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Re: Rolfe Marriage
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 21 February 15 18:00 GMT (UK) »
As you clearly failed to grasp the contents of my earlier message #13, I'll try to keep it as simple as possible in giving you a definitive, or as near definitive, list of children and their parents as I can manage, taken from the Freereg transcription. All events took place at Fulbourn.

William ROFFE  bap 6 Jun 1743, buried, as ROLFE, 1 Jul 1819 age 81 (“senior, labourer”)
   
   Marr: 1) 25 Nov 1765  William ROFE & Ann Banner. Ann bur 30 Jul 1797 wife of William Rolfe 
                  “senior”

   Marr: 2) 8 Nov 1803 Mary Shearman, widower and widow
      
     Children of William and Ann   
      a. William Rolfe bap 29 Nov 1767. Bur 17 May 1834 age 66. Marr Mary Preston 14 Jul
                    1794.

         Children of William & Mary (Preston)
                        1. Susanna bap 30 May 1796  dau of William “junior”
                        2. Mary bap 11 Jul 1797 dau of William “senior” and Mary.   A PR error here             
                           whichever you look at it. Should be either William "junior" and Mary, or
                           William senior and Ann.  I think Ann may have been too old to have been 
                           the mother, so I favour William junior and Mary. Probably impossible to prove one
                           way or another
                        3. William bap 23 Apr 1799 son of William “junior”. Bur 2 Jun 1799 “infant”
                        4. Sarah 19 Aug 1800 dau of William “junior”.  Marr John Ogram 30 Apr 1821. 
                            Sarah Ogram age 50 in 1851
                        5. William bap 3 May 1802. No mention of junior or senior.
                        6. John bap 31 Dec 1804 son of William “junior”
                        7. David bap 14 Jun 1807 son of William “junior”
                        8. Richard bap 15 Sep 1811 son of William “junior”

      b. David Rolf bap 2 Jun 1771
      c. John Rolf bap 4 Dec 1775
       

       Child of William & Mary (Shearman)
     1. Sarah bap 2 Mar 1806 dau of William “senior”. Marr 4 Apr 1825 William
                      Mason. Sarah Mason age 45 in 1851

Mary Shearman may have baptised an illegitimate daughter Susan, on 9 Jan 1801

      
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Rolfe Marriage
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 10 December 19 09:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi all.

I don't know if you have this sorted?  I had my husband Bryan take a DNA test because he desends from Sarah Rolf who married William Mason.  Her parents are William Rolf and Mary Preston DNA confirms this. So it's not from the second marriage at all. Just wanted to add my 50c and to let you know sometimes DNA proves a point. 

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Sarah Ogram daughter of William Rolfe and Mary Preston
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 10 December 19 15:51 GMT (UK) »
Apologies, but how does a DNA test prove that Sarah Ogram (nee Rolfe) was a daughter of William Rolfe (Jnr) and Mary Preston?

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Re: Rolfe Marriage
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 07 July 20 12:22 BST (UK) »
Hello again

With dna testing and my husbands Sarah was not Sarah Ogram. She married William Mason and with her family emigrated to Australia.  The dna test proves this by showing the siblings related to Sarah and also the dna evidence showing William Rolfe and Mary Preston are the parents of Sarah Rolfe born 1806. Dna does not lie and there you have it proof! Of the discussion. Sarah is the so many times great grandmother of Bryan. Maybe you need to take an ancestry dna test to prove your theory?