How Winston Churchill is descendant of the Merrimans
Churchill's line of descent is as follows
| Great Great Great Great Grandfather... | Sergeant Nathaniel Curtis Merriman, b. Wallingford CT 14 May 1677; d. 4 March 1763 and his second wife, Sarah How, b. Wallingford, CT 3 Oct 1675; d. there 4 Jan. 1740. |
| Great Great Great Grandmother... | Lydia Curtis Merriman, b. Wallingford, CT 20 Mar 1714; d. there 24 Sept. 1777 and Thomas Hall, b. Wallingford CT 10 Mar 1712; d. there ca 1800; |
| Great Great Grandfather... | Ambrose Hall, b. Wallingford, CT 3 Feb. 1735; d. Lanesboro MA 29 Aug. 1800 and Mehitable Beach, b. North Stratford, CT July 1749; d. Albany NY 17 Sept. 1807; |
| Great Grandfather... | Ambrose Hall, v. Lanesboro, MA 29 Aug. 1774 d. 14 Oct 1827 Palmyra, NY; and Clarissa Willcox, b. Palmyra, NY 10 Sept. 1796; d. there July 1827; |
| Grandmother... | Leonard Walter Jerome, b. Pompey, NY 3 Nov. 1817; d. Lyon Mansions, Brighton England 3 March 1891 and Clarissa "Clara" Hall, b. Palmyra NY 16 July 1825; d. Tunbridge Wells, Sussex, England 2 April 1895; |
| mother... | Jennie Jerome, b. Brooklyn NY 9 Jan. 1854 d, London 29 June 1921 and Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph (Henry Spencer-) Churchill, b. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock 13 Feb. 1849; d. London 24 Jan. 1895; |
| Sir Winston Churchill... | Rt. Hon. Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer-) Churchill, b. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England 30 Nov. 1874; d. London 24 Jan. 1965. |
| note: (all from Steward,
Scott C., Six Generations of the Anglo-American Ancestry of Sir
Winston Churchill, NEXUS, Vol. XIII, No. 5, September-October 1996, pages
166-172.)
note: Sgt. Nathaniel Curtis was the son of Thomas and Mary (Merriman) Curtis, which is in Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, p. 149. Mary Merriman was daughter of Nathaniel Merriman b. 1613, London. emigrated to NC. |
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