2024 Oregon Robbins Reunion

As a reminder to all those interested and in proximity, the 2024 Oregon Robbins Reunion will be held on Sat., July 20th, at Feyrer County Park, Picnic Area #2, just outside of Molalla, Oregon. This reunion is open to anyone related to the Robbins family would like to come and visit and share family history.

You can find more information at my blog post from last fall here. Feel free to contact me either through the blog or the email below if you have questions.

Robbins Family Research and Blog Posts

I’m quite behind in blog posts the past nine months for a wide variety of reasons. My Robbins research has been focusing on land records (particularly Breckinridge Co., Kentucky and Marion Co., Oregon) which don’t lend themselves (usually) to entertaining stories (though sometimes they do).

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, has fascinated me as the number of family members there is only surpassed by Decatur County, Indiana. Only a few of the early Robbins family members moved down to Kentucky from Indiana, but they were quite prolific, with the early heads of household being Absalom Robbins, Jr., Hardin Robbins, and Micajah Robbins Jr.

Besides the number of people to research, Breckinridge County includes some of the most interesting first names you can find in the family: Prayles, Joranda, Bourbon, Erie, Vermont, and Lafayette, and you can sometimes determine the political heroes of parents as they gave their children such names as: Zachary Taylor, George Washington, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, and Harrison.

Among the surnames who married into these Robbins families are: Stillwell, Ryan, Armes, Basham, Macey (or Maysey), Swink, Knott, Allen, Hampton, Hanks, Roberts, Jolly, Norton, Haynes, Dowell, Hubbard, and many more. And a number of these surnames have multiple connections to the Robbins family. Thus is a lot of research to be done in a very small amount of free time.

But I will continue to write up stories and findings as I am able, so stay with me!