Individual Details

Robert Taliaferro

(11 Nov 1626 - 11 Nov 1670)

Robert Taliaferro, left England shortly before his 21st birthday. He boarded the ship 'Honor' at the Stepney docks only two days after his father, Francis Taliaferro, died and was buried. He left his older sister, Anne, to act as Administrator of their Father's estate. The date, August 1646, the likelihood that his uncle was a close adherent of the deposed King, and the haste of his departure in company of Robert Lee, seems to signal that Robert Taliaferro fled England in the wake of the defeat of King Charles I by the Parliamentary forces. Soon after he arrived in Virginia, he took up a patent adjacent to the earlier patent of Richard Lee, progenitor of Virginia's famous Lee family and a known Royalist. Richard Lee invited King Charles to take refuge in Virginia where he would be welcomed.

Events

Birth11 Nov 1626England
Death11 Nov 1670Virginia, British America

Families

SpouseKatherine Debnam (1630 - 1686)
ChildCol John Taliaferro (1656 - 1720)
ChildFrancis Taliaferro (1654 - 1710)
ChildRobert Taliaferro (1652 - 1688)
FatherFrancis Taliaferro (1589 - 1647)
MotherBennett Haie (1589 - 1642)
SiblingJoane Taliaferro (1614 - )
SiblingSara Taliaferro (1616 - )
SiblingAnne Taliaferro (1629 - )
SiblingAnne Taliaferro (1621 - 1622)