Ancestry of
Tony Dow

TV Actor

Tristram Coffin Dow

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Tony Dow — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jul 1793 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Aug 1875 
  • Death Location:
  • Annawan, Henry, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Fifield-Lyford Cemetery, Buda, Bureau, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Lyford
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Josiah Dow (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  • Notes: 

  • War of 1812 veteran

    Tristram's marriage date comes from his War of 1812 pension application which gives it as 03 NOV 1817.

• Sources for Tristram Coffin Dow

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Bureau County, 1850, Concord, Image 6 of 9.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Henry County, 1870, Annawan, p. 29, Image 28 of 31.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/01/2023).
  • ⁴ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971, Marriage record for Tristram Coffin Dow and Susan Lyford.
  • ⁵ U.S., War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, Pension application for Tristram C Dow and Susan Lyford.
  • ⁶ Lyford, James Otis, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912, Vol. 2, Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press (1912), 221.
  • ⁷ Welch, William Lewis, Francis Lyford of Boston and Exeter, and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for the Essex Institute (1902), 20.