Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Robert TODD
Excerpts from"Historic Families of Kentucky," 1889, by Thomas Marshall Green, in Virginia State Libraty, Richmond, Virginia, 1952, under "Todds".
"In 1679, John Todd fled from the persecutions of Claverhouse in Scotland to find refuge in the North of Ireland. The record of Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm describes John Todd, the refugee, as a "Scottish Laird," and that means simply that he owned land in fee and was a landlord, and not at all that he helonged to or was allied with the nobility. Two of his grandsons, Andrew and Robert Todd, came with their families to America in 1737. Of these two, Robert Todd was born in Ireland in 1697, died in Montgomery County, PA, in 1775, and was buried in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church.
His first wife, whose name is supposed to have been Smith, died and was buried in Ireland.
In Ireland, he married for a second time, Isabella, sister of Major William Bodley, the mother of Isabella and General William Bodley was a Parker, a name which belongs to many families of note in Pennsylvania.
By his first wife, Robert Todd - the emigrant, had two sons, JOHN and DAVID.
By his second wife, he had five sons and four daughters: WILLIAM, ANDREW ROBERT, SAMUEL, LEVI, ELIZABETH, MARY, REBECCA and SARAH. The last named married John Findlay, or Finley, who"went westward,"
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