Bob, I received your post to the list just fine. I have been looking for anything other that what Rose already has regarding the colonial Talby's or where they came from, but have found nothing, but I did find, by accident, that the word "talby" means a farm or town in Sweden, don't know how that information helps, but I thought that I would mention it. Louise On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:31:08 EDT Rlgjr1@aol.com writes: > It's been so long since I have been on line, that I thought I would > re-introduce myself. > > My claim to the Taulbee line is through my mother. My mother was > Dorothy > Brown, the daughter of Doloras Elim ( or Elam, no one is sure which) > and William > Edward Brown. William was 30 years to my grandmother, born in > Cumberland County > PA in 1865. My grandmother was born in Lee City, KY in 1895. > Haven't been > able to find anything else about my grandfather. My aunts say he > worked a while > in the Argentine for International Harvester so maybe I can find a > passport > record or IH may have its ancient employment records. I will have to > get around > to asking some day. > > Grandma was the daughter of Emily Bailey and John Elim. No one knows > if there > was a marriage between Emily and John Elim or not. She died before I > was born > but I remember as a small boy visiting the shack of her husband, > John (Jean?) > DuChene where the North Fork meets the Middle Fork of the Clearwater > River in > Idaho. > > Emily was the daughter of Gabriel Bailey and Paulina Taulbee. My > aunts > remember them, but they were long before my time. > > Paulina was the daughter of Jefferson Davis Taulbee and Tempy Hill. > Tempy was > the daughter of Nancy Taulbee and who knows who. Have no idea if > there was a > marriage here or not. I suspect there was not, and that would have > been more > of a problem for Nancy and Tempy then than it would be now. > > Jefferson Davis Taulbee was the son of William Ashford Taulbee and > mary > Birchfield. The rest is well known to all of us, > > William Ashford Taulbee < Samuel Taulbee < William Hitchcock > Taulbee < > Samuel < Edward etc. It is after William Hitchcock that the name > more or less > standardizes itself. There is certainly no standardization to the > way William's > name is spelled. > > > > This is the only one of my four lines I have been able to get an > extensive > handle on. My paternal grandfather dropped off the face of the > earth about > 1944 or so. Maybe space aliens took him or something. I only have a > photo of 3 > half siblings and a dog taken in the early 1940s with the children's > name on > it as a clue. I dont know much about my paternal grandmother except > she was the > daughter of George Cumberland Brady and Emma Lee. I have a picture > of Emma > about the age of 5 taken in Herfordshire England about 1875. George > was the son > of George Brady and Mary Dressback, and probably came out of the > line of > Martin Dreisbach. > > And that is really all I know about my lines. > > As for me myself, I was born at Camp Hood, Texas in 1944. I did most > of my > elementry schooling in Pasco, Washington where my father worked at > the Hanford > Nuculear Reservation. I attended college about 3 years in Mexico > City, got > tired of studying and went into the Air Force in December of 1964 > and got out in > 1973. I was sent right back to college at the Defense Language > Institues at > Indiana University and later at Monterrey, California where I > learned Russian and > French. Never did use the Russian much and remember enough to order > a beer > and get arrested. The French I learned well enough to marry a young > French > woman. We parted friends about 14 years later and my current wife, > Betty, is a RN > here in the Phoenix area. When she is at work, I still have a boss > at home in > the form of Billy, our King Charles Spaniel. > > I was a teacher in both elementary and secondary for many years then > in 2000, > I had to give that up altoghether when I developed a tumor on the > brain stem. > It is not cancer, but its location makes it just as dangerous. I > think they > finally have it under control and it will leave me alone. Anyway the > government > now says I am disabled and I am not going to argue with them as it > gives me > medical goverage through medicare years earlier than I would > otherwise be able > to get. I don't know if I will ever be able to really go back to > work. Unless > I can do it in a big way, I am hesitant to risk the loss of Social > Security > and Medicare. Still almost 5 years before I am 65. A moot point > unless I > improve a lot more than I have, but things are looking very good for > me and I am > much better than I was at this time last year. > > That's enough for now. Someone let me know if this came through the > list. My > last posting, of yesterday, did not come back to me like it is > supposed to. > > Bob > > I jsut accidently sent this from another screen name so the list > manager will > get a bounce probably from that name. Sorry > > > ==== TAULBEE Mailing List ==== > GOING AWAY FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE DAYS? > UNSUBSCRIBE FROM YOUR LISTS. > TAULBEE-L-request@rootsweb.com or TAULBEE-D-request@rootsweb.com > UNSUBSCRIBE is the command for both. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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