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Sep 6, 2023 · Children: Jane Rolfe (1650 - 1676) - She died at a young age but married and had a child. She may have had another child who died at birth. Her son became an important colonist in Virginia and had many children. Siblings: Bermuda Rolfe (1610) - The only daughter of John and his first wife. She died in Bermuda after a shipwreck.
- John Rolfe Family Tree and Descendants
Children: Bermuda Rolfe (1610) - She died in Bermuda and was...
- Pocahontas Family Tree and Descendants
John Rolfe (1585 - 1622) - He became a wealthy tobacco...
- John Rolfe Family Tree and Descendants
Feb 10, 2024 · Their son, John Bolling, was born in 1676. John Bolling married Mary Kennon and had six surviving children, each of whom married and had surviving children. (Wikipedia, 2020). Genealogy for Lieut. Thomas Rolfe (1615 - 1675) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- "Pepsironemeh", "Prince of Powhatan"
- January 30, 1615
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Thomas Rolfe was the only known child of Amonute Matoaka (Rebecca) Powhatan Rolfe, commonly referred to as "Pocahontas", her childhood nickname. See the research notes in her biography for a discussion of claims that she had other children. The descendants of Jane Rolfe Bolling via her only child, John Bollingof Cobbs, are the only documented desce...
Date and Place of Birth
There are no records of the birth of Thomas Rolfe. The year 1615 is given by The Jamestowne Society in their list of Qualified Ancestors. W. G. Stanard, writing in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 1894, states that Thomas was born in 1616 in England when his parents were visiting there. Encyclopedia Virginia states that he was born "sometime between 1614 and 1617."
Disputed Information About Thomas' Wife
Numerous sources have stated that Thomas married Jane Poythress, a daughter of Francis Poythress, a Virginia colonist. Scholars Elizabeth Vann Moore and Richard Slatten traced the suggestion that his wife was a Poythress back to a comment by W. G. Stanard in "Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents", in the Virginia Historical Magazine (I, 1894, 446-447). : 1. "His wife is said to have been a Miss Poythress (if so, doubtless a daughter of Francis Poythress)." According to Moore and Slatten, Stanar...
Disputed Children
Thomas's alleged marriage to Elizabeth Washington in 1632 is claimed to have produced a child, Anne Rolfe. The Elwyn family of Thurning, Norfolk, England, claims that Anne Rolfe, “cousin and adopted” daughter of Anthony Rolfe of Tuttington, Norfolk, and wife of Peter Elwyn of Thurning (1623-1695/6) was also a daughter of Thomas Rolfe, Pocahontas’s son, by an early English wife. Brown, Myers, and Chappel accept this claim; Moore and Slatton do not. Margaret Wake, a great-granddaughter of Peter...
Rolfe, Thomas- A9737: born 1615 Jamestown Resident, liv. 1670 accessed 22 October 2021Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend, US Parks ServiceHelen C. Rountree, "Pocahontas," in Encyclopedia Virginia, (https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pocahontas_d_1617: accessed 6 September 2017).- Male
- April 23, 1681
- Jane (Unknown) Rolfe
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Mar 6, 2024 · Full name: Thomas Rolfe; Date of birth: January 1615; Died: 1680 (aged 65) Place of birth: James Cittie, Colony of Virginia, British America; Parents: John Rolfe and Pocahontas; Siblings: 1: Elizabeth Rolfe (half-sister) Spouse: Jane Poythress; Children: Jane Rolfe; Grandson: John Bolling
Feb 10, 2024 · They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1620, who married John Milner of Nansemond, Virginia, and died in 1635. Rolfe died in 1622 and his widow Jane married Englishman Captain Roger Smith three years later. He was the son of John Smith (no relation to Captain John Smith) and Thomasine Manning.
