TAMBEAU/MORSE/LAMBERT/NINEHAM/WILLIAMS/JOHNSON Genealogy

Unlike many of the other genealogies that comprise the DreifussBros Genealogy, these families have been deeply rooted in the US for hundreds of years. Reliable Western European records go back much further. Research on this family subset has been a primary focus in the last 2 years. A recent ethnicity estimate from an autosomal DNA analysis of living descendant of this family group is: 33% English and NW European, 29% Scottish,  21 % Irish and 9% Welsh. Current research includes identifying the Scottish sources, which is known only to be a part of the Tambeau or Ninehan ancestry.

 

 

TAMBEAU, TAMBOS, TOMBOW, TOMBO, TAMBO, TOMBEAU (Holland)

 

The Tambeau family history appears to be as rich as the number of spellings that exist for the surname since the first known TOMBOS first set foot in America. William Tambos was a child when he arrived from Holland about 1802. Y-DNA analysis of men descending from William have a genetic profile commonly found in other men from Groningen, Holland. Oral history passed down among the family preserves that the name is of Black Dutch origin. However the meaning of Black Dutch has not been clarified. Theories include Dutch who came from the Black Forest and Sephardic Jews who came from Spain in the middle ages but there is no consensus.

 

MORSE, LAMBERT, NINEHAN, LOFTUS (England)

 

The MORSE and LAMBERT families we are interested in trace back to the original settlers in the US, generally in Massachusetts.  The MORSE family ancestral tree inludes early settlers of Sudbury and Framingham, Massachusetts with many involved in the Revolutionary War and hostilities with native American tribes in and around Sudbury. The NINEHAM family, including the LOFTUS branch, are much more recent immigrants to the United States with much of family still in England. The NINEHAM surname has evolved into NINEHAN in the U.S. in the paper trail of records uncovered.

 

WILLIAMS (Wales)

 

The WILLLIAMS family, with deep ancestry in Wales are also more recent immigrants to the U.S.

 

JOHNSON, LUNDBERG (Sweden)

 

Arvin JOHNSON and Emily Lundberg arrived from Sweden separately in the US in 1872, married and settled in Worcester, Massachusetts. Their youngest daughter Elsie Johnson married Howard Charles Morse about 1921.

 

Significant contributions to the information on these pages has been provided by Lee, Allyson (Morse) and Jaymes Tambeau. The book, "TAMBOS, TOMBO, TOMBOW from 1780's" by Dorothy T Boulware. We are also indebted to Patrick Tombeau's work and a recent collaboration with Karen Wiltshire in the United Kingdom.

 

The genealogy records of this branch of our family were last uploaded on 5 October 2021 and now number 806.