Ancestry of
Tilda Swinton

Movie Actress

Alice Knyvet

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Tilda Swinton — 13th Generation
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  • Henry Knyvet 
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  • Anne Pickering   
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  • Christopher Dacre
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  Henry Dacre (Ahnentafel No:2834 )

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  • Alice Knyvet's maiden name is also seen as Knyvett and Knevet.

    Some sources state that Alice Knyvett married Thomas Dacre, son of Sir Thomas Dacre. Other sources claim that her husband was actually Christopher Dacre, son of Sir Thomas Dacre.

• Sources for Alice Knyvet

  • ¹ Hutchinson, William, The History of the County of Cumberland, and Some Places Adjacent, From the Earliest Accounts to the . . ., Vol. 1, Carlisle: F. Jollie (1794), 60.
  • ² Nichols, John Gough, ed., The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. 1, London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son (1846), 471.
  • ³ Nicolson, Joseph and Richard Burn, The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, Vol. 2, London: Printed for W. Strahan (1777), 503.
  • ⁴ Whellan, William, ed., The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland: Comprising Their Ancient . . ., London: Whittaker and Co.; Manchester: Galt and Co. (1860), 292.

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