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"MEMOIRS," NEHGR, vol. XCI (1937), p. 295.
- GERALD FAULKNER SHEPARD, of Hamden, Conn., elected an annual member 3 May 1932, was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 September 1867, the son of William Faulkner and Rosa Macneven (Wilson) Shepard, and died at Hamden 28 April 1937.
- He traced his descent from Ralph1 Shepard, a native of England, tailor, who, with his wife Thanklord and daughter Sara, immigrated in 1635 on the Abigail to New England, where he lived at Watertown, Dedham, Weymouth, Rehoboth, Malden, and Concord, and ded 11 September 1692, through Isaac2, 1639-1676, who married Mary Smedley, Samuel3, a resident of Plainsfield, Conn., where he died in 1724, whose wife was Eleanor Whitney, David4 of Plainfield, who died in 1752, whose second wife was Lydia Meacham, Jesse5, 1744-1810, of Tolland and Somers, Conn., a soldier in the Revolution, who married Sarah Wight, John6, whose wife was Anna Davis, Henry7, who married Catherine Faulkner, and William Faulkner8, his father, who was born at Jersey City, N. J., 25 December 1837. His mother, Rosa Macneven Wilson, was born in New York City 26 April 1844, daughter of Harris and Jennet (Riker) Wilson.
- Gerald Faulkner Shepard attended the public schools of New York City and studied law at home. From 1890 to 1913, when he retired from active wor, he was a successful lawyer in New York City.
- Deeply interested in the genealogy of the various Shepard-Shepherd families of the United States, he collected considerable information about the descendants of seven of the early Shepard settlers in New England.
- He married 23 October 1913 Jane Pollock Hosie, daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Scott) Hosie.
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