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Derek,
I'm going to massively condense this, as there is nothing more wearisome than reading through someone else's genealogy. :-) Hopefully you will find a familiar name or something useful to your own research.
My starting ancestors were my grandparents, James and Matilda Tabron, living in Halifax Co. James was the son of Ed Tabron, who to my knowledge was the first Tabron in our family to use the current spelling of our last name. Ed's other male children were Primus, John, Henry and Billy. (I'm naming the males only since the last name is passed along the paternal lines.) The Tabron School Rd. in Halifax Co. is named after the school he helped build.
Ed's parents were James H. and Delitha Ann Tayborn. Delitha's maiden name is Tayborn also. They had 18 children, the males being Turner, Wiley, De, Ed, Abe, Tom, Haywood and Lem. At this point (early to mid 1800s), most of the Tayborns I could locate were in Nash Co., not Halifax.
From this point I had to trace through Delitha Ann's family. Her father was Bolin Tabourne, who is the son of Burrell Tabourne. Burrell is the furthest back I could go. He was born about the mid-1700s, and served in the Revolutionary War.
General Tabourne information which might be useful: The furthest back I could locate the Tabourne family is around the mid-1700s in Northampton Co., where several of them suddenly showed up en masse in the state records. My suspicion is they were brothers, or perhaps cousins, who came down from Virginia, since the area they settled is very near the Virginia line. Northampton Co. eventually got divvied up into two or more counties, of which Nash Co. is one, which is why Tabournes suddenly showed up on Nash Co. records. It seems we've been spreading out from there ever since.
The bulk of the Tabourne family tended to be listed as mulatto and/or free persons of color in census, and made their living as farmers/landowners. The Halifax, Nash and Warren Co. areas had, in the 1700s and early 1800s, a large population of free blacks who were on apparently friendly terms with their neighbors.
If you can trace your family back to around the early or mid-1800s, then you will probably find the research of Paul Heinegg useful. He published a book with his findings on the free colored population of North Carolina during the colonial period. I can't for the life of me remember the name of his book. But the bulk of it is available on the web, so if you do a search on his name, you can probably find the site.
To quote him from a letter he sent me:
"I haven't yet found the origin of the Taborn family, but it is likely that they descended from a member of the Taborn family which lived in Virginia in the area north of Northampton - Granville. There's no record of a freed slave by that name, so they are probably descended from a white woman by that name."
Hope something in here is helpful.
Valerie
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