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Originally Published In The Beach Family Journal, Vol. III, No. 2, p. 294 (Summer, 1995)

From Data Submitted By
Frank W. Beach, Jr.
Orlando, Florida 32801

In Volume I, Number 1 we ran the following as a sample Query for the "Driftwood" column:

Q1. Looking for the ancestry of MEHITABLE BEACH, wife of Ambrose Hall and great-great grandmother of Sir Winston Churchill, through his American-born mother, Jennie (Jerome) Churchill. There is some suggestion she was wholly or partly of Native American ancestry.

Through the courtsey of subscriber Frank W. Beach, Jr., we now have the answer to our question, which should be of interest to all descendants of the New England Beach family. The following lineage is abstrated from a much larger chart, entitled "The American Ancestry Of The Right Honorable Winston Churchill Through His Mother Jennie Jerome Wife Of Lord Randolph Churchill", published in The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol. 73, 1942, as a flyleaf to page 163:

1. JOHN BEACH, of New Haven and Stratford, Connecticut; m. Mary -----. Their son:

2. JOHN BEACH, b. Apr, 1654; d. 1712 at Stratford, Connecticut; m. 1st, Hannah Staples. Their son:

3. EBENEZER BEACH, b. Sep 14, 1692 at Stratford, Connecticut; d. Jan, 1776, at Stratford; m. Dec 28, 1715, Mehitable Gibson. Their son:

4. JOHN BEACH, b. May 8, 1718, at Stratford, Connecticut; d. Mar 25, 1805, at Monroe Center, Connecticut; m. Aug 23, 1748, Rebecca Berry. Their daughter:

5. MEHITABLE BEACH, b. Jul, 1749, at North Stratford, Connecticut; d. Sep 17, 1807, at Albany, New York, at age 58; m. Ambrose Hall, b. Feb 3, 1735, at Wallingford, Connecticut. Their son:

6. AMBROSE HALL, JR., b. Aug 29, 1774, at Lanesboro, Massachusetts; d. Oct 14, 1827, at Palmyra, New York; m. Clarissa Willcox. Their daughter:

7. CLARISSA (CLARA) HALL, b. Jul 16, 1825, at Palmyra, New York; d. Apr 2, 1895, at Tunbridge Wells, England; m. Apr 5, 1849, Leonard Walter Jerome, b. Nov 3, 1817, at Pompey, New York, d. Mar 3, 1891, at Brighton, England. Their daughter:

8. JENNIE JEROME, b. Jan 9, 1854, at Brooklyn, New York; d. Jun 28, 1921; m. 1st, Apr 15, 1874, at the British Embassy, Paris, Lord Randolph Churchill. Their son:

9. Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL, Prime Minister of Great Britain.

From this is should be a simple matter for anyone interested to calculate their "kinship" to "Cousin Winston". Note that the Beach Family Magazine gives the same lineage for Mehitable Beach, but fails to mention her marriage to Ambrose Hall or her date and place of death. Our sincere thanks to Frank W. Beach for this most interesting bit of family lore.

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