Robyn (Conrad) Adair
Honor Code SignatorySigned 8 Feb 2014 | 11,158 contributions | 260 thank-yous | 1,386 connections
Signed 8 Feb 2014 | 11,158 contributions | 260 thank-yous | 1,386 connections
I move around a bit when working on my family's genealogy and don't always stay in one area for overly long periods of time. I'm interested in Colonial Northampton Co, VA - the Tilney-Floyd-Dixon lines, and I'm especially looking for colonial record-proof of Samuel Floyd's marriage to Susan Dixon. I have recently been working on my husband's Adair lines still looking for the origin of William Adair of Wilkes Co, GA. His YDNA has not led to any ancestors we don't already know. On my father's side, I'm always deep in Norwegian ancestry and usually join the Nordic Noirs for the ConnectAThons.
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Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert Conrad
and Adeline Williams
[children unknown]
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Biography
Descendant of John Fisher, a Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair participated with Nordic Noir during the 2022 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 5 previously unsourced profiles.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair competed with the
Charming Chestnuts in the 2023 WikiGames.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair Won Team Gold in the Cross-Country Connecting in the 2023 WikiGames.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair participated with Nordic Noir during the 2023 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 15 previously unsourced profiles.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair participated with The Nordic Noir during the Jan 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 25 connections.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair participated with The Nordic Noir during the Apr 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 21 connections.
Robyn (Conrad) Adair participated with The Nordic Noir during the Jul 2024 Connect-a-Thon, and added 27 connections.
- I work on both my own lines as well as my husband's, so look at his lines also. I was named for both my father Capt Robert Conrad and my mother's 1st husband, Maj Lofton Henderson.
- On my mother's side, the lines go back to Jamestowne, Virginia and John Fisher. In her maternal lines some of the names are Fisher, Floyd, Blackshear, Hamilton, Hazzard, Thweatt, Matthews, Collins, Fendin and Waight. On her paternal side the names are Williams, Duggar, Harvey, Goff, Eltonhead, Thacker and Elkins.
- John Fisher is a Gateway Ancestor from Maidstone, Kent and answered the 1619 Visitation of Kent at age 16. By 1624 he was in Virginia and answered the 1624 /5 muster. He came to the New World with his cousin William Epes to manage Epes' holdings for him. His lines through his mother, Benetta Dering, go back to Edward III et al, including direct connections to 15 of the possible 17 lines to Magna Carta Barons. He's a 1st cousin to the remaining two. He also descends from King John, and 8 of his 16 Illustrious Men also named in the Magna Carta. Through Gateway Ancestor Martha Eltonhead more ancestors lead to some of the same Magna Carta Barons and King John.
- Most of my mother's lines are from Virginia, North/South Carolina and Georgia. A few, like the Blackshear (Blackshaw) lines started in the north (New Jersey, Delaware) and quickly migrated down south in the early to mid 1700s.
- On my father's side I'm a 2nd generation American. My grandparents were from Norway. My paternal great-grandparents and children immigrated from Vikna, Nord-Trøndelag where they owned Buø Farm on a small island off larger Yttre Vikna Island. My maternal great-grandparents were from Land, Oppland and Vang/Ringsager Hedmark. I spend a lot of my research time browsing Norwegian church, land and probate records on the Norway DigitalArkivet. One of the lines weaves into the Blix ancestral lines and goes back to Godred Crovan, Norse-Gael King of Dublin and the Isles and the Jarl of Orkney.
Sources
- First-hand information entered by Robyn Conrad Adair at registration. I am married with 2 children and 3 grandchildren.
For family Interest
- The Vikings:
- Godred Crovan King of Man and the Isles - my 27 GGf. Also Godred Crovan's bio on Wikipedia.
- Note: One of his ancestors is my oldest known ancestor - Gaut/ "Göte" b. in Scandinavia c570 - 41 GGf
- Thorfinn Sigurdsson the Jarl of Orkney - my 29 GGf.
- Haraldr Vladimirovich - my 25 GGf.
- The English, French et al
Robyn is related to Charlemagne.
Robyn is related to William the Conqueror.
- Charlemagne, King of the Franks 33 GGf.
- Guillaume, Duke of Normandy 26 GGf
- Magna Carta Barons and the Illustrious Men. I am directly descended from all 17 Barons (the other 8 apparently have no known descendants), to King John and 10 of his 16 Illustrious Men! (I'm only indirectly related to the other 4 - cousins - and not related to 2 at all.)
- American Gateway Ancestors that lead to Magna Carta Barons and beyond:
- John Fisher - 10 GGf.
- Martha Eltonhead (Conway) - 9 GGm.
- John Blackshaw - 8 GGf and his wife Maude Barlowe (Blackshaw) - 8 GGm.
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- Robyn's formal name
- full middle name (H.)
- e-mail address
- birth location
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- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Robyn:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Robyn:
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Robyn (Conrad) Adair:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member robynadair
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Robyn:
- Creating stickers Feb 8, 2021.
- What medals are these? Jul 25, 2020.
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This is interesting. I just acquired original "Matthews" and associated genealogy documents, in early 2019, that came with an original hard cover book of "Blacksheariana--Genealogy, History, Anecdotes," by Perry Lynnfield Blackshear, Sr., copyright 1954, published in Atlanta, Georgia.
Our family paternal ancestry goes back to John Blackshaw, born 1505, in Withington (renamed "Lower Withington"), in city of "Chester," County of "Cheshire." There is a "Visitation of Cheshire, 1613" that was done in England "Blackshaw, of Adlington" page 27. See link: https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/26/mode/2up.
Our family maternal ancestry goes back to Norway, born in Tranoy, Norway.
I hope that we will be able to share information, when the time is appropriate for us both.
Take care.
No relation that I know of. Just showing our appreciation for the contributions to WikiTree :)
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Thanks for your follow-up note re: John Fendin's will. If you have a scan of one of the pages, that would be an excellent addition to his profile. The link to Ancestry could be helpful to some people, so it wouldn't hurt to put it on there, as well. :-)
Happy WikiTreeing!
Julie
Thanks for taking the Pre-1700 Quiz!
Because pre-1700 ancestors are shared by many descendants, working within the projects which coordinate them is essential. Liz suggested the US Southern Colonies Project. You could also use the Pre-1700 Projects list to find one which best fits your research focus. Review the project pages to learn how to collaborate with the project members.
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I was at General Convention too! I had a sales table for a couple days - selling Christmas ornaments as a Manassas Chapter fundraiser. I was beside the Florida chapter doing fundraising for the statue of Old Joe.
Cheers, Liz
If you're looking for a project that covers Fisher descendants, you might try the US Southern Colonies project. He's Virginia, and with recent changes, the Virginia Project is no longer strictly post-USA, but it is primarily post-USA (and it doesn't work the same as the Magna Carta Project. . . we're not actively going out and developing/sourcing any particular families). However, we are active in the thons, and the Team Virginia Source-a-Thon pages might have some useful info...
Cheers, Liz
P.S. Yup - Manassas Chapter #175, Virginia Division, UDC. You?