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Harper Lee

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Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird


    William Branch

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    • 10th Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 13th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 7120 
    • Birth Date:
    • BY 1538 
    • Birth Location:
    • Abingdon, Berkshire, England 
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    • Burial Date:
    • 7 Feb 1601/1602 
    • Burial Location:
    • St. Helen Church, Abingdon, Berkshire, England 
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1556 
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    • Notes: 
    • The Four Visitations of Berkshire, Vol. 2 (1908), p. 78, lists William Branch's wife as Barbara Jennings, dau. of Thomas and Alice (Bright) Jennings. More recent sources list her as Katherine Jennings.

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  • Sources for William Branch

    • 1 Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 1, Adams-Chiles, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1981), 214, 223.
    • 2 Branch, Carolyn Paul, Branch Family History: Abingdon, England - Jamestown, Virginia - Callaway County, Missouri, Fulton, Missouri: Oak Holler Publishing (2007), 18-23.
    • 5 Rylands, W. Harry, The Four Visitations of Berkshire, 1532, 1566,1623, 1665-6, Vol. 2, London: The Publications of The Harleian Society, Vol. 57 (1908), 78.
    • 6 Virginia Historical Society, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 67, No. 1, January 1959, Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson (1959), 91, Pedigree foldout between pages 96 and 97.