Sedgwick family explained

The Sedgwick family is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics, law, business, and the arts.^[1] The earliest known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire, England, who arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as part of the Great Migration.^[2] Sedgwick, Maine, was named in his honor.^[3] The Sedgwick Pie is the family's cemetery located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Family tree

Ancestors

• Major General Robert Sedgwick (1611–1656)
  • William Sedgwick (c. 1643–1674)
    • Samuel Sedgwick, Cpt. (1667–?)
      • Benjamin Sedgwick, Deacon (1716–1757)
        • Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813)

Main line

• Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813), an American attorney, politician and jurist
  • Elizabeth Mason Sedgwick (1775–1827)
  • A child died at birth on March 27, 1777
  • Frances Pamela Sedgwick (1778-1842)
  • Theodore Sedgwick Jr. (1780–1839) married to Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick
  • Catherine Sedgwick (1782 – 1783)
  • Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1784 – 1785)
  • Henry Dwight Sedgwick I (1785–1831)
    • Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1903)
      • Jane Minot Sedgwick (1859-1918)
      • Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (1861–1957), lawyer and author
        • Henry Dwight "Halla" Sedgwick IV (1896–1914)
        • Edith Minturn Sedgwick (1901–1901)
        • Robert Minturn "Duke" Sedgwick (1899–1976)
          • Henry Dwight Sedgwick V (1928–2018), married to Patricia Ann Sedgwick (1932-2003) and Helen Stern (1930–2019)
            • Robert Sedgwick (born 1951) actor
            • Holly Sedgwick (born c. 1955)
              • George Nozuka (born 1986)
              • Philip Nozuka (born 1987)
              • Justin Nozuka (born 1988)
            • Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born 1965) actress, producer, and director. Married to Kevin Bacon
              • Sosie Bacon (born 1992), actress
            • Mike Stern (born Michael Sedgwick 1953), jazz guitarist
        • Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967)
          • Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (1943–1971), model who worked with Andy Warhol
      • Theodore Sedgwick (1863-1951)
      • Alexander "Aleck" Sedgwick (1867-1929)
      • Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960) magazine editor
        • Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. (1908–1991)
          • Theodore "Tod" Sedgwick, diplomat and publisher
  • Robert Sedgwick (1787 – 1841)
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) novelist
  • Charles Sedgwick (1791 – 1856)

Connected people

• William Ellery
• Elizabeth Freeman, slave freed by Theodore Sedgwick
• Edith Minturn Stokes, sister-in-law of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III
• Dwight family
• Henry deForest, maternal grandfather of Edie Sedgwick
• Ephraim Williams
• Eero Saarinen
• Edmund Bacon (architect)
• Peabody family

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prominence, privilege and tragedy mark the Sedgwick family. Chicago Tribune. 4 February 2007 .
2. Book: Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight . Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight . The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass . 2 . 1874 . New York . J. F. Trow & Son . 735–739.
3. News: Many Maine towns bear names of military men . Lewiston Evening Journal . Apr 20, 1949 . 17 October 2015 . Chadbourne, Ava H. . A-2.