William Arbuckle: Robin's Roots

1752 - 1836 (84 years)

TNG Ancestor Charts

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box. Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box. They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree.. Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read, and are virtually impossible to print. (But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts. These flow down up instead of across the page. Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database, they are more compact than the "Standard" charts. But you cannot pull down additional data from each box. And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape, but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down from the "Standard" chart boxes. As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart. They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page, but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map. The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map. It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll wheel or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts, with lines drawn from person-to-person. They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG. They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They are much more compact than the text charts, partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing. The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts, stretch vertically rather than horizontally, and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page (albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures; they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it. (They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.) Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.

Less detail

Generation: 1

William Arbuckle was born on 3 Mar 1752 in Balcony Falls, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA (son of James Arbuckle, Sr and Margaret Thompson); died on 21 Mar 1836 in Mason County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Occupation: Farmer
Will: 21 Jan 1835, Mason County, West Virginia, USA
Probate: 5 Sep 1836, Mason County, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

William Arbuckle was the third husband of Catherine Madison, who, when she married William, was 25 years old, twice widowed, and with two children. William and Catherine had 8 children together, and he lived to the age of 84 in Mason County (now in West Virginia), just a few miles from Point Pleasant.
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William was at Fort Randolph in Point Pleasant for the famous Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, but he later described himself as a "volunteer soldier". My guess is that he was given an assignment at the fort by his much older brother Capt Matthew Arbuckle. He is somtimes credited Matthew's military accomplishment, but there is no contemporary evidence that he served in the militia. In fact, his application for a Revolutionary War pension was denied for that very reason.

Will:
He left bequests to the four daughters who survived him and to several grandchildren. He left $1 to be shared by the seven or eight sons and daughters of his late daughter Jane McMullin "by way of Remembrance". He similarly left $1 to his daughters Margaret James, Catherine Craig, & Elizabeth Alexander, though he left his blacksmith tools and his shop property to Elizabeth's husband, Samuel. His daughter Mary Nelson and several grandsons received $100 notes that were due to him from Samuel Alexander. He also left a shotgun and a rifle to two grandsons.
His executors were his "friends" (and sons-in-law) John G Nelson and Sam'l Alexander.

Buried:
GRid=34837010; Very old stone; almost disintegrated. A new monument reads "ARTIFICER VA TROOPS REV WAR". An "artificer" is a craftsman who specializes in the construction of artillery or fortification systems.

William married Catherine Madison on 30 Oct 1779 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA. Catherine (daughter of Humphrey Madison and Mary Dickinson) was born in 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 18 Jul 1818 in Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
She is listed as Katherine Pogue

Children:

Jane Madison Arbuckle was born on 2 Apr 1780 in Fort Union, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; died in Sep 1826.
Margaret Thompson Arbuckle was born on 26 Mar 1782 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died after 21 Jan 1835.
Mary (Polly) Dickinson Arbuckle was born on 4 Apr 1784 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died on 13 Sep 1847 in Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Gilmore Cemetery, Madison County, Indiana, USA.
William Arbuckle, Jr. was born on 26 Nov 1788 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died in 1805 in Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
Elizabeth Arbuckle was born on 15 Jul 1790 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died on 29 Jul 1861 in Mason County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Samuel Alexander Cemetery, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
Catharine (Kitty) Brown Arbuckle was born on 11 Jul 1793 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died on 16 Oct 1859 in Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
Frances Littlepage Arbuckle was born on 11 Jul 1793 in Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA; died in Dec 1801 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
Nancy Arbuckle was born on 8 Sep 1796 in Kanawha City, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA; died on 21 Dec 1801 in Kanawha City, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.

Generation: 2

James Arbuckle, Sr was born on 30 Aug 1713 in Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scotland (son of John Arbuckle and Margaret Bartholomew); died in Apr 1783 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Name: James Arbuckle
Arrival: Bef 1740, Virginia, USA; Before the birth of their first son
Residence: 1749, Balcony Falls, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; "Greenbrier pioneers and their homes" says that he settled on land on the James River granted by King George II. A letter from his grandson James II says that he lived for a time on the James RIver, and his son William was born in 1752 in Balcony Falls
Residence: 5 Sep 1749, Augusta County, Virginia, USA; Purchase of 400 acres on the North side of the James River, below the Isand Ford
Residence: 1779, Accomack County, Virginia, USA
Residence: 1780, Accomack County, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=90938675; short bio, no photo

James married Margaret Thompson on 12 Feb 1734 in Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Margaret was born on 1 Jan 1714 in Scotland; died in 1761 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret Thompson was born on 1 Jan 1714 in Scotland; died in 1761 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.

Notes:

Died:
GRid=96521594; no photos; minimal biographical information

Children:

Captain Matthew Arbuckle was born on 15 Jul 1740 in Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; died on 27 Jul 1781 in Jackson River, Bath County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.
John Arbuckle was born on 17 Mar 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died in 1774.
Thomas Arbuckle was born on 2 Nov 1747 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Jun 1843 in Jefferson County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Adams Cemetery, New Washington, Clark County, Indiana, USA.
1. William Arbuckle was born on 3 Mar 1752 in Balcony Falls, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA; died on 21 Mar 1836 in Mason County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Craig-Douglas Cemetery, Grimms Landing, Mason County, West Virginia, USA.
Elizabeth Arbuckle was born in 1757 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA; died on 17 Oct 1813 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA.

Generation: 3

4.	John Arbuckle was born in 1686 in Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scotland; died in 1717 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other Events and Attributes: Baptism: 9 Sep 1686, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland John married Margaret Bartholomew. Margaret was born in 1685 in Scotland; died in 1766. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret Bartholomew was born in 1685 in Scotland; died in 1766.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1762, Augusta County, Virginia, USA

Children:

2. James Arbuckle, Sr was born on 30 Aug 1713 in Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scotland; died in Apr 1783 in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.


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