{"id":893,"date":"2018-11-30T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/?p=893"},"modified":"2019-03-24T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T02:08:53","slug":"roblee-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Roblee Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

My great-grandmother Francelia Roblee descends from one of the “Old World” families whose actual surname is a mystery as there were so many speling variations in the New England colonies. But we are prety certain she descended from Reuben Robble who marroed Phebe Austin. For 20 years now, I have exchanged information on the Roblee families with a number of other researchers–most notably Cindy Walcott–and maintain a site for Roblee researchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No sooner had the “ink dried” on work correcting the title of Cindy Walcott’s compilation on the Descendants of Reuben Robblee and Phebe Austin\u00a0 when but Cindy decided to update the report again to correct formatting errors and a few others discovered after we had a chance to review it. It is in keeping with the general philosophy that all family histories are works in progress and need frequent, and constant revision.\u00a0 \u00a0As an example, Cindy and I exchanged updated information on one of Reuben Robblee’s descendants–my 2nd great-grandfather Norman Roblee (1815-1900), who married Henrietta Adelia Soule.<\/p>\n

A publication on the Soule family describes the birth of “Harriet” Adelia Soule (1816-1908)\u00a0and<\/strong> an unnamed twin daughter.\u00a0 \u00a0For many years I belived this simply to be a naming error by the Rev. G. T. Ridlon, author of the 1926 two-volume history of the Soule family (including descendants of Mayflower passenger George Soule). Because I had so many other mysteries in my family (still unsolved example: who were the parents of my 4th great grandfather Nathaniel Winslow, and how are we related–if at all–to the Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow?) I didn’t bother attempting to identify the twin daughter until recently.\u00a0 And then, when I did discover that Henrietta’s twin was actually named Harriet Adelia (yes, they appear to have been given identical middle names), and identified her family using online cemetery records.\u00a0 But I neglected to share this with Cindy\u00a0 (with whom I’ve shared cross-continental electronic correspondence for many years) until\u00a0 motivated to do so after reading her updated Descendants of Reuben Robblee (and wife Phebe Austin).<\/p>\n

Cindy has done a masterful job compiling\u00a0 (and sourcing) the Robblee\/Roblee story in\u00a0 five reports available on the Roblee website.\u00a0 But, as she points out:<\/p>\n

I would ask that anyone using this report not turn \u201cspeculation\u201d into \u201cfact\u201d when using the data for his or her own purposes. I welcome any questions, criticisms, confirmations, rebuttals, etc. My interest is in placing all\u00a0\u00a0 individuals in their own families, locations and historical context. I welcome documentation that would help me to turn those into fact, or establish that my guesses or estimates were wrong!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are other additions and revisions to be made in these compilations, and I’m gratefiul for the revisions Cindy has continued to make.<\/p>\n

The Descendants of Reuben Robblee and his wife Phebe Austin<\/a>\u00a0of Dutchess Co., NY, Lanesborough, MA and Granville, NY
\n<\/a>(Decenber 2018 revision, Adobe PDF – 3.27 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My great-grandmother Francelia Roblee descends from one of the “Old World” families whose actual surname is a mystery as there were so many speling variations in the New England colonies. But we are prety certain she descended from Reuben Robble who marroed Phebe Austin. For 20 years now, I have exchanged information on the Roblee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[152,151,113],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detling-family-history","category-roblee-researchers","tag-phebe-austin","tag-reuben-robblee","tag-roblee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}