Ancestry of
Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Joanna Gillett

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Boris Johnson — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1927 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Gillett 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Taintor   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Oct 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Strong
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1698/1699 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Strong

  Dorcas Strong (Ahnentafel No:963 )

• Sources for Joanna Gillett

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 270, Marriage record for Josiah Strong and Joannah Gillit.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, p. 117, Birth record for Johanna Gillett.
  • ³ Aldridge, Bertha Bortle Beal, Gillette Families (Gillet-Gillett-Gillette), Including Some of the Descendants of the Immigrants . . ., Victor, New York: n. p. (1955), 20.
  • ⁴ American Ancestors, "Boris Johnson: Strong Ancestry", (accessed 04/15/2020).
  • ⁵ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 1, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1871), 166-167.
  • ⁶ Webster, William Holcomb and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: With Numerous Portraits and Illustrations, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1915), 64.

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