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A Sailors Widow (1847)
While perusing the papers left by my English predecessor Ian Babb I came across this poem which was written upon the passing of George Babb of Bideford, Devon, England and wanted to share it with everyone. George was a returning from the West Indies and drowned on the return home. He is off the line […]
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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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Ernest Babb – From Cornwall to Galveston
Ernest Babb (a descendant of 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 the the entire city by 17 […]
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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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