Famous Kin of
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
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Elias Howe
Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine
2nd cousin 2 times removed via Nathaniel Richardson Jr.
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety
2nd cousin 18 times removed via Maud of Northumberland
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Bill Weld
68th Governor of Massachusetts
3rd cousin 5 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Brian Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Dennis Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Carl Wilson
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Mike Love
Co-Founder of The Beach Boys
3rd cousin 8 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Kevin Love
NBA All-Star Player
3rd cousin 9 times removed via William Sumner Jr.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer and Aviation Pioneer
4th cousin 2 times removed via William Sumner
Charles Dawes
30th U.S. Vice-President
4th cousin 3 times removed via Francis Kendall
Barbara (Pierce) Bush
First Lady of President George H.W. Bush
4th cousin 5 times removed via William Read
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
4th cousin 5 times removed via Thomas Richardson Jr.
Steve Young
Football Hall of Fame Quarterback
4th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Richardson Jr.
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
4th cousin 6 times removed via Thomas Richardson Jr.
Kyra Sedgwick
TV and Movie Actress
4th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Richardson Jr.
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
4th cousin 7 times removed via Thomas Richardson Jr.
Anne Boleyn
2nd Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 8 times removed via Sir John Howard
Catherine Howard
5th Wife of King Henry VIII
4th cousin 8 times removed via Sir John Howard
Donnie Wahlberg
Singer and Movie Actor
4th cousin 8 times removed via William Read
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Rights Advocate
5th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Richardson
Catherine Parr
6th Wife of King Henry VIII
6th cousin 9 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Jane Seymour
3rd Wife of King Henry VIII
7th cousin 7 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Rev. George Burroughs
Executed for Witchcraft, Salem 1692
8th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
9th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
10th cousin 4 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Major John Pitcairn
British Commander at Battle of Lexington
11th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Richard More
Mayflower Passenger
11th cousin 3 times removed via William de Montagu
Cara Delevingne
Fashion Model and Movie Actress
11th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Richard de Vere
Ellen DeGeneres
Comedienne and TV Personality
11th cousin 8 times removed via Sir Richard de Vere
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin via Sir John Howard
Henry Lee III
9th Governor of Virginia
12th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
James Madison
4th U.S. President
12th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Richard Sergeaux
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
12th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
George Washington
1st U.S. President
12th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Francis Scott Key
Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Roger Sherman
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Charles Darwin
Theory of Evolution
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Lt. Gen. James Brudenell
Leader of the “Charge of the Light Brigade”
12th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
12th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
12th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Richard Sergeaux
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
12th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Fitzhugh Lee
40th Governor of Virginia
12th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Leverett Saltonstall
55th Governor of Massachusetts
12th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Walt Disney
Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Richard Sergeaux
Edith (Bolling) Wilson
First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson
12th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Princess Diana
Princess of Wales
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Camilla Parker Bowles
Duchess of Cornwall
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Upton Sinclair
Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
John Adams Morgan
1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Benedict Cumberbatch
Movie, Television and Stage Actor
12th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Prince William
Duke of Cambridge
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model, and Singer
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir Richard Sergeaux
Ted Danson
TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Kit Harington
TV Actor - “Game of Thrones”
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
John Cena
Movie Actor and WWE Pro Wrestler
12th cousin 6 times removed via Sir John Howard
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Singer and Songwriter
12th cousin 7 times removed via Sir John Howard
Caesar Rodney
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
13th cousin 1 time removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
George Clinton
4th U.S. Vice President
13th cousin 1 time removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Thomas Sim Lee
2nd and 7th Governor of Maryland
13th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Sir Charles Tupper
6th Prime Minister of Canada
13th cousin 4 times removed via John de Vere
Ray Bradbury
Author of The Martian Chronicles
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Vere
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt
First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt
13th cousin 6 times removed via John de Vere
Chevy Chase
Comedian, Actor and Writer
13th cousin 8 times removed via John de Vere
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
14th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Thomas Nelson
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
William Floyd
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin via Richard FitzAlan
Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
14th cousin via Sir John Howard
DeWitt Clinton
6th Governor of New York
14th cousin via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin via Sir John Howard
John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Shubael D. Childs
Founder of S.D. Childs & Company
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Alexander Hamilton
1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Harriet Martineau
Author of The Hour and the Man
14th cousin 1 time removed via William de Montagu
Jane (Appleton) Pierce
First Lady of President Franklin Pierce
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Zachary Taylor
12th U.S. President
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Helen Keller
Author and Activist
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
Noel Coward
Playwright, Actor, and Songwriter
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
George Mason
Father of the U.S. Bill of Rights
14th cousin 1 time removed via William de Montagu
Nicholas Gilman
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
14th cousin 1 time removed via Sir John Howard
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American “Fireside” Poet
14th cousin 1 time removed via Richard FitzAlan
J. A. Folger
Founder of Folger Coffee Company
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
14th cousin 2 times removed via William de Montagu
Richard Warren Sears
Co-Founder of Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Gloria Vanderbilt
Fashion Designer
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
James Sherman
27th U.S. Vice-President
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Marshall Field
Founder of Marshall Field & Co.
14th cousin 2 times removed via Sir John Howard
Jay Gould
American Railroad “Robber Baron”
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
William Marsh Rice
Founder of Rice University
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Henry Lloyd
40th Governor of Maryland
14th cousin 2 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Benjamin Harrison
23rd U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Helen (Herron) Taft
First Lady of President William H. Taft
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th U.S. President
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Juliette Gordon Low
Founder of the Girl Scouts
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Johnny Mercer
Songwriter and Co-Founder of Capitol Records
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Anderson Cooper
Television Journalist
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Hetty Green
“The Witch of Wall Street”
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
John Brown
American Abolitionist
14th cousin 3 times removed via Sir John Howard
Buckminster Fuller
Author, Architect, and Inventor
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Marjorie Post
Founder of General Foods
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Joseph Wharton
Founder of the Wharton School of Business
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Olivia De Havilland
Movie Actress
14th cousin 3 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Ichabod Goodwin
27th Governor of New Hampshire
14th cousin 3 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
14th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Dr. H. H. Holmes
Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
General George S. Patton
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
General Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army - World War II
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Admiral Richard Byrd
Polar Explorer
14th cousin 4 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Adlai Stevenson II
31st Governor of Illinois
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Norman Rockwell
American Artist
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Valerie Bertinelli
Television Actress
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Alan Shepard
Mercury and Apollo Astronaut
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Orson Welles
Radio, Stage, and Movie Actor
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Thomas Pynchon
American Novelist
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Pete Seeger
American Folk Singer
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
General George C. Marshall
Author of “The Marshall Plan”
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Harry F. Byrd
50th Governor of Virginia
14th cousin 4 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Alan Turing
WWII Codebreaker of Nazi Enigma Machine
14th cousin 4 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Tuesday Weld
TV and Movie Actress
14th cousin 4 times removed via Sir John Howard
Tennessee Williams
Author of A Streetcar Named Desire
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
Lee Harvey Oswald
Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Lizzie Borden
Accused Murderess
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Katharine Hepburn
Movie Actress
14th cousin 5 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Robert Frost
Poet and Playwright
14th cousin 5 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Abigail Folger
Charles Manson Murder Victim and Folger Coffee Heiress
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
14th cousin 5 times removed via Maud de St. Hilary
Howard Dean
79th Governor of Vermont
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
John Foster Dulles
52nd U.S. Secretary of State
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Adlai Stevenson III
U.S. Senator from Illinois
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona
14th cousin 5 times removed via Sir John Howard
William H. Macy
TV and Movie Actor
14th cousin 5 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
14th cousin 6 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Mitt Romney
70th Governor of Massachusetts
14th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Mamie (Doud) Eisenhower
First Lady of President Dwight Eisenhower
14th cousin 6 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Roy Rogers
Cowboy movie actor and singer
14th cousin 6 times removed via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Illeana Douglas
TV and Movie Actress
14th cousin 6 times removed via Richard FitzAlan
Catherine Middleton
Duchess of Cambridge
14th cousin 7 times removed via William de Montagu
Charles A. Pillsbury
Co-Founder of C.A. Pillsbury Co.
15th cousin 1 time removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield
First Lady of President James Garfield
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
15th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Stephen A. Douglas
Participated in Lincoln-Douglas Debates
15th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Judy Garland
Singer and Movie Actress
15th cousin 3 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Elizabeth Montgomery
TV Actress - “Bewitched”
15th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
15th cousin 4 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
George Romney
43rd Governor of Michigan
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Willis Carrier
Inventor of Air Conditioning
15th cousin 5 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Erskine Childers
4th President of Ireland
15th cousin 6 times removed via Edmund FitzAlan
Samuel Prescott
Completed Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
16th cousin via Isabella de Beauchamp
Charles Carnan Ridgely
15th Governor of Maryland
16th cousin via Sir Gilbert de Clare
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th cousin 1 time removed via Gilbert de Clare
Abraham Baldwin
Signer of the U.S. Constitution
16th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Walter FitzRobert
Emily Post
American Author on Etiquette
16th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Richard de Burgh
J.P. Morgan
American Banker and Art Collector
16th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Walter FitzRobert
J.P. Morgan, Jr.
American Banker and Philanthropist
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Walter FitzRobert
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author of Treasure Island
16th cousin 5 times removed via Sir Richard de Burgh
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
William Ellery
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Longespee
General Hugh Mercer
American Revolutionary War Hero
17th cousin 1 time removed via Gilbert de Clare
William C. C. Claiborne
1st Governor of Louisiana
17th cousin 1 time removed via William de Beauchamp
William Greene
2nd Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Longespee
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
17th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Longespee
William Stoughton
Chief Judge and Prosecutor, Salem Witch Trials 1692
17th cousin 2 times removed via Saher I de Quincy
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
17th cousin 2 times removed via Sir William Longespee
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, “Sherlock Holmes”
17th cousin 2 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Anthony West
Novelist and writer for the New Yorker
17th cousin 3 times removed via Edward I, King of England
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Samuel Ward King
15th Governor of Rhode Island
17th cousin 3 times removed via Sir William Longespee
Wilbur Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers - Aviation Pioneer
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir Saher IV de Quincy
Julia (Ward) Howe
Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
17th cousin 4 times removed via Sir William Longespee
Button Gwinnett
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir William Marshal
Eliphalet Remington
Founder of Remington Arms Company
18th cousin 1 time removed via Sir Walter Fitzrobert
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author of The Scarlet Letter
18th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Walter Fitzrobert
Liz Claiborne
Fashion Designer and Founder of Liz Claiborne Inc.
18th cousin 3 times removed via William de Beauchamp
Edith (Carow) Roosevelt
First Lady of President Theodore Roosevelt
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers
Benedict Arnold
Traitor of the American Revolution
19th cousin 2 times removed via Saher I de Quincy
Frank Nelson Doubleday
Founder of Doubleday & Co.
19th cousin 2 times removed via Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers