Ancestry of
James Madison

4th U.S. President

Elizabeth Thornton

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• • Great-grandmother of James Madison — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Francis Thornton 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Savage   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1674 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1733 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Edwin Conway Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 May 1695 
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  • Child:

  Francis Conway (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Additional marriages for Elizabeth Thornton

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  • Spouse:
  • Jonathan Gibson
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 3 Mar 1698/1699

• Sources for Elizabeth Thornton

  • ¹ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 257.
  • ² King, George Harrison Sanford, Marriages of Richmond County, Virginia 1668-1853, Fredericksburg, Virginia: G.H.S. King (1964), 43, 77, 248.
  • ³ Meade, Bishop, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Vol. II, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1857), 96.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 314-315.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 513.