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I think the DNA test would be wonderful. I do know there were separate families. However, the person whom I called "Daddy" was my great uncle and his wife. They were HENRY HARRISON DABBS and his wife, DORA MAE (HICKS) DABBS who legally adopted me after my mother, EVA MILDRED (DABBS) WILLIAM (wife of THOMAS WASHINGTON WILLIAMSON, born in S.C.) died. HENRY HARRISON DABBS was born 21 April 1889 in Anson Co., NC, the son of WILLIAM HENRY & SUSAN ELLEN (LILES) DABBS, the son of DAVID SIDNEY/SYDNEY & ELIZA/ELIZABETH (WEBB) DABBS. WILLIAM HENRY and SUSAN ELLEN (LILES) DABBS moved from the LILESVILLE/MORVEN area of Anson County over to the east side of the "Great Pee Dee River" (as it was once called), to Richmond County, and lived in the "WOLF PIT" area for the rest of their lives. My grandparents were ROBERT HAMPTON ("HAMP") and CORINNA FRANCES (SMITH) DABBS. "HAMP" was brother of HENRY HARRISON DABBS.
"Daddy" told me that in the early days of Anson County the family name "DABBS" was often spelled "DOBBS". If you look in my entry about my first family in Amrica, who was JOHN DABBS (first in Ann Arundel County, Md., then in Kent County, Md.), and the records about him, you will find his family's name was spelled several different ways. In my research I have found so many families that moved down from Maryland into Virginia, and into Anson County, N.C., and then further south. There were a great number of Quakers that came down into N.C. from Maryland, etc. As you probably know, NATHANIEL'S father, JOSEPH, had married into the HOGGATT/HOCKET/HOCUT FAMILY. Looking up records for that family can be quite tedious.
This JOHN DABBS' progeny and relatives seemed to move over from Maryland into close-by Delaware, before moving down to Virginia, and later into North and South Carolina, and then to Georgia, etc. (There was a BENJAMIN DABBS in Delaware early, close to the area JOHN and ANIKE/ANN/HANNAH (HANSON/1.ELENA/ 2.MACKINNEY) 3. DABBS lived. JOHN DABBS first wife was ANN EADES/EATES/EVANS?. You should be able to find a lot of this history by going to my posts written in the past.
In taking genealogy classes, one of the things I have been told a number of times, is to be creative in the spelling of one's family names. I know this to be true in searching for a number of my collateral families such as the following:
LILES/LISLES/LYLE/S, DIGGS/DIGG/DEGGE/DEGGES/MEADOWS/MEDOR/MEADOR/ETC. I will not bore you with more.
I have a number of wills and probate papers, some from Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina (Camden District and Fairfield County), Tennessee, and Virginia that seem to be from the DABBS FAMILY, due to the names mentioned in the will and probate papers, but the some of the names are spelled as follows: JOSEPH DODS; brother SAMUEL DODS; & JOHN DODS; dated tenth day of May 1793. One bit of information I copied in England has: "JOHN DOBBES inhabitant of Beccles; Died at Beccles* 15 March 1585/6; EVCH DEPNS (Exchecquer Depositions); Sg. 28 ELIZA. P. 21." *Beccles is in Suffolk.
I would like to participate in a DNA project if someone would get it started.
Good luck with the project, and happy hunting.
Bobbie Williamson-Dabbs Ledbetter
BLSL@KNOLOGY.NET
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