Interested by Abraham Lincoln's apparent descendance from Adam Shipley1G via Robert Shipley, Sr., I used The Shipleys of Maryland 1968 as a reference to add this offshoot to my FAMILY WEB. The earlier The Shipleys of Maryland 1938 cites the following as the basis of the claim for the Shipley-Lincoln connection: Shipley Ancestry of Lincoln's Mother, by Louis A. Warren, Historical Research Director, Lincoln National Foundation.
Unfortunately, I later found out that Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother, was a woman of unknown parentage and that there are a number of theories - the Shipley connection being one of them - floating around about Lincoln's maternal ancestry. For more information about the controversy, visit Christopher Child's "Genealogy of Abraham Lincoln's Mother" (Wayback Machine).
Parents | |
|---|---|
| Father: | James Hanks (1761?-1785?) |
| Mother: | Lucy Shipley (1765-1825) |
Siblings | |
| Half-brother: | James Sparrow (1792-????) |
| Half-sister: | Elizabeth Sparrow (1794-????) m. ? Franklin |
| Half-sister: | Margaret (Peggy?) Sparrow (1796-????) m. ? Ingram |
| Half-sister: | Mary (Polly?) Sparrow (1798-????) m. ? Whitehouse |
| Half-brother: | Thomas Sparrow (1800-????) |
| Half-brother: | Henry Sparrow (1802-1881) |
| Half-brother: | George Sparrow (1804-????) |
| Half-sister: | Lucinda Sparrow (1806-????) m. ? Campbell |
Spouse | |
| Husband: | Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851) married 1806-06-12 in Washington County, KY, USA by Rev. Jesse Head. After Nancy died, Lincoln married a widow, Mrs. Sarah (Bush) Johnston (1788?-1869). |
Children | |
| Daughter: | Sarah Lincoln (1807-1828) |
| Son: | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Son: | Thomas Lincoln, Jr. (1812-infancy) |
Basic Data | |
| Born: | 1784-02-05 |
| Place: | Campbell County, VA, USA |
| Died: | 1818-10-05 |
| Place: | Pigeon Creek, Spencer County, IN, USA |
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