1874 Biography of Reverend Ebenezer Rhodes, of McLean Co., IL
1899 Biography of Rev. Ebenezeb Rhodes, of McLean County, IL
1874 Biography of John H. S. Rhodes of McLean County, IL
1874 Biography of Jeremiah Rhodes of McLean County, IL

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain
By Henry Brougham Guppy
Published by Harrison and Sons, 1890
601 pages

"Rhodes is a name principally represented in the West Riding, but it is also established in Lancashire, Notts, and Derbyshire, and it occurs as Rhoades in Lincolnshire. Roads is a numerous Bucks name. There are hamlets and villages called Rhodes in Lancashire and the West Riding. A family named Rodes or De Rodes flourished for 500 or 600 years in Lincolnshire, Notts, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire : they were descended from Gerard de Rodes, a distinguished baron of the 12th century. The Derbyshire branch was a knightly family of Barlborough in the 17th and 18th centuries, rewarded with a baronetcy in 1641 (Pilkington's "Derbyshire")"

I received an email from Tim Gruber, Tim is the spokesman for PaHR-Access. PaHR-Access is a grassroots organization that is trying to make Pennsylvania’s early death certificates more accessible to the general public online, similar to how they have started to do it in other states. Here is the link to the website about their endeavor: http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Access.htm. We hope you will join in on this effort, and if you would pass this information onto anyone else you know who is interested in Pennsylvania genealogy and history, including out of state residents.

This effort will only succeed with your help. Otherwise we could be stuck with the same old existing archaic system for a very long time to come. There are millions and millions of people who are into genealogy, but unless we speak up, we are allowing those who don't care about genealogy decide what records we may or may not have access to.

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County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series, volume 3, by William Le Hardy (editor), 1937
Sessions of the Peace and Gaol Delivery, on 15 and 16 May, 14 James I [A.D. 1616].
SESSIONS REGISTER. VOLUME II.
Page 305:

Came:—

William Milborne and Thomas Taylor of Highgate to give evidence against Christopher Foster [Forster] and Richard Rodes [Roades] for stealing four sheep belonging to William Cholmeley, esquire. The said Christopher died in gaol; the said Richard guilty, no goods, seeks the book, reads, to be branded (and G.D.R. 2/80,80d).

Link: http://rhodesfamily.org/will_john_rhodes_1632.html

From the book: Index to Wills Proved and Administrations Granted in the Court of the Archdeacon of Berks, 1508 to 1652
By Berkshire (England). (Archdeaconry), Church of England Archdeaconry of Berks, William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Jasmine S Howse
Published by For the British record society, 1893

page 148, Calender of Berkshire [1508-1652]

1620 Rodes, Jasper, Wytham

A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office: Prepared Under the Superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records
By Great Britain Public Record Office
Published by Printed for H. M. Stationery office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1890

[Hertfordshire.] A. 640. Demise by Robert, the abbot, and the convent of the exempt monastery of Wultham Holy Cross, to John Rodes, of Stansted Abbntt, Herts, for 57 years from Michaelmas last, of their tenement or lodge in Isney Park and lands belonging, the Lady Grove in Stansted, Stansted Grove, otherwise called ' Almond's Frith,' and all woods within the lordship and manor of Stansted Abbatt, with right of cutting wood, &c., as herein specified, at a yearly rent of 51. 6s. 8rf. Other covenants specified. 24 October, 18 Hen. VIII. Seal.

From the book: A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office: Prepared Under the Superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records
By Great Britain Public Record Office
Published by Printed for H.M.S.O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902

[Norf.] A. 10052. Feoffment by Thomas Rownyng of Skernyng son and next heir of Adam Rownyng late of the same to John Gyles, John Bracke, the elder, and John Poumfreyt, the younger, of the same, of a piece of arable reckoned for 1J roods in Skernyng, between land of the said John Gyles and the land of the abbot and convent of Waltham, which land he inherited on his father's decease, and which his said father, together with John Rodys, since deceased, had by the gift of Robert Soppe, formerly vicar of Skernyng, by charter of feoffment dated at Skernyng, Saturday after All Hallows, 7 Henry V. Skernyng, 8 October, 17 Edward IV. Heal, broken.

From: A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds in the Public Record Office: Prepared Under the Superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records
By Great Britain Public Record Office
Published by Printed for H.M.S.O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902

Page 8

I. of Wight. A. 6149. Release by John, son of Leonarde Machelle, late of Braidinge, ' yoman,' to Steven Rodes of Newporte, ' yoman,' of his right in a messuage and land in Bradinge, leased to him and Johanne Muchell, now Johanne Rodes, for their lives in survivorship, 5 March, 23 Eliz., by Edwarde Richardes, gent. ; he by indenture of even date having assigned the said lease to the said Steven. 28 January, 28 Elizabeth. English. Signed. Seal.
Underwritten ; Names of witnesses to sealing and delivery.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office
By Public Record Office, Great Britain Public Record Office
Published by Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode., 1904

1324, July 2, Botherfield.
William de Rodes of Leyburn, merchant, going beyond the seas, has letters nominating Gerard Rouche and Roger de Suthcote his attorneys in England for one year.