Ancestry of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle

Author, “Sherlock Holmes”

Francis Parsons

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Arthur Conan Doyle — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 234 
  • Father:
  • William Parsons 
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  • Elizabeth Lany   
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  • ABT 1668 
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  • Sarah Faircloath
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  Mary Parsons (Ahnentafel No:117 )

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  • Francis Parsons of Garadice, County Leitrim.

• Sources for Francis Parsons

  • ¹ Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 2, Fifth Series, London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke (1918), 178.
  • ² Ancestry.com, "The Surprising Link Between Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", (accessed 06/27/2017).
  • ³ Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London: Harrison, Bookseller to her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (1866), 419.