Person talk:Nicholas Rockwood (3)

Would like to discuss children here. [1 September 2010]

If Jane Adams died in 1654, only the first three children (Samuel, Benjamin and Josiah) could have been from the first marriage. The next three children (Elizabeth, Joseph and John) appear to be duplicated, listed under both marriages. Nicholas married Margaret Holbrook in 1656, so Elizabeth, Joseph and John's birthdates put them as children of the Rockwood-Holbrook marriage, in addition to Nathaniel, another son of that marriage.

I have confusion also about Isaac:

I've seen a source given for an Isaac b 22 Jul 1667, d 11 Oct 1667, which would put him in the Rockwood-Holbrook marriage. (Text: The Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons and the Genealogical Records of Many Early and Other Families in Medway,MA 1713-1886 by E.O. Jameson).

I've seen more and better sources for an Isaac b 22 Jul 1677, d 11 Oct 1677, same dates but 10 years later. This would put him in the Rockwood-Duntling/Dantling marriage.

(# Title: Medfield, Norfolk County, MA. Vital Records; Early Vital Records of Norfolk County to about 1850. Author: Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation. Publication: Early Vital Records of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to about the year 1850 on CD-ROM.Repository:Media: BookPage: 88 Text: ROCKETT, Isaac, s. Nicolas and Silence, July 22, 1677.

1. Title: Medfield, Norfolk County, MA. Vital Records; Early Vital Records of Norfolk County to about 1850.Author: Search & ReSearch Publishing Corporation.

Publication: Early Vital Records of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to about the year 1850 on CD-ROM.Repository:Media: BookPage: 232 Text: ROCKETT, Isaac, s. Nicolas [and] Silence, Oct. 11, 1677. )

And (Title: History of the Town of Medfield, Mass 1650-1886 Author: William S. Tilden Publication: George H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street, Boston, MA )

I have more confidence in Isaac 1677, Rockwood-Dantling. But it's also possible that the Jameson source really just said something like "Isaac b 1667 son of Nicholas and Margaret Rockwood, d as infant", and that precise b/d dates attributed to the source are conflated from another source. Does anyone have access to the Jameson to check this out? It's not impossible that there was an earlier Isaac who died as an infant in 1667, and that a later son, with Silence, was also named Isaac. Was the Jameson a vanity publication, where his informants gave wrong info?

Any thoughts? --LindaS 15:15, 1 September 2010 (EDT)