Robert Titus Founded NY & New England Families
Husband and Wife Descend from Same 1635 Dutch Immigrant
Sep 11, 2009
John (b. 1627), Robert’s eldest son, stayed in Rehoboth to found the New England branch of his family. Robert and other sons moved to Long Island in the 1650s to begin the Long Island branch of the family.
Husband and Wife Share Titus & Rowland Ancestors
Below are lineages of a husband and wife. Wilbur Moore, the husband, descends from Robert’s son Edmund. His wife, the former Mary Shaw, descends from son Abiel. Titus family researchers should be warned that there are other unrelated Titus families in America during the colonial period. The majority of New England and New York Tituses descend from Robert.
Descent from Edmund Titus
Wilbur Moore submitted this line of descent to this article’s writer in 1992.
- Edmund Titus (1630-1715), born England; wed, 1655, Hempstead, NY, Martha Washburne (1637-1727); both died at Westbury, NY.
- Martha Titus (ca. 1663-1732), born Westbury, NY; married, Hempstead, NY, ca. 1684, Benjamin Seaman (ca. 1650-1733); both died at Hempstead.
- Martha Seaman of Hempstead married Jonathan Rowland Jr. (1690-1761), born Fairfield, CT, and died Woodbridge, NJ.
- Samuel Rowland (ca. 1721-1800), born at Hempstead and died at Pittstown, NY. Samuel married, 1745, Hempstead, Ruth Marvin, who died ca. 1757, Crum Elbow, NY.
- Samuel Rowland Jr. (1748-1823), born Hempstead; married at Pittstown, ca. 1776, Susanna Hicks (ca. 1751-1841); both died at Pittstown.
- Catherine Rowland (1790-1862) and Gerardus Stover (1787-1847), married, 1808, Pittstown.
- Phebe Stover (1818-1882), born Pittstown and died at Beloit,WI; married, 1838, Pittstown, Maynard Groesbeck (1811-ca. 1876) of Pittstown, who died at Oswego, NY.
- Charles S. Groesbeck (1842-1906), born Pittstown, NY, and died Denver, CO; m. 1862, Oswego, NY, Mariette Lewis (1842-1871) of Granby, NY, who died at Oswego.
- Charles L. Groesbeck (ca. 1866-1929) of Oswego died at Pontiac, MI; married, 1888, Denver, Mary Anderson (1870-1967), born Denver and died in Los Angeles.
- Elsie G. Groesbeck (1895-1988) of Denver married there in 1911, William L. Moore (1888-1951) of Denver; both died in Los Angeles, CA.
- Wilbur C. Moore, born 1912, Denver and in 1938 married in Los Angeles, Mary E. Shaw. (Her line is below.)
Descent from Abiel Titus
Abiel Titus is one of the sons of Robert-1 Titus who moved to Long Island. This descent is for Mary Shaw, wife of Wilbur Moore, whose Titus lineage is given above.
- Abiel Titus married ca. 1672, Rebecca Scudder; lived at Huntington, NY.
- Mary Titus (1673/4-1730) married ca. 1691 at Jamaica, NY, Jonathan Wood; both died at Wilton, CT.
- Titus Wood (ca. 1697-1761) and Abigail Olmstead married, 1719, Norwalk, CT, where Abigail was born in 1696.
- John Wood (1721-1798) of Norwalk and Danbury, CT, married ca. 1750, Abigail Lobdell (1726-ca. 1758) of Ridgefield, CT.
- Titus Wood (1756-1839) of Ridgefield, CT, married ca. 1780, Susanna Lasell (1762-1830) at Lanesboro, MA, where both died.
- Lucy Wood (1781-1858) of Lanesboro married ca. 1800, Joel Rowland (ca. 1770-1850); both died at Edwardsville, NY.
- Israel Rowland (1802-1865) of Edwardsville, NY, married 2) in 1859, Mrs. Roxalana (Wright) Giffin (1823-1889) of Chester, VT, and Boulder, CO.
- Lucy Rowland (1864-1928) of Edwardsville, NY, died at Bellingham, WA; married, 1884, Boulder, CO, Charles Baylor (1860-1939) of Towanda, IL.
- Edna Baylor (1887-1966) of Boulder, CO, and Los Angeles, CA, married, 1911, Bellingham, WA, Oscar Shaw (1885-1960) from Derbyshire, England.
- Mary E. Shaw, born 1913, Bellingham, WA, married Wilbur C. Moore. (See his lineage above).
Most of Wilbur Moore’s Rowland ancestry is in earlier generations, but the Rowland ancestry of his wife is in recent generations. These charts demonstrate a phenomenon many genealogists don’t recognize. We are all much more closely related than we realize.
Resource for Researchers of Robert Titus Family
Leo J. Titus, Jr. of Ashburn, VA, has published the book,TITUS - A North American Family History, and has built a Titus database of over 13,000 individuals related to Robert Titus, the immigrant, born in 1600.
The Holland Society of New York fosters research and preserves both genealogical and historical data pertaining to the Dutch colonists of New York.
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