Saturday, December 28, 2019
Robinson Longevity
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| son Frank Hugh Robinson b: 1870 in Wenona, Illinois and father Abiathar Smith Robinson b: 1829 Vermont Each of us has 4 ggranfathers and 4 ggrandmothers Abiathar is one of my 4 ggrandfathers. They are: Abiathar Smith Robinson: b: December 7, 1829 in Vermont, possibly in Tunbridge, VT; Gustaf Johansson 1821, Falun, Sweden Movshe Goldfus, b: 1836 Telshi, Lithuania; Joshua Jermulowske b: 1850, Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania/Poland, Lazdijai, Suwalki, Russia/Lithuania |
1. Abiathar Smith Robinson: 1829-1904 : 74 years 10 months,
1. Julia Ann Tuller: 1834-1887 : 52 yeara 11 months 14 days (10 children)
2. Edward Rix Robinson: 1852-1922 : 70 years, Jeanette Jensen, (1 son)
2. Edgar Clyde/Clayton R.: 1855-1887 32 years, Mary Acuff, (3 children)
2. Nellie Elizabeth R. 1857-1905 : 48 years 2 months , (6 children) (7 children)=13 total; Alexander Sillik and Daniel McCullem
2. Emma Hattie Robinson, 1861-1930, : 69 years 4 months (5 children) George D. Miller
2. John C. Robinson, 1864-1923 59 years 1 moth, 15 days, Hermia Howell, (4 children)
2. Julia Robinson 1865-1903 38 years,
2. William S. Robinson 1868-1935 67 years, Carrie Monninger, (2 children)
2. Frank Hugh Robinson 1870-1952 81 years 11 months 6 days, Alice Mitchell; Augusta Gustafson, (4 children)
2. Minnie J. Robinson 1875-1923 48 years (6 children) Louis Sherman Cusac
2. Arthur Roy Robinson 1880-1927 46 years 10 months 18 days, Minnie Mae Smith, (5 children)
2. Nellie Elizabeth Robinson
3. Alexander Charles "Campbell" Sillik
4. Walter Guy Sillik 1897-1936 38 years 9 months 7 days
5. Donald Dan Sillik Sr. 1931-
3. Philip John McCullen 1889-1939 49 years 8 months 10 days
4. Shirley Rose McCullem 1923- 2006 83 years
2. Frank Hugh Robinson
3. Mildred Elizabeth R. 1913-2005 92 years 3 months 6 days (2 children)
3. Edward Kenneth R. 1915-1988 73 years 7 months 29 days
2. Arthur Roy Robinson
3. Leola Marie Robinson 1909-1979 70 years 4 months 13 days
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| Me at 15.Junior in high school; A few years ago. |
Labels: ages, birth, countries, death, years lived
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Scottish Isaac Robinson at the Alamo
Nadene Goldfoot
Sgt. Isaac Robinson, born in 1808 in Scotland, died at the Battle of the Alamo at San Antonio, Bexar, Texas on March 6, 1836 that followed a 12 day siege. He had died on the day the attack had started at age 28.
As a sergeant, he was probably up front in defending the Alamo to have been killed on the day it had started. He was one of 4 Scots defending the Alamo. The other 3 were Richard W. Ballentine b: 1814, 22 years old; John McGreger b: 1808, also 28 years old; and David L. Wilson b: 1807, 29 years old.
"He immigrated to America, arriving in Texas by way of Louisiana. Immigration records show he arrived in San Antonio de Bexar, 1836. Many men joined the military either in New Orleans or when they arrived in Washington-on-Brazos, Texas. Isaac was a 4th Sergeant, which indicates prior military service. Isaac Robinson filed for a land grant which was awarded by Refugio colony Sept. 24, 1834. His signature is near the bottom right with the date. Isaac served and fought in the Siege of Bexar, 1835, occurring from October to Dec 14, 1835.. "
https://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/alamo.html
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| Texan army in 1836 |
"He immigrated to America, arriving in Texas by way of Louisiana. Immigration records show he arrived in San Antonio de Bexar, 1836. Many men joined the military either in New Orleans or when they arrived in Washington-on-Brazos, Texas. Isaac was a 4th Sergeant, which indicates prior military service. Isaac Robinson filed for a land grant which was awarded by Refugio colony Sept. 24, 1834. His signature is near the bottom right with the date. Isaac served and fought in the Siege of Bexar, 1835, occurring from October to Dec 14, 1835.. "
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| Casualties at Battle of Alamo, painting from Scotland |
In 1836 Isaac Robinson stayed on to serve as a 4th Sergeant under the artillery company commanded by Capt. William R. Carey at the Alamo garrison. Then the Mexican army arrived, beginning the 13-day siege. Isaac was killed in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. A memorial is in San Fernando Cathedral.
"In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repelling two attacks, the Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian fighters withdrew into interior buildings. Occupiers unable to reach these points were slain by the Mexican cavalry as they attempted to escape. Between five and seven Texians may have surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed. Most eyewitness accounts reported between 182 and 257 Texians died, while most historians of the Alamo agree that around 600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Several noncombatants were sent to Gonzales to spread word of the Texian defeat. The news sparked both a strong rush to join the Texian army and a panic, known as "The Runaway Scrape", in which the Texian army, most settlers, and the new, self-proclaimed but officially unrecognized, Republic of Texas government fled eastward toward the United States ahead of the advancing Mexican Army." wikipedia.
He is listed as having died at age 33 in the book listed below.
"In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repelling two attacks, the Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian fighters withdrew into interior buildings. Occupiers unable to reach these points were slain by the Mexican cavalry as they attempted to escape. Between five and seven Texians may have surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed. Most eyewitness accounts reported between 182 and 257 Texians died, while most historians of the Alamo agree that around 600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Several noncombatants were sent to Gonzales to spread word of the Texian defeat. The news sparked both a strong rush to join the Texian army and a panic, known as "The Runaway Scrape", in which the Texian army, most settlers, and the new, self-proclaimed but officially unrecognized, Republic of Texas government fled eastward toward the United States ahead of the advancing Mexican Army." wikipedia.
He is listed as having died at age 33 in the book listed below.
Resource: www.THEALAMO.org
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robinson-12103https://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/alamo.html
Isaac Robinson, died at the Alamo 1836 Book:
The Alamo Defenders: A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and the ...
By Amelia W. Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo
Note: Heirs were awarded land bounty of 1 labor land, and 320 Acres in Bee county.
Labels: Isaac Robinson of Scotland, San Antonio, The Alamo
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Possible Connection of Clans Between Our Robinson Line and Irish Fitzpatrick Line
Nadene Goldfoot
My mother was Mildred Elizabeth Robinson before marrying my father, Morris Goldfoot. I started our family genealogy and discovered that Robinson was the 16th most popular surname in the USA. There was even a President Mary Therese Winifred Robinson nee Bourke of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, an independent woman married to Nicholas Robinson. The USA was populated first by Pastor John Robinson's flock in Holland, who he sent over on the Mayflower. There are Jewish Robinsons and Black Robinsons. I had to get my only male first cousin Robinson DNA tested. I had found out that our great grandfather Robinson was from Vermont. New England was loaded with Robinsons. Who was our ggrandfather and where did this line come from? We eventually discovered that the Y haplogroup line of our male Robinsons was first called R1b1a2a1a1b4, then changed to R-L21. We had very few dna matches showing some kind of dna relationship. What a shock after finding so many Robinsons in the past.
Recently I was contacted by the head of the Fitzpatrick clan on Family Tree DNA about my male 1st cousin Robinson. He had some interesting connections to the Fitzpatrick clan. The update is that they are sponsoring the Big Y DNA Test for my cousin to see if their theory is correct. What they are looking for is evidence leading to their own ancient clan connections. This goes way way back. So I dug out my book once again, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes, the author of THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE which tells about the original 7 women bearing 7 mitrochronial lines of us women.
An important event in the British Isles which affected their future Y dna of the population was the "Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland beginning in the 12th century." We have to go back in time much farther to discover that families were into family clans, and not villages, towns or cities then.
Egypt's history goes back at least 15,000 years. Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt was born in 1391 BCE and died at the age of 120 in 1271 BCE. I discovered that men in Ireland living in clans were there around 7,300 years ago, or about 5,300 BCE.
The clans existing in he British Isles were Oisin, Wodan, Sigurd, Eshu and Re. Our interest most likely is Oisin. Each one was started by one man, like Abraham started his presumed Y haplogroup of J1 in the Middle East, the Israelites. Oisin is pronounced as Osheen.
"The vast majority of Irish Y-chromosomes are members of just one clan, the clan of Oisin." Author Bryan Sykes gives us this name as part of his research, for clans have to have names and there is no written record of such other than stories. In Irish history Oisin was the son of the hero of another of the Irish mythical cycles, FIN mac CUMHAILL, also known as Finn mac Cool.
Almost 80% of Irish chromosomes belong to the clan of Oisin. We can divide Ireland into 4 ancient provinces and see that each has striking differences.
1. The SE part of Leinster has 73 % of Y -chromosomes in the clan of Oisin.
2. The NE part of Ulster has 81% of Oisin.
3. The SW part of Munster has 95% in Oisin.
4. The NW part of Connacht has 98% in Oisin.
Dan Bradly, researcher of the above, remembered that the Anglo-Norman invasion and occupation of Ireland in the 12th century and thinks that has a lot to do with this result. The invasion had begun in the South East where the Oisin clan was in its lowest proportion. "The Anglo Norman invasion of Ireland took place in stages during the late 12th century and led to the Anglo-Normans Kingdom of England conquering large swathes of land from the Irish. At the time, Gaelic Ireland was made up of several kingdoms, with a High King claiming lordship over the lesser kings."
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This is the quintessential Oisin Y-chromosome and huge numbers of Irish men carry it.
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This is the 1st 12 alleles of my cousin's DNA test. Though we're not a match in this sense, there are segments like the 14 and following two 12s that match that Fitzpatrick might be interested in. However, in the BIG Y test, there are dna segments that I have not seen that they are anxious to find and compare with their DNA.
My cousin's new kit is being mailed today to FTDNA for testing. In about 6 weeks we should have some results.
Today I received information from Academia's paper by Dr. Joe Flood on this same subject only going back even farther. What I can read is this:
Resource: Family Tree DNA
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts-the genetic roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes
Mike Fitzpatrick
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| Mildred Elizabeth Goldfoot nee Robinson Daughter of Frank Hugh Robinson, son of Abiathar Smith Robinson married to Julia Ann Tuller of Royalton, Windsor, Vermont. |
My mother was Mildred Elizabeth Robinson before marrying my father, Morris Goldfoot. I started our family genealogy and discovered that Robinson was the 16th most popular surname in the USA. There was even a President Mary Therese Winifred Robinson nee Bourke of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, an independent woman married to Nicholas Robinson. The USA was populated first by Pastor John Robinson's flock in Holland, who he sent over on the Mayflower. There are Jewish Robinsons and Black Robinsons. I had to get my only male first cousin Robinson DNA tested. I had found out that our great grandfather Robinson was from Vermont. New England was loaded with Robinsons. Who was our ggrandfather and where did this line come from? We eventually discovered that the Y haplogroup line of our male Robinsons was first called R1b1a2a1a1b4, then changed to R-L21. We had very few dna matches showing some kind of dna relationship. What a shock after finding so many Robinsons in the past.
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| My Robinson cousin with his wife |
Recently I was contacted by the head of the Fitzpatrick clan on Family Tree DNA about my male 1st cousin Robinson. He had some interesting connections to the Fitzpatrick clan. The update is that they are sponsoring the Big Y DNA Test for my cousin to see if their theory is correct. What they are looking for is evidence leading to their own ancient clan connections. This goes way way back. So I dug out my book once again, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes, the author of THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE which tells about the original 7 women bearing 7 mitrochronial lines of us women.
An important event in the British Isles which affected their future Y dna of the population was the "Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland beginning in the 12th century." We have to go back in time much farther to discover that families were into family clans, and not villages, towns or cities then.
Egypt's history goes back at least 15,000 years. Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt was born in 1391 BCE and died at the age of 120 in 1271 BCE. I discovered that men in Ireland living in clans were there around 7,300 years ago, or about 5,300 BCE.
The clans existing in he British Isles were Oisin, Wodan, Sigurd, Eshu and Re. Our interest most likely is Oisin. Each one was started by one man, like Abraham started his presumed Y haplogroup of J1 in the Middle East, the Israelites. Oisin is pronounced as Osheen.
"The vast majority of Irish Y-chromosomes are members of just one clan, the clan of Oisin." Author Bryan Sykes gives us this name as part of his research, for clans have to have names and there is no written record of such other than stories. In Irish history Oisin was the son of the hero of another of the Irish mythical cycles, FIN mac CUMHAILL, also known as Finn mac Cool.
1. The SE part of Leinster has 73 % of Y -chromosomes in the clan of Oisin.
2. The NE part of Ulster has 81% of Oisin.
3. The SW part of Munster has 95% in Oisin.
4. The NW part of Connacht has 98% in Oisin.
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| The invasion of Ireland by the Anglo Normans The Norman invasion was a watershed in the history of Ireland, marking the beginning of more than 800 years of direct English and, later, British involvement in Ireland. |
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This is the quintessential Oisin Y-chromosome and huge numbers of Irish men carry it.
12-21-14-11-11-14-12-12-12-13-13-29
This is the 1st 12 alleles of my cousin's DNA test. Though we're not a match in this sense, there are segments like the 14 and following two 12s that match that Fitzpatrick might be interested in. However, in the BIG Y test, there are dna segments that I have not seen that they are anxious to find and compare with their DNA.
My cousin's new kit is being mailed today to FTDNA for testing. In about 6 weeks we should have some results.
Today I received information from Academia's paper by Dr. Joe Flood on this same subject only going back even farther. What I can read is this:
The phylogenealogy of R-L21: four and a half millennia of expansion and redistribution
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts-the genetic roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes
Mike Fitzpatrick
Labels: Anglo Norman Invasion, BIG Y Test, clans, Fitzpatrick, Irish, Robinson
Sunday, December 08, 2019
Heman Durkee and Susanna Rix Lead to ancestor Stephen Hopkins of Mayflower
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| Mayflower Compact |
Stephen was not a free man then but became free later. In those days men were divided between the free who were not in debt and those who were. After Mary died, Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher on February 19, 1616/17 and had 6 more children; Oceanus, a girl, being the first along with Caleb, Deborah, Demaris, Ruth and Elizabeth.
Descendants of STEPHEN HOPKINS
1 [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS b: April 30, 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England
.. +Mary "Kent" b: Abt. 1590 m: Bef. 1604
. 2 Constance Constanta HOPKINS b: May 11, 1606 in Hursley, Hampshsire, England d: 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
..... +Nicholas Snow b: Abt. 1606 in London, Middlesex, England d: November 15, 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
. 2 Elizabeth HOPKINS
. 2 Giles HOPKINS
*2nd Wife of [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS:
.. +Elizabeth Fisher b: Abt. 1583 m: February 19, 1616/17
. 2 Oceanus HOPKINS
. 2 Caleb Hopkins
. 2 Deborah Hopkins
. 2 Demaris Hopkins
. 2 Ruth Hopkins
. 2 Elizabeth HOPKINS
Constance married Nicholas Snow. Their son, John Snow, married Mary Smalley on September 19, 1667. John was one of the first to start the town of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Their daughter, Rebecca Snow, married Benjamin Smalley in about 1694. .Eventually they moved on into Connecticut.
Rebecca Snow and Benjamin Smalley's son Joseph became a deacon in the church. He had married Jemima Ordway in about 1735 in Connecticut. Their daughter, Lucy Anna Smalley, married Timothy Lewis Durkee on May 3, 1758 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut who became a Colonel, and was our mutual ancestor and the beginning of the Durkees that ran so prominently in our family line. Their son, Col. Heman Durkee, had married Susanna Rix on September 19, 1781 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont. . They were both sons of the American Revolution of 1776. We can be proud of their service. Timothy died in 1797 in Royalton, Vermont and Heman also died in 1797 also in Royalton, Vermont if my records are correct. .
This family of Timothy Durkee suffered greatly through the burning of Royalton, Vermont by Canadian Indians who were accompanied by the British on October 16, 1780. It had just become chartered the year before in 1779. The town was in a thriving condition with cattle were still grazing in the fields. The Indians had followed the rivers and had already gone through Chelsea and Tunbridge and onto Royalton, their destination. Second son Adin, born in 1761, was captured by the Indians. He was taken to Montreal, Canada where he died on December 19, 1780.
Of all of Timothy's children, only his eldest son, Col. Heman, remained in Royalton. Harvey remained in Vermont while several removed to New York. The grandchildren spread out far and wide in the new lands. They found their ways to Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Odelltown, Canada, Iowa, and then Vermont, of course, where our great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson and wife Julia Ann Tuller lived at first. While our grandfather was Frank Hugh Robinson, Sandy's grandmother was his sister,
This is how Sandy got to Stephen Hopkins:
1. Heman Durkee/Susanna Rix
2. Lucy Smalley/Timothy Durkee
3. Joseph Smalley/Jemima Ordway
4. Rebecca Snow/Benjamin Smalley
5. John Snow/Mary Smalley
6. Constance Hopkins/Nicholas Snow
7. Stephen Hopkins/Mary Kent
The amazing fact is that when I did my student teaching at Buckman Grade School in Portland, Oregon, my senior teacher for that period was Betty Smalley. Little did we know we may have shared some genes. She was great!
Our great grandfather was Abiathar Smith Robinson born in 1829 possibly in Bennington, Vemont. His wife was Julia Ann Tuller probably also born in Royalton who connected before to the Mayflower.
Julia Ann Tuller's mother was Asinath Durkee born in 1814 in Royalton, Vermont.
Descendants of Heman Durkee, Jr.
SOME GENEALOGY OF OUR FAMILY
1 Heman Durkee, Jr. b: October 21, 1789 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: January 09, 1865 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 76
.. +Rebecca Hatch b: June 12, 1791 in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont d: June 07, 1872 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 81 m: September 15, 1813 in Vermont
. 2 [1] Lydia Durkee b: June 13, 1813 in Vermont/ Canada d: June 30, 1874 in Royalton, Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont
..... +Oliver Farman Bates b: Abt. 1810 in Dunham, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada d: 1841 in Shefford, Quebec, Canada m: December 29, 1828 in Dunham, PQ, Quebec, Canada
. *2nd Husband of [1] Lydia Durkee:
..... +Reuben George b: Abt. 1821 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont d: March 16, 1885 in Royalton, Orange, Vermont m: March 14, 1841 in Tunbridge, Vermont
. 2 Emily Durkee b: October 26, 1814 in Royalton , Vermont d: December 12, 1891 in Royalton, Vermont
..... +William Leonard b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont d: September 22, 1879 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont m: December 11, 1839 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont
. 2 Asenath Asinith Durkee b: 1814 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: 1868 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont/Rockwell, Illinois
..... +Alonzo Charles TullarTuller b: October 22, 1809 in St. Albans, Vermont (Franklin County) d: January 29, 1870 in Rockwell, LaSalle, Illinois m: July 05, 1834 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont
. 2 Heman Herman Durkee III b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont, Quebec, Canada d: February 10, 1877 in poss Vermont ?
..... +Fanny Mosher Mosier b: June 02, 1818 in Quebec, Canada d: July 22, 1893 in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont m: 1837 in prob. Quebec, Canada
And on and on. With the expert tracing of people by the Durkees in California, I've been able to add many many Durkees to my tree. Remember Durkee mayonaise and Durkee Spices?
Resource: Durkee Family Newsletter Volume Xii, #1 Spring, 1993 The Burning of Royalton
http://mayflowerhistory.com/hopkins-stephen/
https://www.familysearch.org/search/
Assistance from cousin Sandy
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=24679+stephen+hopkins
Labels: Durkee line, genealogy, Indian Attack, Mayflower, Revolutionary War, Royalton, Vermont
