Citations:great-grandfather

English citations of great-grandfather, great grandfather, great-grandfathers, and great grandfathers

1835, Henry Soames, The Anglo-Saxon Church: Its History, Revenues, and General Character, page 27:
Gregory, honourably distinguished among popes as the Great, sprang from an illustrious family, and inherited a papal fortune, his great-grandfather Felix having filled the opulent see of Rome.
2011, Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family, page 500:
He was eighty-two, the father of fifteen, grandfather of thirty-six and the great-grandfather of at least forty-three.

2011, Robbie Edwards Mills, The Church as the Surrogate Family, page 10:
John S. Plummer, the great grandfather of one of the church's current members, was the first president of the black firefighters association of North Carolina.

2012, Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics, page 117:
If I let whooping cranes go extinct, my grandchildren will say that their grandfather was callous, just as I now deplore my great-grandfathers who shot up the buffalo and passenger pigeons.

1981, Laurel Louise Cornell, Peasant Family and Inheritance in a Japanese Community, 1671-1980, page 153:
Excess sons of the 1830's also formed branch households, but not nearly at the rate their great grandfathers did.

1898, Alexandre Dumas, La Comtesse de Charny, volume 1, page 45:
Going back from Louis Fifteenth to Henry Fourth and Marie de Medicis, we find Henry Fourth to be five times the great-great-grandfather of Louis Fifteenth, and Marie de Medicis his great-great-grandmother through five different channels.

2004, Elizabeth Stone, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us, page 211:
When I met him he had already rediscovered his great-great-great-grandfather, Anthony O'Connor, who had come to Massachusetts from Ireland more than a century earlier.
2011, J. Dixon Boye, Ghosts in the House, page 228:
When he looked back at where his great, great, great grandfather sat, the desk looked almost new, even though Jack knew that it wasn't.

2006, Alan Anderson, Remembering Americus, Georgia: Essays on Southern Life, page 21:
My great-great-great-great-grandfather, Avery Wheeler, crossed the Flint River at Shelby's Ferry on January 17, 1828, when this area was still the northeastern portion of Lee County.
2011, Joseph H. Miller, Eighty Years Behind the Masts: The Great Beyond, page 6:
Isaac Miller my great, great, great, great-grandfather was born in Ireland, about 1775, and died in Tennessee in 1806.

2009, Stephen J. Pyne, Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction, page 8:
I have it on the word of a cousin who researched the matter that the husband, our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, “appears in the standard printed histories of Arkansas as 'Old Ben Hardin, the hero of so many Indian wars.”

1999, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Bernie Magruder & the Pirate's Treasure, page 125:
When we heard the rumor that you had found a copy of the map drawn by our great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, we struck up a conversation with you, gained your confidence, and, just as we hoped, you let us in on the secret.

2000, Naim Attallah, Dialogues, page 35:
Feeling that Abraham was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and Sarah was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, and that it's my family.

2005, David Plante, American Ghosts, page 261:
I was puzzled that Elisabeth, as I had known her, was registered as Isabelle, and in her maiden name, but she had to be my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother because she was the wife of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.