>Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:20:56 -0700 >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win16; U) >To: [email protected] >Subject: Families >Sender: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'LEAVE' to <[email protected]> > >Dear William [A. Roblee], > Welcome to our email discussion group. It seems that you are >searching for the same ancestors of Calvin Roblee that are also being >persued by Phil Roblee and Rebecca S. Roblee. As a branch of the family >that I hadn't seen until Phil sent me his family history, it will be >interesting to find the ancestors of this particular group. > Other names that were in your letter that I recognize were those >of Fran Robblee Martin and Ernest Robblee of Jamestown, Ny. These two >had been in personal contact in Az. at some point, I believe. Fran >traces her lineage to a common source in Nova Scotia as does Ernest. He >is one of those whose name has changed in the way most of us have seen >already which is the dropping of one b in the spelling. > Ernest's father was Leroy Chester Robblee, son of John Harris >Robblee of Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. John was the son >of John Robblee, married Eliza Olevia Harris, son of Thomas Robblee, >married Hannah Delap. Thomas was the son of John Robblee, married >Susannah Baker, adopted by his uncle Thomas Robblee, married Mary Allen. >[1765 in NY. USA] Fran's family descends from John Robblee's, married >Eliza Olevia Harris, younger brother, Harris. > Both John and Thomas were Loyalists who left Ny City after the end >of the American War of Independence in 1783. > The last address I have for Ernest is Prosser Hill Rd, Box 298, RFD >#5, Jamestown, NY. 14701 and I list a Katherine as one of his sisters. >The story about Robblee land being expropriated for the rebuild of the >Habitation in 1937 is correct and I can list most of the rest of the >family. I would also like to update the descendents of the rest of his >branch of the family.... >Bob Robblee >