Toombs Name Study

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About the Project

The Toombs Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Toombs name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Toombs name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Toombs's), by time period (18th Century Toombs's), or by topic (Toombs DNA, Toombs Occupations, Toombs Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Toombs and its variants. Our hope is that begining and experienced genealogist alike share with all researchers willing join our study and make it your own. please help make it a valuable reference point for all people studying branches 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.

Many of the Toombs Histories, resources and trees/branches we read originate from England to the United States by way of Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Austrailia. They have spread all over the US. Many families are found in Massachusetts, Virgina, Utah, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas to name a few. Help us with your stories, post link to your researchpages you are willing to share, Thanks.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel
Facinating is the major influence the Toombs have had on the US as Settlers and Planters. Lets take James Toombs who left Potters Ferry aka poterspury England. He left on the "Colorado" ship from Liverpool in 1848 with his wife Ann Goldsworth and eight children, William
Hanna Sophia
James
Elizabeth
George
Mary Ann
Joseph
John.

Aboard this steam ship were 600 others gathered by Mormon president Franklin D Richards and Church leader William B Preston. After arrival in New York they headed west, possibly Kansas where they organized by families into one of the largest wagon trains of the day.
Wagon Master John Doddle and company led them on to Salt Lake Valley arriving 20 October 1868.

There are a many examples where similar sounding surnames such as Toms, Tombs, Tomes Tooms,(some have changed either legally or in spelling). There are many variants, but the most common are Tombs and Toomes. We learned that you cannot always absolutely prove where something came from or how, but if there are enough common traces then it is reasonably certain to be right.

Just where did the name originate from? Some starting point for researching back in time.

In following WT Profiles you find Toombs-1 was from Viginia. Parents are unknown at this time. Help us find them!

Toombs-36 (1792-1850) originated from Wales a village in Rotherham, South Yorkshire England; he migrated to Prince Edward Island. Parents are unknown at this time.

See Toombs Name Study List ^[1]

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Toombs Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Thomas Lawrence for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Toombs Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Henry Toombs of Rustico, Queens Prince Edward Island Life and Times.
  

Henry emmigrated from England early 1800's, birth place it is said is Wales, Metropolitan Bourough of Rotherham Yorkshire England.

• Decendants of Henry Toombs immigrant from England to Prince Edward Island.
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Henry's branches are far reaching from Canada to the United States and beyond.

• Toombs Families of Canada, early settlers of Princ Edward Island.
• Toombs Families of Virginia, first early settlers, later decendants
• Toombs Families of California, stories of the Gold Rush days.
• Toombs Families of Massachusetts, early settlers of Hudson and Worchester County.
• Toombs of Mississippi ^[2] Fought on 21 Oct 1861 at Ball's Bluff, VA.
  Fought on 17 Sep 1862 at Sharpsburg, MD.
  Fought on 18 Sep 1862 at Shepherdstown Ford, WV.
  Fought on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA.
  Fought on 2 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
  Fought on 3 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
  Fought on 9 Sep 1863 at Chattanooga, TN.
  Fought on 4 Feb 1864.
  Fought on 6 May 1864 at Wilderness, VA.
  Fought on 8 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
  Fought on 4 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
  Fought on 23 Jun 1864 at Weldon Railroad, VA.
  Fought on 30 Nov 1864 at Petersburg, VA.
• Toombs Families of Wisconsin ^[3]

Membership

• Ron Smith
• Tom Lawrence
• Linda Grissom
• Open to You also

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Toombs
• Tomb
• Tombs
• Tomes
• Toomes
• Toms
• Foumbs, found on 1850 US Census record

{Foumbs is Relating to George Washington Toombs family in Mississippi}

• [please add to this list]

Brances and Twigs

• Sellers, Harker, Coombs, Wiggington, Clark, Stordy,
• Laird, Lawrence, Bryenton, Woods, McCallum, Ascroft
• Shaw, Coffin, Stewart, MacKenzie, Stevenson, Gallison
• MacDonald,
• Woolner,

Please help add to this list, thanks. Cousin.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Toombs_Name_Study
2. ↑ http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Toombs_Name_Study George Washington Toombs
3. ↑

*Fought on 21 Oct 1861 at Ball's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 17 Sep 1862 at Sharpsburg, MD.
Fought on 18 Sep 1862 at Shepherdstown Ford, WV.
Fought on 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville, VA.
Fought on 2 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
Fought on 3 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
Fought on 9 Sep 1863 at Chattanooga, TN.
Fought on 4 Feb 1864.
Fought on 6 May 1864 at Wilderness, VA.
Fought on 8 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
Fought on 4 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 23 Jun 1864 at Weldon Railroad, VA.
Fought on 30 Nov 1864 at Petersburg, VA.