Ancestry of
James Madison

4th U.S. President

Eleanor Rose "Nelly" Conway

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• • Mother of James Madison — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Francis Conway 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Catlett   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jan 1731 
  • Birth Location:
  • Port Conway, King George, Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1829 
  • Death Location:
  • Montpelier Plantation, Orange Co., Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Montpelier Plantation, Orange Co., Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • James Madison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Sep 1749 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  James Madison Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Ambrose Madison

  Nelly Conway Madison

  • Notes: 
  • Some sources give Eleanor's birthdate as 09 JAN 1732.

• Sources for Eleanor Rose "Nelly" Conway

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/19/2011).
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant, 2010, Vol. 59, p. 16.
  • ³ Hampton, William Judson, Our Presidents and Their Mothers, New York: The Cornhill Publishing Company (1922), 32.
  • ⁴ King, George Harrison Sanford, Marriages of Richmond County, Virginia 1668-1853, Fredericksburg, Virginia: G.H.S. King (1964), 248.
  • ⁵ Meade, Bishop, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Vol. II, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1857), 96-97.
  • ⁶ Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 4, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 367, 372.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 513.
  • ⁹ Tyler, Lyon G., ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 09, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1901), 39.
  • ¹⁰ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 191.
  • ¹¹ Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 164.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "James Madison, Sr.", _Sr., (accessed 12/19/2011).