Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William Rotch

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Name William Rotch [1] Birth 4 Dec 1734 Nantucket, Massachusetts [2, 3]
Gender Male Death 14 May 1828 New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts [3, 4]
Person ID I15877 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 30 Nov 2024
Father Joseph Rotch, b. 6 Mar 1705, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Nov 1784, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts
(Age 79 years)
Mother Love Macy, b. 20 Jun 1713, Nantucket, Massachusetts d. 14 Nov 1767 (Age 54 years)
Marriage 21 Feb 1734 Nantucket, Massachusetts [3]
Family ID F10093 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Barney, b. 23 Mar 1735, Nantucket, Massachusetts d. 14 May 1824, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
(Age 89 years)
Marriage 31 Oct 1754 Nantucket, Massachusetts [3, 5, 6]
Children + 1. Elizabeth Rotch, b. 9 Dec 1757, Nantucket, Massachusetts d. 2 Aug 1856, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
(Age 98 years)
Family ID F9929 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Nov 2024
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Notes - He was an early whale-oil entrepeneur. He and his sons' whaling businesses continued well into the 1800s.
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Sources - [S1531] Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886 by Charles Henry Jones. Philadelphia, 1886.
- [S1532] The Rotches by John M. Bullard. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1947.
- [S6949] Rhonda R. McClure, "The Rotches and the Rodmans: A Tale of New Bedford Quakerism." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:293, Summer 2023.
- [S7954] Genealogy of the Barney Family in America by Eugene Dimon Preston, ed. William Clifford Barney. Springfield, Virginia: Barney Family Historical Association, 1990., year only.
- [S1575] Nantucket Historical Association, Barney Genealogical Record., year only.
- [S7954] Genealogy of the Barney Family in America by Eugene Dimon Preston, ed. William Clifford Barney. Springfield, Virginia: Barney Family Historical Association, 1990.
- [S1531] Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886 by Charles Henry Jones. Philadelphia, 1886.