I am a direct descendant of John Paine from Elyngham, Magna England, about 1464. I have a good line from that time on to now. This is truly an exciting heritage. My descendants have used the names Payn, Pain, Pane, Paine, Payne, sometimes, differently within the same family while living in the same community so that they, I suppose, could be distinguished from their brothers, cousins, aunts, sisters, or uncles. It was common for the children to carry the same first names of their forebarers. So there were many Stephan's, Elizabeth's, Thomas's, Nathaniel's etc. who were related, living in the same small villages.
I am also a direct descendant of James Rosebrook & Margaret McCoy, married on April 6, 1736 in Grafton MA. I am looking for any information about relatives of James and Margaret.
Further information on the Rosebrook/Rosbrook name came to me in a book written & complied by Marion Rosebrooks Emmons of Connecticut. The last date in her book was in 1974.
Marion began her work on the genealogy of the descendants of James and Margaret McCoy Rosebrook. This book is called “Descendants of Walter Lyman Rosebrooks 1807-1974.
*James Rosebrook was the great grandfather of Walter Lyman Rosebrook b. Oct. 27, 1872, Mansfield CT, mar. June 7, 1893 to Edith Barrows Gardiner (Birth Certificate Gardner).
According to Marion’s book: “Most of the family in North America with the surname Rosebrugh, Rosebrooks and other spellings of the name came from the British Isles. About 1610 some of the family moved from Scotland to north of Ireland. The family on Ulster Plantation crossed the Atlantic and were known as the Ulster Scots.”
“Before the migration to Ireland family appeared to have lived in Ayrshire and possibly Renfrewshire and perhaps earlier in valley of Tweed and Treviot.”
“The letter “s” was not used in Scotland and so must have been adopted after the family moved to Ireland.”
“In Scotland, Roxburgh, the original form of the name, is almost the only one found in modern times.”
“There is a Roseborough farm at Warenford in Northumberland County. It is not known when Roxbrugh or Roxburgh was changed to Rossborough, Rosbrugh and other variations.”
“Some of the first members of the Rosbrugh family to come to the American colonies were William, John and their sister Sarah. They came from Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. They arrived between 1735 and 1740. Their father was John Rosbrough. The family lived in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. One record gives a brother, Rev, James who settled in Augusta Co., Virginia and later moved to North Carolina.”
“Some of the family settled later in Canada. John, the eldest son of William of the first generation settled in Township of West Flamborough, near where Hamilton, Canada is today. Many in the family served in the French and Indian War; Revolutionary War; Union and Confederate Armies; War of 1812; World Wars 1 and 2 and other conflicts. Some today are serving their country.”
“The surname Rosebrooks has been spelled many ways down through the years. Rosbrough, Rosborough, Rosbrugh, Rosbrook, Rosebrooks, Rosebrook, Roseborough, Rosebrugh, RoseBrooks, Rosebroock, Resbrook, Resbrooks, and many other deviations.”
James Rosbrugh/Rosbrook/Rosborough mar. Margaret McCoy on April 6, 1736. He was in the French and Indian war, Capt. Whipple Co. He died in 1759 leaving nine children. The lived area of Grafton, Mass.” NOTE* JOHN ROSBROUGH BORN 1721; d. Jan. 02, 1977, SECOND BATTLE OF TRENTON, DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DESCENDANT OF THOMAS ROSBROUGH b. Abt 1612
*Our records show that James (mar. Margaret McCoy 1736) surname was Rosebrook. This book also shows that the name Rosebrooks was changed to that after 1837 by the second wife of Walter Lyman Rosebrook, Betsey Torrey b. Aug. 4, 1812.
I am also researching the following surnames; Fitzsimmons, LaGrange, Moir, Ransford, Northup.
All from Northeast USA & Canada.
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