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Michigan Family Group Sheet

Edmund ROLFE Family

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Counties: Saginaw & Shiawassee

Submitted by: Martha LANDERS
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HUSBAND	WIFE
Husband: Edmund ROLFE Birth Date: 24 Sept 1804 Birth Place: Thame, Oxfordshire, England Death date: 10 Dec 1889 Death Place: Shiawassee Co, MI Burial Place: Elmwood Cem., New Lothrop, MI Father: George ROFE Mother: Elizabeth HOPE	Wife: Sarah CLAYDEN Birth Date: 1811 Birth Place: Baldon, Oxfordshire, England Death date: 8 April 1859 Death Place: Maple Grove, Saginaw, MI Burial Place: Flushing Cem., Flushing, MI Father: Mother:
Marriage date: 17 Jan 1831	Marriage place: Great Milton, Oxford., England

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: George E. ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 6 Aug 1831 Birth Place: Gr. Milton, Oxford, England Death date: 23 Feb 1921 Death Place: Maple Grove, Saginaw, MI Burial Place: Wildwood Cem., Chesaning, MI Marriage date: 16 March 1864 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Martha A. Judd	Child No. 2: Thomas Rolfe Sex: M Birth Date: 10 Dec 1832 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 8 May 1864 Death Place: Wilderness Virginia Burial Place: Arlington National Cemetery Marriage date: 30 Dec 1856 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Mary Jane Dingee
Child No. 3: Edmund ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 23 Nov 1834 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: After 1860 Death Place: Burial Place: Marriage date: 1858 Marriage place: Holly, Oakland, Michigan Spouse's name: Permelia	Child No. 4: Ann ROLFE Sex: F Birth Date: 7 Aug 1839 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 8 Aug 1912 Death Place: Monida, Beaverhead Co., Montana Burial Place: Sutton Cem., Archer, Madison, ID Marriage date: Fall of 1858 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Charles Henry FOSTER
Child No. 5: Maria ROLFE Sex: F Birth Date: 20 Dec 1840 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 28 Apr 1914 Death Place: Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan Burial Place: Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan Marriage date: About 1862 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Nathan FIELD	Child No. 6: Benjamin ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 23 Nov 1842 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 24 Dec 1862 Death Place: Lexington, Kentucky Burial Place: Lexington National Cemetery Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Unmarried
Child No. 7: William ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 4 June 1845 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 26 June 1921 Death Place: Chesaning, Saginaw Co., Michigan Burial Place: Elmwood Cem., New Lothrop, MI Marriage date: 24 Dec 1864 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Mary E. WINZER	Child No. 8: Elizabeth 'Betsy' ROLFE Sex: F Birth Date: 4 June 1845 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 30 Apr 1895 Death Place: Hazelton, Shiawassee, MI Burial Place: Elmwood Cem., New Lothrop, MI Marriage date: About 1866 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: David White GILLETE
Child No. 9: Isaac ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 20 Nov 1847 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 5 March 1909 Death Place: Maple Grove, Saginaw Co., Michigan Burial Place: Elmwood Cem., New Lothrop, MI Marriage date: 28 May 1877 Marriage place: Genesee Co., MI Spouse's name: Sophia ROLFE	Child No. 10: Philip ROLFE Sex: M Birth Date: 4 Feb 1850 Birth Place: Great Milton, Oxford., England Death date: 18 Mar 1928 Death Place: Burial Place: Marriage date: 16 Dec 1870 Marriage place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Spouse's name: Martha MACOMB
Child No. 11: Martha ROLFE Sex: F Birth Date: 8 APR 1852 Birth Place: At Sea Death date: 26 Sept 1926 Death Place: Manton, Wexford, Michigan Burial Place: Caldwell Twp., Missaukee, MI Marriage date: 1880 Marriage place: Michigan Spouse's name: Charles Wesley BRIGHAM

Sources

Documentation: 1841 & 1851 Eng. Census for Gr. Milton, Oxford., Michigan gives surname as Rofe. Ship and passenger records April 1852; Southampton, London Eng. to NY list name as Roff. MI land records- Rofe; 1860 Fed. Census Maple Grove, Saginaw Co., MI- Rolf, 1870 census records on- Rolfe. BMD records for England uses a variety of spellings on birth records of children. Geo. E. Rolfe, 2nd wife, Hattie Totman, dau.of Erustus Totman, m. 28 July 1877. Thomas Rolfe served in the Civil War with 16th MI Inf., Co. C. He died from wounds. Edmund Rolfe Jr., vanished aft. 1860, no CW Union Army records located. The Foster family traveled by wagon train to Idaho 1882. Maria Field became deaf and was placed in the Pontiac State Hosp. where she died. Benjamin Rolfe/CW 22nd MI Inf., Co. D, died from Typhoid Fever. Wm. Rolfe served with brother Thos. at Wilderness VA., twin to Betsy. Isaac Rolfe married 1st cousin. Philip Rolfe was grocer/upholster etc., in Detroit, Wayne Co., MI. Married twice, 2nd., Catherine 'Kitty' McKinnon about 1876 Detroit.

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