Ancestry of
Norman Rockwell

American Artist

Orilla Janes Sherman

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• • Great-grandmother of Norman Rockwell — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Cafira Janes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 May 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1895 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Darling Rockwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Sep 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  John William Rockwell (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Orilla Janes Sherman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brimfield, Vol. 1, p. 127, Birth record for Orrel Janes Sherman.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 30.
  • 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), 141.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 22.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ⁸ Sherman, Roy V., The New England Shermans, Akron, Ohio: unknown (1974), 69.