Ancestry of
Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Samuel Darling Rockwell

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• • Great-grandfather of Norman Rockwell — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Runa Rockwell 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Darling   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1888 
  • Death Location:
  • Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Yonkers, Westchester, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Orilla Janes Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Sep 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  John William Rockwell (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Samuel Darling Rockwell

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 30.
  • ² 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), 140-141.
  • ³ 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), 208.
  • 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), 590.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 22.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ⁷ Sherman, Roy V., The New England Shermans, Akron, Ohio: unknown (1974), 69.