The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.3 | Dec 2023

Member’s article

sentenced to 3 months under the Game Laws in 1822 at age 24) and his wife Mary Ann SOPER and their 12 year old daughter Ann arrived in New York on 14 June 1837 aboard the barque Hercules from London along with Mary Ann’s brother David Soper and his wife Eliza Butler and infant daughter Jane. It is not clear what happened to Mary Ann Smith and her daughter Ann. Jonathan appears in the 1860 U.S. Census working on his brother Joseph’s farm. It is not clear either where David Soper and his family may have moved to. At least one member of Sarah Rolfe’s family also emigrated to America. The U.S. Census records in 1880 that she was living in Fayetteville, New York, following the death of her husband Joseph Smith, with her nephew Charles Rolfe, a shoemaker, his wife Sarah and two sons George and Charles, all born in

England. Charles would have been either the son of William Rolfe and his wife Ann or the son of Samuel Rolfe and his wife Hannah Fisher. Both William and Samuel would have been brothers of Sarah Rolfe. Both had a son Charles baptised at Kingsclere in 1830 and 1831 respectively. As for Joseph T. Smith and Sarah Rolfe’s, I have been working to trace their ancestry. That of Sarah Rolfe’s is relatively easy, but the name Smith continues to be a challenge. It is not clear who Joseph’s father Thomas Smith’s parents were and in what year he was born. Any additions or correction would be gladly received. Christopher Farrand (Member #15911) 110 E. 291st Street

Willowick, Ohio 44095 USA cpfarrand@sbcglobal.net

Some of the surnames featured in this issue (with page number) ALLEN . . . . . . . . . . .148 BEANE . . . . . . . . . . .141 BENNETT . . . . . . . . .142 DOLING . . . . . . . . . .148 DOUGLAS . . . . . . . . .140 DROVER . . . . . . . . . .119 FENTON . . . . . . . . . .142 GILFORD . . . . . . . . .142 GREEN . . . . . . . . . . .130 GRUNCELL . . . . . . . .129 GURMAN . . . . . . . . .148 HIBBERD . . . . . . . . .148 HICKS . . . . . . . . . . .119 HYDE . . . . . . . .128-130 MILLER . . . . . . . . . .142 NORRIS . . . . . . . . . .141 PECKFORD . . . . . . .142 PURCHASE . . . . . . .130 ROLFE . . . . . . . . . . .133 ROZIER . . . . . . . . . .133 SHORTER . . . . . . . . .142 SMITH . . . . . . . . . . .132 SOPER . . . . . . . . . . .135 SOUTHERTON . . . . .131 STEAD . . . . . . .128/130 SWAIN . . . . . . . . . . .148 SYKES . . . . . . . . . . .129 TANNER . . . . . . . . . .133

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