In which the Taliaferro family's immigration to Virginia, as well as their spread throughout Virginia and the United States touching many lives along the way is outlined.
Side note: Booker T. Washington Born Virginia 1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington His father was a Taliaferro. He took his step father’s last name after his mother Anne married. Taliaferro name shows up as a scientist in the infamous Tuskegee Experiment.
What's amazing about this podcast is, I was able to follow the Taliaferro line in my own tree. We have Taliaferro DNA match with a descendant today in the UK. I have also found my white cousins closer to my age. The only thing we haven't been able to connect is who is the common ancestor. It looks like it may be Harriet Robinson, or this girl named Rachel. I am thinking it's on my mother's side which was the Wiggins family. Also, I learned that the Taliaferro's fought for the Confederates in later years. Lawrence Taliaferro preceded all of this however and probably was more like a Northerner then a Southerner (born in PA and an Indian Agent in the Minnesota Territories). Good job in laying out the arrivals of the Taliaferro's
I came from a militia Captain Turner who married a Nancy Talifaerro in colonial Virginia. An autosomal DNA test from FamilyTree claimed a small fraction of a percent of Balkans heritage. As people of northern Italy commonly show a large amount of Balkans genetics, this small proportion would be consistent with a Venetian origin. However, some later tests hint at central Europe; this differences in databases and software.
That's really neat. It seems to support the idea that the Taliaferros were from that area. Central Europe could still fit the theory given that some of them appear to have moved.
It was extremely rare back then for a female to be called Sarah. So it seems unlikely in Miss Grimes' case unless there was some Jewish ancestry hidden away. This FFVer (my name is a list of ingredients) is enjoying your series. Appreciate in particular the respect with which you cover your subject -- increasingly rare these days. Have you covered the Wallers by chance? (Hopefully without giving credence to the Roots yarn.) I have happy memories of first encountering the Taliaferro name in the Ware Church graveyard while bopping around Gloucester with my parents about 1960 -- was a small boy but already passionate about the state, the history, everything. I was and am also mad about reed organs, and there was a terrific variety of them in the many local antique shops. My grandmother authored 'My Dearest Polly' and 'John Norton and Sons: Merchants of London and Virginia'.
@@KevinGSmith-mi8js not sure I've seen him listed as either 1st or 2nd, but he did have a son named Charles, that is often called Charles Carter of Ludlow or Nanzatico. He was also nicknamed "Blaze" for his red-faced temper. Bottom line, I'd say "Cleve" would fit your "1st" category, and he's the one who wed Lucy Taliaferro. "Ludlow" would be your "2nd" category.
The distinction generally is that White Taliaferroes pronounce their surname as "Toliver." African-American Taliaferroes pronounce it the way you mention above.
