Ancestry of
Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller

(1783–1857)

Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Rockefeller 
  • Mother:
  • Christina Rockefeller   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Sep 1783 
  • Birth Location:
  • Germantown, Columbia, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Sep 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • Richford, Tioga, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Harford Mills Cemetery, Harford Mills, Cortland, New York 
  • Notes: 
  • Wikipedia states that Godfrey Rockefeller married Lucy Avery on 20 September 1806 in Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey but does not give a source to support it. On the other hand, membership applications approved by the Sons of the American Revolution list 20 November 1806 in Livingston, New York for the marriage.

• Marriages for Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucy Avery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1806
  • Marriage Location:
  • Livingston County, New York

• Sources for Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/21/2017).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Supplement to April Number, 1923 . . . with Memoirs of Deceased Members, 1922, page xc.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #92955, Membership application for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ⁶ Abel, Jules, The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune, New York: The Macmillan Company (1965).
  • ⁷ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, pp. 586-589.
  • ⁸ Rockefeller, Henry Oscar, M.D., ed., The Transactions of the Rockefeller Family Association for the Five Years, 1905-1909 with Genealogy, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1910), 244.
  • ⁹ Sweet, Homer De Lois, The Averys of Groton, Syracuse, New York: Rice-Taylor Print. Co. (1894), 577, 604-605.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "William Rockefeller, Sr.", _Sr., (accessed 11/23/2012).