Happy 233rd Birthday America!

 

From:  The Bobbitt Family Reunion Newsletter

           

"Where cousins meet cousins and become friends"

Reunion  July 24 - 26, 2009

Pipestem Resort State Park, WV

Reservations  1-800-call WVA   (1-800-225-5982)

 

 

Bobbitt Family Research, Genealogy, History

Marsha Berry is now researching the time period of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and others.

These gentlemen were achieving their distinctions at approximately the same time William Bobbet was living in Suffolk, England.

William Bobbet born about 1558 in Suffolk, England.  Death after 14 June 1582 when his Will was written in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England.


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Marsha Berry Research presently searching for ancestors of William Bobbet, Suffolk, England 1558 - 1582


 

 

"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

 

Bobbitt Family Research, Genealogy, History

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.

If you are researching your Bobbitt family, you are welcome to share your information at one of the myfamily.com sites.

The Bobbitt Family In America And The World
There are many Bobbitt ancestral lines throughout the world and in America.  There are several Bobbitt ancestral lines in England.  There are Bobbitt immigrants in America from Germany and France.  One Bobbitt ancestral line is DNA tested, paper proven, and sourced from 16th Century Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England.  The other Bobbitt lines are not known at this time.  They will only be found through DNA testing and comparing paper trails from many different Bobbitts.


 Suffolk, England research  by Marsha Berry.

Updated July 2, 2009

 Eileen Sears and Nanette Averett, students of Dr. Amy Harris are presently researching the 1500's in and around Suffolk, England for the ancestors of William Bobbet.  William has been proven with documented sources and DNA test results.

Click here to see the research.

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).

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Bobbitt Family Pictures      Bobbitt DNA Project     Bobbitt Family Research    

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A Global Project

 Locations of visitors to this page
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"

The index can be found at this link and at findmypast.com

 

There are several different Bobbitt genealogical lines around the world.

The Suffolk, England Bobbitt Line

The Somerset, England Bobbitt Line

Our goal is to compare DNA test results and paper trails to help distinguish the different family lines. 

Everyone's help is needed and greatly appreciated.  If you have information about these lines, please contact us...

Bobbitt Family Research

Read more about the DNA project

Participate in discussions about the DNA project

 

Bobbitt Family Genealogists

Marsha Berry's Genealogy Reports, Sources, Maps, Pictures, Research

"The Bobbitt Family In America" by John W. Bobbitt

"Our Bobbitt Family" by Allen Wade Mount, Sr.
 Produced by Joseph Rosser Bobbitt, III

William Bobbitt Family by Marvin P. Beatty

Bobbitt Cemetery Books  by Max Lincoln Bobbitt

My Genealogy Home Page by Max Lincoln Bobbitt

Max Lincoln Bobbitt Picture Album

Genealogy Reports by Max Lincoln Bobbitt

Martilla Bobbitt Stockton Glover by Laurie Voss Barthlow

 

This is the line that goes back to Grundisburgh, 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

This is my small branch of the family.  You can compare Marsha's research with my research.
Marsha's line is John (of Chowan) Bobbitt.  My line is William Bobbitt, Jr.

Keith Bobbitt Branch Of The Family @ Rootsweb

 

- Resource Clusters -

The following sites are interactive and interconnected

Ask questions, make comments, add your branch, make corrections, upload photos, invite family, share research.

 GO TO THESE WEB SITES AND REQUEST FREE MEMBERSHIP

     Bobbitt Family Pictures And Music Files   

Bobbitt DNA Project   

Bobbitt Family Research

 

ALL SITES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO BOBBITT AND ASSOCIATED FAMILY MEMBERS

These sites are all interconnected and linked together.  You only need one ID and password.

 

More Bobbitt Clusters

Chird Bobbitt's Bobbittville Web Site

Calvin Kyle Bobbitt's new web site

William H. Bobbitt or Sarah Dunlap

 

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

Bobbitt - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

 

First Five Generations Of The Grundisburgh Branch Of The Family
There are other branches of the Bobbitt family.

 

The Bobbitt Family - Research By Members Of The Bobbitt Family
 

 

Individual Associated Families Researched

 Bobbitt,     Bruce/Settle/Brown,    Byers,    Bratcher,     Crabtree,     Eakins,    Handley,     Land,    May,     Milliff,    Rager,    Young,    Zuber

 

The fastest way to find a name or short phrase.  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'.
To find John W. Bobbitt's Book, search This Site, type in 'Bobbitt Family In America'.
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'.
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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. 

 

Off Site Links On Rootsweb Free Pages - Please Bookmark These Links For Future Reference

Bobbitt Family DNA Project

Marsha Berry Research

"The Bobbitt Family In America" by John William Bobbitt

 

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 

 

Bobbitt Family DNA Project

If you would like to actively participate in today's Bobbitt family genealogy, this is the way to do it.  DNA will advance our knowledge of all Bobbitt family genealogy lines.  We are working through Family Tree DNA and The British Isles 2 project because we get a discount on the price of each test.  Surnames in The British Isles 2 project includes those in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.  All monies are for lab expenses.  No one connected with this web site receives any money.  We just want your numbers to compare with other Bobbitt participants.

Preview Pages Of The Bobbitt DNA Project at this web site

 

New Discoveries - The Bobbitt Family In England
-- Research by Marsha Berry

"Groundishbroughe in the Countie of Suff and the dioces of Norwiche"
Name:  William Bobbet or Bobbett
Birth: ABT 1558 in Suffolk, England
Will:  14 June 1582
Will Probated:  4 August 1582
Probated by Katheryn Bobbett (wife) and John Lynnden on 4 August 1582.
Transcription by Dr. Amy Harris received July 12, 2006 from Marsha Berry
Original Will can be found at the Family History Library - Microfilm 94910
Death: Between 14 - 24 June 1582 in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England
Burial: 24 June 1582 Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England

Research of the above information and more can be found at the following links.

Click here to read 'Continuing Research Page 1' -- Research performed in 2006

Click here to read 'Continuing Research Page 2' -- Research performed in 2007

Click here to read 'Continuing Research Page 3' -- Research performed in 2007 and 2008

At the time these pages were being set up and published, research results were coming in rather profusely.  I wanted everyone to see exactly what was being done, who was doing it, when it was happening, and of course, what information was being discovered.

 

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

Maps

 

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

 

ROOTS CENTRAL     http://rootstelevision.com/     Tons of Videos

General Topics About Genealogy... Very good sound and picture quality.

 

Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Tombstones

 

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Lest We Forget - Historical and Informational Page of September 11, 2001

 

 Genealogy News

Genealogy Standards      

Rules to Live (Research) By 

 

The Bobbitt Family Reunion - West Virginia

Pipestem Resort State Park

"Where Cousins Meet Cousins and Become Friends"

Future Reunion dates can be found in "The Bobbitt Family Reunion Newsletter"

Click here to see an old Reunion Photo - Date: August 14-15, 1954.  Place: Camp Caesar, Webster County, WV

 

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.

Scroll down the page to find links to Marsha's research.

 

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

Read These Two Books Online

Babbitt Genealogy by William Bradford Browne

The Babbitt Family History by William Bradford Browne

 

Immigration Routes From North Carolina To Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana

North Carolina Routes

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

  

Family Search

Microfilming of Parish Registers by the LDS (Mormon) Church

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.

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.

 

Library of Virginia

This link will not work.  You must go to Google, type in 'Library of Virginia' and enter their site.
 

Video Clips

Genealogy in a Granite Mountain

 

Find A Grave

 

 

 

Family

Pics


This is my son who has been so very helpful teaching me computeristics (how to do this and how to do that).  Thank you son.

Family

Pics

 

 

The Bobbitt Family In Orange County, Indiana    

Cousin Connect Queries

Rootsweb WorldConnect Search

Jefferson - Bobbitt Bible

 

"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 

 

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World War II

In The  Service Of Our Country During WWII

 

American History

Virginia Colony In Colonial America    by  Martin Kelly

 

English History

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 The nearest city is Evansville.   The county is Vanderburgh.  The state is Indiana.  Colleges and universities.  Located geographically about 175 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Indiana.  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.

This web site is being designed for basic high speed internet connections.

    

 

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