Babcock Name Study

Profile managers: Andrew Simpier [send private message], One Name Studies WikiTree [send private message], and Pat Credit [send private message]

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This image to the right, which comes from Stephen Babcock's book, Babcock Genealogy, is not an official coat of arms. It is a creative compilation from some Badcock family crests. if "crests" is the proper word? His book includes an essay, Coat of Arms and Family Origin., about the origin of this crest on pages vii - xv.

Introduction

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Hello, Welcome to the Babcock Name Study. The surnames associated with this name Study are Babcock. The purpose of the Babcock One-Name-Study project is to provide a central and open access place in Wikitree for members who wish to collaborate in researching the Surname Babcock regardless of where those Babcocks were born or in what era they lived. There are probably other alternate spellings of the name Babcock. For the time being this study is focused only on the Babcock surname itself and others with these various similar surnames may join us if they wish or begin their own Name Study. If you would like to join the Study please contact the project leader Andrew Simpier or Pat (Fuller) Credit; also you can leave a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

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Origin of the name Babcock and its meaning

• House Of Names
• Meaning of the Name Babcock
• Wikipedia: Babcock

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Leaders

• Andrew Simpier Leader
• Pat (Fuller) Credit Leader

How To Join

1. This is an open public project there are no requirements to join. Anyone can view all of the information in this project but only the Trusted List can edit it.
2. One Name Studies project page - This a general information page about how Wikitree One Name Study projects work.
3. Add one_name_studies to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all our discussions in G2G.
4. Add Babcock to your list of followed tags. That way you'll see all our discussions in G2G.

Babcock One-Name-Study Template

For those with LNAB of Babcock or a variant of Babcock:

Adding this to your profile:

Will result in this:

This profile is part of the Babcock Name Study.

When adding spouses use a category. Do not use the template.

Goals

1. This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. We strongly encourage all those with a knowledge and understanding of the Babcock Surname & history of the name to join our Name Study & help in our collaborative effort to show the history of the name, origins, etc.
2. Document and correctly connect all Babcock lines on Wikitree
3. Add Babcock DNA results to help confirm connections
4. Create a meaningful bio for each profile so that it represents a person's life
5. Develop a reference library specifically for Babcock genealogy research

What You Can Do?

1. Add the category or template Babcock to all of the Babcock profiles which you manage. [If you add the template it will automatically add the category.]
2. Make sure the Babcock profiles that you manage have good sources and a biography
3. Ask questions in G2G if you need genealogy help
4. Post comments in the boxes at the foot of the page to share Babcock Genealogy information
5. Link Babcock Space Pages to this Project Page.
6. If you are interested in a new “Babcock” category [e.g. Babcock’s form a particular location, etc.] let your leader know.

Task List

1. Obtain the history of the Surname Babcock and it’s variant forms
2. Add those Babcock Profiles to proper Categories of where they were born, lived or died)
3. Add to the discussion about the English Origins of the name Babcock and it’s variant forms
4. Improve the profile of Amy (Babcock) Gibbs (1808 - 1862)
5. Improve the profile of Ichabod Babcock Jr (1777 - 1821)
6. Improve the profile of Ichabod Babcock Sr (abt. 1745 - 1813)
7. Improve the profile of John Babcock II (abt. 1701 - abt. 1763)
8. Improve the profile of Job Babcock (abt. 1671 - bef. 1755)
9. Improve the profile (collaborate with the Rhode Island Project) of John Babcock (abt. 1644 - 1685)
10. Improve the profile (collaborate with the Rhode Island Project & Puritan Great Migration Project) of James Babcock (1612 - 1679)
11. Improve the profile of Robert Babcock (abt. 1758 - 1863)
12. Improve the profile of Charles Babcock born abt. 1785

Notables

1. Tim Milford Babcock (1919 - 2015)
2. Joshua Babcock (1707 - 1783)
3. Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858 - 1901)
4. George Reed Babcock (1806 - 1876)
5. Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843-1931)
6. George Waite Babcock (1751-___)
7. Edward Vose Babcock (1864 - 1948)
8. Alpheus Babcock (1785 - 1842)
9. George Herman Babcock (1832-1893)
10. General Orville E. Babcock (1835-1884)

African American Notables

1. Christiana (Babcock) Bannister (abt. 1820 - 1902)

Links

Quick links:

• NYHISTORICNEWSPAPERS: has many options for searching for your New York ancestor.

• One Rhode Island Family is a compendium of free online resources presented in PDF form . It contains Arnold's Rhode Island Vital Records presented by the towns they came from and many other valuable sources such as The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project (Use "control F" to search.)

• Babcock Notes for use with personal maintenance page and categories. For example see Fuller-5853 Babcock Notes.

• What links here

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Y-DNA_Babcock-Badcock_Project — to view insights provided by descendants who have a patrilineal Babcock-Badcock line (at least a genetic, if not surname, line) and who have Y-DNA tested

Sources

NOTE: Sources below are not intended to be presented in complete citations format. Purpose is to give quicker access to sources for your research:

Profiles of Sources are available to use as sources. Category: Sources by Name organizes many sources to help find them easier. These source pages have suggestions for use on profiles in the Sources section and as inline citations. The following alphabetic listing of Babcock related sources were located on Sources-Family Genealogies:

• Appleton, William S.; The Family of Badcock of Massachusetts 11 page booklet lists 5 generations and ends with will of George Badcocke.

• Babcock, A. Emerson: Isaiah Babcock, Sr. and His Descendants starting on page 802 of most versions of Stephen Babcock's work is included this earlier work.

• Babcock, Stephen; Babcock Genealogy

• Badger, Alice W.; Four Ancestral Lines and Descendants of Erastus Beethoven and Fanny Babcock (Campbell) Badger Available as search only on Hathitrust.

• Cleveland, Horace Gillette; A Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland See pages 196-199; index on page 256. (page 199's letter describes origin of Ashford Connecticut branch, separate from Westerly line and the Milton line).
• Wheeler, Richard Anson; History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut Search for BABCOCKs.

Other Sources:

• Aspinwall, by Algernon A; The Descendants of Ezekiel Maine of Stonington, Conn. pages that mention BABCOCKsl.

• Brown, Cyrus Henry; Brown Genealogy of Many of the Descendants of Thomas, John, and Eleazer Brown, Sons of Thomas and Mary (Newhall) Brown of Lynn, Mass. 1628-1907 search on Babcock; Boston: The Everett Press Company, 1907. contains lots of intermarriages with early American BABCOCKs (no results for BADCOCKs)

• De Forest, Louis Effingham. Babcock and allied families. (see pages 10-24 for details of three early American Babcock lines)

• Denison, Rev. Frederic, A. M., corresponding member of the Rhode Island Historical Society; Westerly (Rhode Ilsand) and its Witnesses, for Two Hundred and Fifty Years. 1626-1876. Including Charlestown, Hopkinton, and Richmond, Until Their Separate Organization, With the Principal Points of their Subsequent History. Search for BABCOCKs.

• Haynes, Williams. Stonington chronology, 1649-1949; being a year-by-year record of the American way of life in a Connecticut town Many Babcock References

• Milton records; births, marriages and deaths, 1662-1843 . A PDF with thorough Babcock Sections for Milton, Massachusetts Badcock Branch courtesy of Hathi Trust. [1] Also available via Internet Archives [2]

• The Narragansett historical register, a magazine devoted to the antiquities, genealogy and historical matter illustrating the history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations [3]

• Weaver, William L.; History of Windham, Ct. Genealogy. Containing a Genealogical Record of All the Early Families of Ancient Windham, Embracing the Present Towns of Windham, Mansfield, Hapton, Chaplin and Scotland. Part I, a. - BIL. Babcock family section on pages 50-58; Williamantic: Weaver & Curtiss. 1864.

Fraudulent or Seriously Flawed Sources

Goodman Genealogy Fabrication : Among some pre-1700 Babcocks you will find some profiles clearly labeled as fabrications to stop these false profiles from being duplicated or connected to the wikitree. The Goodman Fabrication was widely disseminated and created numerous fictional Babcock/Babcockes, but also associated some fictional data with real persons.

Albert Welles Fraud : A smaller set of inaccuracies about some key early American Babcocks was spread by Albert Welles and Royal Ralph Hinman. Genealogist Stephen Babcock discusses their errors in the introductory pages of "The Babcock Genealogy."

Watch for this tag:

This person is categorized as part of a known fraud or fabrication (Goodman Genealogy Fabrication). Join: Disproven Existence Adjunct Project Discuss: Disproven_Existence_Adjunct

A profile with that tag should not be connected to others nor should it be erased. Leaving it alone prevents recontamination of the wikitree.

Related Projects

• Some Babcock ancestors were also known as Seventh Day Baptists. Many Seventh Day Baptist families also heavily intermarried. It is not uncommon to see the same last names repeated in families. It may be useful to refer to the Seventh Day Baptist Church Project for further information.