L Ron Hubbard, ancestry

Founder of Scientology

An attempt to find a royal ancestry for L Ron Hubbard

Authors

The numbers assigned to the names below are done with the Ahnentafel system.


First Try

1 Lafayette Ronald "L Ron" Hubbard, Jr was born 7 May 1934 in Encinitas, California (while the family was on a vacation), the son of Lafayette Ronald "L Ron" Hubbard (1911-86) and his wife Margaret "Polly" Grubb (b 1903).

2 Lafayette Ronald "L Ron" Hubbard was born 13 Mar 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, the son of Henry August Wilson aka Harry Ross Hubbard (adopted), and his wife Ledora May Waterbury

5 Ledora May Waterbury was born in 1885 in Burnett (later changed to Tilden), Madison County, Nebraska, the daughter of Lafayette O Waterbury and his wife Ida Corinna DeWolf

11 Ida Corinna DeWolf was born 6 Aug 1863 in Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania the daughter of John Archelous DeWolf and his wife Louise Doty

22 John Archelous DeWolf was born in 1833, the son of Charles DeWolf and his wife Betsy Putnam

45 Betsy Putnam was born 17 Dec 1794, the daughter of Mary Nichols

91 Mary Nichols was born 29 Aug 1750, the daughter of Samuel Nichols, by his wife Abigail Elliott

183 Abigail Elliott was the daughter of Francis Elliott by his wife Jerusha Walcot

367 Jerusha Walcot was the daughter of John Walcot by his wife Mary Unknown

734 John Walcot was the son of Jonathan Walcot by his wife Mary Sibley

1468 Jonathan Walcot was the son of John or William Walcot (bap 1633) by his wife Alice Ingersoll daughter of Richard Ingersoll of Salem

This husband of Alice Ingersoll, is not known to connect to any particular family in England, although some people have made him into William Walcot the son of Humphrey Walcot by his wife Anne Docwra.  But that identification ignores that this William was not baptised until 1633, while Alice's father's will names her as Alice Walcott already in 1644, which is impossible if her presumed husband is only then 11 years old.  So whoever her Walcott husband was, and whoever his parents might have been, they were not Humphrey Walcot and Anne Docwra.



Second Try

Same as above until

91 Mary Nichols was born 29 Aug 1750, the daughter of Samuel Nichols, by his wife Abigail Elliott

182 Samuel Nichols was born the son of John Nichols by his wife Mary Goldthwaite

364 John Nichols was the son of John Nicols

728 John Nichols was the son of William Nichols by his wife Mary Southwick

1456 Mary Southwick was the daughter of Lawrence Southwick

Our downfall on this one is again a will.  Mary's purported father, Lawrence, left a will dated 1659, and admit 1660 in which he names his daughter as "Mary Trask".  Meanwhile William Nichols and his wife Mary had a son John Nichols born in 1641 and William did not die until 1695/6.

So whoever Mary the wife of William Nichols was, she was not the daughter of this Lawrence Southwick.


Third Try

Same as above until

22 John Archelous DeWolf was born in 1833, the son of Charles DeWolf and his wife Betsy Putnam

44 Charles DeWolf was born 2 Oct 1794, the son of Edward DeWolf and his wife Sarah Colson Bill

89 Sarah Bill was born the daughter of Oliver Bill and his wife Martha Skinner

This ascent has a problem right here.  For one thing the Bill family genealogy book, which is pretty exhaustive on this particular branch of the Bill family, does not list a Sarah among the children of Oliver Bill and his wife Martha Skinner.  It also doesn't list a son-in-law DeWolf.  Confirming this, a story was written about 1903 about this particular family and calls the wife here Sarah COTTON not Sarah Colson Bill.  And I cannot find any printed source which backs up her name as Sarah Colson or Sarah Bill either.  Just many people online repeating it from each other.