Ancestry of
John Cena

Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler

John Lyford

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of John Cena — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7390 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1590 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 9 Apr 1629 to 19 May 1632 
  • Death Location:
  • Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah -----
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  • ABT 1617 
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  Ruth Lyford

  (probable) Martha Lyford (Ahnentafel No:3695 )

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  • Rev. John Lyford arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts by 1624 and left New England for Virginia in 1629.

• Sources for John Lyford

  • ¹ The Bates Bulletin, 1918, Series III, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 24.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 959, 1214-1217.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 215.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 197.
  • ⁵ Banks, Charles Edward, "The Emigrant Ancestor and Ancestress of Abraham Lincoln", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April 1929, Vol. 60, Iss. 2, page 117.
  • ⁶ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 45.
  • ⁷ Jamestowne Society, Qualifying Ancestors, A9524, Record for John Lyford, (accessed 01/21/2022).
  • ⁸ Keiser, David S., "Lincoln's Ancestors Came from Ireland", Lincoln Herald, Winter 1977, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 146-150.
  • ⁹ McCartney, Martha W., Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2007), 470-471.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, Lancaster, Massachusetts: (1936), Reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD (1997), 130.

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