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SHORT HISTORY THE ROBY NAME

Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a  house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;

DOCTRINE & COVENANTS 88; 119

The great work of providing the saving ordinances for our kindred dead is a vital part of the threefold mission of the (LDS) Church. We do this work for a purpose, which is to redeem our dead ancestors. Temple work is essential for both us and our kindred dead who are waiting for these saving ordinances to be done for them. It is essential because “we without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect.”

They need the saving ordinances, and we need to be sealed to them.

For this reason it is important that we trace our family lines so that no one is left out.

arching for our kindred dead isn’t just a hobby. It is a responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.  We believe that families may continue in the next life if they have kept the special covenants made in one of the sacred temples under the authority of God. We believe that our deceased ancestors can also be eternally united with their families when we make covenants in their behalf in the temles. Our deceased forebears may accept these covenants, if they choose to do so, in the spirit world.

The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Prophet Joseph Smith explained te errible dilemma which would face God’s children without temple work for our dead. Said he: “One dies and is buried, having never heard the Gospel of reconciliation; to the other the message of salvation is sent, he hears and embraces it, and is made the heir of eternal life. Shall the one become the partaker of glory and the other be consigned to hopeless perdition? Is there no chance for his escape?” Fortunately our ancestors will have the opportunity to receive and accept the saving ordinances as we identify them and complete these sacred ordinances for them by proxy. We do for them what they cannot do for themselves. It is a very satisfying experience.

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Many of the authorities on family names, their histories, their derivations and mea nings, think that the distinctive and not uncommon surname of ROBY had its origin many centuries ago in Scandinavia. That region that now forms the three Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

  The name is thought to be a combination of nordic "ra" and "byr," - "ra" meaning a roe, or as in today's words, a nook or corner, and "byr" signifying our English preposition "by." So it seems that in the 11th or 12th centuries when family names were being adopted by the Christian races, some respectable freeholder of one of the Scandinavian countries, who lived in, or was associated with a nook of the countryside, took the name "RABYR" to distinguish himself from the other clans in the community.

   The founder of the ROBY family, however, was there quite early; because as early as the 12th and 13th centuries the family was well identified with the North of England County of Lancaster, where the name was known in that day as "RABI" - clearly showing the word root "ra." In the 14th century it had been changed, first to ROBI, and then to ROBY. This latter spelling seems to have existed throughout the 15th century, and even into the 16th century.

JOHN ROBY #2, b. 1455 in CASTLE DONINGTON, ENGLAND, d. 29 SEP 1515, buried in CASTLE DONINGTON, ENGLAND.      John Roby took part in Court Proceedings in October 1512; in March 1512/13 he was admitted tenant to two burgages (a tenure whereby lands were held for a certain annual rental). In June 1513, he was named at a Court at which William Roby and three others were admitted to three curtilages (a small piece of land attached to a dwelling and forming one enclosure with it). He died shortly before Michaelmas, 29 Sep 1515, leaving an heir Thomas Roby, and one daughter named Emmotte, or Emmot.

      There is a possibility that he had a daughter named Margaret, who married on 12 Nov 1515, at Castle Donington, to Edmunde, son of Thomas Piggott of Weston-on-Trent, (G. Notts, 1614).

      A son of Edmund and Margaret Roby Piggott, Gervase, acquired land in Thrumpton, (G.Notts, 1614).

      Gervase married 1st, wife's name unknown. Then married second, Jane Bradshaw, daughter of John Bradshaw of Burton-on-Trent, John dying on fourth of Feb 1611-12.  They had a daughter Elizabeth Piggott, b cir 1609, d 20 Mar 1634/35.

      The above named Margaret Roby, is not proven as a child of John Roby, but has been placed in this record as a possibility only.

     There are only two children named in this record, but it is possible there were others. No further records.

Land and church records positively place the Roby's as residents of Castle Donington from 1402, and through the following years, but positive evidence of the exact place of abode before 1400 is lacking. There is a record of a Robert Roby born in Castle Donington in 1261, and his son, Robert, was born in Castle Donington in 1290 and was buried in a vault under the church in Castle Donington in 1317. There are no currently existing records to connect the families from the late 1200's to the birth of John Roby in Castle Donington in 1455. The earliest known ancestor of the Robey family was John Roby (1455- 1515) who owned Castle Donington, England. One of his descendants, Henry Robie (1618-1688), immigrated to America and settled in New Hampshire. His many descendants and other people surnamed Robey, Roby and Robie live throughout the United States and canada as well as in Great Britain.

SOURCES: Most of the information on this family thru the first six generations, comes from the book, "Pedigree of Roby of  by Henry John Roby, published privately by him in 1889, and a supplement, published in 1907. A copy of the first book is on microfilm in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., and the second book is in the Library at Castle Donnington. W.G. Robey, the author of the Robey/Robie/Roby History published in 1994, has copies of both books in his possession. This book traced the family that remained in England. Where ever some member of the family migrated out of England, he did not trace that family any further. Henry John Roby served as a member of Parliament, and was a textile manufacturer. There are probably a great number of descendants of this family not accounted for, since he published his book in 1889 and the supplement in 1907. He died in 1910.