Edward FitzRandolph

1607 - Abt 1675  (67 years)

• Name	Edward FitzRandolph  [1]
  Birth	5 Jul 1607  [2]
  Baptism	5 Jul 1607	Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1675	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [2, 7]
  Alternate death	Between 1684 and 1685	Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey   [4]
  Burial	St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex, New Jersey   [2, 8]
  Person ID	I39244	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward FitzRandolph,   b. Abt 1565   d. Between 13 Aug 1647 and 27 Oct 1647 (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Frances Howis   d. Bef 7 Jun 1631
  Marriage	17 Dec 1605	Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F23045	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Blossom,   b. 1620, Leiden, Netherlands d. 1713, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1637	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [4, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph FitzRandolph,   b. 1 Mar 1656, Barnstable County, Massachusetts d. Bef 18 Jan 1727, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age < 70 years)
  Family ID	F23041	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Notwithstanding the statement by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph (citation details below) that he and his family arrived in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet, in fact they arrived in New England in 1636. They were first at Scituate, then Barnstable, then Piscataway. He was clearly of gentry status, and various long medieval ancestries have been attributed to him, with plausibility ranging from zero to quite high. However, recent DNA research has shown that he was probably descended, via an unacknowledged pairing, from the Hollingworth family of Cheshire, rather than from the FitzRandolphs of Spennithorne, Yorkshire. Notably, Jane Langton, mother of his paternal grandfather Christopher FitzRandolph, bequeathed a pig to Richard Hollingworth of Kirkby-in-Ashfield in her will of 1574. Edward FitzRandolph = Eleanor Blossom Nathaniel FitzRandolph = Mary Holley Samuel FitzRandolph = Mary Jones Prudence FitzRandolph = Shubael Smith Mary Smith = Jonathan Dunham Samuel Dunham = Hannah Chenoweth Jacob Dunham = Catherine Goodnight Jacob Mackey Dunham = Louise Eliza Stroup Jacob William Dunham = Mary Ann Kearney Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham = Ruth Lucille Armour Stanley Armour Dunham = Madelyn Lee Payne Stanley Ann Dunham = Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., 44th US President

  
  

• Sources

  [S1579] The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History by Gary Boyd Roberts. Second edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. [S6978] Find a Grave page for Edward FitzRandolph. [S6981] John Insley Coddington, "Some English FitzRandolph Records." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 97:295, July 1943. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999. [S6976] John Insley Coddington, "The Blossom Family of Cambridgeshire, England, and New England." The American Genealogist 63:65, April 1988., place only. [S6980] The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950 by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph. 1950. [S6976] John Insley Coddington, "The Blossom Family of Cambridgeshire, England, and New England." The American Genealogist 63:65, April 1988. [S6991] Bonham and Related Family Lines by Howard E. Bonham. 1996. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.