- John Baber died in 1527 in
England. His Will is
online at this website. He
is the oldest documented
ancestor to the modern day Baber lines.
Other names of Baber in England
appear as early as 1080, 1237,
1380, and 1399.
- Robert Baber is considered the common ancestor of most USA Baber
Families.
- Robert Baber came to Virginia on the Bristol Factor,
sailing from England on September 30, 1679.
- Hiram Baber married Harriet Boone, grand-daughter of Daniel
Boone, & served as a U.S. Marshall.
- Baber Woods is a tract of semi-virgin forest Adin Baber
gave to the Nature Conservancy in Illinois. It was leased
to Eastern Illinois University for scientific and
educational purposes. It is located south-east of Kansas,
Illinois.
- Adin Baber was a noted researcher of the historic Baber
and Hanks families.
- Alonzo Babers, Montgomery, Ala, 400M/4X400M Relay
(Olympic Gold - 1984).
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 4th Great
Grandson of Mary Baber & John Perrin.
- There are many descendants
in the Baber family of Daniel
Boone.
- Baber is the 4,916th most popular Surname in the United States;
frequency is 0.002%
- Babers is the 36,349th most popular Surname.
- Baber, Texas once existing. There is a note about it on this site.
- Baber, West Virginia, Logan County; elevation 639 feet.
- In a book by Don Shadburn, Baber Creek in Cobb Co. Georgia is said to be
named for one of the Babers on the Cobb Co. 1834 Census. Their names were
Barnabas Arthur Baber, George Baber, James Baber, and William Baber.
- Early Schools in Benton County, Tennessee: Baber's High School was
opened in Eva, Tennessee in 1888. It became Central High School in
1915. A new high school was erected in 1959.
- John Ralph Baber is the past president (1999-2000) of The Society of
Former Special Agents
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Hay Norville Baber, 1923-1987, Retired Air Force, flew W.W.II missions
in Europe and at one time was an Air Force One crew member.
- There are Streets named "BABER" in
Helfin, Alabama; Hot
Springs, Arkansas; Tucson, Arizona;
Rocky Mount,
North Carolina;
Salem,
Oregon; Artesia, California;
Union,
South Carolina;
Moffat, Colorado; Brenham,
Texas; Winnsboro, Texas; Colusa, California; Rutherford, North Carolina;
Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Brentsville,
Virginia; Renick, West Virginia;
Craigsville,
West Virginia; Cumberland, Washington; Houston, Texas - Contributed by
Tommy Baber, Alvin Texas. Also, Felica Baber Street in Colchester , Connecticut.
- Bob Henry Baber ran for Governor of West Virginia in 1996.
- The estate referred to as "Spy Hill" is located 1.6 miles
south of King George, VA. Prior to 1675 its owners were--many different
people--Last names were Bridges,
Rozier, and the family of George
Washington's Grandfather. In the year 1828 it came into the hands of
Colonel Thomas B. B. Baber from Putnam Stith Washington. In 1871 Thomas
Baber's daughter Emma Lavenia Baber Garnett inherited it. She had married
Captain Thomas S. Garnett. Present owner is Josephine Langhorne
Garnett--1937. It is described as an ante-bellum home, a large
dwelling with a large cellar. It is three and a half stories high with a
gabled roof, two chimneys on each end. One of the many porches faces the
Potomac River. There are ten large rooms. Emma Baber was born 1825, she is
by Thomas's first marriage. She was married at Spy Hill. Her husband
Captain Garnett was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville May 3, 1863.
Out of this "Spy Hill" two other estates have arisen--Mount Mariah and Marengo. Submitted by
Peggy
Aldhizer
- Related to Spy Hill: "my great-great-great grandparents,
William and Mildred Thompson, who were born slaves in King George County,
Virginia, in the late 1700s. The name of the plantation where they were
born is Spy Hill and the slave owners were Thomas Baber and Thomas Stuart
Garnett. Arica L. Coleman's article is available by
clicking
this link.
- Irene Baber was a primary owner of an estate called "Wayside."
located in Fluvanna Co. Virginia
- Sobriety House in Downtown Denver, Colorado was started in 1967 by The
Reverend Ernest Morton Baber, Sr., who had served Citizen's Mission for 25
years before starting Sobriety House. The Reverend Baber sought a
homey place where people who were alcoholics could make a fresh start in a
long-term program that would bring about a change in lifestyle. His
objectives remain in place today.
- In Germany: a record of George Baber Born: April 19, 1665.
Spelling of last name changed to Baier in 1792 in
Hetzles, Germany.
- At Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont, a recent addition to the
Whittemore Theater is the Drury Gallery, which showcases work by students,
faculty and regional artists. Much of what is exhibited at the gallery is
created in a cluster of buildings that include the Woodard and Baber
visual arts buildings, the pottery shed and the Presser music building.
- Elizabeth Cole born ca. 1618, in London had a second marriage to Capt.
Baber Cotts after 1659. Baber
Cotts, being of Warwick Co. Virginia.
Perhaps named for one of the Babers involved with the Virginia London
Company that settled Newport News.
- Long, long ago, in Old London, England, beyond Southampton House, on the
north side of Southampton Square (now Bloomsbury Square) open fields known
as Baber's Field and the Long Field gave an uninterrupted view towards
Hampstead and Highgate. It was claimed that if a maiden found a
piece of coal underneath a plantain root in these fields on midsummer's
day, then placed the coal underneath her pillow that night, she would
dream of her future husband. Every year on midsummer's day, the
fields were filled with young women on their hands and knees, digging for
coal.
- Baber Room Cave is at an elevation of 2500 feet in Pocahontas County, West
Virginia. It consists of a large waterfall pit connecting with a room 25
feet long and 20 feet high and wide. This leads to another room 70 feet
long, 50 feet high, and 25 feet wide with a floor covered by
breakdown. Baber Pit is a large 50 foot pit extending into cliff
face located north of Baber Room Cave.
- The Baber Room is at the Park Library at Central Michigan University.
- BABER, TEXAS. Baber was a sawmill town four miles south of Huntington in
east central Angelina County. It was established by S. F. Carter about 1906
on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and was at first the site of a small
mill. Later, J. P. Carter, who had been associated with a mill at Emporia,
constructed a larger plant at Baber with a daily capacity of 25,000 to
50,000 board feet. The second Carter owned substantial timberland between
Huntington and Zavala, and this acreage sustained the mill at Baber for
quite a few years. Baber, named for a lumberman, had its first postmaster,
James Burns, in 1907. By 1915 the town had a population of 100 and at least
three businesses. But the timber had been exhausted, and the mill was
liquidated.
In 1915 local mail delivery was transferred to Huntington.
- Fort Baber near Norfolk, Virginia is in old military
records. For Example:
Randolph Bobbitt was
discharged on March 4, 1815, at Fort Baber, near
Norfolk,
Virginia.
- Richard Baber was in Essex Co. Virginia in 1706:
Virginia
Land Records - Page 70 - At Court Held for Essex County, Virginia March
10, 1703 - Certificate According to Act of Assembly Grant to Mr.
Francis Moore for three Thousand seven hundred acres of land due for the
Importation of seventy four persons in this colony. Among those
listed was Richard Baber.
- Cheddar, England is not a place
where many Baber's were to be
found. One is a mention of
a William Baber, who time wise
could be the husband of Mrs.
Baber and her daughter that were
appointed by Hannah More as the
first teachers of a school
opened on October 25th
1789. Much of its success
was due to those two
teachers. "When Mrs.
Baber died, the whole of Cheddar
came to mourn her; the church
could not contain all who would
attend her funeral".
The Hannah More Female Friendly
Society continued until 1948 at
the start of the National Health
Service in England. Check
amazon.com for "Hannah
More: The First Victorian"
and/or
search the web. In
the 1841 Census there was a Miss
Eliza Baber living in Church
Street, Cheddar aged 20 years
old in a Drapers Shop.
- Baber Names of the Immigrants
Wall at Ellis Island, New
York, (I don't know any of
these people)
| Name |
Origin |
Panel |
|
Isabelle
Macadam
Baber |
Scotland |
488 |
|
Ursula
Baber
Potter |
Fraustadt,
Germany |
350 |
|
Erwine
Mikolajewski
Baber |
Fraustadt,
Germany |
023 |
|
Johann
Karl
Baber |
Fraustadt,
Germany |
023 |
|
Karl
Baber |
Germany |
023 |
|
The
Baber
Family |
Hungary |
023 |
|
All
names
here are
inscribed
and
available
for
viewing
on The
American
Immigrant
Wall of
Honor at
Ellis
Island. |
- Julian Trevelian Baber was a
Secret Service Agent during the
administration of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- There is a Babers Road in
Cooranbong, New South Wales,
Australia
- 1932 - VIVIAN BABER starred in the film "Black King" an
all black comedy/drama about a con artist who makes money with a
phony back to Africa campaign.
- Some historical sites in King George Co. Virginia include Spy Hill
was once owned by John Washington, George Washington's grandfather and
it later was conveyed to Colonel Thomas B.B. Baber. His son Lt. Lewis
Baber was killed on September 17, 1862 at Sharpsburg, Maryland.
- THE FREEMANS OF
YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA
(This is 4 years before Robert came to Virginia.)
On 3 June 1675, Henry Freeman witnessed a
power of attorney between Samuel Baber and Joseph Yeamans, his servant.
On 24 January 1675/76, Henry Freeman recovered judgment of 100 lbs.
tobacco from Francis Callowhill on a debt due.76 Later that
year, on 22 March 1675/76, Henry Freeman witnessed the will of Peter
Starkey of New Poquosin, and was appointed overseer when the will was
probated 24 April 1677.
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