Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Ruth Merrill

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of H. H. Holmes — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 113 
  • Father:
  • Daniel Merrill 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Clough   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Feb 1680/1681 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1710/1711 
  • Death Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Onesiphorus Page
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1701 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nehemiah Page

  Jabez Page (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  Onesiphorus Page

• Sources for Ruth Merrill

  • ¹ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Case #18230 (5 pages), Probate for father Daniel Merrill.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 604, Death record for Ruth Page.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Births, Vol. 1, p. 319, Birth record for Ruth Merrill.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 225.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 934.
  • ⁶ Dearborn, David Curtis, "George and Rhoda (Dearborn) Dearborn of Biddeford, Maine", NEXUS Archive, Vol. VI, December 1989, https://www.americanancestors.org/george-and-rhoda/, (accessed 10/24/2013).
  • ⁷ The John Clough Genealogical Society, Inc., The Genealogy of the Descendants of John Clough of Salisbury, Massachusetts, Littleton, New Hampshire: The Courier Printing Company (1952), 43.