Our Tobey Line
From Thomas Tobey
The genealogy of our Tobey line through my paternal grandfather, Fred Charles Tobey (d. 1963) has been traced back to the immigrant ancestor, Thomas Tobey of Sandwich.
I am endebted to Bill Tobey of Fort Worth, Texas, who has worked out the line of descent that connects the published genealogy of Thomas Tobey with Fred C. Tobey.
Sanda Ball has complied a superb linked genealogy of the descendents of Thomas Tobey at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~explor19/tobey.htm. (Link opens in a new window.) She corrected misinformation I posted in an earlier version of this website, relying upon documentation.
One of the less well known resources is Ezra A. Stearns, The History of Plymouth, New Hampshire (1906).
Harriet A. Tobey is Harriet Ailes Tobey, the widow of Charles Tobey. Charles Tobey and Harriet Ailes Tobey were the father and mother of my grandfather, Fred Charles Tobey. Harriet Ailes Tobey was widowed young.
Charles Tobey was a son of Francis B. Tobey and Olive Cross Tobey of Vassalboro, Maine.
Emma Tobey is a daughter of Francis Tobey and Olive Cross Tobey and therefore a sister of Charles Tobey. Sandra Ball has checked the 1860 manuscript census and verified that "Emma" is a listed child, born in 1854, of Francis and Olive.
Stearns refers to Olive Cross Tobey as "Alice Cross", when other documents refer to her only as Olive.
I provide both PDF and JPEG image copies of the relevant sections of Stearns, below.
Source
Ezra S. Stearns, The History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2 vols., Printed for the town by the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1906. Reprint edition. The New England Historical Society in collaboration with the Plymouth Historical Society, 1987. Volume I. Narrative. Volume II. Genealogies.
PDF files
These are the lines in which Emma Harriet Tobey and Harriet A. Tobey are mentioned in Stearns. The PDF files are printable. Each opens in a new window.
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Emma Harriet (Tobey) Dearborn (Stearns, II, 213) |
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Harriet A. (Tobey) Sherwell (Stearns, II, 631)) |
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Emma Harriet (Tobey) (Dearborn) Robie (Stearns, II, 571) |
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Map of Vassalboro, Maine
I am grateful to Steve Farrington of Kingston, New Hampshire, for sharing an 1879 place map of Vassalboro, Maine. The map clearly shows the homesteads of F. [Francis] Tobey and E. [Edward] Tobey, next to each other on the east side of Webber Pond (if the pond is a clock, the farms are located at 4:00).
Francis Tobey and his wife, Olive Cross Tobey, were the grandfather and grandmother of my grandfather, Fred Charles Tobey, and the mother and father of Harriet Tobey and Charles Tobey, all persons references in Stearns genealogies of Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Here is the large image. Opens in a new window.
Smaller version, below.
Vassalboro, Maine
