Was Edward Roberts of VA Edward Robertson brother of Nicholas?
I run the Gower Y DNA project at Family Tree DNA. My chief focus is the Gower family of Brunswick County, Virginia; they intermarried with the family of John Robertson, then both with their families led a large party to found Nashville, Tennessee.
I am having a hard time, since three Gowers have three Y DNA haplotypes. One however has one Gower match, likely of her own subbranch of the Gower family, and either one or two equally very close Gore matches. Gore matches are not cooperating by identifying themselves. However, one of them is "Derrie Gene Gore". Derrie is dimunitive for Darryl, found a Darryl Gene Gore of Oklahoma at Ancestry, died recently, two descendants posted his tree, one responded "I don't know who can help you" and the other remains mum. Meanwhile Gower match, who lives in Missouri and has Arkansas family, and some went to Oklahoma, assures me that noone in that region speaks to NOBODY. I am thinking, "Winter's Bone". Real issues with the culture that surrounds Arkansas.
Now, "Darryl G Gore" is shockingly not a unique surname but one wonders how many Derrie Gene Gores there could be. Seems maybe two of them in Oklahoma belong to one Gore family that traces, not to a Gower family, but to Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Maryland. Gore and Gower are often the same surname. People have also been telling me that in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, Gower is interchangeably pronounced with a short o, a long o, and like "Guhr" as in kook; both of my Gowers who match each other and both live in that area have always heard it both ways. While Gore is far more common a name than Gower, neither is common enough for coincidence to be very likely. The Y DNA match is clearly not a coincidence. One marker out of 37 markers differs by one point.
It is not clear if C.G. Gore is another person who also tested at Family Tree DNA, or administers the DNA of Derrie Gene Gore, or is a descendant of Derrie Gene Gore who actually did the Y DNA testing, Derrie Gene Gore being likely either dead in 1982, or recently served seven years in prison for DUI and then disappeared from easy to find public view, and his Cherokee tribe is also looking for him. (Descendant of Derrie Gene Gore who I contacted at Ancestry looks like she could be part Cherokee.)
John Robertson was the son of Israel Robertson of Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia. Unclear if he was the son of Edward Robinson and Anne, nearby, or if this is the Nicholas Robertson for whom Anthony Dowden collected land in Middlesex Co VA for transporting him to Virginia, meaning he was probably an indentured servant, but the land bounty was simply for bringing people to Virginia, and its purpose was to populate Virginia with Europeans.
I am seriously wondering what relation Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Maryland, has to Bristol Parish, Prince George County, Virginia, because the people in them sure tended to be connected to both places.
Israel the son of Edward Robinson had a brother, Edward Robertson. Actually three brothers. They were born in Bristol Parish, maybe one in Charles City, and they ended up in Granville County, North Carolina.
I cannot find what happened to Edward Robinson; who he married, who his children were. This Edward Gore was born around 1698/ 1700.
This Gore family traces to James Gore, born about 1680 in Prince George County, Maryland. His origins are a mystery. A tie to a New England John Gore is disproven. I found a highly fanciful link to an aristocratic family in Ireland. For sure this Gore family and the Gower family of Brunswick Co VA inherited similar imaginations. Not hard to believe they could be related....
James Gore married Mary, often thought to be Manning or Manning Burk but her father's will identifies her as Mary Hutchinson, daughter of William. They had five children, who are named in Mary's will. She died as Mary Tomlinson, her husband having died twelve years after they married.
Mary's will informs us that her daughter Elizabeth married Edward Roberts of Virginia, and they had a daughter, Mary. We aren't told if they had other children or if only one child had been born at that point, or if perhaps Mary was the one who was well beloved.
What I really want to know is if this may tie the Gore and Gower families together.
Another daughter of James Gore and Mary, Mary, married a Dowden. Them Dowdens were thick in Virginia and Maryland, or what? This was the upper crust of Chesapeake society.
The family of Nicholas Robertson was also called Roberts and Robinson.
So what I actually need to know is, what DID happen to Edward Robertson the brother of Nicholas? Who did he marry? Where did he live?
Thanks!
Yours,
Dora Smith