Born in USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Edwards
and Rebecca (Tappan) Edwards
Sister of
William W Edwards, Henry Edwards, Ogden E Edwards, Alfred Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Sarah Holmes (Edwards) Lewis, Ann Maria (Edwards) Park, Amory Edwards, Elizabeth Tappan (Edwards) Rowland and Richard Cunningham Edwards
Wife of
Benjamin Curtiss
— married
2 Sep 1830 in Paris, France
[children unknown]
Died
at age 36
in at sea
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Mar 2015
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Biography
- Died at sea near Le Havre, France.
Family. [1]
- Name: Benjamin Curtiss
- Gender: Male
- Birth Date: 11 Nov 1790
- Birth Place: Stratford, Conn
- First Marriage Date: 2 Sep 1830
- First Marriage Place: Paris, France
- Second Marriage Date: 29 Jan 1856
- Death Date: 19 Feb 1881
- Death Place: New York City, NY
- Father: Agur Curtiss
- Mother: Hulda Lewis
- Spouse: Rebecca Nappan Edwards, Laura Hadden
- Child: Benjamin Farquhar Curtiss, Anne Aspinwall Curtiss, William Hadden Curtiss
Sources
- ↑ Book Title: A genealogy of the Curtiss family being a record of the descendants of widow Elizabeth Curtiss who... Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
- Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1903. A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family, being a Record of the Descendants of Widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-40. Rockwell & Churchill Press, Boston, pages 82, 128
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~1.56%
Theodora Ashmead
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~0.78%
Leda Behseresht :
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~0.78%
~0.78%
Laura Emerson :
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~0.78%
William Whiting :
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