Logsdon-Durbin Information

Logsdon Family notes 
Family lore has it that William Logsdon at about age 50 in approximately 
1702 selected a young Irish lass, Honora O'Flynn to be his wife. It is 

believed that Honora was kidnapped from Kerry County Ireland and brought 

aboard ship against her will to become a wife of an unmarried planter 

in Maryland. Later, a footnote in the "The Centenary of Catholicity 

in Kentucky" by the Hon. Ben, J. Webb stated: "Neither were the Durbins 

nor the Logsdons descended from stock that was known to be Catholic

beyond a couple of generations previous to the appearance in Kentucky 

of these families. An ancestor of one of the families intermarried 

with one Honora O'Flynn, an Irish girl of great piety and it was through 

her, no doubt, that is to be traced the Catholic faith." The records 

of St. Paul's Church of England established in baltimore include the marriage 

of Ann Logsdon to Samuel Durbin under date of July 4, 1723. Marriages 

during these times were required to be performed in the Protestant 

Episcopal Church instead of the Catholic Church. An intermarriage between 

Ann Durbin and Ralph Logsdon, both grandchildren of William Logsdon 

and Honora O'Flynn, they were first cousins, caused the above writing 

as intermarriages in the Catholic required approval of the church.

taken from Logsdon Family Notes