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Rachel Sears 1771–1846 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1771

Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Death Date: 23 August 1846

Death Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America

Father: David Granger

Mother: Sibble Lawrence

Spouse(s): Paul Sears

Children(s): Mary Burt, David Sears, Alfred 1812, Barnas Sears, Lyman Sears, Sally Sears, Belinda Davis\Avery\Trusdale, John Sears, Hiram Sears, Henry Sears, Sarah Bolles

The story of Rachel Sears began in 1771 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. Rachel Sears married Paul Sears, and had children including Alfred Sears War Of 1812, Barnas Sears, Belinda Lynda Sears Davis Avery Trusdale, David G Sears, Henry Sears, Hiram Sears, John R Sears, Lyman Sears, Mary Sears Burt, Sally Sears, Sarah Bolles. Rachel Sears passed away in 1846 in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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Biography

  • The story of Rachel Sears began in 1771 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
  • Rachel Sears married Paul Sears, and had children including Alfred Sears War Of 1812, Barnas Sears, Belinda Lynda Sears Davis Avery Trusdale, David G Sears, Henry Sears, Hiram Sears, John R Sears, Lyman Sears, Mary Sears Burt, Sally Sears, Sarah Bolles.
  • Rachel Sears passed away in 1846 in Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Immediate Family

Parents

David Granger
1718–1789
Birth Location: Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
DG
Sibble Lawrence
1729–1791
Birth Location: Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA
SL

Spouses(s)

Paul Sears
1769–1851
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
PS

Children(s)

Mary Burt
1795–1872
Birth Location: Connecticut
MB
David Sears
1806–1889
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
DS
Alfred 1812
1795–1880
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America
A1
Barnas Sears
1802–1880
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
BS
Lyman Sears
1804–1866
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
LS
Sally Sears
1801–1880
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America
SS
Belinda Davis\Avery\Trusdale
1798–1868
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
BD
John Sears
1809–1883
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
JS
Hiram Sears
1811–1878
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
HS
Henry Sears
1815–1905
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
HS
Sarah Bolles
1801–1887
Birth Location: Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America
SB

Rachel Sears's Ancestors

Self
Rachel Sears
1771–1846
Birth Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Parents
David Granger
1718–1789
Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Sibble Lawrence
1729–1791
Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, USA
Grandparents
Thomas (Granger (Allen Allyn)) II
1684–1755
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America
Elizabeth Allen
1686–1755
Deerfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Daniel (Counts Lawrence) Jr
1702–1790
Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Rachel Kingsbury
1705–1767
Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Great-Grandparents
Thomas Sr
1656–1730
MINDWELL TAYLOR
1663–1770
John Sr
1659–1704
Elizabeth Pritchard
1654–1704
Captain Lawrence
1681–1777
Sarah Counts
1682–1712
Ensign Kingsbury
1681–1756
Phebe Main
1681–1781
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Launcelot Granger
1637–1689
Joanna Adams
1634–1689
Elizabeth Newell
1628–1717
Edward I
1633–1696
Sarah Kimball
1639–1696
William Pritchard
1617–1675
Hannah Langton
1630–1705
Enoch Lawrence
1648–1744
Ruth Whitney
1645–1718
Edward Counts
1635–1740
Sarah Adams
1637–1704
James Kingsbury
1648–1730
Sarah Button
1652–1690
Ezekiel Sr
1641–1714
Mary Hatch
1652–1692

Rachel Sears's Descendants

1.
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Rachel Sears (1771–23 August 1846) m. Paul Sears (1769–1851)
  1. 1. Mary (Sears) Burt 1795–1872 m. James Burt 1792–1874
    1. 1. James (M) Burt 1823–1900 m. E (F) Burt 1833–1885
      1. 1. James (G.) Burt 1850–1922 m. Mary (E) Hannon 1856–1882 m. Ellen Burt 1848–1926
        1. 1. Minnie Burt 1877–
        2. 2. Frederick (G.) Burt 1879–
      2. 2. Lilly Burt 1863–1922 m. Thomas (Beale) Stearns 1859–1946
        1. 1. Violet (Louise) Stearns 1903–1905
        2. 2. Burt (B) Stearns 1886–1918 m. Dorothy Brown 1892–1935
        3. 3. James (Porter) Stearns 1892–1920
        4. 4. Lilian (Stearns) Perkins 1896–1956
        5. 5. Elizabeth (Stearns) Bradford 1890–1972 m. Herbert (Alfred) Bradford 1884–1947
      3. 3. Harry (Leonard Burt) Sr 1848–1912 m. Emma (J) Hamman 1855–
        1. 1. Harry (Leonard Burt) Jr 1873–1937 m. Therese Burth 1876–1913 m. Augusta (Dorothea "Doris") Jensen 1893–1982
      4. 4. Hewellyn Burt 1858–1939 m. Catherine (Mortimer Van) Kluck 1860–1921
        1. 1. John (Mortimer Burt) Sr 1892– m. Marguerite (Salisbury) Hebbera 1892–1935
        2. 2. Lilian (Louise) Burt 1883– m. George (Sinclair) Preston 1878–1939
    2. 2. Adelia (B Day nee) Burt 1821–1903 m. Horatio (Ely) Day 1814–1886
      1. 1. James (Raymond) Day 1842–1894
      2. 2. Mary (Adelia) Day 1844–1919
      3. 3. Horatio (Burt) Day 1849–1926
      4. 4. Carolyn (Louise) Day 1853–1914
      5. 5. Charles (Edwin) Day 1857–1920
    3. 3. Maria Burt 1835–1833
    4. 4. Mary (Jane) Burt 1830–1912 m. William (Gough) Price 1867–1949 m. William (Morris) Price 1821–1887
      1. 1. Emily (P) Dixon 1869–1949 m. Samuel (Welsh) Jr 1864–1907
        1. 1. Maris (Lowber) Welsh 1894–1970 m. Louis (Cephas Madeira) III 1892–1943
        2. 2. Emily (Price) Myers 1897–1982 m. William (Hayward Myers) II 1887–1982
        3. 3. Samuel (Welsh) Jr 1898–
        4. 4. Elisabeth Welsh 1901–
        5. 5. Katherine Welsh 1905–
      2. 2. Alfred (Thomas) Price 1890–
      3. 3. Francis (Frank) Price 1889–
      4. 4. William (Burt) Price 1853–1877
      5. 5. James (Burt) Price 1862–1872
      6. 6. Mary (Louisa) Price 1851–1852
      7. 7. Anna (Maria) Price-Tilden 1858–1925
      8. 8. Henry (Francis) Price 1864–1942 m. Harriet (Leland) Robins 1868–1947
      9. 9. Grace (Harriet) Price 1855–1923
    5. 5. Anna (Eliza) Burt 1837–1863 m. William (adam) Gellatly 1831–1885
      1. 1. William (Burt) Gellatly 1862–1944 m. Narcissa (M) Nale-Barton 1871–
        1. 1. Donald (Sears) Gellatly 1911–1991
        2. 2. Mary (C) Gellatly 1898–
        3. 3. Narcesia Gellatly 1899–
      2. 2. Burt Gellatly 1870–1924
      3. 3. Edward (Sears) Gellatly 1867–1955
      4. 4. Francis (Edwin) Gellatly 1864–1916 m. Julia (Fowler) Bigelow 1868–1953
        1. 1. Frederic (Bigelow Gellatly) Sr 1898–1977 m. Esther (Elizabeth) Dyer 1899–1972
        2. 2. Pvt (Frank Bleeker) Gellatly 1897–1961
        3. 3. Katharine Gellatly 1894–1977 m. Joseph (Nelson) Carter 1882–1959
      5. 5. John (Nimo) Gellatly 1878–1917
      6. 6. Mary (Anna Gellatly) Goodrich 1873–1928
    6. 6. John Burt 1825–1910 m. Ann (Eliza) Landon 1830–1903
      1. 1. Anita Burt 1855–1937
      2. 2. Jessie (Burt) Sparhawk 1864–1953
      3. 3. Arthur Burt 1859–1940
      4. 4. John (Landon) Burt 1850–1851
      5. 5. Mary Burt 1857–1936 m. Francis (Hutchins) Holmes 1854–1926
        1. 1. John (Burt) Holmes 1894–1978
        2. 2. Georgiana (B) Holmes 1881–1971
        3. 3. Jean (Macmillan) Holmes 1884–1973
        4. 4. Helen Holmes 1887–1961
        5. 5. Mary (Louise) Holmes 1892–1977
        6. 6. Katherine (Rainsford) Holmes 1895–1990
      6. 6. Walter Burt 1862–
      7. 7. Harry (James) Burt 1865–
      8. 8. Benjamin Burt 1869–
      9. 9. Joseph (W) Burt 1871–
      10. 10. Henry Burt 1865–
    7. 7. Edwin (C) Burt 1818–1884 m. Jane (Louisa) Loomis 1820–1864 m. Mary (Bruen) Wilson 1832–1899
      1. 1. William (Edwin) Burt 1840–1872
      2. 2. Emily (Loomis Burt) Curtis 1845–1908
      3. 3. Parkes (Loomis) Burt 1846–1889
      4. 4. Franklin (Benjamin) Burt 1847–1904
      5. 5. Charles (Mather) Burt 1850–1900
      6. 6. Georgianna (Wadsworth) Burt 1859–1896
      7. 7. Edwin (A) Burt 1855–1857
    8. 8. Maria Burt 1832–1833
  2. 2. David (G) Sears 1806–1889
  3. 3. Alfred (Sears War of) 1812 1795–1880 m. Elizabeth DeLand 1801–1868
    1. 1. Barnas (C) Sears 1824–1893 m. Louisa (Jane) Fay 1824–1880
      1. 1. Elizabeth (Fay Sears) Winslow 1846–1924
      2. 2. George (B.) Sears 1857–1858
      3. 3. Nellie (Marie Sears) Bolles 1862–1938
      4. 4. Charles (Beaulanu) Sears 1848–1918 m. Elizabeth Main 1860–
    2. 2. Delos (Ambrose) Sears 1828–1888
    3. 3. Mary (Elizabeth Sears) Fay 1831–1892
  4. 4. Barnas Sears 1802–1880
  5. 5. Lyman Sears 1804–1866
  6. 6. Sally Sears 1801–1880
  7. 7. Belinda ('Lynda' Sears) Davis\Avery\Trusdale 1798–1868
  8. 8. John (R) Sears 1809–1883
  9. 9. Hiram Sears 1811–1878
  10. 10. Henry Sears 1815–1905
  11. 11. Sarah Bolles 1801–1887 m. William Bolles 1797–1886
    1. 1. Jane (E) Bolles 1830– m. Ensign (G) Bolles 1834–1917
    2. 2. Ensign (G) Bolles 1834–1917 m. Jane (E) Bolles 1830–
    3. 3. William (Allen) Bolles 1841–1910
    4. 4. Clarinda (R) Bolles 1830–1870 m. William (Van) Epps 1830–
      1. 1. Edwin (D Van) Epps 1850–
      2. 2. Jane (S Van) Epps 1856–
    5. 5. Jason (L) Bolles 1823–1904
    6. 6. Sarah Bolles 1834–

Rachel Sears's Timeline

5 Records

1771
4 Aug 1771
Birth of Rachel Sears in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
1771
1771
Birth of Rachel Sears in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
1846
23 Aug 1846
Age 75
Death of Rachel Sears in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
1846
1846
Age 75
Death of Rachel Sears in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
1846
23 August 1846
Age 75
Death of Rachel Sears in Christian Secretary, Connecticut
Christian Secretary, Connecticut

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 4 Aug 1771
    Event Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source:
    [1] Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
    [2] Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut
    [3] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast
    [4] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
    [5] Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
    [6] U.S., Family History Books, Lancelot Granger of Newbury, Massachusetts and Suffield, Connecticut: A Genealogical History; Author: Granger, James Nathaniel, b. 1845
    [7] Geneanet Community Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1771
    Event Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Date: 12 Oct 1880
    Event Place: Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
    Record Source: Findagrave, Alfred Sears

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 23 Aug 1846
    Event Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
    Record Source:
    [1] Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut
    [2] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast
    [3] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
    [4] Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
    [5] U.S., Family History Books, Lancelot Granger of Newbury, Massachusetts and Suffield, Connecticut: A Genealogical History; Author: Granger, James Nathaniel, b. 1845
    [6] Geneanet Community Trees Index

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1846
    Event Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 23 August 1846
    Event Place: Christian Secretary, Connecticut
    Record Source: Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934

    Genealogy Event 7
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America
    Record Source:
    [1] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
    [2] Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
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