Ancestry of
Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

Cornelia Roos

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Franklin D. Roosevelt — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 71 
  • Father:
  • Peter Roos 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth van 't Horsken   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 May 1685 
  • Birth Location:
  • Jacobikerk, Utrecht, Holland 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1760 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert Benson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Mar 1708 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Reformed Dutch Church, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Tryntje (Catharine) Benson (Ahnentafel No:35 )

  • Notes: 
  • Some sources state that Cornelia Roos's parents were Johannes and Cornelia Roos. In a 1997 article in New Netherlands Connections (Vol. 2, No. 4, Page 85), Dorothy Koenig and Pim Nieuwenhuis show that it was Johannes's older brother Peter who was Cornelia's father.

• Additional marriages for Cornelia Roos

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  • Spouse:
  • Anthony Rutgers
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Aug 1716
  • Marriage Location:
  • Reformed Dutch Church, New York, New York

• Sources for Cornelia Roos

  • ¹ New Netherlands Connections, Berkeley, California: Dorothy A. Koenig (1996-2010), 1997, Vol. 2, pp. 85-93.
  • ² New Netherlands Connections, Berkeley, California: Dorothy A. Koenig (1996-2010), 1998, Vol. 3, pp. 1-4.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1890, Vol. 21, p. 86.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #16304, Membership application for Egbert Benson.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 648.
  • ⁶ Chamberlain, General Joshua L., editor-in-chief, Universities and their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities . . ., Vol. 3, Boston: R. Herndon Co. (1899), 261.
  • ⁷ Hoffman, Eugene Augustus, Genealogy of the Hoffman Family: Descendants of Martin Hoffman, with Biographical Notes, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1899), 125, 488-489.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 570.
  • ⁹ Whittelsey, Charles Barney, The Roosevelt Genealogy 1649-1902, Hartford, Connecticut: J. B. Burr and Company (1902), 26.