User:Margrood

I am interested in the Robe family of Virginia and West Virginia, and would like to hear from researchers in Monongalia and Marion Counties. I have found to date over 6,000 descendants of my 3rd great-grandfather William Robe. A Y-chromosome DNA test in 2005 found that my father and brother are related to a James Robb who lived in Fayette County, Kentucky ca. 1795-1800 and Knox County, Indiana after 1800. I am always looking for information about Robbs and Robes along the Monongahela River between Morgantown, W. Va. and Pittsburgh, Pa. and the Ohio River westward between Ohio and Kentucky.

In West Virginia I am looking at the Stewart family (descendants of John Stewart and Mary Robe). These surnames include Stewart, Cordray, Arnett, and Hall.

The Pennsylvania counties bordering the Monongahela River of Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland, Washington and Allegheny are also "hot spots" for my research. Here my surnames are Robe/Robb, Frame, Thompson, and Downard, from the 1700s to about 1840.

The Ohio counties of Adams, Brown and Guernsey are also places I research regarding the Robb/Robe family. Descendants of this Robe family also settled in Delaware County, Indiana, Crawford County, Illinois, and Henry County, Missouri.

Migration from the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania down the "Old Grey Trail" into southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee took some of my Scots-Irish and Pennsylvania "Dutch" families westward in the late 1700s. These surnames are Walker, Shields, Weir, and others.

On my mother's side I am descended from Germans who came to Wisconsin from Prussia in the mid-nineteenth century.