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Ralph L Holloway
Thanks for the post on Robertsons. It sparked my interest, particularly at
the end when you mentioned the Clan Donnachaidh, as I am supposed to have
an ancester who came from Atholl, Perth, Scotland in the 17th century, and
was indentured to a family, I believe, in Connecticut. He was a Daniel
Robinson (Robertson), and the name became later shorted to Rob(b)ins, and
he married
one Hope Potter in New Haven, Conn.
He was born 1627, near Blair Atholl, Perth, Scotland, father
Richard, mother Mary, and he married Hope Potter 10 Feb 1663 (he father
being John Potter, executed for beastiality!)
Don't know if this connects, but I wish had more to offer. Good luck,
Ralph Holloway
Angus Robinson
I subscribed to this site a few months ago. I tried to get information by
forwarding what I was told was our lineage. It supposedly dated back
to Bigod. I admit it, I don't know if this is true but I had hoped to get
some feedback either helping me or showing me where I was wrong.
Instead I received a rather sarcastic message implying I was wrong
but minus corrections. Like the comments of another researcher, I
receive several GEN-MEDIEVAL lists each week covering topics that
are of little interest to me but I am hanging in there - hoping that I
will see something or that someone in Scotland will be able to help me.
Again, I have added what I am told is our Scottish lineage. Please,
if you must criticize have the courtesy of telling me how or where I
am wrong.
Keep Looking UP. Angus Robinson an...@pla-net.net
The Robertson line supposedly dates back to Roger Bigod, Surety of Magna
Carter, June 1215, at Runnymede, Earl of Suffolk and Norfolk, 15th in line of
descent from Svelt-the-Viking. Roger was born 1150, d. 1221; mar. Isobella, the
daughter of Hameline Plantagenet.
1. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, b. 1530, Scotland, 4th Laird of Muirton; mar. abt.
1562, to ISABEL PETRIE.
Known children:
2. i. William Robertson, b. abt. 1571, Scotland.
3. ii. Thomas Robertson, b. 1592. Edinburgh, Scotland.
2. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, b. abt. 1571, Gladney and Brunton, Scotland,
d. 1629; mar. about 1571, Scotland, MARGARET MITCHELL, b. abt. 1595,
dau. of Dr. Mitchell of the O'Mitchel clan.
Known children:
i. Margaret Robertson, baptised 29 Apr. 1683, Parish of Wemyss
4. ii. William Robertson, b. Chapel of Wemyss, county Fife, 30
June 1686.
iii. Andrew Robertson.
3. THOMAS ROBERTSON, b. abt. 1592, d. 1686, Edinburgh, Scotland, bur.
in Greyfriars Church yard; mar. abt. 1620 to JEAN JEFFREY, dau. of JOHN
JEFFREY and MARGARET LLOYD. John Jeffrey and his wife were born in
Ireland. He became a judge in the Scottish courts.
Known children:
i. William Robertson, b. abt. 1621-23.
5. ii. John Robertson, b. abt. 1625, Struan, Scotland.
iii. Jeffrey Robertson, b. ca.1627, Edinburgh, Scotland,
died very young.
iv. unknown
v. unknown
vi. unknown
vii. unknown
4. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, b. Chapel of Wemyss, county Fife, 30 June
1686, Scotland; d. 16 Nov. 1745, Edinburgh, Scotland, buried in Greyfriars
Church yard; mar. 20 Oct. 1720, ELEANOR PITCAIRN, b. abt. 1690, Dreghorn,
d. 22 Nov. 1745, Scotland, dau. of David Pitcairn and Mary Anderson, of
Dreghorn, Colinton. Names of offspring need to be confirmed.
William was licensed by the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy on 14 June 171,
and for a time was minister of the church of London Wall in London. After
service
in other churchs, he transferred on 28 July 1736 to Old Greyfriars in Edinburgh
(Ref.: See Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XVI, Pacock-Robins).
Known children:
i. William Robertson, b. abt. 1721, Scotland; mar. 21 Aug.
1751, Edinburgh, Scotland, Mary Nesbit, b. abt. 1730,
Scotland, d., 11 Mar. 1802, dau. of James Nesbit and Mary
Pitcairn. Her father was one of the Ministers of old
Kirk
Parish. William was head of the University of Edinburgh
and was appointed Royal Historiographer.
ii. Robert Robertson.
iii. Mary Robertson, b. Nov. 1723, d. May 1781; mar. 17 Oct.
1751, James Symes, Minister of Alloa, and grandmother
of 1st Lord Broughan.
iv. Margaret Robertson, b. 16 Feb. 1725; mar. 15 June 1750,
Alexander Bruce.
v. David Robertson; mar.Margaret MacDonald.
vi. Elizabeth Robertson, b. 15 Oct. 1727; mar. June 1754,
Archibald Hope.
vii. Patrick Robertson, b. 6 Aug. 1729; Jeweler in Edinburgh;
unmarried.
viii. Helen Robertson.
5. JOHN ROBERTSON, b. abt. 1625, Struan, Scotland; mar. abt. 1650-56
to ELIZABETH SCOTT, dau. of David and Euphania Scott. Her father was a
French writer. John was Baillie of Edinburgh, by right of his deceased father,
Thomas Robertson. He and Elizabeth are believed to have had the following:
i. George Robertson. He may be the same Rev. George
Robertson who was appointed minister of Bristol Parish,
Henrico Co., VA after serving as chaplain aboard a
British
Man-O-War. He arrived in Virginia in 1695.
6. ii. Jeffrey Robertson, migrated to Henrico Co. abt. 1698; mar.
Elizabeth Bowman.
iii. Thomas Robertson. No information available.
iv. William Robertson. He may may the be same man who
migrated to the colonies in the early 1700's and helped
establish Williams and Mary College in Williamsburg, VA.
v. Nicholas Robertson, believed to have migrated to the
colonies.
vi. Nathan Robertson. No information available.
6. JEFFREY ROBERTSON, b. abt. 1660, Scotland, d. 1734, Henrico
Co., VA.; m. abt. 1700, ELIZABETH BOWMAN, b. ca.1670, dau. of John
and Elizabeth Bowman. Elizabeth remarried a neighbor named Hugh Bragg who
died about a year after the second marriage.
Children:
i. William Robertson, Sr., b. abt. 1700, Henrico Co., VA.,
d.
June 1764, Chesterfield Co., VA (Chesterfield Co., W.B.
1,
p. 437) ; m. Mary Bragg, dau. of Hugh Bragg. William
was executor of his father's estate of Jeffrey and after
the
death of his wife's father Bragg appointed him to handle
that
portion of the estate left by to his mother by Jeffrey.
ii. Richard Robertson, b. abt. 1703, Henrico Co., VA. He may
be the same Richard who died in Mecklenburg Co. in 1775.
iii. Anne Robertson, b. abt. 1704, Henrico Co.; m. John
Hudson (Hutson?) (Chesterfield Co., VA W.B. # 4, p. 14).
iv. Thomas Robertson, b. abt. 1706, Henrico Co., VA, d. Oct.
1795, Franklin Co., VA; m. Jane Magdaline LaGrand, b.
abt.
1710. (Chesterfield Co., VA, W.B. # 1, p. 128).
v. Jeffrey Robertson "II", b. 1709, Henrico Co., VA, d. 1784
(Chesterfield Co., VA W.B. # 3, p. 519); mar. Judith
Tanner Mills, widow of Capt. Mills.
vi. George Robertson, b. abt. 1712, Henrico Co., VA., d.
1783 (Chesterfield Co., W.B. # 3, p. 394); m. Jane
Gates,
dau. of James Gates and Rebecca Forrest.
vii. Martha Robertson, b. abt. 1718, Henrico Co., VA. She
was underage when her father died. No further
information.
viii. John Robertson, b. abt. 1722, Henrico Co., VA.; mar.
Sarah
___?____. His eldest brother, William, was appointed
guardian
because John was underage at the time of his father's
death.
Reference sources: ????????
BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND
BURKES GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DORMANT, ABEYANT,
FORFEITED AND EXTINCT PEERAGES OF THE BRITISH ISLES,
pp. 297-298 (lineage of the John Jeffrey line).
BURKES ROYAL FAMILIES, Vol. 2
DOUGLAS OF GLENBERVIE, pp. 413-414; "BLG" (1939) p. 2492.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF SCOTLAND, Vol. XVI, Pacock - Robins (Lineage
of William Robertson.
HENRY FAMILY RECORDS.
ROBERTSON FAMILY RECORDS, by J. Montgomery Seaver, 1928.
THE ROYAL LINEAGES OF 500 IMMIGRANTS, p. 109.
AMERICANS OF ROYAL DESCENT, pp. 9-10.
FASTI, Vol. 1.
SILENCES THAT SPEAK, by William Pitcairn Anderson.
GREYFRIARS CHURCH, tombstone inscriptions.
CLAN DONNACHAIDH MUSEUM, Briar Falls, Perthshire.
Some birth/marriage/death records from Edinburgh Registry.
THE GENEALOGY BOOK OF THE CLAN DONNACHAIDH, by Seumas MacThomas,
Hereditary Seanchaidh of the Robertsons of Riemore,
257 Chapel Hills,
Boone, North Caroline 28607, U.S.A.
William Addams Reitwiesner
Angus Robinson <an...@THOR.PLA-NET.NET> wrote:
>I subscribed to this site a few months ago. I tried to get information by
>forwarding what I was told was our lineage. It supposedly dated back
>to Bigod. I admit it, I don't know if this is true but I had hoped to get
>some feedback either helping me or showing me where I was wrong.
>Instead I received a rather sarcastic message implying I was wrong
>but minus corrections. Like the comments of another researcher, I
>receive several GEN-MEDIEVAL lists each week covering topics that
>are of little interest to me but I am hanging in there - hoping that I
>will see something or that someone in Scotland will be able to help me.
>Again, I have added what I am told is our Scottish lineage. Please,
>if you must criticize have the courtesy of telling me how or where I
>am wrong.
>Keep Looking UP. Angus Robinson an...@pla-net.net
>
>The Robertson line supposedly dates back to Roger Bigod, Surety of Magna
>Carter, June 1215, at Runnymede, Earl of Suffolk and Norfolk, 15th in line of
>descent from Svelt-the-Viking. Roger was born 1150, d. 1221; mar. Isobella, the
>daughter of Hameline Plantagenet.
>
>1. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, b. 1530, Scotland, 4th Laird of Muirton; mar. abt.
>1562, to ISABEL PETRIE.
>Known children:
> 2. i. William Robertson, b. abt. 1571, Scotland.
> 3. ii. Thomas Robertson, b. 1592. Edinburgh, Scotland.
If the line in Douglas's *Baronage*, vol. i, pages 413 and 407 is
correct, this William Robertson, 4th of Muirton, was a great-great-
grandson of Alexander Robertson and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and granddaughter of Joan Beaufort,
Queen of Scotland. From there to Roger Bigod is easy to trace.
William Addams Reitwiesner
wr...@erols.com