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Christ Lutheran Church, York, Pa. baptismal records:
Margaret, daug of Jacob and Margaret Ledder, born Dec. 29, 1759, bapt Jan 6, 1760.
Catherine, daug of Jacob and Margaret Ledder, born May 31, 1761, bapt June 14, 1761.
John Frederick, son of Jacob and Anna Margaret Ledder, born Mar 4, 1763, bapt March 6, 1763.
(Mary Jo Freeman http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=merrygo&id=I7911)
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1790 US Census, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
William Rockey
3 free white males under 16 [George ?]
1 free white male over 16 [William ?]
5 free white females [Margaret ?]
1800 US Census, West Buffalo, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
William Rockey
1 free white male under 10
1 free white male aged 10-15
1 free white male aged 16-25
1 free white male aged 26-44 [William ?]
2 free white females under 10
1 free white female aged 10-15
1 free white female aged 26-44 [Margaret ?]
1810 US Census, West Buffalo, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
William Rockey, farmer
1 free white male aged 10-15
1 free white male over 45 [William ?]
1 free white female under 10
2 free white females aged 10-15
1 free white female over 45 [Margaret ?]
1820 US Census, Mifflinburg, Union, Pennsylvania
Margaret Rockey,
1 free white female age 16-26
1 free white female age 45 upwards [Margaret ?]
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MARGARET LADDER (wife)
1759 Margaret Ladder born 29 Dec 1759 (findagrave)
1837 Margaret Rockey dies 1 Mar 1837, buried Mifflinburg (findagrave)
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Rockey, William,b. 1759, and m. 1782, to Margaret Leader; begat 9 children, d. 1816
Rockey, Margaret, wf., b. 1759, d. 1837
Rockey, William, b. 1793, d. 1849
Rockey, George, b. 1786, d. 1855
Rockey, Mary, b. 1790, d. 1848
(Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical /
Chiefly Relating to Interior of Pennsylvania Annual Volume 1899,
ancestry.com)
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1812 William Rockey & wife Margaret, of West Buffaloe (dealings with George Rockey, miller)
1816 William Rockey will, signed 26 Jan 1816, sons John & George & Henry Rausch are executors.
William Rockey of West Buffaloe, yeoman
my dear wife Margaret
son William Rockey
daughter Elizabeth
daughter Catharine
Mary (under 20 years old)
son in law Henry Raush
son John
son George
1816 William Rockey dies 1 Dec 1816, buried Mifflinburg (findagrave)
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Hier ruhet [here rests]
WILLIAM ROCKY
geboren den 16. November 1759 [born ...]
verheirathet den 15. Januar 1782 [married ...]
mit
MARGRETH LEDDER
lebten beinah 34 Jahre im Ehestand [lived almost 34 years in matrimony]
Zeugten 9 Kinder wovon noch 3 Soehne [produced 9 children of which 3 sons]
und [?] Toechter leben [and ? daughters still alive]
und starb den 1. Dezember 1816 [died ...]
[gravestone, Mifflinburgh cemetery]
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Karl
Held
