Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

James Steel

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Cokie Roberts — 11th Generation
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  • 1894 
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  • from 31 DEC 1741 to 05 MAR 1741/1742 
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  • Martha Hammond
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Sep 1697 
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  • Society of Friends, Arundel, West Sussex, England 
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  Sarah Steel (Ahnentafel No:947 )

  • Notes: 

  • James Steele is said to be the private secretary of William Penn.

• Additional marriages for James Steel

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  • Martha - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jul 1711
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania

• Sources for James Steel

  • ¹ England and Wales, Society of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841, Marriage record for James Steel and Martha Hammond.
  • ² England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 Transcription, Marriage record for James Steel and Martha Hammond.
  • ³ History of Virginia, Volume 6: Virginia Biography, Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society (1924), 66.
  • ⁴ Publications of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1917, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 307-308.
  • ⁵ Cope, Gilbert, Genealogy of Dunwoody and Hood Families and Collateral Branches: Their History and Biography, Minneapolis: Tribune Printing Co. (1899), 164-172.

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