Thomas Rathbone, son of Thomas Rathbone and Grace Coppowe, was baptised 9 Jan. 1596 at Prescott, Lancashire, England. He married Alice Alice Childwall, a widow, 13 April 1616. Thomas died…
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Eugene Thomas Phelan
courtesy of Richard F. Oyler from Lenora J. Phelan and Her Irish Ancestors Eugene Thomas Phelan was born in Central City, Colo., January 12, 1866 of Irish ancestry. His father was…
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Edmund Rathbun fought at the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758 and at the siege of Quebec in 1759. (French and Indian War) He moved his family first to Berkshire County,…
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John Rathbone in later years in America was called a “husbandman” (farmer), and it is likely that he worked as a boy as a farm laborer. It is probable that…
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Extracted from The Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1981, pages 28 – 29. John Rathbun Jr. born about 1655, probably in Dorchester, Massachusetts, shortly after…
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