Talk:William Warren Barbour
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There seems to be a strong resemblence to current Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. Are they related? Dvd Avins 12:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
- There were, I believe, two lines of Barbours to emigrate to the U.S, and to my knowledge, no connection has been established between the two. Very extensive geneological research and a family history done by the line which includes William reveals no connection. In any event, one line, which most likely includes Haley Barbour, unless he's from a third line no one seems to know of, migrated to the southern part of the US -- and includes both James Barbour and his brother, Philip Pendleton Barbour. James, whose home was in Barbourville, Virginia, held several major political posts on both a national level and in Virginia. Barbour County, Alabama is named for James. Philip Pendleton Barbour, a jurist, was likewise politically successful, and Barbour County, West Virginia, is named for him. Their father, Thomas Barbour, was a member of the Viginia House of Burgesses. This Thomas Barbour should not be confused with William Barbour's brother, also named Thomas Barbour, who was a prominent herpetologist and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
- The second line, which includes William Warren Barbour, fetched up in New York and New Jersey. From there family members in this line moved into Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and, in the mid-20th century, south into Virginia and Alabama. Those of this line who headed South, however, were women who took their husbands' names thereby leaving no southern descendents of this second line having the name Barbour, except in cases where it was used as a middle name. The ancestry of the second line of Barbours has been traced back in great detail to its various origins in Europe but comes up with no information about an ancestor common to the two lines. --Jancarhart 15:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
