Sunday, January 11, 2009

Book Review: "Botetourt County Virginia Marriages 1770-1853" with Last Name Index A-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s Botetourt County Virginia Marriages 1770-1853. Entries show both bride and groom's names, marriage bond or license date and sometimes witnesses, consents and other items of interest. This is a soft cover reprint by New Papyrus Co. of a 1987 original, contains two volumes for a total of 600 pages plus figures, appendices & fold-out map. Botetourt was formed from the southern portion of Augusta County and was the parent count for a total of 44 new counties, including much of the West Virginia area. This book contains a total of 5,211 marriage records including bonds, licenses and/or minister's returns.

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Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "HOUTZ Henry & Susanna Brown 4 Feb 1824; b - George Brown, father min - N H Cobbs (Prot. Epis.)"
  • "HOUPT George A. & Susanna Wingard 5 Mar 1851; license only"
The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abbott Abel Abersole Able Abshire Acains Acher Acton Adams Adkins Adney Agnue Aikin Aimix Airs Akin Akins Albright Alderson Alen Alexander Alford Alfred Allen Allison Alphin Alsup Alverson Amen Amens Ammen Amon Amyx Anderson Andrew Andrews Angel Angell Angle Anthony Arbuckle Archery Archey Armentrout Armontrout Arms Armstrong Armstrong Arnett Arnold Arrett Arrington Arter Arther Arthur Asbery Aschenbury Ashafelter Ashafetter Ashford Ashley Aston Atchley Atherton Atwood Augerman Augleman Auld Aunspaugh Austin Awl Ayres Baber Back Backens Backinsto Backus Baggs Bags Bailey Bailor Bails Bair Baird Baker Baldock Baldwin Ballard Baller Ballew Baltimore Banday Bandy Banister Banks Bannister Barber Barcly Bare Barger Barham Barker Barnard Barnes Barnett Barnett Barnhart Barns Barrett Barrit Bartlett Bartley Barton Basham Batey Baugh Baughann Baughman Bawler Basley Baxter Bayne Beagles Beale Beals Beamish Bean Beane Bear Beard Beath Beatty Beaubeau Beaver Becker Beckett Beckner Beech Beeher Been Beesaker Beice Belch Belew Belinger Bell Bellamy Bellew Belt Bennet Bennett Benny Benson Bentley Bernerd Berry Bess Betts Beverley Beverly Bibro Bice Bickelshimer Bickers Bickle Bierley Biggs Bigler Bilbre Bilbro Billhymer Bilups Bird Bise Bish Bishop Bittle Black Blackaby Blackeley Blackerby Blackwell Blain Blaker Bland Blane Blankenship Blaze Bless Blessing Blevens Blevins Blount Blunt Board Bobletts Bockman Bodkin Boehan Bogan Boggess Boggs Bolin Bolinger Bolton Boly Bomgardner Bomgarner Bond Bondurant Bonner Bosack Book Booker Boone Boons Boose Booth Booze Borden Boring Borndrager Bosserman Bossford Bosters Boswell Bott Botton Bough Boughen Boughman Boulton Bow Bowen Bower Bowers Bowlin Bowlinger Bowyer Boyd Boyer Boyers Boyl Boyle Brace Brackenridge Brad Bradford Bradley Bradly Brads Bradshaw Brady Brafford Bragg Bratcher Bratton Brawley Breadwell Breckenridge Breedan Breedlove Brewbaker Brewster Brian Brians Briant Brickey Brickman Bridewell Bridgeland Bridger Bridges Bridgewater Briggs Bright Brim Brines Brinkley Brinman Briot Brit Brits Britt Britts Britz Broadwater Brogan Bromfield Bronaman Bronamer Bronomar Bronomer Broockman Brookman Brooks Brothers Brough Broughman Brown Brownlee Broy Broyles Brubaker Brubecker Brugh Brughman Brumfield Brumer Brunamer Brunamon Brunmer Brunk Brunnamer Brush Bryan Bryans Bryant Buchanan Buck Buckey Buckhanan Buckhannan Buckhannon Buckingham Buford Buglar Bugler Buhrman Bumgardner Bumgarner Bundain Bunger Buram Burch Burger Burgess Burgh Burk Burke Burket Burkett Burkholder Burks Burndraker Burne Burnett Burns Burwell Buser Bush Busey Bussy Buster Butcher Butler Butt Buttry Butts Byerley Byerly Byers Byrd Cade Cahoon Cain Cairfman Calbreath Calbreth Caldwell Cale Calender Caler Calhoon Calhoun Callaghan Callaghen Callander Callender Callis Calvert Calwell Camden Cammell Campbell Camper Camron Canode Car Carden Cares Carfman Carleton Carlisle Carlton Carn Carnes Carney Carns Carpenter Carper Carral Carrel Carrell Carroll Carroll Carsner Carson Carter Cartin Cartmill Caruthers Carven Carvin Casey Cash Cashman Casteel Castile Carlett Caton Cauldwell Caves Cawthon Cents Centz Cesler Cesslar Cessler Chambers Champ Chapman Chappel Chatting Cheek Chenoweth Chenowith Cherry Childress Chinowith Chinwith Chittum Chitwood Chivers Chrisman Christian Cifford Circle Claiborn Claiborne Claige Clair Clancey Clancy Clapsaddle Clare Clark Clarke Class Claughton Claxton Cleage Clear Clegg Clemens Clemmons Clency Clerkin Click Clifton Cline Clinebell Clinmebell Close Cloyd Cluck Clure Cluskey Coalter Coans Coap Cofer Coffee Coffman Cohar Coin Coiner Cole Coleman Coley Collins Colter Colters Combs Commins Compton Comstock Cornnell Conner Consalver Consolver Cook Coon Cooney Cooper Cop Copland Copp Coppinger Corfman Cornelius Cornell Correll Cosby Coulter Cousins Cowdon Cowen Cowper Cox Crabb Craddock Cradoch Crafford Craft Craig Crater Crawford Crebbin Cressee Cressoe Crider Crill Crisser Crist Crites Critz Crockett Croddy Crodian Crofford Croft Croser Cross Crouch Crouder Croul Crouse Crow Crowder Crowe Crowel Crowell Crowl Crows Crump Crumpacker Crumpecker Crush Crutchfield Cruz Culbertson Culhoon Culnan Cumerford Cummerford Cumming Cummings Cummons Cumpton Cundiff Cunliffe Cunningham Cupps Cups Curd Curtis Curtnir Custard Custer Custerd Dabney Dade Dagger Dalton Dame Damewood Damood Damrel Damron Danavan Daniel Dansanti Darby Dare Darr Daugherty Davidson Davis Davison Dawny Dawson Day Daylong Deacon Deacons Deadorf Deads Deal Dean Deardorf Deaton Deckinson Decks Deeds Deel Deele Denn Defoe Dehart Deisher Dejarnatt Delbridge Delong Delridge Delzel Delzell Dempsey Denby Dennis Denny Dent Denton Depew Dermon Derrick Devanny Devise Dewese Dewhit Deyerle Dickeson Dickey Dickinson Dickson Dicky Diet Digges Dill Dillard Dillen Dillman Dillon Dilman Dingledine Dirgan Disher Dishman Dixon Dixton Dobb Doble Dodd Dodge Dogan Doherty Dollard Dollman Dolman Dolmon Donaghe Donaho Dooley Doosing Doss Dougherty Douglas Douglass Douthat Dow Dowdy Dowens Downer Downey Drais Drake Draper Dresler Drummand Drummond Drumons Duckwyler Duddin Dudding Dudgin Dudley Duff Dugan Duke Dulaney Dulany Dunathan Dunbar Duncan Dunlop Dunn Dunnavant Dunovan Durham Durman Duval Duvall Dwier Dwyer Dyarnatt Dyerle Dyerly Dykes Dysher Eads Eagan Eager Eagle Eagleson Eaken Eakes Eakin Eakins Earhart Early Eason Eavans Eby Echolds Eckhols Eckis Edde Eddington Eddis Eddy Edengton Edens Edgar Edgars Edington Edmiston Edmondson Edwards Elam Elder Eldrick Eller Elliott Ellison Ellmore Elmore Elsroad Elsrode Eltzroth Elutherreth Emmans Emmons Emrick Ender Enders Engard Engart Engle Englehart Engles English Entsminger Entzminger Epard Eperson Eply Eppard Erwin Esridge Estes Etsler Etter Etzlar Etzler Eubank Eubanks Eurich Evans Evens Eversole Evilsizer Evins Ewing Eybank Fag Fagg Fairfax Falls Fanning Faris Fariss Farley Farmer Farrar Farrer Farrier Farris Farrow Farver Fascher Fasler Faught Faulconer Fauster 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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello Kevin,

I found your blog while doing some "googling" for my wife's family. Given your background, I'll take the risk to ask if you might have some suggestions.

My wife's maiden's name is Barnes. I've been researching this line for several years using Ancestry.com records and also making 2 trips to court houses in Bristol Virginia and more recently to Salem Virginia and record repositories in Roanoke and Botetourt county.

I've traced my wife's line back to Aaron Barnes who lived approximately 1805 (between 1800 and 1810 birth). Aaron Barnes was a pretty influential resident of Salem. He is in all the early Roanoke County histories as a tavern owner, petitioner for the formation of Roanoake County, a constable of the new county and even a State Assemblyman from 1843 - 1844 when he apparently took ill and resigned. He died in Feb 1845. I believe it is very likely that his father was Thomas Barnes and his mother was Ingabo Ruddell of Botetourt County. The family naming conventions draws heavily from the family names using family names such as Byrd. Thomas Barnes appears to be a Junior.

Thomas and Ingabo married in 1799. They appear in the 1810 - 1840 federal census records and consistently the age ranged indicate that Thomas would have been born between 1770 - 1780. The records of Orange County, Augusta County and Botetourt County (which all covered the area near Fincastle and Roanoke) from 1740 - 1785 are filled with references to Thomas Barnes as a land owner (at Tinker Creek off of the Roan Oak), road surveyor and tithable supporter of road work, jury member, witness to deeds etc.

I've found him in the Southwest Annuls of Virginia, as a Vestryman in 1770 (which maybe means he was Anglican/Episcopal).

I've about exhausted the Ancestry.com records and it looks to me that the courthouse records are pretty well convered in these databases.

I live reasonably close to Roanoke and am thinking of making another trip for some in person research. I'm aware of the Botetourt records in Fincastle and looked there before. I haven't done much with regard to pre 1770 for Augusta County or Orange County before then.

Do you have any suggestions as to where to go from here?

Thanks,

Bart Breen
Sterling, VA