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Obomsawin Family Name

Last updated Mar-2010
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Probable Origins & Usage

  • Probably Missisquoi [Day]
  • Possibly Kennebec Abenaki
  • ponsáwinnó - fire tending person
    nopaosáwinnó - far walking person i.e. scout
    or naboômsawinnó - person who keeps following a trail [Day]
  • found only as a family name

Spellings & Alternate Names

  • Obomsawine
  • Obumsawin
  • Roberts
  • DeGonzague / de Gonzague
  • perhaps Abomazeen on the Kennebec River

Places Family is Found

  • Odanak
  • Missisquoi

Earliest Occurrences of the Name

  • perhaps Abomazeen, a chief from Norridgewock killed in 1724.
  • 1765 Joseph Abomsawin signed the Robertson lease of Missisquoi land.
  • 1769 Francois Xavier Abemesin was a chief at Odanak.

Notes

The Robert & de Gonzague families are believed to be a branch of the Obomsawin family. [Day]

A document written in 1882 and citing Maurault's history of the Abenaki claims that the Obomsawin family descends from a white captive brought to Odanak during the colonial wars.

One researcher believes that Pierre Joseph Robert Obomsawin of Odanak is the son of Joseph Robert Namur whose parents were married at Fort St. Frederick in 1751.

Biographies, Photos, Artifacts, Genealogies, etc.

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