Taliaferro, Robert

1626 - 1670  (44 years)

• Name	Taliaferro, Robert
  Birth	11 Nov 1626	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Nov 1670	Virginia, British America
  Person ID	I4911	Hastings-A
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	Taliaferro, Francis,   b. 25 Jan 1589, London, England d. Aug 1647 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Haie, Bennett,   b. 10 Oct 1589, England d. Jul 1642, England (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F1697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Debnam, Katherine,   b. 1630, Kent, England d. 1686, Virginia, British America (Age 56 years)
  Children	1. Taliaferro, Col John,   b. 1656, Virginia, British America d. 21 Jan 1720, Virginia, British America (Age 64 years)   2. Taliaferro, Francis,   b. 1654, Virginia, British America d. 1710, Virginia, British America (Age 56 years)   3. Taliaferro, Robert,   b. 1652, Virginia, British America d. 1688, Virginia, British America (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F1694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2025

  
  

• Notes

  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.