How incredibly interesting. Any chance the brothers ran from France via Holland? Have seen some Dutch derivatives of names that are a little like what you are talking about. You may have a stumper there. E WilsonCyn@aol.com wrote: > > Hi. I am Cynthia Wilson from Atlanta, Ga. > Ready for this story? > I signed up for this list on a whim because of a letter I have written by my > grgrandfather Raymond Dipboye (in 1953 at age 75) in which he tries to > explain to a niece the story of the family name. He recounted it being > spelled this way as far as he could remember but an uncle had once told him > that he thought it had originally been Dubois. His story was that 3 > brothers ran from France etc. etc. > His grgrandfather Jonathan (born in 1819 VA) told his story to a biographer > in Madison Co., INdiana and I have that story. It goes that Jonathan's > grandfather was a George M Dipboye who came with 2 brothers from France prior > to the war of independence and settled in PA. George supposedly fought in the > war , was a prisoner and escaped. Jonathan's father Abraham was born there > about 1787 and married a RoseAnna Goodyear (from Germany). They had 3 > children there and then moved to VA and then on to Indiana. > Since I started my searching, I have found that it has been spelled several > ways, including Deboy, Dapboy, Dipboy, Dipberg, Dipboyle. The way my family > has always pronounced it has been Diboy (p and e silent). > I have not found any trace of George or Abraham in PA to this point , first I > can find them is in 1830 on the NewMarket VA census, spelled Abraham > Deboy. He was a plasterer by trade according to Jonathan. > When I received this letter today about the different spellings, I had my > first hope that maybe this was a tie, as we have Jesses, Jonathans, Abrahams, > etc. > Sorry for the length of this response, but sure hope this looks vaguely > familiar to someone on the list. > Thanks for your time. > Cynthia > > ==== DuBose Mailing List ==== > *********** PRUNE YOUR QUOTES! *********** > DuBose Queries: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/DuBose > Send comments about the Forum to: > Steven J. Coker, Forum Manager > P.O. Box 359, Charleston, SC 29402 > DuBose@GeoCities.com, http://www.dubose.org/