The English portion of the following genealogy is compiled from
Familiae Minornm Gentium, by Joseph Hunter, Vol. II, pages 583-87,
Harleian Society Publications.
John 1 Rodes, of Staveley Woodthorpe, Yorkshire, married Attelina,
daughter of Thomas Hewet, of Wales, Yorkshire, and had a son, Fran-
cis* Rodes, of Staveley Woodthorpe, Esq., made Sergeant at Law 21st
August, 1582; Justice of the Common Pleas 29th June, 1585; purchased
Barlborough, Houghton and other considerable estates. Will dated
7th June, 29th [year] Elizabeth; proved 28th April, 1591. Francis'
Rodes married (I) Elizabeth, daughter of Brian Sandford, of Thorpe-
Solwin, Esq.; buried at Staveley; (II) Mary, daughter of Francis Charl-
ton, of Apley, Shropshire, sister to Elizabeth, wife of John, Earl of
Rutland. By this second marriage Judge Rodes had, besides several
daughters, a son, Sir Godfrey 3 Rodes, of Great Haughton, knighted
July 13, 161 5, and died 1633-34, who was the father of Godfrey 4 Rodes,
D. D., Dean of Londonderry, and of Sir Edward* Rodes, of Great
Haughton; commissioned colonel of horse March 13, 1654, by Oliver
Cromwell, and a Privy Councellor and M. P. for the Shire of Perth in
1556. Godfrey* Rodes, of Great Haughton, was also M. P. for Scotch
boroughs in 1656, during the ascendancy of the Parliamentary army, and
his great nephew, William Rodes, of Great Haughton, who died in
1740, was the last male of this branch of the family.
Francis 1 Rodes had by his first marriage, with Elizabeth Sandford, a
son, Sir John' Rodes, of Barlborough, Knt., aged 7, in 1569; Sheriff of
Derby 36th Elizabeth; knighted at the T6wer 15th March, 1603, died
September 16, 1639. He married (I) Dorothy, daughter of George
Saville, of Wakefield; (II) Frances, daughter of Marmaduke Constable,
of Holderness, and widow of Henry Cheek; (III) Ursula, daughter of
Sir John Mallory, of Studley. By his first marriage he had a son, John,*
of Harbury, Yorkshire, who was disinherited; by the second marriage
Sir John 8 Rodes had: I. Sir Francis 4 Rodes, of Barlborough, knighted
at Whitehall 9th August, 1641; created a Baronet 14th of same month;
died in February, 1645; married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir
George Lascelles, of Sturton and Gateford, Knight; she aged 19 in 1614;
II. George, second son, buried at Barlborough December 27, 1665; III.
Henry, third son, unmarried 1634; IV. Mallory, fourth son, died un-
married December, 1660; V. Catherine, married Sir John Hotham, of
Scarborough, Bart.; VI. Priscilla, married John Bright, of Middlethorpe;
VII. Gertrude, unmarried in 1650; VIII. Lenox, married Sir Marma-
duke Langdale, Lord Langdale; IX. Anne, married John Walthal, of
London; X. Elizabeth, no issue; XI. Mary, no issue.
Sir Francis* and Elizabeth (Lascelles) Rodes had issue: I. Lenox,
married, 27th March, 1649, John Truman, attorney, of Mansfield; II.
Catherine, married Leonard Robinson, of Newton Garth, in Holderness;
III. Elizabeth, married Thomas Booth, of Goushill, Lincolnshire; IV.
Penelope, married, April 17, 1649, Henry Holme, of Paul Holme; V.
John 5 Rodes, of Sturton, fourth son, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Simon Jason, of Edial, Staffordshire; VI. Peter, 6 fifth son, a divine,
slain at Winfield Manor, fighting for the king; VII. George, sixth son,
died unmarried; VIII. Ann, died unmarried; IX. Eleanor, died infant;
X. Frances, died infant; XI. Lascelles, died infant; XII. Sir Francis 5
Rodes, of Barlborough, second Baronet, died May 3, 1651; married
Ann, daughter of Sir Gervas Clifton, Baronet; XIII. Clifton* Rodes, of
Sturton, Esq., aged 40 16th March, 1662; married, first, Lettice Clifton
(and had a son, Gervas, who died in infancy), and secondly, Elizabeth,
daughter of John Scrimshire, of Cotgreave, Esq.
John 5 and Elizabeth (Jason) Rodes had issue: I. John' Rodes, of Corn-
hill, London, linen draper, eldest son living 1695; married Mary, daugh-
ter of Wm. Tighe, of London, and had issue: William,' aged 6, Feb.
14, 1694-5; John,' who died in 1694, aged 7 months, and two daughters.
Wm.' Rodes, of London, had a grandson, Rodes, of London,
Gent., on whom Sir Jno. Rodes (d. 1743) entailed his estate on failure of
the male issue of his sister; II, " Francis [7] Rodes, 2d son, resided
some time in Maryland, where he was twice married, but is now, 1698,
in England, and has issue; " III. "Charles [7] Rodes, 3d son, lived in
Virginia, where he is lately married, 1695"; IV. Anne, married Henry
Harrison, of Worksop.
Sir Francis 5 Rodes, Bart., had an only son, Sir Francis, with whose
son Sir John, of Barlborough, who died unmarried in 1743, this branch
became extinct. Sir John was born in 1670, and his will was dated
March 13, 1731.
Clifton 6 Rodes, of Sturton, had issue by his second marriage with
Elizabeth Scrimshire, a son Godfrey who was born 1653, and died young,
and a second son (and heir), John, born in 1662, supposed to have been
cast away at sea. With him the line of Clifton Rodes became extinct.
So the title to the baronetcy would lie between the descendants of John
Rodes, of London; Francis Rodes, of Maryland, and Charles Rodes, of
Virginia.
While positive proof has not yet been found that John Rodes, who was
born in Virginia in 1697, was son of Charles Rodes. who was living in
Virginia, and lately married in 1695, yet the presumptive evidence is
strong. The tradition in every branch of the family has been that this
John Rodes was the son of the immigrant; the name Clifton has so
frequently appeared both in the English family to which Charles Rodes
belonged, and in the Virginia family descended from John; and the fact
that John Rodes was born in 1697, in or near what was then New Kent
county, makes it hardly doubtful that he was the son of the "Charles
Roades," whose daughter Mary's baptism, February 7, 1702-3, is recorded
in the register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent county. The birth of a
son ( John) in 1697, and of a daughter (Mary) in 1703, would accord
very well with a marriage in 1695. A Clifton Rodes was living in
Virginia during the first half of the 18th century, who may have been
another son of Charles Rodes. There is on record in York county, a deed
dated December 20, 1740, conveying land in York county to Clifton
Rodes, of Jamas City county. [The James City records are unfortunately,
destroyed.] The will of Clifton Rhodes, of York county (of course the
same as of James City 1, was proved in York county, July 15, 1745. His
legatees were his wife Sarah, his sou Francis, and other children whom
he does not name. If all of his children died during their minority,
the property was to go to John and Elizabeth, children of Francis
Rhodes, and to Clifton Rhodes and his brother, the children of John
Rhodes, of Hanover county.
It is highly probable that there are in England wills which will clear
up the connection of the families. There may also be something in
Maryland, where Francis Rodes is stated to have lived, which would
throw light.
1. John Rodes, was born in the lower end of the present Hanover county
(traditional as to birthplace), November 6, 1697 (Family Bible , .uid
died May 3, 1775. He removed to Louisa county, and in September, 1765,
was appointed a vestryman of Fredericksville Parish. In October of the
next year, John Kodes and Mary his wife, of Louisa couny, made a deed
to their son Clifton Rodes, of Louisa, conveying land they had bought
in 1727. He was also a justice of Albemarle county. The will of John
Rodes was dated February 12, 1774, and proved in Albemarle, October,
1775. He gave his son Charles 382 acres taken from the north end of
testator's land; to his (John's) wife Mary, his real and personal
estate during her life if she did not marry, and if she did. then to
"be put to her thirds." After her death or marriage, the land he lived
on was to be sold and the proceeds divided between his five daughters.
All the rest of his estate after his wife's death to be equally divided
between his four sons and five daughters; the slaves to be divided as
the children should agree, but none to be sold out of the family.
Appoints his sons Charles and John executors. The inventory of his
personal estate amounted to ^"1,044. 17. 3., a large property for the
time and county.
John1 and Mary Rodes had issue: 1. Clifton* 2. Charles? 3. John,i 4.
David.'1
2. Clifton* Rodes was a private in the Louisa county militia in 1758
1 I-/filing, ), and was sheriff of Albemarle, 1783-85 {Albemarle
Records). He removed to Fayette county, Ky. His wife was Sarah,
daughter of John and Agnes (Carr) Waller, of Spotsylvania county, Va.
iHavden's Virginia Genealogies, 388-393), and had issue:
6. Agnes," married Boone; 7. Henrietta,* married Joseph Rogers; 8.
Daughter,' married James Rogers; 9. Debora,* married in 1784, David
Kerr (marriage bond in Albemarle county, November 25th 1; 10. John,*
married Jane Burch. Did he leave descendants? 11. Mary," married in
1786, Joseph Birch (marriage bond in Albemarle county, November, 26);
12. Waller*
3. Charles* Rodes, settled in Nelson county, Va. We have but meagre
accounts of his descendants, but from statements by descendants, he
married "Amy, sister of General Robert Duke," and had issue; 1.
Charles,* of Nelson county, who married Jane, daughter of Colonel John
Hopkins, and neice of General Samuel Hopkins, of Kentucky, and had a
son, James Hopkins4 Rodes, who was the father of Charles E. Rodes, of
Gallatin, Tennessee, and other sons and daughters. J. T Rodes, of
Fayetteville, Tennessee, and Dr. J. E. Rodes, of Manchester, Tennessee,
are also descendants of this branch. James E. Rodes, of Fayetteville,
Tennessee, is son of Iverson Twyman Rodes, who was a son of Thomas
Rodes, who removed from Nelson county, Va., to Tennessee, in 1837. It
's hoped that some one will furnish us with a full and correct account
of the descendants of Charles * Rodes.
4. John* Rodes, of Albemarle county, was born November 6, 1729, and
died July 15, 1810 (Family Bible). He was a justice of Albemarle
county. His will was dated July 6, 1804, and proved August 6, 1810, in
Albemarle. Legacies; first, to his son Robert, three negroes; second,
to his daughter, Henrietta, three negroes; third, to daughter Ann,
three negroes; fourth, to son John, three negroes: tilth, to son
Clifton, three negroes, and a tract of land on which he (Clifton) now
lives; sixth, to son Tyree. three negroes; to daughter Sally Harris,
three negroes. All of the land on which he resided, and all adjoining
the same which he had purchased, to be sold, and proceeds divided—one
third to his daughter Henrietta, one third to Sally Harris, and one
third to be put at interest to be divided equally among the children of
his daughter Anna.
The rest of his estate to be divided among all of his children, viz:
Robert, Henrietta, John, Clifton, Tyree. Sally Harris and Anna. Ann
Garth's share to be put at interest and divided among her children when
they come of age or marry. John and Clifton Rodes, and b: Brown,
executors. John* Rodes married Sarah (born May 24, 1736, died Jan. 31,
1803) daughter of .Major Robert Harris, of Albemarle county (who had
been a member of the House of Burgesses for Hanover in 1743-44). They
had issue:
15. Mary,* born February 14, 1757; died young; 16. Robert;* 17.
Henrietta," born May 26, 1761, married Bernice Brown of Albemarle; 18.
Ann,'born July 22, 1763: married, June 17, 1782, John Garth, of
Albemarle, and removed to Paris, Kentucky; 19. John;* 20. Clifton;* 21.
Tyree;* 22. Doctor Charles,5 born February 22, 1774, died unmarried;
23. Sarah Harris,* born July 3, 1777, married September 22, 1808,
Micajah Woods, of "Holkham," Albemarle county, and died January 25.
1850, leaving a son Dr. John R. Woods, of Albemarle (born January ig,
1815, died July 9, 1885) father of Captain Micajah Woods, of
Charlottesville, &c.
5. David* Rodes, of Albemarle county, born , died Dec. 29,
1793. He married first, May 13, 1758, Mary (who died April 10.
1781) and second, on March 27, 1783, Susannah . (By the second marriage
there was one child Agnes, born January 11, 1784, died September 13,
1784.) The will of David 2 Rodes was dated June 9, 1790, and proved in
Albemarle, February, 1794. He wills the lands and negroes derived
through his wife Susannah to her; farm called " Pomgranate " to son
John; 304 acres to son Matthew, besides 500 acres in Madison county,
Ky.; to son Charles, tracts in Nelson county, Ky., on the waters of
Green River, in all 1,195 acres; (0 to daughter Mary Douglas; all his
children to have equal shares with daughter Elizabeth Goodman, lands
excepted; wife Susannah and son Mathew executors. Issue:
24. Mary,'born Dec. 11, 1760, married Douglas; 25. Bettie,' born
June 20, 1762, died December 27, 1852, married, 1783, Horsley Goodman
(marriage bond Albemarle county, May 8); 26. John,' born February 14,
1764, died August 19, 1823. Did he marry and have issue ? 27. Matthew;*
28. Charles,* born September 15, 1767; 29. Nancy,5 born June 16, 1769,
married Delaney; 28. Lucy,* born May 4, 1771; 29. David,* bor n March
9, 1773, died August 24, 1789; 30. Ann,' born February 20, 1775, died
September 25, 1852, married May, 1790, in Albemarle county, James
Ballard; 31. Judah,' born December 15 1776, died August, 1784; 32.
Patsy,* born October 23, 1778; 33. Milly.'born September 25, 1780 (a
Milly Rodes, doubtless this one, married in Albemarle in July, 1795,
William Walden.)
12. Waller' Rodes, of Kentucky, married his cousin Elizabeth Thompson
(she married secondly Gabriel, Slaughter, Governor of Kentucky) and had
one child, Colonel William * Rodes, of Fayette county, Ky., member of
the State Senate 1841-45, wno married twice, first, his . cousin Sarah
Waller Burch, by whom he had one son Joseph Waller5 Rodes, who married
Sarah E. Marshall, and left two sons: J. Waller" Rodes, and Dr.
William6 Rodes, both of Lexington, Ky. Colonel William * Rodes married
secondly, Margaret Todd, and had one son Levi Todd,5 who married Mary
Martin.
16. Robert" Roues, born May 11, 1759, died November 20, 1818; is said
to have served as a captain in the Revolutionary War; removed to
Madison county, Ky., in 1783, and represented that county in the
Convention held at Danville in 1787. On the formation of the State he
was appointed one of the justices of Madison county, and later was a
judge of the Circuit Court. He married. May 30, 1782, Elizabeth (born
January 29, 1759, died January 31, 1803* daughter of John Delaney, of
Amherst county, Va., and had issue:
34. Mary Eddins,* born August 5, 1783, died July 20, 1835, married July
io, 1800, James Estill; 35. Sarah Harris,* born [une 7, 1787, died
August 11, 1856, married April 18, 18i1, Dr. Anthony W. Rollins, of
Kentucky, and had a son, James Sydney Rollins, born at Richmond, Ky.,
April 19, 1812; member of Legislature from Boone county, Mo., 1838, and
State Senate, 1868, &c.; Member Congress, 1860-64, President of the
University of Missiouri; 36. Elizabeth,* born February 20, 1789, died
February. 1857. married December 20, 1807, Wallace Estill; 37. John,*
born January 4, 1792, died November 21, 1814; 38. William? 39. Nancy,*
born February 3, 1796, died September 15, 1869, married October 15,
1816, Samuel Stone, of Richmond, Ky., and was mother o( Robert Rodes
Stone, of Lexington, Ky., and grandmother of Samuel H. Stone, now State
Auditor of Kentucky; 40. Clifton}
19. John' Roues, of Albemarle county, Va., born June 2, 1766, died
March 1, 1841 (in which year his will was proved). He married in May,
1793, in Albemarle, Francisca, daughter of Bernard Brown, and had
issue: 41. Sidney,* born January 27, 1794, died July 23, 1855, married
December 13, 1811, Powhatan Jones (born October 9, 1792, died September
13, 1880), of " Breman," Buckingham county, Va.; 42. Ryland;* 43. John
D.,* married Mrs. Morris, of Albemarle, and died without issue; 44.
William? 45. Sarah,* married Samuel Woods, of Nelson county, emigrated
to Missouri; 46. Tyree;* 47. Virginia,* married W. C. Smith, of Nelson
county, and died in 1854 or 55; 48. Jacintha,4 married, first, J.
Smith, of Nelson county, and second, James Harris, of Nelson county,
49. Fannie,4 married Garland Brown, of Nelson county, and emigrated to
Mississippi, where she died; 50. Lucy Ann,4 married, first.
James A. Payne, of Warrenton, Va., and second, Newlands, of Rolls
county, Mo.
20. Clifton' Rodes, born August 8, 1768, married December 1, 1796,
Elizabeth, daughter of John Jones, of Albemarle county, and removed to
Kentucky, settling according to one account in Barren, and according to
another, in Madison county. He hiid two children, Mary,4 who married
Colonel Murrell, member of Kentucky State Senate, and Elizabeth.4 who
married, first, Frank Gavin, and second, Watkins.
21. Tyree* Rodes, born December 24, 1770. died July 17, 1827. He
removed in 1807 to Giles county, Tennessee, and settled on an estate,
which he named "Clifton Place." He married, April 25, 1811, of Halifax
county, N. C., eldest daughter of Major James Holland, of Halifax
county, N. C., who was for eighteen years Member of Congress from that
State. They had issue: 51. Sarah Myra,4 born October 18, 1812, died
March 12, 1865, married, first. John H. Rivers, of Tennessee; second,
Colonel Joseph Trotter; 52. James Holland,4 born June 1, 1814. died
April 19, 1824; 53. Robert;4 54. Sophia Selina,4 born October 26, 818,
died October 24, 1829; 55. Tyree,4 born July 18, 1821, died July 28,
1858, married Jane Elizabeth Murrill, of Kentucky, and had: (1)
Clifton,5 born September 3, 1852, died June 13, 1877, unmarried; (2)
Myra Ophelia,5 born November 7, 1856, died March 7, 1858.
Powhatan and Sidney F.4 (Rodes) Jones had issue: (a) Addison, married
and removed to Texas; (b) Adaline Sidney, born February 19, 1816, died
September 11, iSi'S, married Colonel Joseph Littlebury Carrington (born
October 25, 1810, died January 24, 1890), of "Walnut Hill," Cumberland
county, and afterwards of Richmond, Va.; (c) Judith Francisco, married
Ayres; (d)John Samuel, removed to Mississippi and married; (ei Martha
Brown, unmarried; (f) Sarah Elizabeth, married Gilbert Carrington, and
removed to Mississippi, where she died; (g) Powhatan Tyree, died in
California; (h) Virginia, married, first, Colonel Scott, of Petersburg,
and second, Wilson, of Cumberland county; ti) Josiah Ryland, married and lived in Kockingham county; (j)
Walter Scott, died in boyhood; ih) Mary Jacintha, married Clarke,of Goochland county
John H. and Sarah Myra (Rodes) Rivers had issue: (a) William, born June
19, 1831, married in 1857, Martha Julia, daughter of William C.
Flournoy, of Pulaski, Tenn., and died in 1882, leaving issue: Flournoy,
of Pulaski; Tyree Rodes, lieutenant U. S. A.; John H. (deceased),
William Cannon, lieutenant I'. S. A.; Myra, and Julian; (b) Cynthia,
married
April 6, 1851, M. F. Carter; (c) Mary Elizabeth, married, first, George
Sykes; secondly. Dr. William Batte.
From the book entitled: The Virginia magazine of history
and biography,
Volume 6 and 7
Author: Virginia Historical Society
Publisher: Virginia Historical Society., 1899