Ancestry of
Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Cafira Janes

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Norman Rockwell — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • William Janes III 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail "Nabby" Belknap   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Feb 1782 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Mar 1857 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jacob Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1801 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Orilla Janes Sherman (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Additional marriages for Cafira Janes

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  • Spouse:
  • John Bond
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 15 Dec 1811

• Sources for Cafira Janes

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brimfield, Vol. 1, p. 238, Marriage record for Jacob Sherman and Kafira Janes.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brimfield, Vol. 1, p. 127, Birth record for daughter Orrel Janes Sherman.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1997, Vol. 14, p. 201.
  • ⁴ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 30.
  • ⁵ Boughton, James, Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell, of Stamford, Conn., 1641, and Ralph Keeler, of Hartford, Conn., 1639, New York: William F. Jones, Publisher (1903), 141.
  • ⁶ Janes, Rev. Frederic, The Janes Family: A Genealogy and Brief History of the Descendants of William Janes the Emigrant Ancestor of 1637, New York: John H. Dingman (1868), 144, 208.
  • ⁷ Lovering, Rev. Martin, History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Publishers (1915), 548.
  • ⁸ Phoenix, S. Whitney, The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations . . . of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Vol. 1, New York: Privately Printed (1878), 590.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 22.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ¹¹ Sherman, Roy V., The New England Shermans, Akron, Ohio: unknown (1974), 68-69.