Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Lionel Branch

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3560 
  • Father:
  • William Branch 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Jennings   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 18 Aug 1566 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Helen Church, Abingdon, Berkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1605 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Valentia Sparkes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Jul 1596 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Martin, Ludgate, London, England 
  • Child:

  Christopher Branch (Ahnentafel No:1780 )

• Sources for Lionel Branch

  • ¹ "Valentia Sparke - Lionel Branch Family, m. 1596, Eng.: VA, The Virginia Genealogist, Oct 2002, Vol. 46, Issue 4 .
  • ² Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 1, Adams-Chiles, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1981), 219-221, 223.
  • ³ Branch, Carolyn Paul, Branch Family History: Abingdon, England - Jamestown, Virginia - Callaway County, Missouri, Fulton, Missouri: Oak Holler Publishing (2007), 29.
  • ⁴ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 366.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 507.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 822.
  • ⁷ Virginia Historical Society, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 67, No. 1, January 1959, Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson (1959), 93-95, Pedigree foldout between pages 96 and 97.