Ancestry of
Caesar Rodney

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

William Rodney

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• • Great-grandfather of Caesar Rodney — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • William Rodney 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Caesar   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Jun 1637 
  • Christening Location:
  • Catcott, Somersetshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT Jan 1678/1679 
  • Death Location:
  • at sea 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1660 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Rodney (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • William Rodney is said to have died at sea while enroute from the island of Nevis to New York on board the ship Laurell.

• Sources for William Rodney

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1989, Vol. 64, p. 97-98, 101, 104-105,109.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 224.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 85.
  • 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), 152.