>Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:54:52 -0400 >From: [email protected] (Lynda McGinnis) >Subject: Re: Soundex >... >Hi Jim [Fortier], > Yes, I did a cursory check thru census and other easily accessed >records of NJ looking for early Robblee's but found none. Actually, I >was looking for the James Roblyer who's supposedly the father of Andrew >Roblyer who's the founder of the Raplee family of western NY state. >Unfortunately, I didn't find any records of him either. There were >Rapalje's there but, I didn't find any sons >named James, Andrew or William. I would very much like to know where the >original information came regarding this James Roblyer/Raplee of NJ. > You and I had discussed this idea of the "sound" of >Robblee/Roblyer/Rapalje >last year and I still agree that, with a mixture of english, french, >dutch and german accents, these names could easily be pronounced and thus >spelled the same or mixed. Of course, we've also found records of later >Robley's coming directly from Brittain so, I think the founding name of >our early families could still be either Rapalje or Roblyer. If Roblyer >was an english name, it makes sense that the town clerk in the english >settlement of Huntington could have used that spelling for the french >name of Rapelje or Robbliard. Of couse, William and >Andrew are more english and don't really appear in the Rapelje family. >Is there a dutch/french equivalent to these? > Does anyone know where the name "Katurah" comes from? William >Robblee of Lanesboro m Katurah "Catherine" Baker and they had a dau also >named Katurah who >was called Catherine in some records. Could Katurah be dutch for >Catherine? > Just my thoughts :-) >Lynda >