His line has sometimes got tangled up with that of George Robbins. while William Robbins was a soldier in King Phillips’ War who stayed on and lived in Reading, Massachusetts until 1691. He later was one of the first settlers of Walpole. Dana Robbins’ 1949 book History of the Robbins ...
Two years later Arnold secured a position at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia and immigrated to the United States. His father Arthur, who was a very patriotic man and loved Germany greatly, was reluctant to leave Europe. It wasn’t until 1938 that he finally gave up hope of ...
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In many cases these are contiguous or at least very close to each other, and this is taken to indicate that the surname has a single core. If this is not the case, the surname may either have more than one core or a dispersed distribution. The district with the maximum LQ (MLQ) can...
Found in:Derry, Galway, Kerry widespread, Origin:Gaelic Very old name. O’Connor Variant:O’Conor, Conner, Connor In Irish:Ó Conchobhair, Found in:Clare, Cork, Kerry, Offaly, Roscommon, widespread. Origin:Gaelic Means “hero or champion”; descendents of King Conchobhair of Connacht....
such asMolyneux, which is found in Kerry, andDevereux, which in Wexford, where it is common, is pronounced Devericks. In other cases the link is not quite as clear, so that the nameTobin, which isToíbínin Irish, is a mispronunciation of “de St. Aubyn”, which is obviously French....
Phelim O’Neill of Clanaboy, who arrived in France in the early 1700’s, was a cavalry officer who fought with the Irish Brigade of the French army. There then followed the most notable of the O’Neill departures from Ireland, that of Shane O’Neill, the head of the Clanaboy clan,...
Abraham Cumberbatch owned sugar plantations in St. Peter’s parish and elsewhere in Barbados. That parish became the origin of the Cumberbatch name in Barbados. After 1834 the slaves, previously the property of white Cumberbatch families, were freed and many took that surname. By that time, ...
Early Cochranes.It was thought that the ancestry of this family began with a Viking warrior who settled in Renfrewshire between the eighth and tenth centuries. The name was of territorial origin and the Cochranes took the name of the lands in the ancient barony of Cochrane. ...