An Introduction by Joe Baber

Dear Visitor,

While visiting this site you will discover fascinating information. For example, the Baber name appears as early as 1080 in England. Other Baber names appear in the 1300 and 1400's although we do not know our relationship.  John Baber, our first connected ancestor, died in England in 1537. Edward Baber married Catherine Leigh and that her father, Sir Thomas Leigh, was Lord Mayor of London in 1558.  Sir John Baber (1625-1704) was a Physician to King Charles II.  Baber's Field appears on maps in the 1650's under the present site of Bloomsbury and the British Museum in the center of modern day London.

Francis, James, & Edward Baber were in Virginia as early as 1614-1615. Edward Baber was a subscriber of the third Charter of the Virginia Company of London.  It founded the Jamestown colony in 1607.  Francis Baber, a chandler, emigrated to Massachusetts in 1636.  He has no living descendants in America to our knowledge.  William Baber is named on a deed in Boston about 1634.  Robert Baber emigrated to Virginia in 1679.  He is the common ancestor to most American Babers.

I started this web site to make information about our heritage available to future generations as well as to ourselves.  The best guidance for the future is to be able to see where we have been. 

What child or what individual couldn't be inspired by knowing of the lives of our ancestors and to know that anything in life is indeed possible? And, who among us hasn't wondered what life in other times would be like?  With help from many, I hope to make this an excellent place to learn from our various pasts and point the next generations to futures without limits.

Folks, I am just the storyteller.  The guy that puts it online. The information that you can find at your fingertips represents thousands of hours of research of old Books, Bibles, Courthouses, and Libraries all over the place.

People like Vera Baber, one of the most knowledgeable contributors, have been compiling this information for over thirty years.  Sandy Ruppell helps on an almost daily basis.  Many others are regular contributors.  We happen to be fortunate that so many people are willing to share their efforts with us here and across the Internet.

Many dozens of people contribute to this site.  You can help by sending us all of the information that you have about your Baber relatives, no matter how much or little it may be. We want to make the whole family interconnect one day.

Enjoy your visit.  Please add what you can.

Joe Baber