Ancestry of
Meghan Markle

Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress

Martha Drake

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Meghan Markle — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 181 
  • Father:
  • Abraham Drake 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Eaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Aug 1767 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Aug 1841 
  • Death Location:
  • New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Merrill Cemetery, Holderness, Grafton, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1785 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  John Smith (Ahnentafel No:90 )

• Sources for Martha Drake

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A105869 and #A104901.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/28/2017).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 271.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900, Birth record for son John Smith.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1178.
  • ⁶ Mudgett, Mildred D. and Bruce D. Mudgett, Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his Descendants, Bennington, Vermont: n. p. (1961), 69.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and Christopher C. Child, "The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of Wales", (accessed 11/30/2017).
  • ⁸ Thompson, Alice Smith, The Drake Family of New Hampshire: Robert, of Hampton, and Some of His Descendants . . ., Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society (1962), 55, 79-80.