Ancestry of
Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Davison Rockefeller Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abby Greene Aldrich   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jul 1908 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Jan 1979 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Rockefeller Family Cemetery, near Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • 41st Vice-President of the United State and 49th Governor of New York

    After Nelson Rockefeller's death, newspaper articles and his tombstone all stated that he was born in Bar Harbor, Maine. Wikipedia and many online genealogies have continued to state this. However, the Rockefeller Genealogy published by Henry O. Rockefeller while Nelson Rockefeller was still living stated Nelson was born in New York City. Census records also give New York as his birthplace. Nelson Rockefeller himself cleared up the issue by giving the following statement on his application for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, “I was born in New York, County of New York, State of New York, on the 8th day of July 1908.”

• Marriages for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Todhunter Clark
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jun 1930
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cynwyd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania

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  • Spouse:
  • Margaretta Large "Happy" Fitler

• Sources for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

  • ¹ Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965, 1946-1952, Immigration cards for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/19/2017).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ⁴ The Journal News (White Plains, New York), 28 JAN 1979, pp. 5A-12A, "The Rockefeller Years".
  • ⁵ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Nelson Rockefeller.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #92955, Membership application for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ⁷ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, p. 587.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 398.
  • ⁹ Rockefeller, Henry Oscar, Rockefeller Genealogy, New York, New York: Rockefeller Family Association (ca.1954-1965), 338.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Nelson Rockefeller", (accessed 01/19/2017).