Roach Families in the Colonial South
by Nathan W. Murphy, MA, Accredited Genealogist®
We have focused research efforts on the Roach families listed below. Click on the person's name to learn more about them.
DNA samples have been received for descendants of underlined individuals. We hope to test all of these families in the future. Funding is available to help finance testing of many of these families. Note the repetition of family names, including Littleberry, Absalom, Reuben, and Drury in several of these lines. Are they all related? DNA holds the answer! Help us solve these old family history riddles by being tested today!
- Henry Roach (1613-1666) Merchant and Shipwright, of Somerset, England and Northumberland County, Virginia and his Relative Henry Roach, of Somerset, England and Northumberland County, Virginia
- James Roche (c1615-1652) of Dorset and Somerset, England and Isle of Wight County, Virginia
- David Roach (c1700-aft 1762) of Orange County, Virginia and his Son Reuben Roach (c1733-1795) of Rockingham County, Virginia. Funding is available to test documented descendants of this family.
- James Roach (b. c1710) of Craven County, North Carolina. Funding is available to test documented descendants of this family.
- Henry Roach (c1710-aft 1738) of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia and his Son Ashcraft Roach (1736-1814/15) of New Kent, Albemarle, and Amherst Counties, Virginia. Funding is available to test documented descendants of this family.
- John Roach (c1725-aft 1758) of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia and his Son Littleberry Roach (b. 1757). Funding is available to test documented descendants of this family.
- Cibby Roach (c1730-aft 1767) of Bedford County, Virginia and her Son Littleberry Roach (c1760-1850) of Bedford County, Virginia and Mercer County, Kentucky. Funding is available to test documented descendants of this family.
- James Roach (c1745-1792) of Orange County, North Carolina
- Littleberry Roach (c1750-1830s) of Orange County, North Carolina and Anderson District, South Carolina
- John Roach (c1766-aft 1850) of Virginia, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and Union County, Georgia and his Son Rev. Drury Dobbins Roach (1806-1899)
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