Mary Jenners

Mary married John Coit before 1632 in England. John was born in England; died on 29 Aug 1659 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 3 Oct 1667, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

John married Mary Stevens on 21 Sep 1652 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of William Stevens and Philippa) was born before 2 Jan 1640 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; was christened on 2 Jan 1640 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 7 Nov 1692 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Hugh Mould on 11 Jun 1662 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Hugh died between 24 Jun 1691 and 20 Sep 1692 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Ellery on 13 Jun 1676 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. William was born about 1643 in England; died on 9 Dec 1696 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Daniel Stocking on 27 Aug 1700. Daniel (son of Samuel Stocking and Bethia Hopkins) was born on 14 Apr 1677; died in 1733 in Upper Middletown (now Cromwell), Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel Stevens on 12 Jan 1693 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of James Stevens and Susanna Eveleth) was born on 5 Dec 1665 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 16 Nov 1756 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 30 May 1761, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Merchant mariner and sometime selectman of Gloucester.

Nathaniel married Ann Sargent on 16 Feb 1721 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Ann (daughter of William Sargent and Mary Duncan) was born on 6 Aug 1692 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 8 Oct 1782 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 31 Oct 1783, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Jane married Capt. Nicholas Ayrault on 17 Apr 1730. Nicholas (son of Dr. Nicholas Ayrault and Marian Bretoun) was born on 2 Oct 1705 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 29 Apr 1775 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried on 2 May 1775 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Rachel Allen on 12 Nov 1729 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Rachel (daughter of Joseph Allen and Mary) was born on 16 Aug 1711 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 22 Jul 1753 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Rachel Stevens on 20 Oct 1747. Rachel (daughter of Col. John Stevens and Rachel Allen) was born on 21 Sep 1731; died on 1 Jul 1750; was buried in First Parish Burial Ground, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1736

Daniel married Mary Balch on 1 Jul 1784. Mary (daughter of Ebenezer Balch and Sarah Belden) was born on 17 Nov 1752 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 16 Sep 1852 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Nathaniel Ellery on 20 Oct 1747. Nathaniel (son of Capt. Nathaniel Ellery and Ann Sargent) was born on 20 Oct 1726 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1778 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Esther Sargent on 22 Oct 1772 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Winthrop Sargent and Judith Sanders) was born on 1 May 1755 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 30 Nov 1811 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 23 Nov 1868, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Daniel married Hepsibah Kentfield on 2 Dec 1817 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Hepsibah was born about 1797 in Connecticut; died on 23 Aug 1871 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Esther Sargent on 22 Oct 1772 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Winthrop Sargent and Judith Sanders) was born on 1 May 1755 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 30 Nov 1811 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Ignatius Sargent on 20 Oct 1795 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Daniel Sargent and Mary Turner) was born on 1 Nov 1765 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jan 1821 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices (citation details below) records her death on 21 Aug 1862, and also records the death, on 28 Aug of the same year, age 19 months, of George Story, "Son of George and the late Antoinette A."

Family/Spouse: George R. Story. George was born between 1807 and 1808 in Massachusetts; died after 1873 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Ignatius Sargent on 20 Oct 1795 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Daniel Sargent and Mary Turner) was born on 1 Nov 1765 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jan 1821 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A Boston merchant and banker who grew wealthy on railroad investments.

From the Diary of Charles Francis Adams, 24 July 1836:

"In the evening Mr. and Mrs. I. Sargent came in for the first time. There appears to be a disposition on their part to cultivate our society which I would not reject, and yet to me he is not interesting."

Ignatius married Henrietta Gray on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Henrietta (daughter of Samuel Gray and Mary Brooks) was born on 1 Oct 1811; was christened on 17 Oct 1811 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 3 Apr 1891 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1853 and 1854, Connecticut
• Alternate birth: 1854, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Factory bookkeeper.

The record of his 13 Jun 1879 baptism as an adult (he was confirmed two days later) at Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford's Episcopal cathedral) reads: Arthur Nicholas Story (adult) (hypoth.), Hartford, Sept. 20, 1853. [Parents] George and Antoinette Ayrault. [Sponsors and Witnesses] Charlotte Marcella Story.

Arthur married Charlotte Marcella Carroll in 1878. Charlotte was born in Mar 1859 in of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 23 May 1941 in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A Boston merchant and banker who grew wealthy on railroad investments.

From the Diary of Charles Francis Adams, 24 July 1836:

"In the evening Mr. and Mrs. I. Sargent came in for the first time. There appears to be a disposition on their part to cultivate our society which I would not reject, and yet to me he is not interesting."

Ignatius married Henrietta Gray on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Henrietta (daughter of Samuel Gray and Mary Brooks) was born on 1 Oct 1811; was christened on 17 Oct 1811 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 3 Apr 1891 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Elizabeth Amelia Crowley on 6 Oct 1913 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of John P. Crowley and Mary) was born about 1887 in Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Aquinas Doherty. Thomas (son of Thomas J. Doherty and Delia Ferrick) was born on 3 Jun 1913 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 19 Sep 1992 in Hollywood, Broward, Florida; was buried in Dana Memorial Park, Dana, Broward, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barbara Jean Slocum. Barbara (daughter of Edward H. Slocum and Alice Maude Marks) was born on 30 Dec 1934 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 25 Aug 1996 in Queens, New York; was buried on 30 Aug 1996 in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]