Ancestry of
Richard Chamberlain

TV and Movie Actor

Carolyn Derby Roper

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• • Grandmother of Richard Chamberlain — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Fordyce Roper 
  • Mother:
  • Julia Sophia Foote   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jan 1872 
  • Birth Location:
  • Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Aug 1949 
  • Death Location:
  • Los Angeles County, California 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • August Wilhelm von Benzon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 May 1899 
  • Marriage Location:
  • San Rafael, Marin, California 
  • Children:
  
  

  Karl August von Benzon

  Elsa Winnifred von Benzon (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Toured the U. S. as a prima donna soprano singer.

• Additional marriages for Carolyn Derby Roper

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  • Spouse:
  • George Haupt Matthews
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Mar 1912
  • Marriage Location:
  • Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California

• Sources for Carolyn Derby Roper

  • ¹ California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, FHL No. 4666522, Image 99, Marriage of August W F Von Benzon and Caroline D Roper.
  • ² California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for Carolyn Derby Matthews.
  • ³ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1930, Los Angeles, E.D. 19-171, Sheet 1B, Image 20 of 32.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1910, Los Angeles, E.D. 106, Sheet 10B, Image 20 of 42.
  • ⁵ The San Diego Union and Daily Bee (San Diego, California), 27 DEC 1903, p. 3, Obituary for father Fordyce Roper.
  • ⁶ The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California), 16 JUL 1901, p. 14, Obituary for son Karl August Von Benzon.
  • ⁷ Foote, Abram W., Foote Family Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his Descendants, Vol. 2, Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Printing Company (1932), 919.