Durbin- Logsdon Family Study

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List of People or pages in Durbin Name Study
List of People or pages in Logsdon Name Study

Part of the Durbin Name Study

Description & Purpose

This is a One Name Study for Two Names to collect together in one place everything about these surnames and the variants of that name. The Durbins and Logsdons have intermarried so often, that they have almost become one.. Most resources for one will include the other.

The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

Resources

• Durbin and Logsdon genealogy with related families, 1626-1991 / compiled by Betty Jewell Durbin Carson. ISBN: 155613729X (v. 2), 1556134916 (v. 1) [1] [2] [3]
• DURBIN-LOGSDON SETTLEMENT DOWN IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY Article taken from Decatur Daily Review, Monday Evening, June 10, 1912 [4]
• Western Maryland History List of settlers located in 1788 upon the lands lying in Maryland west of Fort Cumberland [5]
• Durbin families of Maryland : 1. John Durbin Sr., Harford County, 2. Samuel Durbin, Carroll County [6]
• Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
• [The Logsdon family] : genealogical sketches and anecdotes of early pioneers [7]
• ENDRESS roots and branches [8]
• Durbin dictionary : a record of the Durbins until 1900s by Kerry William Bate [9]
• Sunfish Edmondson County Kentucky by James H Simon [10]
• Honor O'Flynn by James Bailey, ISBN: 1470179466, a novel based on Honor O'Flynn & William Logsdon [11]
• Norton family history [12]
• Durbin History Bill Durbin, another researcher of the Durbin line, has donated some of his work for the site [13]
• DURBIN-LOGSDON FAMILY HISTORY PREPARED BY SHIRLEY WATERMAN HARRIS 2010 [14]
• McKenzies of Early Maryland [15]
• Durbin Find A Grave search [16]
• Logsdon Find A Grave search [17]
• Koch, Richard T., and Phyllis I. Davidson. St. Luke's Records, 1829-early 1900's: Danville, Knox County, Ohio. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield, 2001. [18] (NOTE: only a preview of this book is available at google books.)
• The Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio: to which is added an elaborate compendium of national biography. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Co., 1902.[19]
• Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1966 (many Durbins listed) Search here.
• THE CENTENARY OF CATHOLICITY IN KENTUCKY, HON. BEN. J. WEBB, 1884 [20]
• Ohio Men During WWI citation:Ohio soldiers, sailors and marines in the World War. The official roster vols 1-23. Vol.___ Columbus, OH: F.J. Heer Print. Co., 1926.

Other Links - MAY NOT BE SOURCED, no guarantee of accuracy

• Genealogess, Family history focused on the surnames: Crowe, Claypool, Wall, Logsdon, Cathcart, Coombs/Combs. [21]
• Murraygenealogypages genealogy of the Murray and related families [22]
• Yates and Others 2 [23]
• Ancestorology [24]
• Our family History [25]
• Tribal Pages, Durbin [26]
• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Thomas Durbin [27]
• Re: Durbins of SW Missouri from Illinois [28]
• The Lager Diebolt Rausch Laub Genealogy Page [29]
• Dowling Family Genealogy RootsWeb

Durbin Groups

• Durbin Ancestry on Facebook [30]

Links to Records

• Will of Frederich TANEY (1823) Frederick County, Maryland, mentioning William & Nicholas Durbin [31]
• DURBIN MERCANTILE COMPANY. Pocahontas County, West Virginia; manuscript collections in the Marshall University Special Collections department [32]

Births

Marriages

• Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965 Ancestry.com 2016. 29 Dec 1798 Elishea Logsdon & Susanna Baker, Nicholas Durbin & Margaret Brown, Eligi Bradley & Mary Logsdon, John Logsdon & Susana Durbin [33]

Deaths

Locations

If you would like to identify the State in the Category on the profile, Insert the name of the state where it says State in the template below. Paste this into the profile above the Bio. After you save, Check the bio. If the category is red, send me the profile ID and I will update the category. Tanya

Birth Name Durbin Profiles

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Spouses, Children, or to add a second state after template above is used

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Need Assistance

• Stan Durbin is looking for definitive evidence that Joseph Pius "Squire" Durbin is the son of Joseph Pius Durbin (son of Christopher Durbin). Information indicates Squire settled Christian County around 1829 and there is mention of "Old Grandfather Durbin", assumed to be Joseph P. Sr.

Note for Durbin Researchers

Many orphaned Durbin profiles of similar name/date/place that were inadequately sourced have been merged or are in a proposed merge with a better sourced profile. Take for example a merge completed on 29 June 2023 of Durbin-115 and Durbin-87: Christopher Thomas Durbin (bef.1622-bef.1658).

Information in the two profiles differed slightly, with the profile for Christopher (Durbin-115) that was merged away into the profile for Christopher Thomas (Durbin-87) having the following (unreliably sourced) information:

• born 1621 in London, England
• son of William Durbin [Durbin-604]
• died 13 Sep 1651 in Baltimore, Maryland

The only profile attached to Durbin-115 was the one for his father, Durbin-604. See this Changes page for changes to Durbin-115 prior to the merge. See also the Changes page for his father (Durbin-604).

Sources from merged profile:

• Ancestry Family Trees
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases.

While the orphaned Durbin-115 lacked reliable sources to support a London birth and Baltimore death, that does not mean a Christopher Durbin who was born in London in 1621 or a Christopher Durbin who died in Baltimore in 1651 did not exist - whether or not they were the same Christopher - it just means that reliable sources are needed to support the facts. Having multiple orphaned, unsourced profiles apparently duplicating sourced profiles confuses an already complicated family.

As noted in a comment on the profile for Sarah (Durbin) Howell (1728-aft.1756), who was born in Baltimore: "The Durbins are a complicated family tree with so many same names and cousins marrying cousins." ~ James Stratman, 2018

While both Durbin-115 and Durbin-87 were created by the same gedcom import, in a wiki environment whatever usefulness the two entries may have served is quickly lost without each entry in the gedcom having solid source information.

Footnotes