Here is another Ives cousin. A recent article by Gary Boyd Roberts, who also documented our royal linage through the Yale and Lloyd families, provides details on our link the Richard Gere, the actor. The descendents of Albert Ives are related to Richard Gere through two connections. Richard Tiffany Gere was born in Philadelphia August 31, 1949 and appears on page G-691 of The Families of George Geer and Thomas Geer: A Supplement to the 1923 Geer Genealogy, Part 2, published by the Geer Family Association in 1991.
He is the eldest son and second child of Homer George Gere (b. 1922) and Doris Anna Tiffany (b. 1924), and grandson of Albert William Gere (1889-1967), Hazel Marjorie Snover, William Stanton Tiffany, and Anna Rebecca Stevens. His movies include: Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Days of Heaven (1978), American Gigolo (1980), and the American remake of Breathless (1983), as well as An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), The Cotton Club (1984), King David (1985), Pretty Woman (1990), And the Band Played On (1993), Runaway Bride (1999), Autumn in New York (2000), and Chicago (2002).
Richard Gere and Albert Ives are both descended from Stephen Hopkins, passenger on the Mayflower, through the Rich family that married into the Dunbars. They are also both descended from William Peck, one of the co-founders of New Haven. William Peck's granddaughter Ruth was the mother of Ruth Atwater who married Samuel Ives, grandson of William.
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