Roger Adams of Fenne

ID: I419242

Name: Roger Adams , *

Sex: M

Birth: 1392 in Beverston, Gloucestershire, England

Note:

Ref; AFN: 8WT2-NF

Ref; 15th Great Grandfather

Ref: Lewis Keeler Leonard and Melvena Burris Leonard, Seven Hundred Ancestors (Privately published, 1975),Page: 1.

Ref: Andrew N. Adams, A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, Massachusetts and His Descendants; Also John Adams of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1632-1897 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle,1898 [Reprinted Newburyport, MA: Parker River Researchers, 1984].

Ref; New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Boston, MA: New England Historical and Genealogical Society),Vol. 7, pp. 39-40 (Jan 1853) "Pedigree of the Adams Family"

Father: John Adams , Jr.,* b: ABT 1400 in Gloucestershire, England, UK

Mother: Clara Powell ,* b: ABT 1364 in Of Gloucestershire, England

Father: John Adam , *

Mother: Clara Powell , *

Marriage 1 Jane Ellyott , * b: 1394

Children

Thomas Adams , * b: 1422 in Of Beverston, Gloucestershire, England

Disputed Parentage It is often falsely claimed that Roger Adams was the son of John ap Adam and Clara Powell . This alleged ancestry of Roger Adams first appeared in a famous forgery that duped the editors of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1853; this publication has since repeatedly disavowed the false lineage. Unfortunately, this false lineage found its way into Charles Henry Browning's Americans of Royal Descent, and it has spread far and wide on the internet.

The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising ..., Volume 1, Pages 1-452 edited by John Lambrick Vivian

"From The Complete Peerage, 2nd revised edition, by G.E. Cokayne & Vicary Gibbs, vol 1, p. 181, the line of John ap Adam ends with his great grandson John ap Adam who is mentioned with his wife Margaret (surname unknown) in 1414-1415. This John died without any issue 20 November 1424, making John Huntley, the son of his sister Elizabeth his heir.

"There is no mention of Clara Powell or two sons William and Roger ... so it would seem that they are either false or members of a different line that has been tacked on to the ap Adam line."[1]

References

Vivian's visitations of the County of Devon, page 9 Hathitrust

Bartrum, Peter C. Welsh Genealogies, A.D. 1400-1500. 18 vols. Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1983. Geneal. tables, 1 map.

Bradney, Joseph Alfred, Sir. A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales Down to the PresentTime. 4 vols. in 13. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1904-1933. Ill.

Clark, George Thomas. Limbus Patrum Morganiæ et Glamorganiæ. Being the Genealogies of the Older Families ofthe Lordships of Morgan and Glamorgan. London: Wyman & Sons, 1886. 2 p. leaves, 620 p.Folded geneal. tables.

Welsh Family History: a Guide to Research. Edited by John and Sheila Rowlands. 2nd ed. Birmingham [England]: Federation of Family History Societies; [Aberystwyth]: Association ofFamily History Societies of Wales, 1998. xii, 325 p. Ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, bibliographical references, index.

Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, andthe Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. 6 vols. London: T. Richards, 1881-1887. Ill., plates, plans.

Cofrestri Anghydffurfiol Cymru=Nonconformist Registers of Wales. Dafydd Ifans, editor. Aberystwyth: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru a Grwp Archifyddion Sirol Cymru, 1994. xl, 195 p., [12] p. of plates, ill., facsims., map.

Rawlins, Bert J. The Parish Churches and Nonconformist Chapels of Wales: Their Records and Where to FindThem. Salt Lake City: Celtic Heritage Research, 1987-. <vol.1> Ill., maps.

Lewis Keeler Leonard and Melvena Burris Leonard, Seven Hundred Ancestors (Privately published, 1975)

New England Historic Genealogical Society Pedigree of the Adams Family Vol. 7, pp. 39-40 (Jan 1853