Ancestry of
Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

William Palmes

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 546 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Palmes 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1620 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Ardfinan, County Tipperary, Ireland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Humphrey
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1642 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Fordingham, Dorsetshire, England  
  • Child:

  Susannah Palmes (Ahnentafel No:273 )

• Sources for William Palmes

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 71.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16, p. 205.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 465.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 155.
  • ⁵ Sweet, Homer De Lois, The Averys of Groton, Syracuse, New York: Rice-Taylor Print. Co. (1894), 558.
  • ⁶ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 4, Pelham - Avery - West . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2017), 14, 19.