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Olde Robert Selfe" -- according to www.ancestry.com. He was a wealthy man who paid the passage
for 6 unrelated people from England to Virginia.
Source for this line: (Elizabeth Thring)
Most
researchers believe that Olde Robert Selfe was the ancestor of most of the Self family in America. Arriving in Virginia in
the 1600s, Robert Selfe appears to have been related to the prosperous Selfe family prominent in Wiltshire, England in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but a definite link has yet to be established. The name "Self" is thought to be a shortened
version of "Seawolf," dating back to the early Viking voyages along the English coast. Many courageous Selfs became pioneers
in our country's expansion westward, and the descendants of Robert Selfe were soon residents of the Southeastern United States
from Virginia to Texas with several families settling in the midwest. Today, the Self name can be found in all fifty states.
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