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Title: Genealogy of the Roberdeau family : including a biography of General Daniel Roberdeau, of the revolutionary army, and the Continental Congress; and signer of the Articles of Confederation
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Buchanan, Roberdeau, 1839-1916
Subjects: Roberdeau family Roberdeau, Daniel, 1727-1795 Cunyngham family
Publisher: Washington : J. L. Pearson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e of the BritishWest Indies, in 1685. Here he married Mary Cunyng-ham, of that place, the descendant of an ancient andnoble Scotch family. She, after her husbands death,came to Philadelphia with her children, and is the pro-genitor of all of these two families in this country. x\s our knowledge of the Roberdeau family beginswhere that of the Cunyngham ends, the chronology andconnection between the two will be better preserved byconsidering the latter family first: THE FAMILY OF CUNYNGHAM. This family, in Scotland, first came into notice in theyear 1057, by its progenitor having conferred upon himthe old Saxon title of nobility, that of Thane of Cunyng-ham ; and the family thereafter continued to maintain ahigh social position, as^Viay be seen from their marriageconnections. The annexed chart, or tree of the fiimily, will assistthe reader in understanding the lines of descent of theCunyngham and Roberdeau families, and also give aclear view of the several branches of the latter fiimily
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GENBj^lLOGY ROBERDEAU FAMILY. JPABT I.—mSTOMICAL. The family of Robekdeau, in this country is otFi-enchorigin, the first of whom we know of, being Isaac Rob-erdeau, a Huguenot, who fled from Rochelle, France, onthe revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and took refugeon the Island of St. Cliristophers, one of the BritishWest Indies, in 1685. Here he married Mary Cunyng-ham, of that place, the descendant of an ancient andnoble Scotch family. She, after her husbands death,came to Philadelphia with her children, and is the pro-genitor of all of these two families in this country. As our knowledge of the Roberdeau family beginswhere that of the Cunyngham ends, the chronology andconnection between the two will be better preserved byconsidering the latter family first: THE FAMILY OF CUNYNGHAM. This family, in Scotland, first came into notice in theyear 1057, by its progenitor having conferred upon himthe old Saxon title of nobility, that of Thane of Cunyng-ham ; and the family thereafter con

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