomas Walley

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Hurd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Dec 1767

• Sources for Thomas Walley

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Births 1700-1800, p. 272, Birth record for daughter Mary Walley.
  • ² Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 (Thwing Collection), p. 12072, John Langdon family.
  • ³ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 2018, Vol. 66, No. 1, p. 50.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1876, Vol. 30, p. 36.
  • ⁵ Harris, Edward Doubleday, An Account of Some of the Descendants of Capt. Thomas Brattle, Boston: D. Clapp and Son (1867), 70, 74.
  • ⁶ Kneeland, Stillman Foster, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family, New York: Published by the Author (1897), 106-107.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 27.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 121, 248, 338.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 3, Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 37-39.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 324.

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