Ancestry of
J. K. Simmons

TV and Movie Actor

William Perkins

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of J. K. Simmons — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1798 
  • Father:
  • William Perkins 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Aug 1607 
  • Birth Location:
  • All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1682 
  • Death Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Wooten
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Aug 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Tobijah Perkins

  Sarah Perkins (Ahnentafel No:899 )

• Sources for William Perkins

  • ¹ The Essex Genealogist, 1990, Vol. 10, p. 30.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1433-1438.
  • 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), 260.
  • ⁴ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 22-23.

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