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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Edmund Rathbun
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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Margaret Mary Rathbun was born May 31st,1942 and the first born to Charles Howard Duffy and Mary Elizabeth Duffy. In the years to follow, her family was blessed with a…
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