Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Benjamin Child

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 258 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Child 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bowen   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 27 Feb 1658/1659 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 24 Jan 1723/1724 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Walter Street Burying Ground, Roslindale, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Grace Morris
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Mar 1683 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ephraim Child

  Benjamin Child

  Grace Child

  Mary Child

  Martha Child (Ahnentafel No:129 )

  Penuel Child

• Sources for Benjamin Child

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/10/2011).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 488.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Births, Vol. 1, Page 65.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 73.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 65, Birth record for son Ephraim Childe.
  • ⁶ Bowen, Daniel, The Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Boston, Mass., 1638-9, Especially the Branch of . . ., Jacksonville, Florida: DaCosta Printing Company (1893), 31.
  • ⁷ Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 70-71.
  • ⁸ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 180, 224.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 36.
  • ¹⁰ Walker, James Bradford Richmond, Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony: Embracing Genealogical and Biographical Sketches . . ., Northampton: Metcalf and Company, Printers (1861), 124.

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