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    1. Sarah Jane Price Robblee
    2. Debby Bulmer-Raby
    3. Here is a section from a letter dated April 14, 1977 to Julia Duke (grand-daughter of Sarah Jane Price Robblee- parents were Hannah Belle Robblee and John W. Duke) from her 1st cousin Hazel Redmond Miller (grand-daughter of Sarah Jane Price Robblee - her parents were John Redmond and May Robblee ...Hannah Belle and May were sisters.) "...I was glad to learn that our grandfather's real name was Johnathan, I had only heard the name John used. He was born in Prince Edward Island off of the Canadian East Coast. Grandma's name was Sarah Price. I'm not sure where she was born. I know that my mother was born in Buctouche, New Brunswick and they later moved to Moncton. Our grandfather was a railway worker but not sure what, I think he was an inspector on cars. Helen ( Hazel's sister) heard that originally the Robblees were French Huguenots and driven from France during the religious war and went to England. Mama said some of her relatives were from Devonshire and some from Lankershire (sp?). She said there were Lords and Ladies and her uncle and his oldest son went to England to claim a fortune and were drowned on the way over and another fortune was tied up in the state of Virginia that was on grandma's side. Our grandfather and Uncle George at one time planned to try to get to England but all the papers were lost.....I don't believe that our own grandmother came from Virginia. There was some connection, her grandmother Sarah Hanks was a sister of Nancy Hanks that was Abraham Lincoln's mother. There was some relationship with Mathew Cushing who was suppose to have been one of the passengers that came over in that early ship called the Mayflower and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. There is a Mathew & Jane Cushing, descende! nts living there now and Helen corresponds with her. I don't remember that mother ever spoke of any relatives on her father's side of the family. She left Canada when she was 16 to learn to be a dressmaker and went to live with someone in Boston and met my father at the boarding house where she lived...." Debby

    08/13/2006 11:40:43