R/RFHA Newsletter, December 2000                          P.42

We received a late night telephone call from one of our subscribers RICHARD RAWLINS, descendant of the JAMES RAWLINS/ROLLINS who came to what is now New Hampshire in the 1630's. He has been in correspondence with a JAMES RAWLINS a. lawyer/solicitor in England, whose ancestor was a JEAN/JOHN RAULINS, a Huguenot, who with others fled first to England then to the New World in the 1670-80 period. RICHARD thought we would be interested in that, especially since J.R. ROLLINS in his book on the RAWLINS/ROLLINS line in New England (1874) mentions the Huguenot school-teacher in the 1700's in Massachusetts.

RICHARD's correspondent also told him that JAMES of New Hampshire was born in North Wooten, which is a village found on an 1800's map of Dorset County in England near Shelbourne, which was part of the estate of the Duke of Cleveland. JAMES and his wife Hannah were married near there since she was born in Weymouth. She may have been the widow of a brother or a cousin of JAMES, either THOMAS or WILLIAM.

RICHARD has promised more info on this new find. We look forward to it.

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QUERY

Her great-grandfather is THOMAS RAWLINS, md. Susan Maria Sloan, in St. Landry parish, Louisiana, Mar. 31, 1349. No more known except he was one of 7 brothers from New York who, with their parents settled in Mississippi. THOMAS' son was WILLIAM THEODORE RAWLINS, b. ca 1860; d. 1933. Md. Eliza Virginia Sutton, a Cherokee, Oct. 10, 1897. She was born 1880; d.1923.

Their children were: JOSEPH T. (1898-1979)

He worked in the oilfields 1921-22. He had 3 children by Eliza, one child by his 2nd wife Allie Elite; and one child by his 3rd wife Eva Mae Carter, our correspondent PATSY RUTH (RAWLINS) Sheeley.

She would very much appreciate help in locating her great-grandparents' family and their descendants.

Patsy Sheeley, 1515 Anita St. Bossier City, LA 71112-3107

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From Byrd Tribble, 2509 Cline St., Tallahassee, FL 32312

(No newspaper indicated, nor date)

BENJAMIN W. RAWLINS Jr., chair-man and chief executive of the Union Planters Corporation, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home in Memphis, TN. He was 62.

Mr. Rawlins served as chief executive for more than 16 years, and under his leadership the company grew from a $2 billion Memphis bank to a 12-state $34 billion financial services company. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.