Warning... the remainder of this site has pedigrees that people sent in to be published before we knew there was no William Bobbitt from Wales. Some of the pedigrees and other information were sent in before 1995. Use your very good judgement while studying these pedigrees. -- Keith Bobbitt
The Bobbitt
Family In America
researched and written by
John W. Bobbitt
Published in 1985
From: The Bobbitt Family Reunion Newsletter
"Where cousins meet cousins and become friends"
Reunion Usually In July
Pipestem Resort State Park, WV
Reservations 1-800-call WVA (1-800-225-5982)
"Re-teaching the past is three times as difficult the second time around." -- Anonymous
There are no Bobbitt (or variant spellings) immigrants from Wales in the 1600's. Any reference to a 'William Bobbitt of Wales' found in Bobbitt genealogy books is false information. The
"1500's to 1900's All Bobbitt and Variations Burial Index England and Wales" is the proof. This document lists all Bobbitts buried in England and Wales from 1500 to 1900. There are no parents of a William Bobbitt buried in Wales. We have many pedigrees posted on this site that does list a William of Wales. These pedigrees were posted before research proved otherwise. If you have pedigrees posted on the web with a William of Wales, please do what you can to help the family correct it. -- Keith Bobbitt"There are Bobbitt spelled in variations in Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Dorset, Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Salop or Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire but there is no Bobbitt family only a Bobith family buried in Wales in the 1500's to 1700's but there are Bobbitts buried in Wales in the late 1800's and 1900's." - - Marsha Berry
Also...
My William Bobbitt - Immigrant did not marry a Sturdivant. According to the Sturdivant family website, no Sturdivant ever married a Bobbitt. John W. Bobbitt's book has a Bobbitt - Sturdivant marriage. That information is wrong. John Sturdivant and Sarah Hallom had 5 sons... no daughters. This has been known for several years. Here is a link to the Sturdivant Family Web Site. -- Keith Bobbitt, July 21, 2009.
Addendum...
Not all Bobbitts have the same immigrant ancestor. Only DNA testing will sort out the different Bobbitt lines found in America and around the world.
Warning... the remainder of this site has pedigrees that people sent in to be published before we knew there was no William Bobbitt from Wales. Most of the pedigrees starting with the three sons of our immigrant ancestor are correct. Some of the pedigrees, etc. were sent in before 1995. Some of the people who sent in pedigrees are dead now. Use your very good judgement while studying these pedigrees. -- Keith Bobbitt
Other Great Resources
Calvin Kyle Bobbitt, Katheryn Beaudry, and others have accomplished and contributed much Bobbitt information to the Find A Grave website. All of us should contribute.
None of the following pedigrees have been DNA tested.
Click on a photo.
List of the Bobbitt Online Social Genealogy Sites
Related To William H. Bobbitt or Sarah Dunlap
Bobbitt Family Genealogy Forum
Bobbitt - Family History & Genealogy Message Board
America - England - Germany - France - Ireland - United Kingdom -
Canada - New Zealand - Hungary - Czech Republic - Portugal - Australia - South Africa - Indonesia -
Jamaica - Philippines - Belgium - Vietnam - Honduras -
Romania - Turks and Caicos Islands - Poland - Greece - Japan - Zambia - Mexico -
Hungary - Republic of Korea - Spain - Sweden
- Oman - Argentina. There are other countries not listed here. Bobbitts are welcome from anywhere and everywhere.
This web site started in 1983 as a BBS with tons of help from Gary Barr and
Brian Bobbitt. My name is Keith Bobbitt and everyone is welcome to
peruse this site. There are no copyright restrictions.
Bobbitt
Family Research, Genealogy, History
Marsha Berry Research has discovered Bobbitt immigrant ancestors from England.
Other researchers have discovered Bobbitt immigrant ancestors from Germany.
Immigrant Ancestors To America Who
Emigrated From France
Complete List Of Immigrant
Ancestors
New Search Engine We've Used To Find New Immigrants To America
Rootsweb Bobbitt Source
Roots Web WorldConnect
Project Global Search
This web site has grown huge over
the years.
You may search The Web or
search This Site...
Includes all 5000+ pages of this site... books, genealogy reports... everything.
For a quick review of Marsha Berry Research, search This Site, type in 'Marsha
Berry' (without the quotes).
To find John W. Bobbitt's Book, search This Site, type in 'Bobbitt
Family In America' (without the quotes).
To find an ancestor, search This Site, type in the name
for which you are searching.
To find the Bobbitt Family In Germany, England and
America, search The Web, type in 'Bobbitt family' (without the quotes).
A Global Project
Red dots
represent approximate locations... not individuals.
Not all visitors are
displayed on this feature.
There are more.
Research undertaken since March 2009
is based on the
"1500's to 1900's All Bobbitt and Variations Burial Index England and Wales"
There are several different Bobbitt genealogical lines around the world.
One of our goals is to compare DNA test
results and paper trails to help distinguish the different family lines.
Everyone's help is needed and greatly
appreciated.
Bobbitt Family Genealogists
"The Bobbitt Family In America" by John W. Bobbitt
William Bobbitt Family by Marvin P. Beatty
Bobbitt Cemetery Books by Max Lincoln Bobbitt
My Genealogy Home Page by Max Lincoln Bobbitt
Genealogy Reports by Max Lincoln Bobbitt
Martilla Bobbitt Stockton Glover by Laurie Voss Barthlow
This is the line that goes back to
Hemley, Suffolk, England.
There
are other Bobbitt lines in America and around the world.
This is the best
completely resourced material as I have seen anywhere.
Marsha Berry Research @ Rootsweb
Keith Bobbitt Line At Rootsweb
- Resource Clusters -
Chird
Bobbitt's Bobbittville Web Site
Make yourself known and share ideas with
other people who are in some way associated with the Bobbitt family. Make
yourself a cup of coffee, kick back, and get comfortable.
Two Nice Places To Explore - We need to use these more often.
Bobbitt
Family Genealogy Forum
Associated Families Researched
Bruce/Settle/Brown, Byers, Bratcher, Crabtree, Eakins, Handley, Land, May, Milliff, Rager, Young, Zuber
-- OTHER THINGS TO DO --
Interesting Emails
A quote from "The Bobbitt Family In America" by John W.
Bobbitt. "It is a project without end. Life goes on, history is made
every day. It is the task of each member of our family to correct,
preserve, restore, and make available to future generations all that is worth
knowing about our past." -- John W. Bobbitt - 1985
Please copy and save information you want from this site.
The following statements have been proven true both with paper sources and/or DNA testing. These statements are not listed in any particular order.
Not all Bobbitts in England are from the same family.
Not all Bobbitts in America are descended from the same immigrant ancestor.
There is more than one Bobbitt family line in America.
Bobbitts in America are not all from the same line.
New generations have been added to the top of one of our family trees.
New 15th (1600s) and 16th (1700s) century Bobbitt immigrant ancestors to America have been found.
Prior to 2005 and to the present day, no sources have been found that proves an immigrant named William Bobbitt came from Wales in the 1600s.
Results of Sturdivant family DNA results show no Bobbitt ever in their family.
It is verified Isham Drury Bobbitt, Junior's ancestors came from eastern England in Suffolk County.
Burial of William Bobbet and his wife Elizabeth Bobbet was on
the south side of Jones Hole Swamp, south of today's Carson, Surry County,
Virginia, which is south of Templeton, Prince George County, Virginia. They were
not buried in Ferry Chapel South of Petersburg, Bristol Parish, Prince George
County, Virginia.
Your family tree MAY NOT BE THE SAME as those you will find
on this web site.
Most Bobbitt pedigrees you find on the Internet will list a William Bobbitt from Wales. This is probably not true. There are no sources that support this.
New
Discoveries - The Bobbitt Family In Early America
--
Research
by Marsha Berry
November
20, 2007 --
THERE ARE TWO, I REPEAT, TWO
IMMIGRANTS FROM ENGLAND NAMED WILLIAM BOBBITT
December 3, 2007 -- Stop The Presses! MORE indentured
Bobbitt immigrants found by Marsha Berry. One each in 1701, 1706
Click here to read about new discoveries concerning our family in early America
This is proof there were other Bobbitt immigrant ancestors from England. We need to find the descendant lines of these other immigrants.
No Bobbitt Or Variations From Wales
1500's to 1900's ALL BOBBET AND VARIATIONS NATIONAL BURIAL INDEX ENGLAND AND WALES
Click Here To Read This File In .PDF Format
This is documentation
that proves no Bobbitt/Bobbet or variations thereof were buried in Wales
until the late1800's to 1900's.
"There are Bobbitt/Bobbet
variation spellings in Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Dorset, Essex, Kent,
Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Salop or Shropshire, Somerset,
Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire, but there is no Bobbitt/Bobbet or
variations family buried in Wales in the 1500's to 1700's, but there is a
Bobith family buried in Wales in the late 1800's to 1900's." - - Marsha Berry If William Bobbitt - The Immigrant came from Wales, certainly
his parents or some family member(s) would have been buried there. I have yet
to see any proven evidence that a William Bobbitt or variant spelling came from
Wales in the 1600's. - - Keith Bobbitt
Information we have read about for years in books and on the web
is being scrutinized and researched more closely.
Some information is true and some is false - Click
here to read about it.
Research
by Marsha and George R. Berry
Research by Dr. Amy Harris
Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Tombstones
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Lest We Forget - Historical and Informational Page of September 11, 2001
Rules to Live (Research) By
The Bobbitt Family Reunion
- West Virginia
"Where Cousins Meet Cousins and Become
Friends"
Future Reunion dates can be found in "The Bobbitt Family Reunion Newsletter"
Bobbitts Linked To Bobbet, Bobbett, Babbitt and various other spellings.
Previous to 1992 and from 1992 until
today, Bobbitt family genealogists have searched for Bobbitts in Wales to find
ancestors of our immigrant William Bobbitt "of Wales".
None have been found.
Our family has been blessed with two
authors of Bobbitt genealogy books the likes of which will probably never be
seen again. The amount of information found in the books written by Allen
Wade Mount, Sr. and John William Bobbitt is very
impressive and extremely useful to those of us trying to find and extend our family
roots. Both authors did what they could to lead us to our early ancestors.
"Trips to Wales were made and letters were written
but no
information was found on the name Bobbitt or it's variants. Glamorganshire
was the primary center of the 'cross the pond' Bobbitt research. John William
Bobbitt, his sister, and a cousin went there several years ago and met some
Bobbitts in the area." --
Newsletter Producer/Historian Julie
Bobbitt Vass.
John hired a professional
genealogist to do further research to no avail.
There is no documentation that proves William, our immigrant ancestor in America, was from Wales. More recently, Bobbitt family genealogists
have researched documents that prove William lived in another area of the
British Isles.
Marsha Berry, a Bobbitt family
genealogist, published new information on her Rootsweb site that proved
William, his father Willm, grandfather John, and great grandfather William were
christened in churches located in Suffolk, England.
Marsha and her family knew nothing about books written by
Allen Wade Mount and John W. Bobbitt. Our family history would have been
much more accurate if these authors had contacted Marsha's family prior to
publishing their books.
Pictures From The PhotosCenter
Uploaded By Bobbitt Family Members In 2005
Pictures saved from our other family web site
(Beautiful Old and New Family Photos)
Information Of Interest
The Bobbett Family In England - Bill Norman
Early 1970's Research Of The Bobbitt Family Book by John W. Bobbitt
Synopsis Of Bobbitt Family History, Early History Of The Bobbitt
Family, Letters, Sources, Excerpts From Deeds
The Northern Branch In
America - The Babbitt Family
Immigration Routes From North Carolina To Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana
Orange County, Indiana Pictures
William Bobbet, Our Southern Immigrant Ancestor Married Joanna Sturdivant?
Extensive List Of Names And Links In 'The Bobbitt Bible'
Ancestry Charts And Genealogy Reports
Most of the Parish Registers
for England have been microfilmed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. Consequently, the LDS church has become a tremendous research tool for
genealogists and the microfilm copies of Parish Registers may be ordered from
any branch Family History Library of the LDS church.
Microfilming of
Parish Registers by the LDS (Mormon) Church
It's important that the record
you find in your search is from the International Genealogical Index and that under "Messages"
the words Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the
record are present.
The word 'extracted' tells us the information
was copied from original records.
If the word 'extracted' is
absent from "Messages", it means the record was sent in by 'anyone' and
is not necessarily valid or true.
From England - The National Archives
Records of the UK government from Doomsday to the present.
"Interest in this work passes from one family member to another. Just as in the past, several members of the family had some fragments, some interesting information, some documentary proof, someone in our future will sort out, rewrite, and become the centralized depository for our Bobbitt family history." -- John W. Bobbitt
I want to thank everyone who has contributed information and photos to this and other Bobbitt Family web sites. The information you see on this site was contributed by family members interested in expanding the base of family knowledge. -- Keith Bobbitt
A Few Message Boards
Ancestry.com Bobbitt Babbitt Bobbett Bratcher Brown Bruce Byers Cook Milliff Settle Zuber
Genealogy.com Bobbitt Babbitt Bratcher Brown Bruce Byers Cook Milliff Settle Zuber
World War II
In The Service Of Our Country During WWII
American History
Virginia Colony In Colonial America by Martin Kelly
English History
We have been online in one form or another since 1983. This web site, as it exists now, was put online in January, 2001. As of April 10, 2005, all copyrights contained on our servers have been lifted. In one of our letters, John W. Bobbitt wrote there was a reason he never copyrighted his book, "The Bobbitt Family In America". He never stated what the reason was, but it's clearly apparent to my mind that if the book had been copyrighted, the growth and extension of Bobbitt Family information could have effectively been heavily curtailed. Therefore, with the same thought in mind, we have lifted all copyrights on this web site. If you find a copyright notice, you may disregard it with one exception. If you are directed to a web page that is not on our servers, you must abide by their copyright notices. Thank you.
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