Ancestry of
Meghan Markle

Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress

Jeffery Parsons

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Meghan Markle — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1426 
  • Father:
  • James Parsons 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Crossing   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Aug 1630 
  • Christening Location:
  • Loddiswell, Devonshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Aug 1689 
  • Death Location:
  • Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Vinson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Nov 1657 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Parsons (Ahnentafel No:713 )

  Elizabeth Parsons

  • Notes: 

  • Jeffery Parsons's given name is also seen as Geofrey.

    Some older published sources give Jeffery's parents as Geofrey Parsons and Bridget Knight, or Bridget Varney, wife of William Varney, and a prior unknown husband. These have been proven incorrect. See T.A.G. 81:161-167. It would appear the correct parents are James and Alice (Crossing) Parsons as shown in NEHGR 142:248-249 .

• Sources for Jeffery Parsons

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Gloucester, Vol. 2, p. 558, Marriage record for Jeffery Parsons and Sara Vinson.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1988, Vol. 142, pp. 248-249.
  • ³ New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1147, Marriage record for Jeffrey Parsons and Sarah Vinson.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2006, Vol. 81, pp. 161-167.
  • ⁵ The Essex Genealogist, 2013,Vol. 33, p. 45, gives Jeffery's parents as Geofrey Parsons and Bridget Knight.
  • ⁶ The Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. LII - 1916, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for The Essex Institute (1916), 40, incorrectly gives name as James Parsons.
  • ⁷ The Newport Historical Magazine, Newport, Rhode Island: Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1883, Vol. 4, p. 188.
  • ⁸ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1986, Vol. 19, p. 425.
  • ⁹ Davis, Walter Goodwin, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966), Vol. 3, Neal - Wright, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1996), 515, 521.