Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Robert Carver

View famous kin of Robert Carver

• • 6th Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 424 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
  •  
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1594 
  • Birth Location:
  •  
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  •  
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  • Apr 1680 
  • Burial Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Christian -----
  • Marriage Date:
  •  
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  John Carver (Ahnentafel No:212 )

  • Notes: 

  • Any family connection of Robert Carver to Gov. John Carver of the Mayflower is completely speculative and unsupported. No evidence has been found to link these two men although published histories often claim they are related.

• Sources for Robert Carver

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1964, Vol. 118, p. 102.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 321.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 58.
  • ⁴ Carver, Clifford N., The Carver Family of New England: Robert Carver of Marshfield and His Descendants, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. (1935), 45-47.