Ancestry of
Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

John Kirby

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 94 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Kirby 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Markham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Feb 1691 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Apr 1760 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Stow
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Mar 1717/1718 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Kirby (Ahnentafel No:47 )

• Sources for John Kirby

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 275, Marriage record for John Kirby and Hannah Stow.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 275, Birth record for John Kirby.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/23/2017).
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1860, Vol. 14, p. 67.
  • ⁵ Adams, Charles Collard, Middletown Upper Houses: A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1650 to 1800 . . ., New York: The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers (1908), 597.
  • ⁶ Frary, Margaret Murphy and Anne Frary Lepak, The Frary Family in America, 1637-1980, Northwood, New Hampshire: The Frary Family Association (1981), 84.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 549.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).