One of the first really cool “facts” I discovered during my early LeBlond research was a Robert Le Blond who purportedly traveled with William the Conqueror, during the latter’s invasion of England in 1066. I immediately claimed him as an ancestor, despite a complete lack of proven lineage, based on my long line of eleven…
The first mystery photo is from a locket that my grandmother had in her possession. I had never seen it while she was alive; if I had, I would have asked her who it was. Darn it! My aunt and I assume that this is someone from the LeBlond or Blomberg line but that’s just…
Going through some old emails and found this one from a LeBlond relative who was kind enough to share these two pedigree charts. The first one has the Gamage and Maze lines, most of which I had not known of. My research had ended with Jeanne Gamage and Robert LeBlond. The Maze line is quite…
Mabel LaBarre Straub was born in 1878 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, to parents David Walter Straub (1856-1922), a country doctor, and Laura Sherisky LaBarre (1858-1925), daughter of Jesse Labar of Slatington, Pennsylvania. Mabel’s parents, David and Laura, scandalized society when they eloped about 1875 as announced in the following undated and unidentified newspaper clipping: How a…
The Image Boy Le Blond No. 49 Date: 1854-1867 Size: 6 3/4″ × 5 1/4″ An itinerant image seller appears in a quiet village lane lined with cottages. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920, page 96 86. The Image Boy. Le Blond, No. 49. In this, the first of the series,…
