The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.4 | March 2025

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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, 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 HGS Member #15911 cpfarrand@sbcglobal.net

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