Category: Unproven Lineages: Cornwall
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The Cornwall-Devon Connection
There have been a variety of discussions over the years that pondered whether the Cornwall Babbs relate to the Devon Babbs. The idea causes joy in one direction and consternation in the other. It’s essentially age-old question of “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” A link has finally been found between Cornwall and…
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Alfred Babb of Kenora, Ontario, Canada
I was tracked down by a fellow Genealogist who had a picture of a group of men, who apparently bore some professional relationships. He had already tracked down the “Fred Babb” who is listed as Head Clerk on the Reverse of the photo. He included in his message a link to the web entry below…
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William & Grace (Halls) Babb and the Power of Color Correction
This is a simple little post with some powerful advice. I received this picture of William & Grace (Halls) Babb who are also members of DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall & Cornwall Pedigree 02. The image I received had a deep green hue, which makes it stand out. At first I believed that it was…
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Will the Real Ernest Babb Please Step Forward?
I need to post a retraction on an incorrect association I made yesterday about one Ernest Babb. The offending post has been corrected. The Photo is for a different Ernest Babb from the same tree. But the Ernest Babb pictured was born in the UK before moving to Australia. He did not come to America…
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The Early Babbs of Cornwall
As promised here is a review of the first Babb families of Cornwall, England. We see 4 early encampments pop up in the late 1500s and early 1600s in different parts of Cornwall. Each of these trees is likely the parent tree for those that came later, though at this time we cannot say this…
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Cornwall Pedigree (Gerrans-1576)
Gerrans (Cornish: Gerens) is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately seven miles (11 km) south-southeast of Truro.[1] The name Gerrans derives from Gerent, a 6th-century Cornish saint. The parish runs north-south along the eastern side of the Roseland peninsula. It is bounded to the south and east by the sea, to…
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A whole New Look at Cornwall
As I thought I had completed my work on Cornwall in preparation for the upcoming Y-DNA test results there has been a outstanding issue of where Thomas Babb (born before 1776) was born. There were about a half dozen trees remaining that I wasn’t able to unite. Talking with the Cornwall Babb family members I…
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The Rosetta Stone of Cornwall, England
As I continue to pursue connecting as many Cornwall Babbs as possible, I came across a record from the 1851 Census that demonstrates a connection between Cornwall Pedigree 02 & Cornwall Pedigree C. It isn’t an exact connection but shows that the families are related so that we know they belong together, even though the…
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Cornwall Pedigree 04 Merges into Cornwall Pedigree 02
In another move toward unification we have proven a link between Cornwall Pedigree 02 & 04. Thomas Babb (b 1791) who heads Cornwall Pedigree 04 has been proven to be the son of Thomas & Margery (Wadge) Babb. The link was made by comparing a recently uncovered Baptism record, the information left on his Census…
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Episode 2: The DNA Waiting Game Begins Anew – Cornwall Edition
A candidate has stepped forward from the recently incorporated Cornwall Pedigree E and agreed to conduct a Y-DNA test for us to help prove our conclusions are right. So, a second test kit has been ordered and will soon be steaming it’s way across the Atlantic to England. As anyone who has been following our…
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Ernest Babb – From Cornwall to Galveston
Ernest Babb (a descendant of DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall & Cornwall Pedigree 02 living in Bristol) left his family behind in England and came to Galveston several years after the deadly hurricane of 1900 and worked as a House Carpenter. There was a giant project underway in the city at this time to raise…
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Cornwall Pedigree E merges with Cornwall Pedigree 02
Having the Y-DNA test kit on its way to our DNA Candidate has caused a flurry of attention and today culminated in the merger of Cornwall Pedigree E with Cornwall Pedigree 02. It turns out that the Samuel Babb who is at the top of Pedigree E is the son of Thomas & Margery (Wadge)…
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The DNA Waiting Game Begins – Cornwall Edition
I was contacted tonight by a descendant of the line we know as Cornwall Pedigree 02. To date I have never met anyone of any Cornwall lineage that could help facilitate a Y-DNA test and I might have trouble sleeping tonight out of pure excitement. Why is that you ask? Well, we in the US…
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The Babbs of Cornwall, England
Continuing my series about the Babbs throughout England, we now come to the county of Cornwall, which is the very South West tip of England. Cornwall borders Devon, which is where the lion share of Babbs in the country originate. So, it is an important component to understand the big picture. Here we find an…
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The Document Dump
I’ve been busily at work since my return from England and am nearing the home stretch on the digitization of the collected papers of Ian Babb (pictured). There is a technique used by corporations and politicians alike to dump a large number of documents about an unsavory situation, just before the weekend in hopes that…