About us
This Family Project was started to:
1. Determine if DNA testing can be used to connect Tobins to the first member of the Irish Tobin family on record a Norman, William de St. Albino, (latinized form of St. Aubyn) who witnessed Geoffrey FitzRobert’s charter c.1204-6 to the priory of Kells in Ossory.
2. Determine the relationship if any among the few Tobin families that immigrated to the American colonies before the Revolutionary War and their relationship to the later and greater number of Tobins who emigrated from Ireland in the 19th century.
3. Determine the relationship of Nathaniel Tobey/Tobin born 1740-50 and died 1831/2 to Isaac Tobey/Tobin born 1750 in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, and who died in 1836 in Guernsey Co., Ohio.
a. Determine the relationship of this family either to the Tobey, Tobin, or other family
b. Determine the relationship to this family, if any, of Albert Tobin c1816-1864, a confederate soldier who died of disease in a hospital in Warrenton, Virginia, during the Civil War
4. Determine the genetic relationship among the Tobey families and their relationship to Nathaniel and Isaac Tobey/Tobin
Tobin
Pre-Revolutionary War Colonial America Tobin Families
James and Esther (Smidt) Tobin
Loudoun Co., Virginia
The first record of this family may be the marriage of James and Esther in New Castle Co., Delaware, on 19 Mar 1750. They are living in Loudoun Co., Virginia, by 1757. James died in 1774, testate, in Loudoun Co., Virginia.
Children:
i. George
ii. Thomas
iii. Joseph
iv. Robert
v. Mary
vi. Lydia
vii. Ruth
viii. Naomy
ix. Roseanna
x. Sarah
No male descendant of this family has yet had his DNA tested.
Nathaniel and Isaac Tobey/Tobin
Relationship: Not documented, current theory is that they were brothers
Hunterdon Co., New Jersey; Loudoun Co. and Culpeper Co., Virginia; Guernsey Co., Ohio
The first record of this family is the 23 Jun 1750 birth of Isaac Tobin at Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, reported by him in an 1833 application for a pension for his Revolutionary War service. Orginally listed their last name as Tobey, first began using the Tobin name in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, in 1789. In the 1790s Nathaniel and Isaac moved to Loudoun Co., Virginia. Nathaniel moved to Culpeper Co., Virginia, in 1797 or 1798, where he apparently died in 1831 or 1832. Isaac followed Nathaniel to Culpeper County during the first decade of the 1800s. About the year 1830 he moved to Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he apparently died in 1836.
Isaac at age 25 was described as 5 feet, 5 inches high, slim built, much pitted with smallpox, and a sober looking fellow.
Nathaniel Tobin (wife's name not known)
(1740-50 - 1831/2)
Children:
i. Nathan (no known male descendants)
ii. Jonathan (no known male descendants)
iii. Nancy
iv. Rebecca
v. Isaac
vi. Abraham
No male descendant of this family has yet had his DNA tested.
Isaac and Phebe (Thomson) Tobin
(1750-1836)
Children:
i. Nathaniel
ii. John
iii. William
iv. Mary
v. Rachel
One male descendant of Isaac's son Nathaniel (25 markers) and one male descendant of Isaac's son John (12 markers) have had their DNA tested. They were a 12/12 marker match.
Thomas and Sarah (Salnave) Tobin
Elizabeth, Essex Co., New Jersey, and Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
Thomas and Sarah appear in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1756, when their daughter Anne was baptized. They are living in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, by 1772. Thomas was a Lieutenant in the Light Horse and fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War. Sarah died in 1819. Listed as a widow she was buried in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Children:
i. Anne
ii. John
iii. James was apparently a loyalist and he moved his family to Digby, Nova Scotia.
iv. Peter Salnave
No male descendant of this family has yet had his DNA tested.
The Tobin and Tobey Family Project is open to all who are interested in working together to find their common heritage through sharing of information and dna testing. All variant spellings are welcome. If your Surname is missing and should be included, we'll be glad to add it. Please visit our website and add your family to the Patriarch Page.