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William Rotch

Male 1734 - 1828  (93 years)


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  • Name William Rotch  [1
    Birth 4 Dec 1734  Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 May 1828  New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Nov 1784, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Love Macy,   b. 20 Jun 1713, Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Nov 1767 (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 21 Feb 1734  Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F10093  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Barney,   b. 23 Mar 1735, Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1824, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 31 Oct 1754  Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 6
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Rotch,   b. 9 Dec 1757, Nantucket, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Aug 1856, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)
    Family ID F9929  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Nov 2024 

  • Notes 
    • He was an early whale-oil entrepeneur. He and his sons' whaling businesses continued well into the 1800s.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1531] Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620 to 1886 by Charles Henry Jones. Philadelphia, 1886.

    2. [S1532] The Rotches by John M. Bullard. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1947.

    3. [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.

    4. [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.

    5. [S1575] Nantucket Historical Association, Barney Genealogical Record., year only.

    6. [S7954] Genealogy of the Barney Family in America by Eugene Dimon Preston, ed. William Clifford Barney. Springfield, Virginia: Barney Family Historical Association, 1990.