Ancestry of
Benjamin Franklin

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Franklin

View famous kin of Thomas Franklin

• • Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Henry Franklin 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes Joanes   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Oct 1598 
  • Christening Location:
  • Ecton, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Death Date:
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  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 24 Mar 1681/1682 
  • Burial Location:
  • Banbury, Oxfordshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane White
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin Franklin

  Josiah Franklin (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Additional marriages for Thomas Franklin

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 30 Oct 1662

• Sources for Thomas Franklin

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1857, Vol. 11, p. 17.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 77.
  • ³ Brands, H. W., The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, New York: Doubleday (2000), 13.
  • ⁴ Jordan, John W., Franklin as a Genealogist, Philadelphia?: Unknown (1899), Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1899), 4, 6.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Josiah Franklin', (accessed 09/09/2011).