Ancestry of
Meghan Markle

Duchess of Sussex, TV Actress

John Smith

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Meghan Markle — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90 
  • Father:
  • John Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Drake   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Dec 1792 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Hampton, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Sep 1866 
  • Death Location:
  • Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Swasey Cemetery, Meredith, Belknap, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Mudgett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Mary Hussey Smith (Ahnentafel No:45 )

• Sources for John Smith

  • 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, pp. 270-271.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900, Birth record for John Smith.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947, Marriage record for John Smith and Miss Polly Mudgett.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Mudgett, Mildred D. and Bruce D. Mudgett, Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his Descendants, Bennington, Vermont: n. p. (1961), 69.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and Christopher C. Child, "The Shared Ancestry of (Rachel) Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of Wales", (accessed 11/30/2017).
  • ⁹ Thompson, Alice Smith, The Drake Family of New Hampshire: Robert, of Hampton, and Some of His Descendants . . ., Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society (1962), 79.