Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Indian Raid on Royalton, Windsor, Vermont With Bigger Implications From British Rule-and Our Ancestors, the Rix and Durkee Families
Nadene Goldfoot
I had read about the burning of Royalton from the Durkee family newsletter from the Spring of 1993 of which Bernice B. Gunderson was the editor and family researcher for the President, Robin K. Durkee. It was exciting to find we also had Durkee lines running through our veins with all that DNA, so its history was even more impressive. Now I'm finding reference to this in another form. https://www.ourherald.com/articles/royalton-raid-revisited. The burning of this town was most distressful as they were the very 1st settlers of the town that was started in 1779. There was the settlement before being chartered and the town was thriving. They had large stocks of cattle. They were attacked on October 16, 1780.
My interest today lies in the fact that Abiathar and Julia Ann, married in 1852 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont which is next door to Royalton, Windsor, Vermont, moved to Canada and were there for I don't now how long until after the Civil War when I found them in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois. My question was why would anyone move there?
Canada was luring loyalists to Canada with the promise of free land. They evidently had reason to think they could apply and get land. I have no solid proof of who Abiathar's parents were or who they were connected with. I've been making a lot of educated guesses because Vermont, in fact all of New England was bursting with Robinsons, the 16th most popular surname eventually in the USA.
The well-known heroine of the day is a young mother, Hannah Handy or Hendee, who has escaped capture but who crosses the White River to confront Lt. Houghton, to demand the return of her son. Hendee’s spunk earns her the admiration of the Mohawks, who eventually agree to hand over her son and several other children.
The Indians killed Pember and Button and took as prisoners, Joseph Kneeland, Havens, Mesers, Simeon Belknap, Giles Gibbs and Jonathan Brown with Joeph Kneeland and his aged father, Elias Curtis, John Kent and Peter Mason. They plundered every house they found. They came upon General Elias Stevens working with his oxen. He rode home halfway and saw Captain Joseph Parkhurst who told him that the Indians were by river already, so they both rode down river. when they came to the home of Deacon Daniel Rix where they rescued his wife and 3 of their children with the Deacon. Again Stevens ran into Indians and veered, coming to his father in law's home, tilly Parkhurst. General Stevens tried to get people into the woods, out of sight of the Indians. Many, driven by fear, wound up in Sharon, Vermont and at Captain E. Parkhurst's home. (I have Pember on our tree.)
The Indians had gone to the home of Deacon Daniel Rix. They took Gardner Rix, his son, a boy about 14 years old which his mother witnessed. They left another house and went up the river as far as Mr. Timothy Durkee's home where they took 2 of his boys prisoners; Adan and Andrew, and carried the former to Canada, who died there in prison. Adan Durkee died in camp at Montreal. The family of Timothy Durkee suffered through the burning of Royalton. Only the eldest son, Heman, remained in Royalton after this attack. Several had moved to New York, with the grandchildren spreading out to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Odelltown, Canada, and Iowa.
Meanwhile, a militia of some 300 armed settlers has been mustered and comes upon Lt. Houghton and his party at about 2 a.m. For Zadock Steele and other captives, these trials are only the beginning of two years of hardship. Held first at an Indian village in Canada, Steele and others are eventually sold to the British. For most of the next two years, he is held in a maximum-security prison on an island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, under conditions of extreme privation.
In August of 1782, Steele and several other prisoners stage a daring escape, which involves digging a 20-foot tunnel, and then swimming through the dangerous rapids surrounding the island. The escapees have no way of knowing the Revolutionary War is over, and all prisoners are about to be released.
Abiathar and Julia Ann named their 1st son, born in November 1852, Edward RIX Robinson. I guess they knew about the Indian raid, alright. Deacon Daniel Rix is my 5th great grandfather from Julia's side. We have a whole slew of Rix ancestors. Julia Ann Tuller's mother was Asenith Durkee, born 1814 Timothy Durkee, born May 18, 1776 was Asenith's 2nd cousin twice removed.
The Rix Family came from Connecticut before the Royalton Raid
Goodbye to Grandparents
Garner was born on July 31, 1767 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. Garner Rix grew up on the farm near his grandparents, aunts, uncles and lots of cousins. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Rebecca (Johnson) Rix. When Garner was about 12 years old his family packed up their things and moved up the Connecticut River to their new home in Royalton, Vermont. That year his older sister, Susanna, was 14. She probably was a great help to their mother in caring for the younger children: Joseph 9, Rebecca 7, Daniel 4, and Little Elisha just 2 years old. In this, the spring of 1779, their mother, Rebecca, 37, was pregnant with Jerusha.
Garner Rix was 13 years old at the time of the Royalton Raid. He was captured by the Indians in the last raid of the American Revolution. He was taken to Montreal, sold to a French Woman who kept him safe for a year until it was safe for him to walk home, by himself at age 14. When he got back home the town gave him the land that I live on. Garner Rix was my great, great, great, great-grandfather...(This is from the author I just found,
This is the 2nd article I've written about the burning of Royalton. Read my article from below's address.
Resource:
Everyday Life in Early America
by David Freeman Hawke https://wizzley.com/garner-rix-and-the-royalton-raid-1780/
http://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-soldiers-saved-our-family-in.html
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/rix/about/background
https://www.oregongenealogy.com/baker/durkee/durkee_family.htm
https://www.brpedersen.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I29332&tree=Ancestors
Labels: Asenath Durkee, Canadian land, Clark Walcott Durkee, Durkee, Loyalists, Lt. Houghton, Mohawk Indians, Orange, Pember, Revolutionaries, Rix, Robinson, Royalton, Tuller, Tunbridge, Vermont, Windsor
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Abiathar: Leads in Genealogy to First Names: leading to our Great Grandfather, Abiathar
Nadene Goldfoot
I notice that fathers like to leave a junior, so there is always a boy named after the father, or possibly even someone in the family. Abiathar is an unusual name. There are 2 others in history. I wonder if they might be related, such as a name carried on in the family. Why else? They just like it? It starts with A?
1. One of the Abiathars was married to Lucretia Strange in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts on April 4, 1838. This was after my Abiathar was born which was on December 7, 1829.
My grandfather, Frank Hugh Robinson's history, was that his ancestors came over not on the Mayflower of 1620, but the ship after that-which must have been in the 1630 fleet of ships, perhaps with Isaac Robinson, son of John Robinson, who sent the famous Pilgrims from Holland to America. John stayed in Holland with his flock. I don't think we are of this line as our Y haplogroup is a rare one, going back to the Irish-from the Irish Wales wars and settling English into Ireland or vice versa. Frank's father, of course, is Abiathar Smith Robinson. I figure his mother had to be a Smith. That's how a lot of people named their children, especially in those days, with reason. Many did care back then to recognize the family line of both parents. Frank's grandson took the DNA test which in the Big Y at FTDNA turned out to be R-FT111213. (It had started off back in less testing as R1b1a2a1a1b4., later upgraded as R-L21.
I found an Abiathar Robinson on the 1840 census of Taunton, Mass. who was 40-50 years old with a son 5 to 10 and a son 10-15 and 2 females 30 to 40 years old and a daughter under 5.
(As an aside that led to an Abiathar Robinson, a notice came up along the search of an Increase Robinson and Mehitable Williams. They were from Taunton. Ah ha! By using ancestry.com, I typed in their names and they had married on February 11, 1694 in Taunton, Bristol, MA. Increase was born in 1610 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA and died in 1738. A child left was Increase Robinson.
Increase Robinson was born March 14, 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Mass and died in 1699 in Bristol. The child left was Increase Robinson. Well, I'm proving my theory-happening with Increase. What happened to Abiathar? I was hoping that Abiathar would appear. More Children: Increase Robinson Jr, Ebenezer Robinson, Josiah Robinson, Sarah Robinson Dean, Bethia Robinson Pitts, Hannah Robinson Williams, and Abigail Robinson Forbes)
(Maybe an Abiathar came from these lines which I found in findagrave.com. The reason I'm suspicious that they may be ancestors in that they are from a port in Massachusetts that goes along with our oral history of coming over in in the fleet of 1630 and finding an Abiathar Robinson ancestor from Bristol, Mass. All I ever find is our Abiathar, and that is very rare.
I know his birthdate but have no paper evidence as to where he was born other than either Vermont or New York. He was on the 1850 census of Marshall, Illinois as A. Robinson. (There were many Robinsons in Wenona). Then he was on the 1870 census of Wenona living by his wife's brothers, the Tullers, specifically, Albert Tuller. Abiathar was on the 1880 census in Wenona and also the 1900 census of Wenona at age 70 now married a 2nd time as Julia Ann Tuller had died, and had married to Mary Jane Deffenbaugh Walters, possibly a widow next door. During the Civil War, Abiathar and Julia had gone to Canada for grant land, but returned after the war with a few more children born there.
2. The other Abiathar Robinson was married to Nancy Fisher on November 20, 1832. Again, this is after my Abiathar was born. At the best, both Abiathars could be from the same family line, sons of brothers who were all naming sons after some father or grandfather, etc. This Abiathar and Nancy married in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, the right place.
This Abiathar was born in 1789 in Foxborough and died on May 2, 1853 in Massachusetts. If he had died in New York or Vermont, that would have been a clincher, but not Mass. It has not been mentioned. My Abiathar would have been 23 years old when the Foxborough Abiathar had died. Could it be possible that after that happened my Abiathar had moved to Vermont ? Well, I guess that could have logically happened.
3. During this period of 1776 in Massachusetts, the American Revolution, I found an Abiathar Robinson as a private serving in Cowells company of Militia in our military, Portus Regiment on February 26, 1776, and in the column with him was also a Stephen Smith. The surnames are about as common as they most common surname. I would not know which Abiathar this leads to.
4. I have another Abiathar. He is on a different Robinson line going back to a Thomas in Surrey, England
in the 1500s.
1 [1] Abiather Robinson b: August 08, 1750 in Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts d: Bef. 1850 Age at death: 100 est.
. +Sybil
*2nd Wife of [1] Abiather Robinson:
. +Buelah Parsons b: February 01, 1753 in Enfield, Connecticut d: Bef. 1853 m: Abt. 1773 Age at death: 100 est. m: Abt. 1773
.... 2 Nancy Robinson b: April 19, 1774 in West Springfield, /Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts
........ +Ephraim Coe b: Abt. 1774 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts
.... 2 Lovisa Robinson b: December 20, 1775 in West Springfield, Massachusetts d: May 23, 1839 in Grafton, New York Age at death: 63
........ +John Worthington b: November 03, 1775 in Agawan, Massachusetts d: June 19, 1850 in Petersburgh, Albany, New York m: December 11, 1796 in Springfield, Massachusetts Age at death: 74 m: December 11, 1796 in Springfield, Massachusetts
.... 2 [2] Erastus Robinson, MD b: April 12, 1774 in Tolland, Connecticut/ Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: September 10, 1854 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Age at death: 80
........ +Sally Bunnel Burnwell b: Abt. 1778 in Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts m: Abt. 1798 m: Abt. 1798
.... *2nd Wife of [2] Erastus Robinson, MD:
........ +Martha Channing b: March 16, 1780 in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island d: March 01, 1844 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts m: April 23, 1809 in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut Age at death: 63 m: April 23, 1809 in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut
.... *3rd Wife of [2] Erastus Robinson, MD:
........ +Cloe Stone b: 1801 in Rhode Island m: February 13, 1845 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachuetts m: February 13, 1845 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachuetts
.... 2 Sarah Robinson b: Abt. 1779 in Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: in prob. Genesee, New York
........ +Curtis b: Abt. 1779 d: in Genesee, New York
.... 2 Ablah "Abiah" Robinson b: Abt. 1781 in Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: May 24, 1824 in Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts Age at death: 43 est.
........ +Jonathan Marsh b: September 09, 1762 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d: in Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts
Abiathar and Nancy Fisher of Seth and Rachel, Foxborough
So far I have an Abiathar Robinson and Nancy Fisher married in 1832 in Foxborough, MA and died at age 64 on May 2, 1853, reason unknown. He was born in 1789. His father was Seth Robinson and mother was Rachel.
Today, I found this: The notice went to NJ. What a surprise.
| Name: | Abiathar Robinson |
|---|---|
| Death Date: | Abt 1853 |
| Death Place: | United States |
| Publication Title: | The Belvidere Apollo |
| Publication Date: | 26 May 1853 |
| Publication Place: | Belvidere, Warren, New Jersey, United States |
Because of this find of Seth and Rachel, I have switched back to my Abiathar's father being Jacob H. Robinson of Bakersfield, Vermont instead of the Royalton, Windsor, Vermont Amos IV Robinson. Jacob's line leads to Seth and Rachel, already found on my tree years ago when I investigated the 2 Abiathars. I had not found the private in the Revolutionary Army, however. ( I guess finding a DNA match with Hyde-on Julia Ann's side of the family is expected, having nothing to do with Robinson.)
I had not added to my Seth and Rachel from Abiathar's information being just an Abiathar Robinson. My ggrandfather is listed as Abiathar Smith Robinson, and from that setup, I got to the end of the line of my genealogy with Jacob H Robinson somewhere in there but beyond view, of course.
Nancy Fisher shows up on the 1850 census of Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts. born in 1810 at age 40, but this is a married surname , husband is 10 years older than she, a oilman merchant, Walter Fisher.
Abiathar and Lucretia Strange, Taunton
Abiathar Robinson and Lucretia Strange in 1838 in Taunton, MA.
Abiathar Robinson, private in Revolutionary War of 1776. This man could be the ancestor of both.
Here, I must have been comparing, as of course there were 2 Abiathars.
Who Abiathars Married:
ABIATHAR2 ROBINSON (SETH1) was born 1794 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, and died May 02, 1853 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (1) HANNAH UNKNOWN Abt. 1803. She was born Abt. 1788 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (2) NANCY FISHER November 20, 1832 in Attleborough , Foxboro, Norfolk,Massachusetts. She was born Abt. 1799 in prob Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (3) LUCRETIA H. STRANGE July 20, 1837 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, daughter of WILLIAM STRANGE and CIVIL TRACY. She was born November 14, 1800 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, and died Bef. 1850 in prob. Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (4) LAURA ANN SMITH January 22, 1852 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, daughter of WILLIAM SEARS and SALLY SEARS. She was born Abt. 1790 in Bangor, Maine, and died in prob. Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
8/24/19 I found on Foxborough 1850 census of 16 August
Abiathar 56 b Mass with Adeline Robinson 11 b: 1839 mass and a Charlotte
Ratiford 30 b: CT. birthday doesn't fit
my 3 Abiathars.
9/1/19 Name: Abiathar
Robinson
Event Type: Death
Birth Date: abt 1839
Death Date: 2 May 1853
Death Place: Foxborough, Massachusetts
Death Age: 14
Father Name: Seth Robinson
Mother Name: Rachel Robinson
Many Robinsons have come from Bennington, and Abiathar could have been born there, too, as it's close to Royalton, where there are also many Robinsons. In fact, New England is smothered with Robinsons ! It's really been feeling like finding a needle in a haystack, and you don't even know which haystack to start with.
History is extensive about Royalton; http://royaltonvt.com/about-royalton/town-history/ Royalton was originally chartered (also known as patented) on November 23, 1769, by King George III through the Royal Lieutenant Governor of New York. The town was re-chartered by the Independent Republic of Vermont on December 20, 1781. Vermont did not become a part of the United States until March 4, 1791. Abiathar was born Dec. 1829, only 38 years later.
Royalton, Windsor, Vermont is where Julia Ann Tuller lived, and became Abiathar's wife, and Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont is where Jacob H Robinson lived and seemed to connect to my 2 DNA cousins. One is a little further away than the other to me. Abiathar had to travel quite a distance to meet up with Julia Ann Tuller of about 157 miles. Why did he travel that distance?
The town history of Bakersville began when Joseph Baker of Westborough, Massachusetts, the namesake for the village, bought 10,000 acres in 1791. Initial settlers were his son-in-law, Stephen Maynard, and his nephew Jonas Brigham, along with their families. Baker built grist and saw mills on Baker's Pond in 1794. Two years later Maynard built a tavern. In 1797, a school was established in a log cabin at the Post Road and Vermont 108. I have added 54 Brighams to my tree at various times. They all are either the wife or the husband of our Robinson ancestor. I have 5 Maynards with a male marrying a Brigham girl.
In finding it hard to let go of Royalton, Windsor, VT or even Tunbridge, Orange, VT where they married, Abiathar and Julia Ann married in 1852 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, not far away from the 1850 census where I found Julia and her family. On the 1850 census of Royalton was also a 66 year old Timothy Robinson who had a son, Jonathan 25. I figure that Abiathar was 21 in 1850, closer to Julia's age of 15. Timothy had a 16 year old daughter. Did she go to school with Julia Ann Tuller? Did they visit each other? Timothy's wife, Olivia, was 56.
I go back to My Abiathar's supposed father
Jacob H Robinson b: 1790 Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont, matching 2 2nd cousin DNA matches
John 1769 Tolland, Connecticut also connecting with a 2nd cousin DNA match
George, Reverend, 1726 Attleboro, Bristol Co, Massachusetts
Nathaniel 1691/2 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
George 1655 Rehoboth, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
George 1626 /Burton Northamptonshire, England
Francis 1595 Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England
William 1578 Sturton leSteeple, Nottinghamshire, England
John 1549/50 Romaldkirk, Yorkshire, England
Christopher 1520 England
The question is, Why didn't Abiathar Smith Robinson, our ggrandfather, name one of his children, Abiathar ?
Abiathar is a biblical name. He was the son of Abimelech, chief priest at Nob who was actually the Philistine King of Gerar who had taken Sarah away from Abraham. Evidently he wanted Sarah for his harem. Nob was a priestly city, probably situated near Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus. After the destruction of the tabernacle at Shiloh, the priests of the sons of Eli had built a high-place in Nob where they officiated. As a punishment for the assistance given to the fugitive, David, Saul slew all the priests of the place.
Abraham had a pact of friendship with Abimelech as told in Genesis 20; 21:22.
He escaped the massacre of his family by King Saul and took refuge with David who later appointed him as high priest. Abiathar remained loyal to King David during Absalom's rebellion. Abiathar supported Adonijah's claims to the succession, as against those of Solomon who subsequently banished him from Jerusalem and transferred his priestly rights to Zadok, then high priest. Zadok was a descendant of Aaron. This is found in Samuel 22: 19-23; I Kings 2.) The priests, or Cohens, were the direct ancestors of Aaron, brother of Moses of the tribe of Levi. These ancestors were named as the priests who would be later bearing the DNA of J1, called the Cohen gene.
After King Saul's death, Zadok went to King David at Hebron and together, with Abiathar,, were David's chief priests. They both remained loyal to David. and on David's command, Zadok annointed King Solomon, his son. Solomon appointed Zadok's son a high priest in the Temple and from that time on the high priesthood remained in the Zadokite family until the period of the Hasmonean rising.
Resource:
FTDNA (Family Tree DNA)
ancestry.com genealogy
Labels: Abiathar Robinson, Bristol, Foxboro, MA, Ma., Norfolk, Taunton
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Hyde Line with Queen Ann of England m KING JAMES VII OF ENGLAND Connecting to Our Robinson Line With Amos Benton and Deborah Hyde
Nadene Goldfoot
Edward Hyde was born on 18 February 1609, at Dinton, Wiltshire, sixth of nine children and third son of Henry Hyde (1563–1634) and Mary Langford (1578–1661). His siblings included Anne (1597–?), Elizabeth (1599–?), Lawrence (1600–?), Henry (1601–1627), Mary (1603–?), Sibble (1605–?), Susanna (1607–?) and Nicholas (1610–1611).[2]
His father and two of his uncles were lawyers; although Henry retired after his marriage, Nicholas Hyde became Lord Chief Justice, Lawrence was legal advisor to Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. Educated at Gillingham School, in 1622 he was admitted to Hertford College, Oxford, then known as Magdalen Hall, graduating in 1626. Originally intended for a career in the Church of England, the death of his elder brothers left him as his father's heir, and instead he entered the Middle Temple to study law.
He married twice, first in 1629 to Anne Ayliffe, who died six months later, then to Frances Aylesbury in 1634. They had six children who survived infancy: Henry (1638–1709), Laurence (1642–1711), Edward (1645–1665), James (1650–1681), Anne (1638–1671), and Frances. As mother of two queens, Anne is the best remembered, but both Henry and Laurence had significant political careers, the latter being 'an exceptionally able politician'.
The Hyde line found marrying into our Robinson line through the wife of a Robinson, a Durkee and it leads to Anne Hyde (March 22 1637- April 10, 1671) England who married King James, II, Duke of York and VII of England. They married on September 3, 1660 in London, England. Anne's father was Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP, was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667
Anne Hyde was the mother of Mary II, (April 30, 1662-December 28, 1694) Queen of England who married William III and II, King England, Scotland, Ireland and mother of Queen Anne.( February 6, 1664-1714) who married Prince George " Jørgen (Oldenburg) Fredericksen of Denmark.
Deborah Hyde (October 16, 1734- 1780), an offshoot of our Durkee line-of which our Abiathar Smith Robinson's mother in law was Asenath Durkee was Queen Anne's 1/2 3rd cousin-4 times removed. They shared the same surname but were not exactly direct relatives. Deborah Hyde is our Robinson line relative. She was married to Amos Benton Robinson (July 26, 1734-before March 16, 1812) whose great grandson was my great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson (1829-October 1904).
I have fulfilled my mother's wish to be connected to the kings and queens of England. Mildred Elizabeth Robinson would then be a 1/2 3rd cousin--9 times removed. That makes my brother David and I Anne Hyde's 1/2 3rd cousin--10 times removed.
Nigel Bruce played Sir Edward Hyde in the 1947 film The Exile, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Charles II.
In the film Cromwell, Clarendon (called only Sir Edward Hyde in the film), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the king. He finally turns against Charles I altogether when the king pretends to accept Cromwell's terms of peace but secretly and treacherously plots to raise a Catholic army against Parliament and start a second civil war. Clarendon reluctantly, but bravely, gives testimony at the king's trial which is instrumental in condemning him to death.
In the 2003 BBC TV mini-series 'Charles II: The Power and The Passion, Clarendon was played by actor Ian McDiarmid. The series portrayed Clarendon (referred to as 'Sir Edward Hyde' throughout) as acting in a paternalistic fashion towards Charles II, something the king comes to dislike. It is also intimated that he had arranged the marriage of Charles and Catherine of Braganza already knowing that she was infertile so that his granddaughters through his daughter Anne Hyde (who had married the future James II) would eventually inherit the throne of England.
In the 2004 film Stage Beauty, starring Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, Clarendon (again referred to simply as Edward Hyde) is played by Edward Fox.
In fiction, Clarendon is a minor character in An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, and he is also a recurring character in the Thomas Chaloner series of mystery novels by Susanna Gregory; both authors show him in a fairly sympathetic light.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
My own genealogy of our Robinson line
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/connecting-to-king-james-ii-and-his.html
Monday, April 05, 2021
Our Deep Ancestry Back 900 Years Connecting English Robinson to Irish Fitzpatricks
Nadene Goldfoot
Grandpa Frank Hugh Robinson said his people came from Wales, but he was just a kid of 16 when he had left home, and could have had his memories confused. He told us that his ancestors weren't on the Mayflower of 1620 but the ship after that one. Do you know who was on the next ship which could have been the fleet that came over from England in 1630? It was Isaac Robinson, son of the Preacher, John Robinson who sent all the Pilgrims over to this new country of America. John had stayed with his flock in Holland. His son came over and helped to establish Robinsons all over New England. Other Robinsons came over, too, and one of them might have been our ancestor. We need more Robinsons to test their DNA. Now I find that our deep ancestry from the Big Y test shows a connection to the Irish Fitzpatricks.
One thing I had previously discovered was that our Robinsons were Normans. Who were they? Norman, member of those Vikings, or Norsemen, who settled in northern France (or the Frankish kingdom), together with their descendants. The Normans founded the duchy of Normandy and sent out expeditions of conquest and colonization to southern Italy and Sicily and to England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
Oh my gosh, Grandpa Frank was right! In spring of 1169, a small band of Normans set sail from South Wales bound for Ireland, landing in May of that same year. This was a watershed moment in Ireland’s history, marking the beginning of direct English, then British, involvement in Irish affairs – so much so that the Norman invasion of Ireland might even be considered a deep root of Britain’s ‘Irish Problem’. Robert FitzStephen’s arrival in Ireland at Bannow on 1 May 1169 was highlighted with his burning his own boats. It was a gesture of commitment to the ensuing conquest.
From the 12th century onwards, a group of Normans (which could include our Robinson line) invaded and settled in Gaelic Ireland. These settlers later became known as Norman Irish or Hiberno-Normans. They originated mainly among Anglo-Norman from England and Cambro-Norman families in Wales, who were loyal to the Kingdom of England, and the English state supported their claims to territory in the various realms then comprising Ireland.
During the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages the Hiberno-Normans constituted a feudal aristocracy and merchant oligarchy, known as the Lordship of Ireland. In Ireland, the Normans were also closely associated with the Gregorian Reform of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Over time the descendants of the 12th-century Norman settlers spread throughout Ireland and around the world, as part of the Irish diaspora; they ceased, in most cases, to identify as Norman, Cambro-Norman or Anglo-Norman.
The dominance of the Norman Irish declined during the 17th century, after a new English Protestant elite settled in Ireland during the Tudor period. Some of the Norman Irish—often known as The Old English—had become Gaelicised by merging culturally and intermarrying with the Gaels, under the denominator of "Irish Catholic". Conversely, some Hiberno-Normans assimilated into the new English Protestant elite, as the Anglo-Irish. Our Grandpa was a protestant.
Some of the most prominent Norman families were the FitzMaurices, FitzGeralds, Burkes, Butlers and Wall family. One of the most common Irish surnames, Walsh, derives from the Normans based in Wales who arrived in Ireland as part of this group.
Fitzpatrick originated in Ireland and is unique in that it is the only native Gaelic name with the prefix Fitz. ... In the 12th century, the Normans invaded Ireland and many powerful families were forced to give up their land. The name Mac Giolla Phádraig became Anglicised to Fitzpatrick.
All other names with the prefix Fitz are of Norman origin, and in these cases the Fitz means ‘the bastard son of’.
The prolonged English Tudor conquest of Ireland lasting from 1534 to 1603 was when Henry VIII proclaimed himself King of Ireland in 1541 to facilitate the project. Ireland became a potential battleground in the wars between Catholic Counter-Reformation and Protestant Reformation Europe. Henry allowed the Fitzpatricks to keep much of their territory and in 1541, Brian Fitzpatrick was given the title Baron Upper Ossory, a position that came with a seat in the Irish House of Lords. The Fitzpatricks held their position of relative power in Ireland under the British rule for around a century, until they lost most of their territory due to their support of James II. When the dynasty was destroyed, members of the Fitzpatrick family spread across Ireland and integrated into communities all across the country.
England's attempts to either conquer or assimilate both the Hiberno-Norman lordships and the Gaelic territories into the Kingdom of Ireland provided the impetus for ongoing warfare, notable examples being the 1st Desmond Rebellion, the 2nd Desmond Rebellion and the Nine Years War. This period was marked by the Crown policies of, at first, surrender and regrant, and later, plantation, involving the arrival of thousands of English and Scottish Protestant settlers, and the displacement of both the Hiberno-Normans (or Old English as they were known by then) and the native Catholic landholders. Gaelic Ireland was finally defeated at the battle of Kinsale in 1601 which marked the collapse of the Gaelic system and the beginning of Ireland's history as part of the British Empire.
Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick has found that "This DNA evidence points to the probable Norman roots of the most documented of all Fitzpatrick septs, challenging the long held beliefs they descend from the ancient Giolla Phádraig dynasts. Alternative theories, that Ossory Fitzpatrick may have Viking or 'isolated Irish-Gael' origins are not implausible but lack evidence, since ancestors of A1488 appear neither Viking nor Irish, rather their origins are in Wales, England and Scotland. The recently uncovered clerical lineages of Mac Giolla Phádraig Osraí form part of the conversation in the article, Mac Giolla Phádraig Osraí 1384-1534 AD, Part II, it is considered certain that many A1488 Fitzpatricks descend from clerics, such as William Mac Giolla Phádraig or John MacCostigan (alias Mac Giolla Phádraig), who has close associations with Norman frontier families such as the Butlers, Purcells, and Archdekins."
The big Y test done with Family Tree DNA shows that we are connected through our Robinson family line of my mother's male line of Robinson to the Irish Fitzpatrick line. The oral history was that Grandpa family way back had come from Wales and had taken not the Mayflower to get here but the ship after that. Grandpa had run away from home at about the age of 15 because of an over-zealous father who wouldn't let him move his horse out of the pasture that the bull had invaded and this took place on a Sunday. Evidently the horse was harmed or killed. So, Grandpa Frank Hugh Robinson born in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois with a father from Royalton, Windsor, Vermont and thereabouts, all my DNA testing is due to my questions about Mom's family. Who knew that they started off someplace in Ireland? Our Y title is R-FT111213, now much longer than the R-L21 before the Big Y DNA test or the original test showing R1b1a2a1a1b4. I do believe that our ggrandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson's father had to have been Amos Robinson IV of Royalton, Vermont and mother to have been his wife, Lois Safford, also of Royalton. Due to a lack of a paper trail, I've never been sure about it. I still could be wrong. I need more Robinson DNA from other Robinson men.
Incidentally, towns and cities of South Wales-possibly our origins before Ireland:
- Cardiff (Glamorgan) - the capital of Wales. southern end
- Newport (Monmouthshire) - Wales' third-largest city.
- Swansea (Glamorgan) - Wales' city by the sea and second-largest urban center - spectacular sandy beaches.
- St Davids (Pembrokeshire) - Britain's smallest city and home to Wales' most important cathedral.
- Now here's the corker. Great grandfather Abiathar Smith Robinson b: 1829 married Julia Ann Tuller of Royalton, Vermont and was the great grandson of Amos Benton Robinson (1734) and Deborah Hyde (1734). Deborah Hyde was connected to Anne Hyde (b:1637) who married King James Ii of England in 1660.
Resource:
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/possible-connection-of-clans-between.html
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/connecting-to-king-james-ii-and-his.html
https://www.military-history.org/feature/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-norman-conquest-of-ireland.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland#:~:text=On%201%20January%201801%2C%20in,the%20Acts%20of%20Union%201800.
https://ireland-calling.com/irish-names-fitzpatrick/#:~:text=It%20originated%20in%20Ireland%20and,name%20with%20the%20prefix%20Fitz.&text=In%20the%2012th%20century%2C%20the,Ph%C3%A1draig%20became%20Anglicised%20to%20Fitzpatrick.
https://www.fitzpatrickclan.org/
Labels: Fitzpatrick, Frank Hugh Robinson, Henry VIII, Irish, Normans, Robinson
