Updated information Jan 27, 2011: James M Roberdeau married (1) Mildred Lancaster Denny who died about before 1818. He married in 1822 Martha Lane Tripplet d/o James E Tripplet. This is under study. See arcicle "Who build Royal Oaks"
by Cheryl Repetti
James Roberdeau lived at Royal Oaks in Fairfax Co Va. It passed to his daughter, Jane Roberdeau who in 1841 married Walter Powell. They sold it about 1845 to Robert M Whaley and wife Mary Pritchartt. They lived at Royal Oaks until about 1869.
Source:
Fairfax County, Virginia Gravestone: Other Centerville Area Cemeteries
CN 60
Volume IV
Western Section: Centerville, Chantilly, Herndon, Reston and Surrouding Areas
Fairfax Genealogical Society - 1997
Roberdeau Family Cemetery
The Roberdeau family home "Royal Oaks" was located on the northeast corner of the present-day intersection of Braddock Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). All that is left of the large house is the old stone wall which can be seen along Braddock Road. Inside the entrance in the wall is a densely overgrown and heavily wooded area strewn with old tires, bottles, limbs and branches. One large old oak tree stands near the center of the property. According to a for sale sighn, there are 4.4 acres at the site, zoned for commercian use.
Royal Oaks was built by Newton Keene, Sr. between 1765 and 1790, according to an article in the 15 Oct 1987 issue of Centre View. The house was eventually owned by Edmund Denny Roberdeau, wife of James Milligan Roberdeau. James and Martha Roberdeau are said to be buried on the grounds of Royal Oaks. Works Progress Administration of the Va Historical Surveys were submitted on Royal Oaks in 1937 and 1938. The 1938 report describes the house "as a two story, frame house iwth stone foundation and large stone chimneys, one at each end of the original part" of the house. This account states that James Milligan Roberdeau was the son of Gen Daniel Roberdeau, a member of the Continental Congress. Gen. Roberdeau was married first to Mary Bostwick, by whom he had 4 children, and then to Jane Milligan, by whom he had 3 children.
The 1937 WPA report states that James M Roberdeau was b in Alexandria, Va in 1785 and died in Centerville on 10 Mar 1832. According th this account, the family cemetery was a few feet nw of the old north chimney.
According th the Centre View article and to the WPA reports, Union Gen JOhn Pope used Royal Oaks as his headquarters during the Civil War. For almost 100 years a glass insulator, part of the telegraph communications system for Gen Pope, hung in one of the old oak trees near the NW room where Pope had his office. In 1959, Royal Oaks was dismantled and transported to Faquier Co, Va to be reassembled, a project which was never completed. The glass insulator eventually went to Faquier Co along with the dismantled house.
end.
See this article on old survey 1937 by A B Carter of Royal Oaks
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
"Royal Oaks", an old homestead was built by General Roberdeau for his son on the
site of an old Indian camping ground.
In an unmarked grave a few feet northwest of the old north chimney lies buried
James Milligan Roberdeau, born in Alexandria in 1785, a member of the
Continental Congress, a Major in the British Army and a lineal descendant of
William the Conqueror and Robert Bruce. He died in Centerville March 10, 1832.
In 1865, then the Forts of Centerville were occupied by General Pope he made
headquarters for the Union army at the old homestead known as "Royal Oaks".
Pope's office was in the northwest room on the second floor, and there is a
glass insulator still hanging on one of the majestic oak trees, that overtop the
house, which was part of General Pope's field telegraph after the War Between
the States.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: Alfred B. Carter, Clifton Station, Virginia
Update 2/1/2016 additional information: Concerning his first wife, they married in January 1818, and she died shortly after the birth of their third child in 1821.
See this link: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrober00buch
Page 128-129.
by Cheryl Repetti
James Roberdeau lived at Royal Oaks in Fairfax Co Va. It passed to his daughter, Jane Roberdeau who in 1841 married Walter Powell. They sold it about 1845 to Robert M Whaley and wife Mary Pritchartt. They lived at Royal Oaks until about 1869.
Source:
Fairfax County, Virginia Gravestone: Other Centerville Area Cemeteries
CN 60
Volume IV
Western Section: Centerville, Chantilly, Herndon, Reston and Surrouding Areas
Fairfax Genealogical Society - 1997
Roberdeau Family Cemetery
The Roberdeau family home "Royal Oaks" was located on the northeast corner of the present-day intersection of Braddock Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). All that is left of the large house is the old stone wall which can be seen along Braddock Road. Inside the entrance in the wall is a densely overgrown and heavily wooded area strewn with old tires, bottles, limbs and branches. One large old oak tree stands near the center of the property. According to a for sale sighn, there are 4.4 acres at the site, zoned for commercian use.
Royal Oaks was built by Newton Keene, Sr. between 1765 and 1790, according to an article in the 15 Oct 1987 issue of Centre View. The house was eventually owned by Edmund Denny Roberdeau, wife of James Milligan Roberdeau. James and Martha Roberdeau are said to be buried on the grounds of Royal Oaks. Works Progress Administration of the Va Historical Surveys were submitted on Royal Oaks in 1937 and 1938. The 1938 report describes the house "as a two story, frame house iwth stone foundation and large stone chimneys, one at each end of the original part" of the house. This account states that James Milligan Roberdeau was the son of Gen Daniel Roberdeau, a member of the Continental Congress. Gen. Roberdeau was married first to Mary Bostwick, by whom he had 4 children, and then to Jane Milligan, by whom he had 3 children.
The 1937 WPA report states that James M Roberdeau was b in Alexandria, Va in 1785 and died in Centerville on 10 Mar 1832. According th this account, the family cemetery was a few feet nw of the old north chimney.
According th the Centre View article and to the WPA reports, Union Gen JOhn Pope used Royal Oaks as his headquarters during the Civil War. For almost 100 years a glass insulator, part of the telegraph communications system for Gen Pope, hung in one of the old oak trees near the NW room where Pope had his office. In 1959, Royal Oaks was dismantled and transported to Faquier Co, Va to be reassembled, a project which was never completed. The glass insulator eventually went to Faquier Co along with the dismantled house.
end.
See this article on old survey 1937 by A B Carter of Royal Oaks
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
"Royal Oaks", an old homestead was built by General Roberdeau for his son on the
site of an old Indian camping ground.
In an unmarked grave a few feet northwest of the old north chimney lies buried
James Milligan Roberdeau, born in Alexandria in 1785, a member of the
Continental Congress, a Major in the British Army and a lineal descendant of
William the Conqueror and Robert Bruce. He died in Centerville March 10, 1832.
In 1865, then the Forts of Centerville were occupied by General Pope he made
headquarters for the Union army at the old homestead known as "Royal Oaks".
Pope's office was in the northwest room on the second floor, and there is a
glass insulator still hanging on one of the majestic oak trees, that overtop the
house, which was part of General Pope's field telegraph after the War Between
the States.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: Alfred B. Carter, Clifton Station, Virginia
Update 2/1/2016 additional information: Concerning his first wife, they married in January 1818, and she died shortly after the birth of their third child in 1821.
See this link: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrober00buch
Page 128-129.
Updated information Jan 27, 2011: James M Roberdeau married (1) Mildred Lancaster Denny who died about before 1818. He married in 1822 Martha Lane Tripplet d/o James E Tripplet. This is under study. See arcicle "Who build Royal Oaks"
by Cheryl Repetti
James Roberdeau lived at Royal Oaks in Fairfax Co Va. It passed to his daughter, Jane Roberdeau who in 1841 married Walter Powell. They sold it about 1845 to Robert M Whaley and wife Mary Pritchartt. They lived at Royal Oaks until about 1869.
Source:
Fairfax County, Virginia Gravestone: Other Centerville Area Cemeteries
CN 60
Volume IV
Western Section: Centerville, Chantilly, Herndon, Reston and Surrouding Areas
Fairfax Genealogical Society - 1997
Roberdeau Family Cemetery
The Roberdeau family home "Royal Oaks" was located on the northeast corner of the present-day intersection of Braddock Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). All that is left of the large house is the old stone wall which can be seen along Braddock Road. Inside the entrance in the wall is a densely overgrown and heavily wooded area strewn with old tires, bottles, limbs and branches. One large old oak tree stands near the center of the property. According to a for sale sighn, there are 4.4 acres at the site, zoned for commercian use.
Royal Oaks was built by Newton Keene, Sr. between 1765 and 1790, according to an article in the 15 Oct 1987 issue of Centre View. The house was eventually owned by Edmund Denny Roberdeau, wife of James Milligan Roberdeau. James and Martha Roberdeau are said to be buried on the grounds of Royal Oaks. Works Progress Administration of the Va Historical Surveys were submitted on Royal Oaks in 1937 and 1938. The 1938 report describes the house "as a two story, frame house iwth stone foundation and large stone chimneys, one at each end of the original part" of the house. This account states that James Milligan Roberdeau was the son of Gen Daniel Roberdeau, a member of the Continental Congress. Gen. Roberdeau was married first to Mary Bostwick, by whom he had 4 children, and then to Jane Milligan, by whom he had 3 children.
The 1937 WPA report states that James M Roberdeau was b in Alexandria, Va in 1785 and died in Centerville on 10 Mar 1832. According th this account, the family cemetery was a few feet nw of the old north chimney.
According th the Centre View article and to the WPA reports, Union Gen JOhn Pope used Royal Oaks as his headquarters during the Civil War. For almost 100 years a glass insulator, part of the telegraph communications system for Gen Pope, hung in one of the old oak trees near the NW room where Pope had his office. In 1959, Royal Oaks was dismantled and transported to Faquier Co, Va to be reassembled, a project which was never completed. The glass insulator eventually went to Faquier Co along with the dismantled house.
end.
See this article on old survey 1937 by A B Carter of Royal Oaks
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
"Royal Oaks", an old homestead was built by General Roberdeau for his son on the
site of an old Indian camping ground.
In an unmarked grave a few feet northwest of the old north chimney lies buried
James Milligan Roberdeau, born in Alexandria in 1785, a member of the
Continental Congress, a Major in the British Army and a lineal descendant of
William the Conqueror and Robert Bruce. He died in Centerville March 10, 1832.
In 1865, then the Forts of Centerville were occupied by General Pope he made
headquarters for the Union army at the old homestead known as "Royal Oaks".
Pope's office was in the northwest room on the second floor, and there is a
glass insulator still hanging on one of the majestic oak trees, that overtop the
house, which was part of General Pope's field telegraph after the War Between
the States.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: Alfred B. Carter, Clifton Station, Virginia
Update 2/1/2016 additional information: Concerning his first wife, they married in January 1818, and she died shortly after the birth of their third child in 1821.
See this link: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrober00buch
Page 128-129.
by Cheryl Repetti
James Roberdeau lived at Royal Oaks in Fairfax Co Va. It passed to his daughter, Jane Roberdeau who in 1841 married Walter Powell. They sold it about 1845 to Robert M Whaley and wife Mary Pritchartt. They lived at Royal Oaks until about 1869.
Source:
Fairfax County, Virginia Gravestone: Other Centerville Area Cemeteries
CN 60
Volume IV
Western Section: Centerville, Chantilly, Herndon, Reston and Surrouding Areas
Fairfax Genealogical Society - 1997
Roberdeau Family Cemetery
The Roberdeau family home "Royal Oaks" was located on the northeast corner of the present-day intersection of Braddock Road and Lee Highway (Route 29). All that is left of the large house is the old stone wall which can be seen along Braddock Road. Inside the entrance in the wall is a densely overgrown and heavily wooded area strewn with old tires, bottles, limbs and branches. One large old oak tree stands near the center of the property. According to a for sale sighn, there are 4.4 acres at the site, zoned for commercian use.
Royal Oaks was built by Newton Keene, Sr. between 1765 and 1790, according to an article in the 15 Oct 1987 issue of Centre View. The house was eventually owned by Edmund Denny Roberdeau, wife of James Milligan Roberdeau. James and Martha Roberdeau are said to be buried on the grounds of Royal Oaks. Works Progress Administration of the Va Historical Surveys were submitted on Royal Oaks in 1937 and 1938. The 1938 report describes the house "as a two story, frame house iwth stone foundation and large stone chimneys, one at each end of the original part" of the house. This account states that James Milligan Roberdeau was the son of Gen Daniel Roberdeau, a member of the Continental Congress. Gen. Roberdeau was married first to Mary Bostwick, by whom he had 4 children, and then to Jane Milligan, by whom he had 3 children.
The 1937 WPA report states that James M Roberdeau was b in Alexandria, Va in 1785 and died in Centerville on 10 Mar 1832. According th this account, the family cemetery was a few feet nw of the old north chimney.
According th the Centre View article and to the WPA reports, Union Gen JOhn Pope used Royal Oaks as his headquarters during the Civil War. For almost 100 years a glass insulator, part of the telegraph communications system for Gen Pope, hung in one of the old oak trees near the NW room where Pope had his office. In 1959, Royal Oaks was dismantled and transported to Faquier Co, Va to be reassembled, a project which was never completed. The glass insulator eventually went to Faquier Co along with the dismantled house.
end.
See this article on old survey 1937 by A B Carter of Royal Oaks
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
"Royal Oaks", an old homestead was built by General Roberdeau for his son on the
site of an old Indian camping ground.
In an unmarked grave a few feet northwest of the old north chimney lies buried
James Milligan Roberdeau, born in Alexandria in 1785, a member of the
Continental Congress, a Major in the British Army and a lineal descendant of
William the Conqueror and Robert Bruce. He died in Centerville March 10, 1832.
In 1865, then the Forts of Centerville were occupied by General Pope he made
headquarters for the Union army at the old homestead known as "Royal Oaks".
Pope's office was in the northwest room on the second floor, and there is a
glass insulator still hanging on one of the majestic oak trees, that overtop the
house, which was part of General Pope's field telegraph after the War Between
the States.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: Alfred B. Carter, Clifton Station, Virginia
Update 2/1/2016 additional information: Concerning his first wife, they married in January 1818, and she died shortly after the birth of their third child in 1821.
See this link: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofrober00buch
Page 128-129.
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