Ancestry of
Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Esther Riggs

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Norman Rockwell — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Miles Riggs 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Whitney   
  • Birth Date:
  • Nov 1752 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 May 1816 
  • Death Location:
  • Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Ridgebury Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abraham Rockwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Nov 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Congregational Church, Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Runa Rockwell (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for Esther Riggs

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Ridgefield, p. 93, Birth record for son Runa Rockwell.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/21/2014).
  • ³ 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), 21, 23.
  • ⁴ 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), 49, 72.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#61 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of the Stanleys of Hartford", (accessed 11/11/2014).
  • ⁶ Street, Henry A. and Mrs. Mary A. Street, The Street Genealogy, Exeter, New Hampshire: The News-Letter Press (1895), 35.