Revolution, eleven Averys perished gloriously in the battle of Groton. As they became settled and gentrified, the versatile Averys spawned ministers, soldiers, civic leaders, explorers, and traders, not to mention a bold clutch of Indian fighters. Her ancestors had emigrated from Devon, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, aroundġ630, forming part of the Puritan tide. In 1806, Godfrey married Lucy Avery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, despite the grave qualms of her family.Įstablishing a pattern that would be replicated by Rockefeller's own mother, Lucy had, in her family's disparaging view, married down. Named Godfrey Rockefeller, who was the grandfather of the oil titan and a most unlikely progenitor of the clan. Rockefeller did erect a monument to the patriarch, Johann Peter, at his burial site in Flemington, New Jersey.) The marriage of William and Christina produced a son (Never particularly sentimental about his European forebears, John D. Diell's granddaughter Christina married her distant relative William, one of Johann's grandsons. More than a decade later, his cousin Diell Rockefeller left southwest Germany and moved to Germantown, New York. After Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Huguenot family fled from religious persecution and emigrated to Sagendorf, near the Rhenish town of Koblenz, and Germanized their surname to Rockefeller.Īround 1723, Johann Peter Rockefeller, a miller, gathered up his wife and five children, set sail for Philadelphia, and settled on a farm in Somerville and then Amwell, New Jersey, where he evidently flourished and acquired The clan's departure from France is much betterĭocumented than its origins.
Stock." The most ambitious search for Rockefeller's roots traced them back to a ninth-century French family, the Roquefeuilles, who supposedly inhabited a Languedoc chateau. "I am satisfied with my good old American "I have no desire to trace myself back to the nobility," he said honestly. In the early 1900s, as Rockefeller vied with Andrew Carnegie for the title of the world's richest man, a spirited rivalry arose between France and Germany, with each claiming to be Rockefeller's ancestral land.Īssorted genealogists stood ready, for a sizable fee, to manufacture a splendid royal lineage for the oilman.
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