John Dennis: Robin's Roots

1640 - 1689 (49 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

John Dennis was born in 1640 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA (son of Robert Dennis and Mary Island); died on 8 May 1689 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1696, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=48435163; no photo

John married Sara Bloomfield on 18 Dec 1668. Sara (daughter of Thomas Bloomfield and Mary Withers) was born on 30 Dec 1643 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; died on 5 May 1689 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
see Woodbridge & Vic. by Rev John Dolly

Children:

Sarah Dennis was born on 18 Jul 1673 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; died on 22 Nov 1732 in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Stony Brook Quaker Meeting House Burial Ground, Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA.

Generation: 2

Robert Dennis was born about 1617 in England (son of William Dennis and Jane Scarlet); died about 1696 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1643, Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA; Barnstable County was formed from part of Plymouth County in 1685. It comprises the entirety of the Cape Cod peninsula
Civil: 1654, Massachusetts Bay Colony; Represented parties in a lawsuit

Notes:

This profile may represent a father and son, both named Robert Dennis. There is confusion about the origins of three men named Robert Dennis. By 1640, an immigrant named Robert Dennis was established in Yarmouth, MA. A Robert Dennis moved from Yarmouth to Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ, in the 1660's, but records of Robert Dennis in Yarmouth continued after that, including a death in 1685, so one is possibly the son of the other. If they are two men, they both seemed to have married women named Mary, and neither wife's family name is clearly documented. The third Robert Dennis was primarily in Rhode Island, but seems to have been present in Monmouth Co, NJ, (adjacent to Middlesex Co) at some point.

Robert married Mary Island in 1642. Mary was born in 1621 in Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary Island was born in 1621 in Rhode Island, USA.

Children:

1. John Dennis was born in 1640 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; died on 8 May 1689 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA; was buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

Generation: 3

William Dennis was born in 1595 in England; died on 16 Feb 1649 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1642, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=16681171; image of his will

William married Jane Scarlet. Jane was born in 1598 in England; died in 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane Scarlet was born in 1598 in England; died in 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=16681206; no photo

Notes:

Married:
FindAGrave says that they had 10 children

Children:

William Dennis was born about 1615 in England; died after 1640 in England.
2. Robert Dennis was born about 1617 in England; died about 1696 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.
Judith Dennis was born about 1620 in England.


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