Ancestry of
J. K. Simmons

TV and Movie Actor

Dorothy York

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of J. K. Simmons — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3595 
  • Father:
  • Edmunde York 
  • Mother:
  • Katharyne -----   
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Dec 1643 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts  
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Dudley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Apr 1603 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Dudley

  Samuel Dudley

  Anne Dudley (Ahnentafel No:1797 )

  Patience Dudley

  Sarah Dudley

  Mercy Dudley

• Sources for Dorothy York

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Samuel Dudley (m. 1632), p. 1.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 72.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 169.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2000, Vol. 1.4, p. 43.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1902, Vol. 56, p. 206.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1893, Vol. 47, pp. 120-121.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1987, Vol. 62, p. 47.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 27.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 584.
  • ¹⁰ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 1, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1886), 276.
  • ¹¹ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ¹² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, p. 477.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 109, 148, 182, 193.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117, 126, 185-188.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 214, 216.
  • ¹⁶ 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), 370.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 360-361, 663.
  • ¹⁸ 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), 1-3.

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