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Family History & Genealogy

The Spencer Family

720 documented Spencer ancestors — traced through census, vital, cemetery, and newspaper records. Every name below is a real person in the public record.

720Documented ancestors
1829Earliest record
8Generations
The name

Origin & meaning of Spencer

English occupational name for a dispenser of provisions in a great house or monastery.

Documented across the American record; part of a growing network of family histories.

The documented line

Spencer ancestors in the record

Deceased Spencer ancestors, earliest first. Living family members are deliberately omitted.

This line reaches back to Elmwood Spencer, about 1829 in Linn County, Iowa. Who came before? The documented build follows the branches you can't see yet. Trace this line →
Elmwood Spencer
1829 – 1908
Linn County, Iowa
Lillian Spencer
1861 – 1871
Linn County, Iowa
Louesa Spencer
1864 – 1968
Iowa
Dyer F Spencer
1869 – 1943
Linn County, Iowa
Edward H Spencer
1870 – 1949
Linn County, Iowa
Mattie Spencer
1872 – 1974
Iowa
Alice Spencer
1873 – 1967
Iowa
John Spencer
1874 – 1964
Iowa
Carrie Spencer
1875 – 1924
Linn County, Iowa
Jennie H Spencer
1876 – 1952
Linn County, Iowa
Henry Spencer
1878 – 1973
Iowa
Rebecca Spencer
1878 – 1965
Iowa
Augusta Spencer
1878 – 1968
Iowa
Millie A Spencer
1878 – 1969
Iowa
Charles Spencer
1879 – 1970
Iowa
Addie F Spencer
1879 – 1966
Iowa
Henry Spencer
1879 – 1967
Iowa
Loula Spencer
1880 – 1986
Iowa
Hulda Spencer
1880 – 1968
Iowa
Lulu Spencer
1880 – 1971
Iowa
Lola Spencer
1880 – 1976
Iowa
Harry Spencer
1881 – 1972
Iowa
Wesley Spencer
1881 – 1971
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1881 – 1971
Iowa
Fleta Jan Brown Spencer
1882 – 1938
Sioux Rapids
Fleta Jan Brown Spencer
1882 – 1958
Sioux Rapids
Jesse Spencer
1883 – 1967
Iowa
Fleta Jan Brown Spencer
1883 – 1938
Sioux Rapids
Fleta Jan Brown Spencer
1883 – 1958
Sioux Rapids
Bertha Spencer
1884 – 1974
Iowa
Clark Spencer
1884 – 1968
Iowa
Earnest Spencer
1884 – 1970
Iowa
Mabel Spencer
1884 – 1979
Iowa
Frances Spencer
1885 – 1970
Iowa
John Spencer
1886 – 1965
Iowa
Theodore Spencer
1887 – 1984
Iowa
Purl Spencer
1887 – 1971
Iowa
Ella Spencer
1887 – 1980
Iowa
Verna Spencer
1887 – 1982
Iowa
Nan Spencer
1887 – 1984
Iowa
Pearl Spencer
1887 – 1980
Iowa
Viola Spencer
1887 – 1979
Iowa
Katherine Spencer
1887 – 1967
Iowa
Frank Spencer
1888 – 1971
Iowa
Leah Spencer
1888 – 1972
Iowa
Joseph Spencer
1888 – 1970
Iowa
Anna Spencer
1888 – 1979
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1888 – 1981
Iowa
James Spencer
1889 – 1976
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1889 – 1977
Iowa
Bert Spencer
1889 – 1968
Iowa
Boyd Spencer
1889 – 1966
Iowa
Clarence Spencer
1889 – 1963
Iowa
Florence Spencer
1889 – 1977
Iowa
Laurence Spencer
1889 – 1966
Iowa
Harry Spencer
1889 – 1979
Iowa
Ross Spencer
1889 – 1966
Iowa
Leroy Spencer
1889 – 1969
Iowa
Cecil Spencer
1890 – 1975
Iowa
Blanche Spencer
1890 – 1979
Iowa
Earl Spencer
1890 – 1984
Iowa
Alfred Spencer
1890 – 1970
Iowa
Hazel M Spencer
1890 – 1988
Iowa
Grace Spencer
1890 – 1973
Iowa
Benjamin Spencer
1890 – 1967
Iowa
Arthur Spencer
1891 – 1974
Iowa
Fern Spencer
1891 – 1971
Iowa
Myrtle Spencer
1891 – 1979
Iowa
Miles Spencer
1891 – 1968
Iowa
Lucy Spencer
1891 – 1983
Iowa
Frank Spencer
1891 – 1973
Iowa
Myra Spencer
1891 – 1986
Iowa
Carrie Spencer
1891 – 1982
Iowa
Bess Spencer
1891 – 1977
Iowa
William Spencer
1892 – 1967
Iowa
Verne Spencer
1892 – 1972
Iowa
James Spencer
1892 – 1974
Iowa
Chester Spencer
1892 – 1963
Iowa
Emma Spencer
1892 – 1984
Iowa
Lillie Spencer
1892 – 1973
Iowa
Robert Spencer
1892 – 1966
Iowa
Albert Spencer
1892 – 1978
Iowa
Marie Spencer
1892 – 1976
Iowa
Ira Spencer
1892 – 1968
Iowa
Minnie Spencer
1892 – 1987
Iowa
Leo Spencer
1892 – 1983
Iowa
Roy Spencer
1893 – 1983
Iowa
Fred C Spencer
1893 – 1967
Iowa
George Spencer
1893 – 1968
Iowa
Leroy Spencer
1893 – 1970
Iowa
Florence Spencer
1893 – 1988
Iowa
Eva B Spencer
1893 – 1988
Iowa
Charles Spencer
1893 – 1969
Iowa
Richard Spencer
1893 – 1980
Iowa
Muriel Spencer
1893 – 1985
Iowa
John Spencer
1893 – 1974
Iowa
Troy Spencer
1893 – 1969
Iowa
H D Spencer
1894 – 1991
Iowa
Garth Spencer
1894 – 1963
Iowa
Pearl Spencer
1894 – 1978
Iowa
Amy Spencer
1894 – 1977
Iowa
John Spencer
1894 – 1971
Iowa
Elverda Spencer
1894 – 1983
Iowa
Walter Spencer
1894 – 1968
Iowa
Carroll Spencer
1894 – 1965
Iowa
Andrew Spencer
1894 – 1982
Iowa
Laverne Spencer
1894 – 1974
Iowa
Earl Spencer
1894 – 1972
Iowa
Essie Spencer
1894 – 1973
Iowa
Frank Spencer
1895 – 1968
Iowa
Marion Spencer
1895 – 1984
Iowa
Leland Spencer
1895 – 1972
Iowa
Marjorie Spencer
1895 – 1982
Iowa
Jerry Spencer
1895 – 1981
Iowa
Hobert Spencer
1895 – 1972
Iowa
George Spencer
1895 – 1971
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1895 – 1977
Iowa
Clifford Spencer
1895 – 1980
Iowa
Miron Spencer
1896 – 1963
Iowa
Lyle Spencer
1896 – 1976
Iowa
Leslie Spencer
1896 – 1967
Iowa
Robert Spencer
1896 – 1971
Iowa
Maye A Spencer
1896 – 1982
Iowa
Elisha Spencer
1896 – 1981
Iowa
Agnes Spencer
1896 – 1975
Iowa
Orie E Spencer
1896 – 1980
Iowa
Gladys Irene Spencer
1897 – 1912
Linn County, Iowa
Glenn Spencer
1897 – 1978
Iowa
Norma Spencer
1897 – 1978
Iowa
Ruby Spencer
1897 – 1969
Iowa
Harry Spencer
1897 – 1979
Iowa
Audra Spencer
1897 – 1976
Iowa
Ralph Spencer
1897 – 1983
Iowa
Harold Spencer
1897 – 1973
Iowa
Blake Spencer
1897 – 1964
Iowa
Elmer Spencer
1897 – 1984
Iowa
Alice Spencer
1897 – 1980
Iowa
Otto Spencer
1897 – 1975
Iowa
Ruby Spencer
1897 – 1976
Iowa
Ruie B Spencer
1897 – 1992
Iowa
Charlotte M Spencer
1897 – 1990
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1898 – 1976
Iowa
Vera F Spencer
1898 – 1988
Iowa
Clarence A Spencer
1898 – 1989
Iowa
James Spencer
1898 – 1977
Iowa
Russell Spencer
1898 – 1969
Iowa
Ada Spencer
1898 – 1994
Iowa
Burel Spencer
1898 – 1997
Iowa
Herbert Spencer
1898 – 1973
Iowa
Ona Spencer
1898 – 1973
Iowa
Dora Spencer
1898 – 1976
Iowa
Arthur E Spencer
1898 – 1964
Iowa
Jack Spencer
1898 – 1971
Iowa
Henry Spencer
1899 – 1978
Iowa
Helen Spencer
1899 – 1978
Iowa
Raymond Spencer
1899 – 1965
Iowa
Joe Spencer
1899 – 1981
Iowa
Martha Spencer
1899 – 1980
Iowa
Freda Spencer
1899 – 1987
Iowa
Ray Spencer
1899 – 1993
Iowa
Bessie B Spencer
1899 – 1997
Iowa
Berenice Spencer
1899 – 1982
Iowa
Bertha M Spencer
1899 – 1989
Iowa
Neva Spencer
1899 – 1986
Iowa
John Spencer
1899 – 1983
Iowa
Nellie Spencer
1899 – 1982
Iowa
Clarence Spencer
1899 – 1992
Iowa
Helen Spencer
1899 – 1992
Iowa
Clark Spencer
1899 – 1970
Iowa
Yetta Spencer
1899 – 1982
Iowa
Lloyd Spencer
1899 – 1998
Iowa
Clara Spencer
1899 – 1986
Iowa
Edward Spencer
1899 – 1968
Iowa
Retta A Spencer
1899 – 1994
Iowa
Guy Spencer
1899 – 1974
Iowa
Lucile Spencer
1899 – 1984
Iowa
Clarence Spencer
1900 – 1976
Iowa
Merrell B Spencer
1900 – 1989
Iowa
Dorothy Spencer
1900 – 1985
Iowa
Rubert Spencer
1900 – 1972
Iowa
Dorothy Spencer
1900 – 1983
Iowa
Raymond Spencer
1900 – 1960
Iowa
Virgil Spencer
1900 – 1980
Iowa
Earl Spencer
1900 – 1976
Iowa
Laura Spencer
1900 – 1983
Iowa
Melvin Spencer
1900 – 1957
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1900 – 1978
Iowa
Evelyn Spencer
1900 – 1973
Iowa
Harvey Spencer
1900 – 1965
Iowa
Lee Spencer
1900 – 1979
Iowa
Clyde E Spencer
1900 – 1990
Iowa
Mary Spencer
1900 – 1973
Iowa
Laura B Spencer
1900 – 1993
Iowa
Edna B Spencer
1900 – 1996
Iowa
Mary E Spencer
1900 – 1993
Iowa
Prosper Spencer
1901 – 1977
Iowa
Grace W Spencer
1901 – 1995
Iowa
Helen Spencer
1901 – 1971
Iowa
Nettie Spencer
1901 – 1983
Iowa
Sumner Spencer
1901 – 1968
Iowa
Thomas Spencer
1901 – 1983
Iowa
Marvel Spencer
1901 – 1992
Iowa
Myrtle Spencer
1901 – 1992
Iowa
Lois Spencer
1901 – 1984
Iowa
Oscar A Spencer
1901 – 1988
Iowa
Raymond Spencer
1902 – 1982
Iowa
Charles Spencer
1902 – 1976
Iowa
Agnes Spencer
1902 – 1987
Iowa
Blanche Spencer
1902 – 1975
Iowa
John E Spencer
1902 – 1989
Iowa
Charles Spencer
1902 – 1975
Iowa
Hilda E Spencer
1902 – 1993
Iowa
Florence Spencer
1902 – 1974
Iowa
Bryce Spencer
1902 – 1977
Iowa
Clide B Spencer
1903 – 1904
Linn County, Iowa
Gerald Spencer
1903 – 1979
Iowa
Alice Spencer
1903 – 1981
Iowa
Adelynn M Spencer
1903 – 1993
Iowa
Verna Spencer
1903 – 1982
Iowa
Henry Spencer
1903 – 1979
Iowa
Ray Spencer
1903 – 1977
Iowa
Harold Spencer
1903 – 1963
Iowa
Lelia Spencer
1903 – 1980
Iowa
Mildred Spencer
1903 – 1999
Iowa
Geneva Spencer
1903 – 1972
Iowa
Marie Spencer
1903 – 1968
Iowa
Icyle Spencer
1903 – 1976
Iowa
Effie B Spencer
1903 – 1991
Iowa
Nellie Spencer
1903 – 1990
Iowa
Elna Spencer
1903 – 1995
Iowa
Denzil Spencer
1903 – 1984
Iowa
Marion Spencer
1904 – 1976
Iowa
Frank Spencer
1904 – 1982
Iowa
C C Spencer
1904 – 1990
Iowa
Hazel M Spencer
1904 – 2000
Iowa
Harry Spencer
1904 – 1975
Iowa
Lawrence Spencer
1904 – 1980
Iowa
Herbert Spencer
1904 – 1986
Iowa
Goldie O Spencer
1904 – 1994
Iowa
John Spencer
1904 – 1948
Iowa
Richard Spencer
1904 – 1979
Iowa
Viola J Spencer
1904 – 1991
Iowa
George Spencer
1904 – 1978
Iowa
Ruth E Spencer
1904 – 1995
Iowa
Carroll Spencer
1904 – 1982
Iowa
Dorothy Spencer
1904 – 1987
Iowa
Emma C Spencer
1904 – 1992
Iowa
Ethel A Spencer
1905 – 1993
Iowa
Marie Spencer
1905 – 1983
Iowa
Wayne Spencer
1905 – 1984
Iowa
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Common questions

Spencer genealogy — FAQ

Where does the Spencer surname come from?

English occupational name for a dispenser of provisions in a great house or monastery.

How far back does the Spencer family tree go?

The documented line here reaches back to 1829. Most Spencer lines can be traced to the end of the surviving public record.

Are living Spencer family members listed here?

No. Deceased ancestors only, from public records. Living people are excluded for privacy.

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