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Benedict Cumberbatch

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Margaret de Gresley

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• • 17th Great-grandmother of Benedict Cumberbatch — 20th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 636217 
  • Father:
  • Thomas de Gresley 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Walsh   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1393 
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  • Thomas Blount
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  Walter Blount (Ahnentafel No:318108 )

  Thomas Blount

  Elizabeth Blount

  Sanchia Blount

  Anne Blount

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  • Margaret Gresley's maiden name is also seen as Grysley.

    Margaret Gresley's given name is also seen as Margery.

• Sources for Margaret de Gresley

  • ¹ Croke, Sir Alexander, The Genealogical History of the Croke Family, Originally Named Le Blount, Volume 2, Oxford: W. Baxter (1823), 197.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 661.
  • ³ Selby, Walford D., ed., The Genealogist: A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical and Heraldic Research, Volume 2, London: George Bell and Sons (1885), 223.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 96.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy", _1st_Baron_Mountjoy, (accessed 02/03/2012).

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