Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Mary Branch

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Harper Lee — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 445 
  • Father:
  • Christopher Branch Jr. 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1678/1679 
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  Thomas Jefferson Jr. (Ahnentafel No:222 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mary Branch's given name is also seen as Martha.

    She was not the daughter of William and Jane Branch as has been widely published. See Alvahn Holmes, Some Farrar's Island Descendants (1979), p. 127.

• Additional marriages for Mary Branch

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  • Spouse:
  • Joseph Maddox
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 FEB 1700/1701 or 01 APR 1702
  • Marriage Location:
  • Henrico County, Virginia

• Sources for Mary Branch

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 87.
  • ² Burton, Lewis W., Annals of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia, and especially of St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia: Williiams Printing Company (1904), 227.
  • ³ Curtis, William Eleroy, Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott Company (1901), 19.
  • ⁴ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 370-371.
  • ⁵ Grubbs, Lillie Martin, Martin and Allied Families, Columbus, Georgia: (1946), 204.
  • ⁶ McLean, Dabney N., The English Ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company for Clearfield Company (1996), 58.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ 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.