William
Edward
Shepherd
Born in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Shepherd
and Anne Victoria (Ellis) Shepherd
Brother of
John Shepherd [half]
Husband of
Sarah (Cochran) Shepherd
— married
1704 in Prince George's County, Maryland
Descendants 
Father of
Eleanor (Shepard) Strode, Mary Shepherd, Thomas C. Shepherd Sr., William Shepherd Jr., John Shepherd, David Shepard, Ann (Sheppard) Sutton and Abraham Shepherd
Died
at about age 62
in Prince George's County, Province of Maryland [uncertain]
[uncertain]
Profile managers:
Carl Rhodes 
[send private message], Chris Shepherd [send private message], and Timothy Laird [send private message]
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Biography
William Shepherd was a Maryland colonist.
William was born in 1679 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, the third child and eldest son of Thomas and Anne Ellis Shepherd.
He married Sarah Cochran c. 1696 in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
He passed away about 1741.
Research Note
- Every tree on Familysearch has the spouse as Sarah Burton rather than Cochran.
Sources
See also:
- Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=555902&pid=45534541
- https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Ann_Sheppard&birth=1720_Westmoreland-Virginia&death=1830_Westmoreland-Virginia-United+States&spouse=Joshua_Sutton
- https://www.geni.com/people/William-Shepherd/6000000006348697356
Acknowledgments
- This person was created through the import of Lynch-Tree.ged on 06 August 2010.
- This profile developed through the merging of Shepherd-198 into Shepherd-48 by Tom Bredehoft, 21/9/2013.
- Shepard-1037 was created by Timothy Laird through the import of Laird-French-McCauley-Langford.ged on May 23, 2014.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- John Sheppard
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup S-20054, FTDNA kit #369668
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~0.39%
Clare Bromley :
23andMe, GEDmatch XA3190815 [compare], yourDNAportal CLA5a23e73b
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~0.39%
Rich Lowe :
23andMe, GEDmatch A782766 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A782766 [compare], Ancestry member richlowe46
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch A782766 [compare]
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~0.39%
William Ferrell :
23andMe, GEDmatch M205435 [compare]
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~0.39%
Verne Holman :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Jeannette (Stephens) Wood :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AQ9316943 [compare], yourDNAportal JEAa07897e2, Ancestry member loneagle2
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~0.39%
Andrew Robertson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A211792 [compare], Ancestry member andyr
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T590655 [compare], FTDNA kit #32492
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~0.39%
Richard Yates :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member DickandMaryyates131
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~0.39%
Joe Davis :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member joe9725
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Hartley Bloomfield :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Kelly Phillips :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A431449 [compare], Ancestry member kamki6836
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~0.39%
Valtas Hockenbury :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member valtas_hockenbury
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~0.39%
Chester Carroll :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A026476 [compare], Ancestry member rlcarr03
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~0.39%
Barton Musick :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T951297 [compare], FTDNA kit #180224
+
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch SW5330747 [compare]
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~0.39%
Ruth (Meredith) Conley :
MyHeritage DNA
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Rejected matches › William Shepherd (abt.1620-1680) › William Sheppard (1652-1670) › William Shepherd (abt.1741-1824)
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It looks like you have William Shepherd/Shepard as the brother and as the husband. Can you clarify or correct the relationships so we know who Sarah Cochran is actually married to? Brenda Cockrum Gravitt [email address removed]