Ancestry of
Clara Barton

Founder of the American Red Cross

John Roper

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Clara Barton — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 94 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1609 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. New Buckingham, Norfolk, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Mar 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alice Reynolds
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Oct 1633 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Buckenham, Norfolk, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Alice Roper

  Elizabeth Roper

  Ruth Roper (Ahnentafel No:47 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Roper was killed by Indians during the Lancaster Massacre of the King Philip's War.

    John Roper is said to be the son of John Roper (b.c. 1588) and the brother of Walter Roper who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Evidence is needed to support these relationships.

• Sources for John Roper

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lancaster, Vol. 1, p. 16, Death record for John Roper.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, JAN 1893, Vol. 47, p. 74.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1860, Vol. 14, p. 326.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 2011, Vol. 85, pp. 216, 222-234.
  • ⁵ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 166.
  • ⁶ Haynes, Frances, ed., Walter Haynes of Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England, and Sudbury, Massachusetts and His Descendants, 1583-1928, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company (1929), 58.
  • ⁷ Newell, Frederick Haynes, Descendants of Walter Haynes and Peter Noyes, of Sudbury, Mass., Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1893), 5.
  • ⁸ Roper, Ella E., The Ropers of Sterling and Rutland, East Orange, New Jersey: Published under the auspices of the Roper Association (1904), 83-84, gives John's father as John Roper.