Roberson Name Study

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This profile is part of the Roberson Name Study.

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name within North America. 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.

Your level of participation is entirely up to you, but hope you will consider contributing as you can to make the study a success for all.

How You Can Help

From hereafter and where applicable, Roberson also refers to surnames, Robertson, Robison and Robeson. ROBINSON may also be added, especially if it can be connected to any of the previous surname variants. Many of the links found below contain search boxes for entering other surnames that one wishes to search.

1. Add your Roberson, Robertson, Robison or Robeson ancestors to this project (Note: this study includes name variants, but "Roberson" must be used in the tags). Copy the following and paste it above the biography headings of profiles you wish to add.

[[Category:Roberson Name Study]]

2. Connect unconnected Roberson profiles

3. Add sources for unsourced Roberson profiles

4. Contribute resource material to list below- i.e. web and social media links, books, etc.--all things relevant to the surname

5. Adopt a Roberson profile (one that has been abandoned/no profile manager) and improve it's biography.

Origin of Names

Roberson

First recorded in Scotland in the mid 15th Century, is a patronymic form of the male given name Rober, itself coming from Robert with the loss of the final "t". The ultimate origin of the name is the old German Hrodbert, a compound of the elements "hrod", renown and "berht", bright or famous, through the old French Rodbert. It was introduced into England by the Normans, and the forms Rodbertus, Rotbert and Robert are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086...

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Roberson#ixzz51rMPhqxs

Robertson This distinguished surname, with more than forty entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography" and having no less than twenty-five Coats of Arms, is today regarded as Scottish in origin, but is probably English. It is a patronymic form of the male given name Rodbert or Robert, from the pre 7th century German name "Hrodebert". This was a compound of the elements "hrod", meaning renown and "berht", bright or famous. As Robert it was introduced by the Norman-French to both England and Scotland, prior to the famous Conquest of 1066, and replaced the pre-existing Anglo-Saxon name "Hreodbeorht", which had the literal translation, but probably not the meaning of 'bright rod'. The patronymic form of the surname is spelt variously as Robertson, Roberts, Robarts and Robeson...

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Robertson#ixzz51rOr6Eli

Roberson DNA Connections

View a list of nearly 3k individuals with DNA connections to the surname, Roberson.

View lists of connections for the surname, Robertson

Hint: A search box for other surnames is also included on the links above.

Roberson Brick Walls

Use this area to list your brick wall profiles, followed by brief explanation.

• John Roberson - searching for parents. It's possible they were residing in South Carolina when John was born. Names may be John and Mary Moore Roberson.

• Maggie Robinson - searching for parents and for her marriage record. Family lore has it that she was adopted. Her unmarried sister appears to have the surname Robinson on the 1900 and 1910 census. However, I do not know if she is an adopted sister or a biological sister. Others have parents for her in their trees, but I do not believe that they are correct. I can explain further if anyone wants me to. I don't know the text limit here. :)

Resource List

Websites

• Roberson (plus variants) found on 1790 NC Census: Space:Pre_1800_Roberson_Research

• Roberson/Robertson (with variants) found on 1790 SC Census: Space:Pre_1800_Roberson_Research

• Roberson Tommy, et. al. Robersons.us. www.robersons.us : 2017; [Roberson family of Robersonville, NC]

• Roberson Roger L., Jr. Roberson Family Tree. http://www.robtyn.us/genealogy/roberson/roberson.htm : 2017; [Speculations about origin of name]

• Donovan Ann Johnson. The Roberson Family : Early History. http://www.robtyn.us/genealogy /roberson/roberson.htm : 2017; [David Roberson and descendants from South Carolina to Tennessee]

Books

• Robeson, Susan Stroud, with Caroline Franciscus Stroud, Kate Hamilton Osborne, compiler. An Historical and Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson of Scotland ... Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1916. Image copy. Google Books. http://books.google.com : 2015.

• Robertson, Emily, ed., Andrew Robertson, et. al., Letters and papers of Andrew Robertson, miniature painter ... (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1895) image copy; Internet Archive (https://archive.org: accessed 20 December 2017); [Andrew Robertson, 1777-1845]

• Small, Archibald Robertson, MD, <i>Genealogy of the Robertson, Small, and ... (Indianapolis: Alfred Garret Small, 1907), image copy; <i>Internet Archive (https://archive.org: accessed 20 December 2017); [Discussion of Scottish origin and branches in New York and Midwest]

• Anderson, William Kyle, Donald Robertson and his wife, Rachel Rogers, of King and Queen County, Virginia, their ancestry and posterity ... (Detroit, MI: Winn and Hammond, 1900),</i> image copy; Internet Archive (https://archive.org: accessed 20 December 2017); [Genealogy of Donald Robertson, 1717-1783]