(Most of this info came from Barbara Breedlove Rollins? Family Files on the web)

Robert TALIAFERRO was baptized November 19, 1626, at Stepney, County Middlesez, England, at the age of eight days. He was the son of Francis TALIAFERRO and wife Bennett HAIE. About 1653, he married Katherine DEADMAN, the daughter of Henry (?) DEADMAN/DEDMAN and Katherine ____ DEADMAN/DEDMAN GRYMES. [See note below about her aka name of "Sarah Grymes."]  Katherine DEADMAN, the wife of Robert TALIAFERRO, died after November 20, 1672. Robert died in or before 1677, probably in Gloucester County, Virginia.

He settled in York County, Virginia, as early as 1647 and held lands in Gloucester County in 1655. Robert TALIAFERRO, the Immigrant, is normally described in the literature by that designation, probably to distinguish him from his son Robert. He and all his sons were protestants, and in the York County records, where the name first appears about 1645, the spelling is sometimes "Toliver," showing that the pronunciation was then very much as it is now.

They had at least seven children:

Francis Taliaferro (1654-1710) m. Elizabeth Catlett

John Talliaferro (1656-1720) m. Sarah Smith

Mary Talliaferro (1658-1695) m. Henry Johnson

Catherine Talliaferro (1660-1682)  m. John Battaille, no children

Charles Talliaferro (1663-1734) m. Mary Carter

Richard Talliaferro (1665-1712) m. (1) Elizabeth Eggleston, (2)Martha Sarah Wingfield

Robert Talliaferro (1667-1728) m (1) Sarah Catlett, (2) Margaret Buckner


NOTE: Katherine Deadman's father Debnam/Dedman/Deadman died and his widow Katherine married Rev. Charles Grymes by 1659. Grymes will, written in 1661, refers to all his step-daughters using their maiden surname of Grymes, implying they were yet to be married. He died in 1662 leaving only one child, John Grymes of Middlesex County 1660-1709.

