Ancestry of
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author of Treasure Island
The family tree for Robert Louis Stevenson is still in progress.
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Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Robert Louis Stevenson
Seth Low
Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Gov. Thomas Dudley
(1576 - 1653)
Great Migration Immigrant 1630
11th cousin 10 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
John Taylor Gilman
5th Governor of New Hampshire
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
18th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
17th cousin 4 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
16th cousin 5 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh
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