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Loofbourrow Family

About Our Website

Welcome to our Loofbourrow Website.   This site is focused around the Descendants and Ancestors of James Shanks Loofbourrow (1847-1907) and Mary Catherine Syfert (1845-1940), yet is contains interesting and valuable information on other ancestors and family branches. Information dating back to the 1600’s.  

James was the son of David Loofbourrow II (1799-1876) and the grandson of David Loofbourrow (1755-1846). James and Mary had several Children:

  • Laura Maud (1867-1868)
  • Irven Elmer (1868-1943)
  • John Abner (1872-1966)
  • Ella Jane (1876-1963)
  • Joseph David (1879-1966)
  • James Carl 1883-1903)
  • Benjamin Rex (1887-1972)
James Shanks Loofbourrow & Mary Catherine (Syfert) Loofbourrow

This site has a growing amount of information, including a section on Genealogy.   A photo archive of about 1,600 photos and 300 documents.  Additionally, there are audio recordings, books, various newsletters, newspaper articles, and other family history.  

While James Shanks Loofbourrow and Mary Catherine (Syfert) Loofbourrow and the Loofbourrow family as a whole are a centeral focus of the website, our family branches also contains considerable depth and informaiton on various branches of the family with surnames like:  Agnew, Barker, Day, Rittenhouse, Shanks, and Syfert. 

All suggestions and comments are welcome, just use the “Contact” webpage.

Ron Snow

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FAMILY NAMES

If you go back to the mid-1800’s, one set of family names we share are: Loofbourrow-Syfert , when in 1865 James Shanks Loofbourrow married Mary Catherine Syfert.  Their children married into yet other families:  Conlin, Agnew-Barker, Day, Easling, and Bates.  There was a bit of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, and Germany in the family at this point in the mid-1800s and most came from families that came to America in the late 1600’s.  James and Mary Catherine’s grand-children then continued to expand the connections to 17 additional families, and from the following generation scores more.  

Chances are you might not have the surname of Syfert, or Loofbourrow, but your ancestors did!  Maybe your linage came from unions since:  From the Day, Jones, Hockaday, Johnson, or from dozens of later unions.