Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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 Alternate death Between 1675 and 1676 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [7] Death Abt 1675 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [2, 8] Alternate death Between 1684 and 1685 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey [4] Burial St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edison, Middlesex, New Jersey [2, 9] Person ID I39244 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 30 Aug 2025
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, 10] Children + 1. Nathaniel FitzRandolph, b. Bef 15 May 1642 d. 21 Nov 1713, Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age > 71 years)+ 2. Joseph FitzRandolph, b. 1 Mar 1656, Barnstable County, Massachusetts d. Bef 18 Jan 1727, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age < 70 years)+ 3. Thomas FitzRandolph, b. 16 Aug 1659, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Between 24 Jul 1745 and 25 Oct 1745, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey (Age 85 years)Family ID F23041 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Aug 2025
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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 (1607-1675) = Elizabeth Blossom (1620-1713)
Nathaniel FitzRandolph (1642-1713) = Mary Holley (d. 1703)
Samuel FitzRandolph (1668-1754) = Mary Jones (d. 1760)
Prudence FitzRandolph (1696-1766) = Shubal Smith (1692-1768)
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
Edward FitzRandolph (1607-1675) = Elizabeth Blossom (1620-1713)
Nathaniel FitzRandolph (1642-1713) = Mary Holley (d. 1703)
Samuel FitzRandolph (1668-1754) = Mary Jones (d. 1760)
Prudence FitzRandolph (1696-1766) = Shubal Smith (1692-1768)
Elizabeth Smith (1718-1793) = Elijah Pound (1712-1780)
Elijah Pound (b. 1756) = Isabella Sharp
Elijah Pound (1802-1891) = Judith Coleman
Thaddeus Coleman Pound (1832-1924) = Susan Angevine Loomis ( 1835-1924)
Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) = Isabel Weston (1860-1948)
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)
Making Pound and Obama 5th cousins three times removed.
- 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.
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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.
- [S8247] Louise Aymar Christian, "Nathaniel2 Fitz Randolph of Woodbridge, N.J./, Quaker, and His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 97:275; 97:330, 1943.
- [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.
- [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.