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Rosemary Forbes Kerry
Born
Rosemary Isabel Forbes

(1913-10-27)October 27, 1913
Paris, France
DiedNovember 14, 2002(2002-11-14) (aged 89)
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Spouse(s)Richard John Kerry
(m. 1941-2000; his death)
Children
Parent(s)James Grant Forbes
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop
RelativesBrice Lalonde (nephew)
Alexandra Forbes Kerry (granddaughter)
Vanessa Bradford Kerry (granddaughter)

Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was a nurse, social activist, and the mother of John Forbes Kerry, United States Secretary of State and the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.[1][2]

She was born in Paris, France, to American parents. She was one of eleven children of James Grant Forbes II of the Protestant Forbes family and Margaret Tyndal Winthrop of the Dudley–Winthrop family. She studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II. She also was a Girl Scout leader at the troop and council level in Groton, Massachusetts, for 50 years. Margaret was a granddaughter of Robert Charles Winthrop.

She married Richard John Kerry, in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 1941, and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the current United States Secretary of State and 2004 candidate for President of the United States. They met when Kerry took a sculpture class at the resort of Saint-Briac, where the Forbes family built the family estate.

During her lifetime, she was the beneficiary of Forbes family trusts, of which her son John Kerry is now the partial beneficiary; as Rosemary was one of 11 children, there is not much that remained.

Rosemary was also the mother of another son, Cameron, who is General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was formerly a Boston lawyer, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School and a convert to Judaism; and two daughters, Diana and Margaret (Peggy).

Ancestry[3][4]

Family of Rosemary Forbes Kerry
16. James Grant Forbes
8. Rev. John Murray Forbes
17. Frances Elizabeth Blackwell
4. Francis Blackwell Forbes
18. Benjamin Betterton Howell
9. Anne Howell
19. Frances Howell
2. James Grant Forbes
20. Stephen Clark
10. William Mather Clark
21. Roxanna Phelps
5. Isabel Clark
22. John Staples
11. Isabella Staples
23. Amy Purdy
1. Rosemary Isabel Forbes
24. Thomas Lindll Winthrop
12. Robert Charles Winthrop
25. Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple
6. Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr.
26. Francis Blanchard
13. Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard
27. Mary Anne Cabot
3. Margaret Tyndal Winthrop
28. Jeremiah Mason
14. Robert Means Mason
29. Mary Means
7. Elizabeth Mason
30. Ebenezer Francis
15. Sarah Ellen Francis
31. Elizabeth Thorndike

References

  1. ^ "Rosemary Kerry, 89; Advocate of Recycling, Senator's Mother", The Boston Globe, November 16, 2002  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
  2. ^ "Rosemary Kerry, at 89, senator's mother, activist", The Boston Herald, November 16, 2002. – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required)
  3. ^ The Ancestors of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943)
  4. ^ genealogics.org
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