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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Book Review: "Caroline County Virginia Court Records, 1742-1833 & Marriages 1782-1810" with Last Name Index A-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of "Caroline County Virginia Court Records, 1742-1833 & Marriages 1782-1810", transcribed & edited by William Lindsay Hopkins,1987, reprinted 1995, 8x10, 197 pages with index, perfect-bound, paperback, printed on acid-free stock by New Papyrus Publishing of Athens, Georgia. Caroline County was established in 1728 from portions of Essex, King and Queen and King William Counties and suffered major losses of its records over time so this book is a valuable resource. It contains many chancery suits, court records and papers, legislative petitions, appeals and land causes, wills, historical papers, criminal suits, estate papers, guardian papers and marriages.

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Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Suit of Churchill Blakey administrator of his wife, Ann Blackey, decd., who was Ann Chowning a daughter of William Chowning, decd., John Chowning and Catherine Chowning his wife another daughter of William Chowning, decd., and William T. Yerby, executor of Lucy Street, decd., who was another daughter of William Chowning, decd., in chancery court in Williamsburg in 1809 against William Newby and Pritchard Newby, administrators of Oswald Newby, decd. 12 May 1811"
  • "Graves, Benjamin and Sarah Martin, daughter of John Martin, 24 Jan 1804. Sec. and Wit: William Guy Sears. Pt. 1, p. 7"
The following is a list of names made from an index at the end of the book:

Abbott Abraham Abrahams Acre Adams Adcock Aimes Alcock Alexander Allen Allport Almond Alsoop Alsop Ames Amiss Amos Ancarrow Anderson Andrews Apperson Archer Armatt Armistead Armstrong Armistead Asker Atkins Atkinson Atkinston Austin Auston Ayers Ayres Aytette Baber Badgar Bagby Baggott Bagot Bailey Baily Baker Baley Baliey Ball Ballard Bankhead Banks Barbee Barbour Barby Barker Barlow Barnes Barnett Barnett Barret Barrett Bartin Bassett Bastian Bates Battaile Battalie Baughan Bautes Baxter Bayler Baylor Baynham Beacham Beale Beazley Beck Beckham Beckwith Bell Bench Bendal Bendall Benness Berkley Bernard Berriman Berry Berryman Bertier Beverely Beverley Bibb Bill Bird Blackburb Blackburn Blackey Blackston Blackwell Blake Blakey Blanton Bloxton Blunt Boggs Bogle Bohannon Boler Boleware Bolin Botware Bonds Booker Booten Booth Bosher Bosley Bostey Boulawre Boulware Bourn Bourne Bousher Boutwell Bowcock Bowen Bowers Bowie Bowlar Bowler Bowles Braddus Bradford Bradley Brame Bramham Branan Brand Branghile Branham Bransam Branscome Bransom Bransome Bransum Braoddus Braxton Bream Breedlove Bridgeford Bridger Bridges Briggs Broaddus Broadie Broadnax Broadus Brock Briokenbrough Broks Bromfield Bromley Brook Brooke Brookes Brooking Brooks Brown Browne Bruce Brumley Brumskill Bryant Buchannon Buckanan Bucker Buckhannon Buckner Bullard Bullock Bumpass Burch Burchell Burk Burke Burnett Burnley Burriss Burroughes Burrus Burruss Burton Burwell Bush Butler Buynnam Caffrey Calhoun Callis Calliss Cammack Camp Campbell Cannaday Cannon Care Carlton Carmichael Carnal Carnall Carnel Carnmack Carnnock Carpenter Carr Carrick Carrington Carter Carton Cary Cash Catlett Catling Chadwell Chamberlayne Champe Chandider Chandler Chapman Charlton Chash Cheadle Chesault Chenalt Chenault Cheny Chevis Chew Chewning Chick Chiles Chivis Chloon Chowning Christian Churchill Ciff Cissel Claiborne Clank Clare Clark Clarke Clator Clatterbuck Clayton Claytor Clear Cleer Cleere Cleft Clere Clift Clough Coarts Coats Cobb Cobbs Cocks Cockrell Cocks Cogbill Coghill Cogwill Coke Colburt Cole Coleburn Colemam Coleman Collier Collinc Collins Colquhoun Colston Commock Conduit Conner Connor Connors Conquest Conway Conyers Cook Cooper Copeland Corbin Corr Cosby Coventon Covington Cox Crank Crarnall Crawford Crease Credle Creedie Creighton Crenshaw Crew Crieghton Crittended Crittenden Cross Crossley Crouch Croucher Crow Crowchin Crutcher Crutchfield Cunningham Curtis Custis Dabney Daingerfield Dalgame Dalgan Dalton Dandridge Dangerfield Daniel Danner Danniel Dannile Daoggett Darby Darnabay Darnaby Davenport Davey Davis Davy Day Dean Deavenport Defoe Dejarnett Dejarnette Demure Deshazo Deshazor Deval Devenport Dew Dewner Dialake Dick Dicken Dickensen Dickenson Dickerson Dickeson Dickins Dickinson Dickson Digges Dillard Dingle Dishman Dismickos Dismikes Dismukes Dixon Dod Dodd Dogel Dogget Doggett Doles Donahoe Donaphan Eonelly Doniphan Doniphan Donohoe Doswell Douglas Douglass Dowles Downen Downer Downing Doyle Drake Driver Drummond Drury Dudley Duerson Dueson Dugand Duke Duling Duncan Dunlop Dunn Dunston Durett Durrett Duval Duvalls Dye Eyer Earnest Eastin Edbank Eddleton Ederington Edge Edmunds Edmundson Edward Edwards Elgin Elington Elkin Elkins Ellerson Elliot Elliott Ellis Emmerson Ennis Estes Estis Eubank Evans Faber Fagg Fale Fant Farish Farley Farmer Farrell Faulkner Favor Favoure Fawcett Fennell Ferrell Field Fields Filander Fisher Fitzgerald Fitzhugh Flagg Fleet Fletcher Flippo Flood Floretta Floyd Foot Forbes Foreacres Forston Fortson Fortun Fortune Foster Fourshee Fowler Fox Francis Frank Frazer Freeman French Frensley Freshy Frippo Froner Frost Fry Fulcher Fuller Fullerton Fulshire Fulton Gadberry Gaines Gains Gale Galvan Gannt Gardner Garland Garnete Garnett Garret Garrett Garrick Gary Gatchell Gatewood Gatewwod Gatewwood Gaunt Gayle George Gervis Gibson Gilchrist Gillis Gillmore Gimbo Giulmore Glanton Glassell Gleason Gleeson Glover Goen Goin Going Goldman Goldsby Gooch Goodall Goode Goodloe Goodrih Goodright Goodwin Gordon Gouge Goulden Gouldin Goulding Gouldman Govan Grafton Graham Granham Grant Gravatt Graves Gray Green Gregor Gregory Griffin Grimes Grinnan Grubbs Grymes Guillintine Guines Guirey Gunnell Gutherie Guthrie Guy Gwathmey Gymymes Hackett Hackney Haden Haggard Haile Hailey Hale Haley Hall Hallam Halley Halsop Hamilton Hampton Hansbrough Hardin Harding Hargrave Hargrove Harnal Harney Harris Harrison Harrow Harris Hart Hartgrave Harvey Harwood Haskins Haslep Hatton Hawes Hawkins Haws Hay Haynes Hayns Hazen Healey Helms Henderson Henedge Henley Henseley Henshaw Herd Herndon Heslop Hewes Hewlett Hibbert Hickman Hickmond Hicks Higgin Hildrup Hill Hilldrup Hillyard Hinchman Hipkins Hoard Hodges Hogan Holdfast Holladay Holloway Holly Holmes Holt Hoomes Hooper Hope Hopkins Hord Horn Horner Hoskins Houston Howard Howel Howle Hubbard Hudgen Hudgin Hudgins Hudson Hughes Hulett Hume Humes Humphrey Hundley Hunter Hurd Hurt Husten Hutchenson Hutcherson Hutcheson Hutchinson Hutcon Hutson Ingram Ingrinn Innis Ireland Irion Isbel Isbell Jackson Jacob Jacobs Jamerson James Jameson Jarrell Jefferies Jennings Jerdone Jerrell Jesse Jeter Johnes Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jordon Jourdan Joyce Julian Kannon Kay Kee Keeble Keesee Keeton Keeze Kelley Kelly Kelson Kemp Kenner Kenyon Kidd King Kirtley Knete Knise Lackey Lacy Lafon Lafond Lafong Lambeth Lamont Landeris Landrum Lang Lark Laughlin Laurence Lawless Lawrence Lawry Lawson Layne Leckie Ledwidge Lee Lefoe Leigh Lendrum Letuz Levert Lewis Leyas Lightfoot Lilley Lilly Linch Lindsay Line Lipscomb Littlepage Livingston Lloyd Lomar Lomax Long Longest Lorman Louis Loury Lovel Lovell Lovern Lovin Loving Lovorn Lovoron Lowry Lucas Luck Lumpkin Lumpkins Lungston Lunsford Lurles Lutuz Lynch Lyndsay Lyon Lyons Mcarthur Mcausland Mccall Mccallister Mccandish Mccarthy Mccarty Mcclannahan Mcconll Mcdaniel Mcdonald Mcdowell Mcfarland Mcgehee Mcghee Mcgrath Mcgraw Mcintire Mckee Mckenny Mclaughlin Mcpherson Mcwillliams Macfarlane Machgehee Mackee Macon Madison Magrah Magruder Maham Mahon Malone Mann Marable Marr Marriner Marshall Martin Mason Massey Massie Masterson Matheson Matthews Maudin Maulden Mauldin Maulding Maury Mayfield Maylane Mayo Meacham Meadow Meause Meaux Melone Meone Mercer Meriott Merreman Merrett Merrill Merrinen Merriner Merrit Merriwether Merry Merryman Mews Michael Micou Middlebrook Milk Miller Mills Minor Mitchel Mitchell Molen Molin Molineaux Molth Moncure Monday Monroe Montague Moody Moor Moore Mooring Moorman Moren Morey Morgan Morrow Morton Mosby Moss Motley Moulding Moulson Mourning Mulhollin Mulinburg Mullen Mullencan Mullin Mullins Mullinsax Muncaster Munday Mundle Munford Murdock Murphy Murrah Murray Murrow Murry Muse Mustin Napier Nater Neale Nelb Nelson New Newby Newman Newton Nicholas Nicholson Nobb Noden Noel Noell Nokes Noot Norment Norris Northrop Northrup Northup Norton Nott Nutgrass O'Neal Oldham Oliphant Oliver Oneal Orr Owens Page Pagett Paine Pair Pare Parish Parke Parker Parkes Parnard Parr Parrott Parsons Partelow Partlow Pasco Patterson Pattey Pattie Patton Payne Peake Pearson Peatross Peirce Pemberton Pemebeton Pendleton Penny Pentvin Perkins Perks Perry Petereman Peterman Pettis Pettite Pettus Peyton Philippo Philips Phillips Picardati Piccadat Pickele Pickett Pickington Picklel Pickles Pierce Pilcher Pilkerton Pitt Pittman Pitts Poe Polk Pollard Pollet Pollett Poltney Pope Portch Porter Porterfield Post Powell Powers Prager Pratt Prewet Price Priddie Pritchard Proper Prosper Pruett Pruit Prunty Pugh Pullar Pullen Puller Purkes Purks Quarles Quincey Quisenberry Quisenbery Radford Ragan Ragans Ragsdaleraines Rains Rallins Ramsey Randolph Ranes Rawlings Rawlins Ray Readick Red Redd Reddick Reddish Reddisk Reddock Redford Redock Reeve Reid Reins ennolds Reynolds Rice Richards Richardson Richerson Richeson Rickie Riddle Riding Ridle Riggin Ritchie Rives Roane Robb Roberson Robert Roberts Robertson Robins Robinson Roffe Rogers Roland Rolands Rollins Rootes Rose Ross Rotherick Rotherinck Rothrick Rothrock Rougee Rouse Row Rowe Rows Rowyer Rowzee Roy Royston Rozel Ruffin Runday Russel Russell Rutherford Ryland Sacra Sacrae Sacre Sacry Sale Sallinger Salughter Sampson Samuel Samuels Sanders Sanson Satterwhite Saunders Saunderson Scandland Scantland Schooler Schools Scinn Scott Scranage Scrannage Scrimshaw Seysel Seal Sears Seaton Seay Seddong Sedwick See Segar Seizer Seizor Self Semmes Semple Shackleford Shaddock Shadock Sharp Shaw Shepherd Sheppard Sherley Sherrard Shewsbury Shields Ship Shirley Shop Simmons Simons Simpson Sirls Sissel Sissele Sizer Skeetright Skelton Skinker Skinner Slaughter Sledd Smart Smelter Smith Smithers Smithey Smock Snead Sneed Snyder Sommerson Sorill Sorrel Sorrell Sorril Sorrill Southerland Southword Southworth Spencer Spindle Spotswood Spratt St.John Stanard Stand Standard Standley Stanley Starke Steagall Steele Stephens Stern Sterne Stevens Stevenson Stewart Sthreshley Stiff Stiglar Still Stockton Stokes Stone Stonefield Street Streshey Streshley Strother Stuart Stubblefled Stubblefield Stubbs Subtle Sullenger Sullivan Summerson Sutton Swan Swann Swingston Swinton Syms Tabb Tabor Talbert Talbot Taliferro Talley Tamplin Tankersley Tankersly Tarlton Tarrant Tarrent Tate Taylor Teller Temple Tenant Tennant Tennent Terrell Terrill Terry Thacker Thillmn Thilman Thomas8 Thomley Thompkins Thompson Thomson Thornley Thornton Thorpe Throckmorton Thurston Thwortes Tiffany Tignor Tiller Timberlake Tinsbloom Tinsley Tisdale Tod Todd Toler Tomas Tombs Tompkins Toombs Tooms Towles Townsend Trainham Trainum Tranham Trevelian Trevillian Tribble Trible Trigg Triplett Trouk True Trueman Tryee Tuck Tucker Tuning Tunsley Tunstal Tunstall Tupman Turberville Turner Turning Turpin Tutt Tyler Tyre Tyree Umbrickhouse Underwoiod Upshaw Usher Valentine Vass Vaughan Vawter Venable Vest Vidal Vowles Waddle Wade Walden Wales Walker Waller Walsh Warden Ware Wariing Warren Washington Waters Watkins Watts Waugh Waytt Weatherford Weathers Webb Webster Welch Wellford Wellford Welsh West Wharton White Whiting Whitlock Whittecoe Whittico Whitton Wiatt Wickham Wigglesworth Wild Wiley Willard Williams Williamson Willis Willmore Wilson Willy Wilmore Wilson Win Wingfield Winn Winston Wise Wiseger Wiswall Withers Wood Woodfolk Woodford Woodson Woodward Woolfolk Woolford Wormley Wortham Wray Wrenn Wright Wrigth Wrilcherson Wyatt Yancy Yarborough Yarbrough Yates Yaxley Yeatman Yerby Young Zolicoffer

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Book Review: "Giles County, Virginia Marriages 1806-1850" 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 "Giles County, Virginia Marriages 1806-1850", 147 pages, indices, figure, map. Giles County was established in 1806 from Montgomery County and portions of Monroe and Tazewell counties. Parts of Wythe, Monroe, Mercer, Craig and Tazewell were added later. The 1,498 marriage records in this volume are particularly complete and contain both ministers' returns and surety bonds. Accompanying data in most records includes minister's name, bondsman, and occasionally parents and relatives' names. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1985 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

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Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Wyrick Ephraim & Isabella Morrison 12 Jun 1847; b - John H Hoge; Isabella's parents both dead; she of age and sister of John & William Morrison"
  • "Hudson George & Hannah Shannon 2 Nov 1812; b - Thomas Shannon & Isaac Hudson"
The following is a list of names made from a surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbott Acord Adams Adkins Aiken Akard Akins Albert Aldrige Alford Allen Allison Alvis Amiss Anderson Asbury Atkins Bailey Baines Baker Baldwin Baley Ball Ballard Ballinger Bane Baren Barger Barnes Barnet Barton Bassham Bellsher Belsher Biggs Bish Black Blackwell Blake Blankenship Bogal Bogle Boize Boling Bolen Bolton Boothe Bord Borgass Boster Boulton Bowen Bowling Boyd Boyle Bradley Bradly Bralley Brannon Bratton Breedlove Brians Brooks Brown Broyles Bruce Brugh Brumfield Brunk Bueford Bueley Burdit Burditt Burgess Burgis Burk Burnes Burnside Burton Butler Byres Caddale Cadle Caldwell Callaway Calwell Camp Campbell Campber Canterberry Canterbury Caperton Carbaugh Carpenter Carper Carr Carson Carter Case Cassaday Cecil Chalton Chambers Champ Chanceauline Chandler Channels Chapman Charlton Christen Christian Claiborn Clair Clark Clay Clear Clemings Cledenin Cliborn Clyborn Clybourn Clybourne Clyburn Cobun Coburn Cofman Cole Collins Comer Commac Commerford Compton Conley Connaford Conner Cook Cooke Cookey Cooper Copley Corder Cox Crawford Cray Criner Cron Cross Croy Crozier Cunningham Dailey Dair Dale Dalton Damewood Danieley Dare Darr Davidson Davis Daw Dawson Day Decamp Deaton Dempsey Denning Depew Deskins Diamond Dick Dickenson Dillion Dillon Dimond Dingess Dollman Doss Dosset Douthat Dowdey Dowdy Drake Duglas Dugless Duncan Dunford Dunn Eagleson Eagleston Eahart Eakin Eakles Early Eaton Eckhols Eckoles Eckols Edgar Elam Elkens Ellis Ellison Elmore Emmens Emmons Eplin Epling Errickson Errikson Evans Fannan Fannin Fanning Fannon Fargason Farley Farmer Farrier Faudree Fellows Ferrel Ferrell Fielder Fillenger Fillinger Finley Fisher Fizer Fleck Fletcher Flick Flowers Folden Ford Fortner Foster Fowler Franklin Frazier French Frenor Fry Frye Fusten Ganeo Gannoe Ganoe Gant Garr Garrason Garrell Garreston Garrison George Gerald Gerrel Gillespie Givens Godfary Gonoe Gordan Gore Graham Grant Greever Gregory Griggs Grose Gross Gunno Gunoe Guthry Hacket Hackett Hackney Hager Hale Hall Halls Hamblin Hamilton Hammon Hammonds Hammons Handy Hare Haress Hargrow Harless Harlow Harman Harmon Harper Harress Harris Harriss Harvey Hatcher Havens Hawley Headrick Hearn Heatherington Hector Hedrick Helm Helvey Henderson Hendrick Hendrickson Hetherington Hicks Higginbotham Hill Hine Hipes Hiveley Hoback Hobbs Hobson Hodge Hodges Hoge Holdren Holstein Holstine Homes Honaker Houchins Howard Hudson Huffman Hughes Hughet Hughs Hull Humpries Hunt Hunter Hurt Hutcheson Hutchinson Hutchison Hutsell Hykes Hypes Ingram Irvin Jackson Jacobs James Jarrel Jenkins Jenks Jinkins Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jourden Jurdon Karr Keaster Keatley Keaton Kee Keeny Keester Keetley Keffer Keister Kelley Kelly Kenison Kerr Kesler Kesner Kessenger Kessinger Kessler Kester Key Kiblinger Kilpatrick King Kingley Kinnison Kinzie Kinzley Kirk Kissinger Knode Kyle Lafon Labe Lafon Lamb Lambert Landrum Lawery Lawhorn Lawson Leffel Leftwich Leftwick Lester Lilley Lilly Lindbury Lindsey Link Linkous Linsey Little Littlepage Lock Looney Loucks Loukes Louks Lowe Lucas Ludwick Lugar Luger Lumpkin Lusk Lybrook Mahaney Mahood Man Mann Mannan Manning Mannon Marigold Marrs Marshall Martain Martian Martin Mason Mattox Maupin Mawles Maxey Maxwell Maxy May Mays McBryans McClaugherty McClure McComack McComes McCommas McCormic McCoy McCrary McCrasky McCroskey McDaniel McDonald McDowel McDowell McFaddin McGuire McKany McKenny McKenzie McNeal McNeel McNeely McNeil McNutt McPhersey McPherson McVey Meador Meadow Meadows Melvin Meredith Milam Miles Miller Mills Minner Minnick Minnon Mitchel Mitchell Moody Moomaw Mooney Moor Moore Mopin Morgan Morhead Morrison Moser Moses Moss Mozie Mullin Mullins Muncy Munsey Murphy Mustard Myers Napier Nausler Neal Neel Neely Nell Nicewander Nicewonder Nida Nidah Niday Nidy Nighdy Nisewonder Nosler Oliver Olliver Oney Orr Overhalser Overholser Pack Pain Pane Parsons Parvin Patterson Patton Pauley Payne Peak Pearis Peary Peck Peeling Pence Pendleton Pennington Pennington Penturf Perdue Perkins Perry Persons Peters Petrey Pettry Pflieger Phillips Phipps Phips Piles Pine Pines Pitman Plemale Plimale Ponturf Pool Porterfield Powel Powers Prewett Prewit Price Prince Pruet Pruitt Pruitt Purdue Purven Rains Ray Read Reader Redaford Reed Reynolds Rice Richards Rider Rigby Right Rinehart Rineheart Ringer Rise Ritter Roberts Robertson Robeson Robinett Robinson Robison Rock Roland Rose Ross Row Rowe Rowland Rumburg Runion Runnion Ruthledge Rutter Rye Sadler Sanders Sartain Sarten Sartin Saron Sarver Saunders Sawer Sawyers Scot Scott Sententaffer Shaley Shanklin Shannon Shauver Shelton Shephard Shepherd Shrader Shrewsberr Shrewsbury Shumate Sifford Simkins Simmon Simmons Simpkins Simpson Sleeth Smith Snaveley Snidow Snodgrass Solesberry Solesbury Solsbirry Solsbury Souder Southern Southrene Spangler Sparr StClair Stafford Stadley Stanferd Starling Steel Steele Step Stephens Stewart Stinson Stone Stot Stott Stover Stowers Strader Straley Stuart Stump Sublet Sublett Summerfield Summers Sumpkins Sumpter Suter Tabor Tade Tankersly Tate Tawney Taylor Teel Terry Thacker Tharn Thomas Thompson Thompspn Thorn Thornton Tickel Tickle Tiffany Tiller Tillet Tillett Toler Tomlinson Toney Toodle Tracey Tracy Tredway Trenor Trent Trout Troutt Tucker Tutle Upton Vandel Vass Vaughan Vaughn Vaught Vaun Vaut Vawter Venable Viney Vohn Vought Waddell Waddle Wade Waggoner Walker Wall Walters Warren Watters Watts Weakline Webb Weddle Welbern Welbourne Welles West Westlake Wheeler Whitaker White Whitescarver Whitiker Whitten Whittiker Wickline Wikel Wikle Wilbern Wilbourn Wilbourne Wilburn Wiley Williams Willis Wills Wilmore Wilson Wimmer Wingo Wise Wohlford Woodford Woodram Woods Woodyard Woolford Woolhight Woolwine Work Workman Worley Wray Wright Wyrick Wysong Young Younger

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Book Review: "Charles City County, Virginia Records 1737-1774" with Last Name Index A-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of Benjamin B. Weisiger, III's "Charles City County, Virginia Records 1737-1774." The book contains 201 pages, including a full name index, with abstracts of wills and deeds, 1763-1774, references to wills, estates, orphans, etc. in the Court Order Books, 1737-1761, a few fragments of wills, deeds and court orders, 1689-1690 and 1641-1642, and some loose documents.

This is a soft cover reprint of a 1986 original, printed by Iberian Publishing Company. of Athens, Georgia.

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Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "June Court 1745 p. 360 Deed of John New to Col. Benjamin Harrison proved by Beverley Randolph and John Stith."
  • "July Court 1737 p. 11 Will of John Roper, dec'd, presented by Susanna Roper, William Roper and Joseph Roper, the executors, and proved by Thomas Bryan, John Marshall and Thomas Alfriend. Philip Smith, James Christian, Charles Christian and John Bradly to appraise the estate."
The following is a list of names made from a full name index at the back of the book:

Abernathy Acrill Adams Addams Addison Adwell Akin Alain Alfriend Allan Allee Allen Ampee Anderson Andros Apperson Arbuthnot Archer Armistead Aston Atchison Atkins Atkinson Austin Avery Ayres Bachurst Backburst Backhurst Backurst Bacon Bailey Baird Baiser Baker Balfour Ballard Barham Barloe Barlow Barnes Barnet Barnett Barns Barr Barrat Barret Barrett Barrows Barrum Bartholomew Baskervyle Bates Batt Batte Batty Baxter Bayles Beadle Beale Beasly Becket Bell Bendall Benford Berkeley Bettingham Bevel Binford Binns Bins Birchett Bird Bishop Bishopp Black Blagrave Blair Blanchet Blanchvill Blancks Bland Blande Blanks Bleighton Blighton Boarman Boate Boice Bolcye Boiseau Bolling Booker Boram Borum Bosman Bott Bowery Bowry Boyce Bradford Bradley Bradly Branch Brandy Bray Breedlove Bressie Brewer Bristow Broadnax Broadrib Broady Brock Brodnax Broadnex Brookes Brooks Brown Brun Brunskill Bryan Buchanan Buck Bullifant Bullock Burbidge Burch Burchard Burge Burlap Burrum Burton Busby Butler Butts Buxton Byrd Bywater Cain Calvert Campbell Cane Cannon Cantrell Carle Carlos Carrington Carsan Carter Cary Cate Chancey Changely Chaplin Chapman Chappell Chapple Charles Chavis Childers Childres Childs Chilton Christian Cittle Clark Clarke Clay Clayton Clement Clerk Clopton Coates Cock Cocke Cocker Coe Coggs Colled Cole Coleman Coles Coley Colgin Collawn Collier Collins Conner Cooke Cooper Copley Corbett Cordle Corley Corlie Cosby Cotten Cowles Cowley Cox Craddock Cradock Cradocke Crag Craig Crawley Creech Creedle Crew Crews Crigton Crittenden Crook Crosland Cross Crump Crutchfield Cryer Cumbo Cureton Curl Curry Dalgliesh Dancy Dandridge Dane Daniel Daniell Danyel Danza Danzee Danzie Darrell Davenport Davidson Davies Davis Davison Dawes Daws Dawson Day Dean Debnam Delony Dennis Denson Depton Despain Dewest Dewey Dison Dispain Dixon Dodson Dollard Donald Donaldson Douglass Dove Dowglas Downes Dowry Drake Drawsey Drinkard Drinkwater Dudley Duke Dun Dunn Durfey East Edloe Edlow Edmondson Edmunds Edwards Eelbank Egman Egmon Ellerbee Ellet Elliott Ellot Ellyson Elon Emerson Emery Emory Emson Epes Eppes Epps Evans Evans Eventon Everitt Evington Evinton Ezell Fallowes Fano Faque Farley Farrah Farrell Faulkner Fear Feild Fellowes Fennel Fewqua Finch Finn Fisher Flack Flanders Flewellen Flewelin Flood Floriday Flowers Floyd Fludd Follis Fointain Fontaine Ford Foster Fountain Fowler Franklin Fry Fuglar Fugler Fulford Fuqua Gabernor Gains Galloford Galloway Ganaway Gardiner Gardner Garland Garrat Garthright Gary Gay Gayton Gee Geers Gent Gilbert Gill Gillam Gilley Gilliam Gillum Gilly Glass Glen Glover Godwin Goeing Goffe Golightly Golloford Good Goodall Gooding Goodrich Goodwin Gordan Gordon Gouge Gough Gower Grant Graves Gray Green Gregory Grendon Gresset Grice Griffith Grig Grinsell Grissell Grisset Gross Grosse Gunn Gunne Gutt Hagues Haller Hailes Hale Hales Haley Hall Halt Hamblin Hamelin Hamlet Hamlett Hamlin Handey Handy Hansford Happer Harddie Harden Hardeway Hardiman Hardin Harding Hardyman Hare Harfeild Harman Harmon Harper Harris Harrison Harriss Harryson Hartwell Harvey Harwood Haslet Hatley Hay Hayes Hayles Heard Heath Hemings Hendrick Henman Herman Hewlett Heymon Hickman Hight Hill Hilliard Hillman Hilyard Hinge Hinitraee Hinman Hitchcock Hix Hobbs Hobday Hoborn Hockaday Hockady Hoder Hodges Hoe Hogwood Holcroft Holdcroft Holdsworth Hollins Holman Holmes Holsworth Holt Holway Homes Hood Hopes Hopkins Hore Houlsworth Howard Howell Howl Hoy Hubbard Hudson Hughes Hulme Humblee Humbles Hunt Hurt Huston Hylliard Hylton Ingram Irby Ireland Ivy Jackson Jameson Jane Jarratt Jarrett Jasper Jefferson Jenkins Jennings Johnson Jolley Jolly Jones Jooll Jordan Jorden Joslin Justice Justis Kellsey Kelshaw Kendall Kennon Kenny King Kirk Lacy Lad Ladd Lamb Lamport Land Lanear Langford Lanier Lankford Lansdon Lark Law Lawed Lawson Lead Leadbetter Ledbetter Lee Lenard Lend Lennard Lennon Leonard Lester Lewellin Lewis Lide Lightfoot Lilley Lilly Limbry Linzey Linzie Littlepage Loftis Lorton Loyd Lucas Lucy Ludlowe Luellin Lunn M'Cormack Mabree Mabry Maccraw Mackenny Mackie Maclain Maclin MacWilliams Maddox Majhar Major Makenny Manlove Maples Marion Marks Marrable Marrible Marshal Marshall Marston Martin Matthews Matthis Mattock Mattocks Mayes Maynard Mayton McBrown McCall McCarter McCaul McCurdy McFarland McKenny McManners McMannis Meekins Meldrum Melton Menefie Mercer Merredeth Merry Mhrrell Michell Middlebrook Middleton Miles Miller Minetree Minge Minitree Minson Mitchell Mollison Monfort Monger Montford Moody Moon Moony Moor Moore Mooreland Morecock Morell Morgan Morris Morriss Moseley Mosher Moss Mossom Mountcastle Munford Muraock Murdock Murrall Murrel Murrell Nance Neale Needles Netherland New Newell Newhouse Newman Newton Nicholson Norden North Novill Nowell Ogden Oglesby Oglesby Osborn Osborne Osling Otey Oulton Overbury Owen Paisley Parham Parish Parke Parker Parrish Parsons Partin Pate Pateson Patison Patteson Paul Pavely Pawlett Paybey Paybie Payne Peacock Pearman Pearse Pearson Pegram Peirce Perkins Perry Peters Peterson Petteway Pettus Pettway Pharoah Pharoan Philips Phillips Phipps Picket Pierepont Pinckard Pleasants Poindexter Pointer Polluck Pooke Poor Potts Povall Povey Poynter Poynton Poythress Poythris Prentis Pretlow Prewett Price Prior Pritchard Proctor Pruit Pryce Pucket Pully Pybus Quigen Quiggins Quigin Quiging Quigins Radford Randolph Rany Read Recorded Redye Reekes Relves Reynolds Richarde Richardson Rickman Riddlehurst Ridlehurst Ridley Rill Rivers Rix Roach Roberts Robinson Rock Rodger Rodgers Rogers Rook Roper Ross Roughly Rouse Routon Rowland Royal Royall Royer Royster Rudder Rumford Russel Russell Saffold Salmon Sampson Samson Samuel Sanborne Saylor Scarborough Sciater Scott Scruggs Sealey Sepeton Sharp Shearman Shell Shepfiel Sherman Sherwood Shields Shore Shorte Sildom Simons Skelton Skinner Skipwith Slade Slaughter Small Smith Snukes Soan Soane Sorrel Southall Sowerby Spain Speed Speirs Spencer Spies Spragans Spraggins Spragin Spragins Stagg Stainup Stanford Stanley Stanly Stark Stevens Stiff Stith Stoakes Stokes Stone Story Strange Strick Stroud Stuart Stubblefield Sutton Sykes Symond Symonds Symons Talbot Talbott Tanner Tatem Tavey Taylor Temple Tenman Terrel Terrell Terrendine Terril Terrill Thackston Thaxton Thomas Thiompson Thomson Thweatt Tibbett Tibbott Tilesy Tilman Timberelake Tinsley Tod Todd Toler Tompkins Tompson Tomson Torborn Towler Townly Townsend Travis Tree Trotman Tucker Turberville Turbervyle Turff Turner Turpin Tye Tyler Tyree Vaiden Valentine Vaughan Vaughn Vernon Vinson Viscount Waddill Wade Walker Wall Wallace Walthall Walton Warburton Ward Ware Warren Watson Wayles Weaver Webster Weir Wells Wendey West Westwood Wetherspoon White Whittbey Wiat Wilcocke Wilcox Wilkerson Wilkins Wilkinson Willard Willcocks Willcox Williams Wills Willson Wilson Winbush Winkles Winn Winston Wise Womack Wood Woodard Woodcock Woodfin Woodford Woodham Woodhouse Woodleif Woodson Woodward Worleigh Wortham Wright Wyatt Wynn Wynne Yardley Young Younge Yuile

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Book Review: "St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book 1744-1850" with Last Name Index A-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index of William Lindsay Hopkins' "St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book 1744-1850", 129 pages with a full name index. This volume contains all of the parish vestry business including the important "processioning of lands" which took place every four years and many times names the land owners and the men who were doing the processioning. A wonderful collection of data on early Goochland County society. This is a paperback reprint, of a 1987 original, by Iberian Publishing Company of Athens, Georgia.

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Here is a sample entry from the book:
  • "Vestry at Beaverdam Church (not dated) - Present: Joseph Pollard, John Payne, George Payne, William Miller, Josias Payne, William Pryor, John Woodson and Noel Burton, Gent. Vestrymen. For viewing the work done by William Langham who undertook to build a church in an agreement dated 10 Mar 1760 by Joseph Pollard and William Stamps, two of the then Vestrymen."
The following is a list of names made from the surname index at the back of the book:

Acough Adams Addams Albritain Albritton Alcough Alford Allen Alsup Amos Anderson Ascough Askew Backer Bailey Ballow Banks Barker Barket Barnett Barrat Barrt Bates Baughan Bayley Bibb Bibbe Birk Blackwell Blockley Blunkal Blunkall Boling Bolling Bowles Bradshaw Brild Britt Brooks Brown Bryant Bryce Buchanan Bullington Bullock Burton Butts Byrd Cabbell Caldwell Camron Cannon Canon Carden Carding Carlyle Carmon Carr Carrel Carrell Carril Carter Cawthomn Cawthon Cawthorn Chanceller Chancellor Chancelor Chanseller Charis Cheadale Cheatwood Childress Chowning Chownings Christian Christon Churchel Churchwell Churchwill Clark Clarke Clarkson Clayton Clement Clements Clopton Cloudas Clowdas Cocke Coke Coker Cole Coleman Coles Collins Cols Cooke Cosby Cowley Cox Cragwall Cragwell Crenshaw Croc Crossley Crouch Crow Cunningham Curddailey Daniel Davis Dawson Denye Dismukes Dougham Douglass Dowel Drumright Drumwright Dunn Duval Dyke Dykes East Edwards Eldridge Ellis England Eubamk Evan Evans Farmer Farrar Fergerson Ferguson Fitzo Fleming Ford Forgerson French Fry Galt Garland Garvin Gavin Geone George Gilham Gillam Gilliam Gillium Gist Glass Going Goode Gorden Gording Gordon Grant Graves Gray Green Gresham Griffin Griffis Griffith Griffiths Grubbs Guerrant Guerrrant Gwin Hackaby Haden Hall Hancock Harding Haris Harrar Harriosn Harris Harrison Hatcher Hatton Hayden Heath Henderson Henley Herdon Herndon Hicks Hill Hines Hins Hix Hobson Hodges Holbert Holebrook Holeman Holland Holman Honeycut Hood Hooker Hopkins Hopper Horn Houchings Howard Hudnal Huges Hughes Hughson Humber Hust Hynes Isan Isbel Isbell Ison Jackson James Jaret Jarratt Jarret Jarriot Jefferson Jerdan Johnson Jones Jordan Jorden Jordon Jossee Jourdan Jude Kaine Kean Kinckle King Lacy Lad Laforce Lamay Lane Langham Langhan Laprad Laprade Lawson Layne Leak Leake Leaks Lee Leforce Leprade Lester Letcher Levy Lewis Lightfoot Logan Login Lovel Lovell Loving Lowry Luke Maddocke Maddox Man Manly Mann Marian Markham Martin Massie Maycock Mayo McBride McCaul McComack McCormack McCormick McGuire Meachum Merit Meriwether Merrit Merritt Michell Miller Mills Mims Mitchel Mitchell Moore More Moreland Morgan Morin Morris Mosby Mosley Moss Mour Mullins Murrel Nelson Netherland Newland Nicholson Nowlin Nuckels Nuckolds Oglesby Oliver Oneil Owen Pace Page Parish Parrish Parsons Pasley Payne Peace Peasliy Peers Pemberton Perkins Perry Pery Philpotts Pickett Piers Pleasant Pleasants Pledge Poidexter Pollard Pollock Poor Potter Powel Powers Price Priddy Pryor Pryror Purkins Puryear Radford Ragland Raine Randolph Red Redford Rice Richardson Riddle Ridgway Rigsby Robard Roberts Rodman Rogers Ross Roundtree Royster Rutherford Ryan Ryon Salmen Sammons Sampson Sandefer Sandlin Saunders Saxton Scott Scruggs Scrugs Seay Seldin Sexton Shelton Simmons Simons Skelton Skipwith Slaydin Smith Snodgrass Stamp Stamps Stanard Starke Starkey Stephenson Stillman Storey Story Strong Sumpter Swift Taylor Thompson Thurston Tilman Toles Tomson Toney Towler Towles Trevilian Tuggle Turner Turpin Underwood Utley Vashon Vaughan Viningham Vinningham Wade Wadlow Wafford Walker Walton Ward Ware Watker Watkins Watson Weaver Webber Webster Weisiger West Wharton Whited Whitfield Whitlock Whitlow Whitlowe Whittle Whorton Wilday Wilkerson Wilkinson Williams Willis Wilmer Wilson Wishom Witt Womack Wood Woodal Woodall Woodram Woodrum Woodson Woodward Wright

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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 Feather Feazel Feller Fellers Fellow Fellows Felps Fender Ferguson Ferner Ferral Ferrel Ferrell Ferrer Ferrier Ferrill Ferris Fesler Fessler Field Fields Fife Fifter Figgat Figgett Filson Finch Findlay Fink Finney Firebaugh Firestone Fishburn Fisher Fisk Fitsguarald Fizer Flack Flaherty Flanagan Flannigan Fleager Flecher Fleek Fleet Fleming Fleshart Fleshman Fletcher Flick Flint Flippo Flook Flora Florah Flower Floyd Fluke Flurnoy Fogg Fogle Folder Forbes Forbush Ford Fore Forest Forgeson Forguson Forrest Forrester Forstor Forsyth Foster Fought Fout Fouts Foutt Foutz Fowler Fox Frame France Frances Francis Francisco Frankenbarger Franklin Frantz Frazel Frazer Frazier Frederick Freeman French Fringer Fry Fudge Fulhart Fullen Fullheart Fulton Fultz Fulwiler Fuqua Furgurson Furguson Furrow Fury Gaines Galbreath Gallaway Galloway Gamble Gammon Ganby Gant Gantsley Gardner Garges Garman Garnand Garner Garnes Garret Garretson Garrett Garrison Garrot Garst Garwood Gass Gast Gates Gatewood Gaudry Gaunt Gawltney Gay Gellespy George German Ghant Gharst Gholson Gholston Gholtman Gibson Gilbert Gilkerson Gilkinson Gill Gillaland Gillaspey Gillaspie Gillaspy Gilleland Gillespey Gillespie Gillespy Gilliam Gilliland Gillispie Gillispy Gilmer Gilmore Gils Girtner Gish Given Givens Givins Glasburn Glasgow Glasper Glass Glassburn Gleeson Glenn Glover Glynn Godwin Goff Gofford Goheen Goin Goldey Goldson Golreen Good Goode Gooden Goodman Goodson Goodwin Gordan Gorden Gordon Gore Gorman Gortner Gossett Gowens Gowin Gowins Grady Graham Grammar Grammer Grand Grant Grave Graves Grawmer Gray Graybell Graybill Grayble Greable Green Greenlee Greeley Greenway Greenwood Gregory Greham Greiner Greybill Grice Griest Griffin Griffith Griffy Grigeland Griggs Grigsby Grill Grim Grimes Grinelly Griso Grisso Grissoe Grist Griste Grose Gross Ground Grove Groves Grub Grubb Guilford Guillford Guire Guliver Gullaer Gulliford Gullipher Gunn Gurtner Gutery Guthaney Guthrey Guthrey Guthrie Gutrich Guy Gwaltney Hack Hackett Haden Hagans Hagen Hagens Hagins Hahn Haines Hainey Hains Hair Haldeman Halderman Hale Haley Hall Haller Halspain Ham Hambeck Hambell Hambleton Hambrick Hamilton Hamman Hammet Hammett Hammon Hammond Hampton Hance Hancock Handford Handley Hane Hanes Haney Hanger Hank Hanks Hanna Hannah Hannan Hannon Hanon Hansbarger Hanson Hansone Hanspach Hapler Harbison Hardbarger Harden Hardin Hardy Harger Harkley Harler Harlow Harman Harmon Harness Harper Harriett Harrington Harris Harrison Harriss Harry Harsh Harshbarger Harshberger Harston Hart Hartigan Harman Hartrider Harvey Hase Haskins Haslep Hasten Hastin Haston Hatcher Hatten Hatton Hauntz Hawberg Hawkins Hayback Haydon Hayes Haymaker Hayman Hayne Haynes Hayns Hays Hayse Hayslip Hayth Hazlep Hazlewood Head Hearison Heart Heartman Heaven Heck Heckman Hedrick Heimlick Helams Heldibridle Helmentaller Helmentoller Helmintoller Holmontoler Helms Helphenstine Hemming Henderliter Henderson Hendrickson Hendrixon Henkle Hennen Henry Hensley Hensly Henson Heplar Hepler Herald Herbison Herman Hershberger Heslep Heslip Hess Heston Hewett Hewit Hewitt Hickinbottom Hickle Hicklen Hickman Hickok Hicks Hiestand Higginbotham Higgins Highlands Hiland Hiley Hill Hillis Hilton Himelick Himer Himes Hinderbile Hinderlighter Hinderliter Hiner Hines Hinkle Hinton Hipes Hise Hite Hively Hix Hoage Hobbs Hobson Hodd Hodges Hofakut Hoff Hoffman Hofan Hogans Hogen Hogshead Holbrook Holdeman Holdron Holley Holliday Holloway Holmes Holoway Holstein Holstine Holston Holt Honce Hood Hoof Hoofanger Hook Hoole Hoosey Hooven Hoover Hopkins Horn Hornel Horton Hott Houbert Hough Houlston Houpt Houry Houseman Housman Houston Houtts Houtz Howard Howbert Howel Howell Howrey Howrt Howry Hoylman Hubbard Huddle Hudnell Hudson Hues Huff Huffman Hufinton Hufman Huggins Hughes Hughs Hullar Hulse Humphrey Humphreys Humphries Humphris Hundley Hunsman Hunter Huntsman Hurley Hurst Hurt Hutcheson Hutchins Hutchinson Hutchison Hutson Hyner Hypes Icanburg Icehower Icenhower Icyhower Idle Inchminger Ingart Ingle Inglehart Ingleman Ingles Inglish Inksel Intsminger Irby Ireland Irvine Iraacks Ischower Isenbarger Isenhower Jack Jacks Jackson Jacobs James Jameson Jamison Jarret Jarrett Jarrit Jarrot Jarvis Jeans Jefferson Jemison Jenkins Jennings Jerrell Jeter Jewel Jewell Jinings Jinkens Jinkins John Johnson Johnston Jonathan Jones Jonson Jopling Jordan Jorden Jordon Justice Jyser Kale Kanode Karnes Karns Karr Kasler Kasslar Kassler Katron Kayser Kayton Keagey Kean Keasea Kee Keefauver Kefauver Keffer Keith Keller Kelley Kelly Kemm Kemp Kemplin Kenedy Kennday Kennedy Kenner Kennerly Kennett Kenney Kenning Kenny Kent Kerby Kern Kerns Kerr Keslar Kesler Kesslar Kessler Ketinger Key Keyes Keys Keyser Kibert Kidd Kiddy Kilconan Kile Kilmer Kilmore Kilpatrick Kilse Kimberland Kimberlane Kimberlin Kimberling Kimes Kimm Kincade Kincaid King Kingan Kingen Kingin Kinkead Kinerly Kinsey Kinzer Kinzey Kinzie Kinzy Kirfman Kirk Kirkman Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kish Kitchen Kitterman Kittinger Kizer Kinzey Kinzie Kinzy Kirfman Kirk Kirkman Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kish Kitchen Kiterman Kittinger Kizer Knight Knode Knowles Knox Knozworthy Knuckles Koger Kool Koonts Kringry Krouse Kuster Kyle Lacey Lack Lackey Lackland Lacy Lanfonce Laforce Lake Lamb Lambert Lamen Lamon Landers Landis Landon Landridge Landrum Landsdown Lane Lang Langhorne Lanius Lannius Lantern Lanthron Lantz Lapan Lapsley Lark Larkin Larue Lash Laten Lauderdale Lauman Launius Laurman Lavender Lavinder Law Lawrence Lay Layman Laymon Layn Layne Layton Leady League Leamon Leatherdal Leatherdale Ledbetter Ledgerwood Lee Leech Leek Leeps Leffel Leffell Leffle Leffler Lefler Lefon Leforce Leftwich Legans Leib Leibe Leibs Leighton Leipe Leips Lemar Lemare Lemman Lemmon Lemmons Lemon Leonard Lesley Lester Lettens Leuty Level Leven Levingston Lewallen Lewellen Lewill Lewis Liden Lillies Lilly Limbaugh Lindon Linsey Linkenager Linkenaser Linkenauger Linkenboger Linkenhoger Linkenhoker Linkenoger Linkinauger Linkinhoger Linkinhoker Linkinshoker Linkous Linn Linsey Linton Lipes Litchford Litle Litten Litteral Litterel Little Littlepage Litton Littral Littrel Littrell Livingston Llary Lloyd Loague Lockhard Locket Lockett Lockey Lockhart Lockney Lofland Logan Logue Long Looney Loop Louis Loury Lout Love Loving Lowman Lowry Loyd Loyt Luck Ludwick Lugar Lukus Luney Lunsford Luster Lutey Lykins Lyle Lyon Lyons Lype Lypes Lytel MacClintuck MacEntire Machan Mackey Macloy Maculic Maddox Madison Madocks Magard Magart Maggard Maggart Maggot Magruder Mahan Mahone Maiden Maits Malcom Maller Mallery Mallory Mallow Malls Malone Man Manca Mangue Mangus Manguss Manka Mankey Mankpiel Mankspile Mann Manners Manspiel Manspile Mapes Marchant Marckle Mariam Markee Markey Markham Markrim Marky Marrow Marshall Martin Mason Masterson Maston Matheny Mathews Matthew Matthews Mattocks Mattox Maupin Maury Maxey Maxwell May Mayberry Mayers Mayes Mayhew Mayhue Mayo Mays Mayse McArtey McAshan McBreath McCabe McCafferty McCahah McCahan McCale McCalgan McCalister McCall McCallister McCallum McCan McCantis McCarrol McCarroll McCartney McCarty McCaslin McCaul McCauley McCauslon McCawla McCawley McClain McClanahan McClaugherty McClaughlin McClelan McClellan McClelon McClenachan McClenechan McClenehan McClintick McClintock McCloskey McCluer McClung McClure McColgan McColgin McColough McConkey McConky McConnall McConnel McConnell McCord McCorkle McCormack McCormick McCoun McCowan McCown McCoy McCravey McCraw McCray McCreary McCreery McCrery McCrory McCroskey McCulley McCullock McCully McCurry McCutcheon McDavids McDermed McDonal McDonald McDowel McDowell McEhenny McElhany McElheney McElheny McElwaine McElwee McFadden McFall McFallan McFalls McFarran McFerran McFerson McGavock McGee McGeorge McGilvray McGinniss McGowan McGowen McGuire McGuyer McHaffy McHaskin McHenry McIheny McIlvoy McIntosh McIver McKalaster McKalester McKee McKenary McKenny McKinney McKnight McKutchen McLaugherty McLaughlin McMahan McMullen McMullin McMurray McMurrey McMurry McMurtrey McNeal McNeally McNeel McNeely McNeil McNeill McNutt McPhearson McPheeters McPherson McRoberts McVey McWhorter Meador Meadow Meadows Means Mease Medley Medlin Mefford Meggit Mehone Melling Mellon Menge Menou Meredith Merrill Merrit Merritt Messoner Michael Middlecoff Middlekauff Mifford Miles Milholand Milhollen Milirons Millar Miller Millholland Millirons Millner Millons Mills Miltenbarger Miltobarger Milton Minder Mindor Mineleaf Miner Mingas Minich Minick Minnich Minnick Minno Minor Minter Mires Mitchell Mittebarger Mittenbarger Modisett Moffett Moler Mondgold Mongold Monical Monicle Monroe Montague Montgomery Moody Moomaw Moore Moorman Morgan Morgan Morricle Morris Morrow Morton Mosby Mosely Moser Moses Moss Motley Moul Moulds Moule Mourn Mowles Moyer Moyers Muldrough Muldwich Mullen Mumbred Munday Murphey Murphy Murray Murrell Murrill Murry Muse Mussins Myars Myers Nace Nafe Nail Nance Nash Nave Nevil Navill Neace Neal Neathawk Neelly Neely Neff Neice Neidy Neighborns Neighbours Neile Nelson Nevil Nevill Newbury Newcom Newcome Newell Newgen Newlin Newman Newport Newton Nibert Nicely Nicewanger Nicewonger Nicholas Nichols Nickles Niday Nidey Nidy Nierce Nillirons Ninengar Niningar Nininger Noble Noffsinger Nofsinger Nofsinger Noftzinger Noniger Noonin North Norvell Now Nowell Nugent Nutter Nye Nysewand O’Bryan O’Neal O’Tull Oaks Obenchain Obenshain Obensheen Ocheltree Ockerman Ockiltree Odom Ogburne Ogden Ogilby Ohair Oiler Old Oldham Olds Olinger Oliver Olphan Onee Openchain Opinchain Orange Osborn Otey Ott Ovenchain Overchain Overholser Overstreet Ovington Owen Owens Owin Owins Oyler Paffley Pafley Page Painter Palmer Pamplin Pannel Pannell Par Parish Parker Parks Parnes Parr Parrish Parrot Parsinger Parsons Pate Paterel Patesell Patsel Patterson Patton Patzell Paul Pauley Pauper Paupey Paxton Payne Peacock Peal Pear Pearcy Pearson Pearcy Peas Peck Pedan Peel Peeling Peeples Peerey Peery Peffley Pefley Pegee Peightal Pell Pence Pencehead Pendle Pendleton Penn Pennington Penningtrkholder Peppercorn Perdieu Pereyfield Perrin Perry Persinger Person Peter Peterman Peters Petit Petross Pettey Pettigrew Pettit Petty Pettygrew Phaup Philips Phillips Phipps Piatt Pickering Pickett Pierce Pifer Piffley Pifley Pile Piringer Pitman Pittinger Pitzer Platt Pleasants Plott Plymale Plymell Poage Poague Poalk Pogue Polk Poppa Poppau Poppaw Poque Porter Potts Powell Powers Pramay Pratt Preble Prentice Prestob Preston Prewet Prible Price Prince Prindle Printz Pritchard Prophet Prothero Pruitt Prumpecker Prunk Pryor Puet Pugh Pullen Pullin Pulling Purseley Pursley Putman Pyre Quarles Quarry Quick Quickle Quigley Quiney Quisenberry Quond Rader Radford Ragland Raines Rambo Ramsey Ramsy Randle Randles Randolph Ranes Rankin Ranney Ranson Ray Raymer Reaburne Read Reade Ream Reburn Rector Redden Reddy Redford Redinger Redman Reed Rees Reese Reeve Reeves Reid Remern Renfro Renn Rettinger Rettique Review Reyburn Reyburne Reynold Reynolds Rhinehart Rhodafer Rhodes Ribble Rice Richards Richardson Richeson Richey Richie Richison Riddell Riddesbarger Riddle Riddlebarger Riddleberger Riddlesbarger Ridlesbarger Rife Riffey Riffy Riggle Right Rightsman Rigny Riley Rinehard Rinehart Rineheart Ring Riple Ripley Rison Risque Ritchey Ritesman Ritter River Roads Road Roberson Robinett Robins Robinson Robison Rock Rodaheffer Rodehizer Rodgers Rogers Ronck Ronk Roop Rose Ross Rossel Rosser Rouk Routsong Row Rowan Rowe Rowen Rowland Royal Royall Ruble Rucker Rudd Ruddle Rudisile Rudisill Rudizill Rule Ruly Runnells Runnels Runnion Rusel Russell Rutherford Rutter Ruttinger Ryan Sabrit Saddler Safley Saftly Saintentaffer Saintlear Sale Salmon Sanders Sands Sarber Sarver Sarvery Saunders Savill Saville Sawyer Sawyers Saxon Sayford Scandland Scanland Scantland Scantlin Schneck Schew Schoonover Schrawyer Schroder Scifford Scisson Scoonover Scott Scrackengharst Scroggin Seacat Seacatt Seacrist Seagle Seagraves Sears Seaver Sebert Secrist Seeford Seegraves Seegrist Seelar Sefford Seigler Selby Sell Sellman Selvey Selvy Sense Sentz Sephyr Serber Server Sesler Sesslar Settles Sewel Sewell Sexton Shaddon Shafer Shaffer Shahan Shamaker Shank Shanklin Shanks Sharkey Sharmaker Sharrard Shartser Shartzer Shatser Shauman Shaver Shaw Shawver Sheets Sheetz Sheff Shelden Shephard Shepherd Sherette Sherman Sherrad Sherrod Shetser Shettle Shewey Shewman Shewster Shields Shipley Shirkey Shivers Shoemaker Shootman Short Shoup Showalter Showalters Shrackengast Shrewsberry Shrewsbury Shrickingast Shue Shuey Shuff Shuke Shulah Shull Shultz Shuteman Sibart Siebert Sifford Silcock Siler Silver Silvers Silvey Simmerman Simmon Simmons Simms Simnemon Simpkins Simpson Sims Sinclair Sinclear Sindendorf Siner Sinkhorn Sintclair Sirkle Sisson Sites Sitlington Sittington Sizer Sizor Skaggs Skeen Skidmore Skillern Skylark Slack Slanker Slater Slaughter Sligh Slinker Sloan Sloane Slone Sloss Slusser Sly Smalling Smallwood Smelser Smiley Smith Smithers Smoot Smyth Smythe Sneed Snider Snodgrass Snow Snyder Solenbayer Solinbarger Solman Soloman Sorrel Sorrell Souder Sovain Sovaine Sowder Sowers Spangler Spaulding Speagle Speakman Spears Speckard Speckart Speckhart Speers Speigle Spencer Sperry Spesard Spessard Spessart Spicard Spickard Spickart Spickhart Spicklemoyer Spigle Spiller Spindle Spitlar Spitler Spradling Spratt Sproul Spurlock Spyker Squire St.Clair StClair Stailey Stair Staley Stamback Stanback Stanley Stark Starke Starks Starr Starrett Statler Staut Stayley Steber Steed Steel Steele Steen Steenberger Steenson Steinburgen Stennet Stephens Sterling Sternly Sterrett Stesson Stetler Stevens Stever Steward Stewart Stickleman Stiff Stiles Still Stinnet Stinnett Stip Stone Stoner Stott Stover Stowers Stratton Street Strickland Strine Strough Stuart Stull Styne Sullenbarger Sullivan Sullybarger Summerfield Summers Surber Surbur Susanne Sutherland Sutton Swainey Swanson Swatts Sweetland Swerengen Swisher Switcher Switzer Sybert Syckells Syrey Tabscott Tacket Tackitt Tagoe Talbot Talley Tally Tankersley Tanner Tapscott Tate Tatham Taylor Teale Telford Templeton Tennant Tenne Tennison Tenny Terrill Terry Tharp Thomas Thomason Thomasson Thomison Thompson Thorn Thornhill Thorp Thrasher Thresher Thrisher Tilford Tillery Tillett Tindal Tingler Tinsley Tipton Titus Todd Tolbert Toler Tolley Tolly Tomason Tomens Tomson Toomey Tootle Topping Tosh Toung Towler Townsley Tracy Travy Trenetor Trenor Trent Treslar Tresler Tressler Trevey Trevy Trigg Trisor Trotter Trout Troutt Trusell Trusler Trustler Tucker Tummons Turk Turley Turman Turner Turpin Tweley Tygert Tyler Tyree Umfries Umphrey Unrue Upton Urick Urmey Urmy Urnduff Valentine Vance Vandegrift Vandine Vanmatre Vanmeter Vanmetre Vanover Vansand Vansandt Varner Vass Vaughan Vaughn Vaun Vauns Veal Venmater Vensent Verner Vest Vickers Vimer Vines Vineyard Vinsant Vinyard Viors Vonesson Voss Votans Voyers Vyers Waddle Waddy Wade Wagener Waggoner Wagner Wagoner Wait Waits Waldron Waldwin Wales Walker Walkup Wall Wallace Walls Walrond Walter Walters Walton Wamucks Ward Warden Ware Warner Warnock Waskey Wasky Waterson Watkins Watson Watterson Watts Watwood Wax Wayman Wease Weathered Weathers Weaver Web Webb Webster Weeks Wees Weese Weir Weirs Welch Weller Welsh Wenger Wertz West Wharton Whealess Wheat Wheeling Wheelus Whislar Whisler Whistler Whitaker White Whitehead Whitehill Whiteneck Whitesides Whitley Witmer Whitmore Whitner Whitsell Whitten Wias Wiatt Wiblin Wickham Wickline Widle Wier Wiers Wigers Wigg Wilcher Wiley Wilhelm Wilkinson Wilks Willcocks Willet Willett Willey Willfong Willhelms Williams Williamson Willington Willis Wills Willson Wilmore Wilsher Wilson Wimer Wimond Windard Windsor Wineman Wines Wingar Wingard Wingart Winger Winsor Winston Winther Wirte Wirts Wisong Witeral Withero Witherow Withers Witt Wolf Wolfe Wolfinbarger Wolfingbarger Woltz Woltze Womack Wood Woodard Wooden Woodluf Woodruff Woods Woodson Woodville Woolandi Wooley Woolf Woolwine Word Worden Worley Wort Worth Wortmiller Worts Wortz Wray Wren Wright Wrightsman Writter Wyand Wyatt Wyllie Wymer Wyserman Wyson Wysonburg Wysong Yates Yeargan Yeargin Yearout Yeast Yocum Yop Yopp Yost Young Zeagler Zell Ziglar Zigler Zimmerman Zirkle Zollman

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Book Review: "1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners Botetourt County Virginia" with last name index

The following is a summary of Roger G. Ward's "1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners Botetourt County Virginia". This is a paperback print by New Papyrus Co., Inc. of Athens, Georgia and contains 51 pages.

In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.

This work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in the county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property. They have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the geographic location was provided as "adjacent to John Smith", etc. and, while useful many times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an "outline" of early landowners in Virginia rather than a "text" due to the year-to-year variation in information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of "identifiers" to determine if "same name" was also "same person" within a district or across districts, marginal quality/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while transcribing.

Some of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:
  • Observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc.
  • Identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county)
  • Determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives)
  • Use the 1815 info as a "bridge" from the 18th and 19th century deed/will books to the 17th and 18th century land grants/patents in the county
  • Evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors
  • Substitute this information for missing deed/will books in the "burned" counties; and, clarify/enhance vague deed/will information in the counties with more complete records
Each entry is listed as: Surname, name, personal identifiers (if any); location/place-name of land; miles/direction from the 1815 courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under each of the owner's surnames (i.e "Smith and Brown" is also listed as "Brown, --see Smith"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed once. When a landowner had land at more than one location/place-name, the miles/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e. James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had "many" parcels, the miles/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV- 5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)

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Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Boggs, Stephen, of Rockbridge County; Arnolds Valley; 25E"
  • "Bridgland, Soloman; Fincastle"
The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abel Acton Acton Aston Adams Alderson Alexander Allen Amen Amix Amyx Anderson Angel Arbuckle Armontrout Armstrong Arnold Ashdon Austin Aversole Bachus Bailey Bain Baker Banday Bandey Banks Banning Barclay Bare Barger Barnes Barney Barnhart Barten Bartlet Baxter Bays Beagler Beal Beale Beard Beckner Beher Beaker Bell Bennett Betts Biggs Bilbro Billups Bird Bishop Black Blain Blair Blunt Boggess Boggs Bolt Book Booker Booth Booze Borze Bossvinder Boswillman Botts Bower Bowers Bowyer Bowyers Boyd Breakenridge Bream Briant Brickey Bridgland Brits Bronomer Brooks Brough Brown Brownlee Bryan Bryans Buckhannon Bukner Buknor Burger Burket Burkholder Burndrager Burns Burwell Bush Butcher Butler Butlor Butt Cahoon Caldwell Campbell Camper Carden Cardon Carlton Carnez Carpenter Carper Carrol Cartmill Carvin Casey Chambers Champ Chandler Chapman Chevalier Chisholm Circle Clark Cleck Clegg Clice Cloyd Coffman Coldmen Coldoon Coldwell Cole Compston Cook Coon Cooper Copp Correll Cox Cradock Craft Crawford Crist Crites Crocket Crodion Cross Crouse Crush Custard Custer Dagges Dames Daina Daniel Daton Davidson Davis Davison Day Deal Deardoff Delong Delzell Dempsey Dennis Denton Depew Depey Dicson Dill Dillard Dillman Dillmon Dilmon Disher Dodd Dollman Donald Donner Douglas Douthal Douthat Douthet Downs Drake Duckwilor Dudding Dunnington Duval Duvall Dwier Eakin Earhart Earley Eddington Edgar Edslor Eller Erley Ervin Evans Falls Faris Farrier Farris Faught Fergerson Ferrel Filson Findley Firestone Fizer Flaharty Fleeger Fleming Flook Forest Forgerson Forrester Fout Fowler Frank Franklin Fransisco Frants French Fringer Fudge Fulhart Fults Fulwiler Gafford Galbraith Gallego Gannt Garat Garnant Garwood Gates Gattey Gay George Gharst Gibbins Gillaspie Gilleland Gilmore Gish Givens Glasburn Glinn Glyn Godwin Gofford Gohsen Goodman Gorden Gormon Gortner Gortnur Graham Graves Gray Graybill Green Greenlee Greenwood Griffin Grimes Grinniway Grissa Grist Gross Ground Grup Guillford Guthery Hamilton Hammett Hammond Hancock Hanley Hannah Hanner Hannon Hardey Hardy Hare Harkman Harman Harris Harrison Harshbarger Hart Hartman Harvey Hausmon Haymaker Haynes Hays Hays Hazlewood Heck Hedrick Helmondoller Helms Henderliter Henderson Hendrixon Henry Heplor Herd Hewit Hickel Hickman Hill Hime Hinor Hinten Hipes Hiveley Hogg Holler Holstin Honts Hook Horn Houston Houts Howard Howel Howrey Huddle Hudson Huff Huffman Huhn Humphries Hunter Hurst Icehower Inglehart Intzminger Irvine Isaacks Jackson James Janny Jenkins Johnson Johnston Jones Jordan Jordon Kaylor Kayser Kayton Keachey Keefavaur Keeth Keith Kelley Kelly Kem Kennerly Kenny Keplar Kerns Kerrigan Kesler Keslor Kilmer Kimberling King Kinzey Kirk Kirzman Kittinger Knox Kybert Kyle Lackey Lackland Lafau Lamkin Lamuir Lamuin Lanius Lark Lavander Law Lawman Lawry Lawson Ledbetter Leffel Leffle Leib Lemmon Lemon Lewis Linch Lindsay Linglocker Linkinanger Linkinauger Linkinhoker Little Lockett Lockhart Logan Long Long Lang Looney Loony Loop Love Luck Lynn Madison Magget Mahan Malling Mallow Malory Mangess Mankspile Manley Markey Marshel Martain Martin Mason Matthews Maund Maxwell May Mays McCarroll McClanahan McClung McClure McColgan McConnal McConnell McCreary McCrery McCroskey McDermot McDonnald McDowell McFalls McFerran McGeorge McGowen McIlhaney McIlvoy McIver McKalister McKinlay McMichen McNaughton McNeal McNight McRoberts Means Middlecoff Middlecuff Miller Millirous Mills Minick Mitchel Mitchell Moomaw Moore More More Moseley Mosley Moyar Moyars Moyer Moyers Muldrath Murphey Murrey Muse Myers Myors Neelly Neil Nelson Newell Newman Nicely Nicewonger Nicholas Nidey Nininger Noftzinger Norville Nutter Obenihain ODonald Olinger Olverson ONeal Otey Ovenshane Overholts Owen Palmer Panter Pappey Parrish Parsons Pate Patterson Paxton Payn Peale Peck Peery Pefley Pence Perey Persing Persinger Peterman Peters Pettey Phillips Pickle Pitzer Platt Poage Polk Porter Portiaux Prank Preston Prewett Prince Pyror Quarrier Rader Rank Raybig Reddey Redinger Redmond Reed Reid Renn Reynolds Rhoads Richardson Rickey Riddle Riddlesebarger Riffe Riggle Rightsman Rinehart Ripley Risque Roan Roberts Robertson Robison Rock Roger Rogers Ross Routsaw Rowland Royal Rudisell Rule Rumsay Rutherford Saftley Sarver Sawyer Sawyers Scandlan Scott Seacat Seacatt Seacott Seacrest Sefford Segle Senty Sentz Server Seslar Seslor Shanklin Shanks Sharrod Shatser Shaver Shawver Sheets Sheffer Sheffey Shepherd Sherkey Sherman Sherod Shewalter Shewey Shirkey Shrewsberry Simmons Simpson Sims Singer Sites Skidmore Skillern Smelser Smiley Smith Snider Snodgrass Snyder Spangler Speckhart Spetsard Spickard Spitler Staley Stanback Stanley Star Starrett Stephens Sterrett Stetlor Stever Stewart Stoner Stover Strickland Stull Sullinbarger Summerfield Switzer Tapscott Tate Tayloe Taylor Tebbs Terry Thomas Thrasher Thresher Tosh Trenis Trenor Tressler Trigg Trout Turner Unrue Upton Urmey Urmey Vandine Vanmetre Vaugn Vinyard Wadkins Waggoner Wagnor Waits Walker Wallace Wallis Walton Ward Warner Watkins Watson Watts Wax Weathers Weaver Webster Welch Wert Werts West Westler White Whitecraft Whiteneck Whitten Wiley Wilhelm Williams Willson Wilson Winmon Wisner Wolf Woltz Womack Wood Woods Woodson Woolf Wooltz Woolwine Wornock Wray Wright Wysong Young Younghusband Zentmier Zimmerman Zull

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Book Review: "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" with Last Name Index M-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index, M-Z, of "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" by Dorthie and Edwin Kirkpatrick, 443 pages, index, figures, map. Rockbridge County's creation in 1778 from portions of Augusta and Botetourt counties was part of a flurry of new county organizations and older county subdivisions during the Revolutionary period. Despite the war, the frontier was moving inexorably westward, and the new county of Rockbridge represented an area now more densely settled and requiring its own polity. A total of 4,785 marriages have been extracted directly from courthouse records as well as from newspaper and other published sources; these references include parents' name, bondsmen, ministers' names and their denominations. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1985 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy, you can click here to get it at Amazon:


FYI, the book you would get contains all letters A-Z but I broke them up here into two posts so they would not look so long.

Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Moore James & Mary Kirkpatrick 19 Jan 1797; d John min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
  • "Adair Elizabeth & Samuel Snodgrass 22 Nov 1792; d James min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Maben MacKamon Mackey Maddocks Mairs Mallin Malone Mann Manspile Mappins Margrave Marks Marshall Martin Mason Masters Masterson Matchet Matseer Matheney Mateny Mathews Matthews Maupin Maxwell May Mayberry Mayers Maylor Maynaugh Mays Mayse McAdam McAleer McAlister McAllison McAllister McBride McCabe McCaferty McCaleb McCall McCalmon McCalpin McCampbell McCartney McCarty McCaskry McCaslin McCawly McChesney McClain McClanahan McClane McCleland McClelland McClellen McCleahan McClentic McClintic McClintick McClintock McCloy McCluer McClung McClure McColgan McCollack McCollem McCollister McColm McComb McConel McConky McConnel McCorkle McCormack McCormick McCoskey McCoul McCowan McCowen McCown McCoy McCrary McCray McCrea McCreary McCreery McCrery McCrey McCrory McCroskey McCroskie McCroskry McCrosky McCroy McCue McCulloch McCullock McCullough McCundrey McCurdy McCutcheon McCutcheon McDaniel McDonald McDonell McDonal McDonnald McDonnel McDowell McElhaney McElhanney McElhany McElheny McElwain McElwee McEntosh McEwen McFadden McFaddin McFall McFarland McGavick McGill McGilton McGilvray McGinnis McGowan McGuffach McGuffin McHenry McIlwain McKamon McKamy McKee McKeeman McKeever McKehan McKemy McKennie McKenny McKenry McKenzie McKey McKinney McKinsey McKnight McLaughlin McLeod McMahan McManamyp McManaay McMasters McMath McMillan McMillen McMullen McNabb McNair McNaughton McNeil McNutt McPheetars McPheeters McPherson McQueen McQuillen McQuillin McQuoun McRay McSpadden McTear McVay McVey McWhorter Meeker Meeks Merchants Merritt Michael Michal Michel Michie Milam Milen Miler Miles Milhollin Milican Miller Milligan Milliken Milliron Millirons Mills Milor Mines Mingar Minger Minick Minnick Minnick Minton Mish Mitchel Mitchell Moats Mock Moffet Moffett Mohler Molar Moler Moles Moneymaker Monroe Montgomery Moody Moon Monney Moore Morehead Moorhead Moorman Moran Morehead Morgan Morrell Morris Morrison Morter Moseley Moses Mosss Mould Muck Mulholen Mullin Murphey Murpt Murphy Murray Muterspaugh Muterspaw Myers Mynes Nace Napper Nash Neal Neece Neely Neese Neff Neice Neil Neimmo Nelson Nephews Nesbit Nesbitt Nevins Nevious Nevius Newcomer Newham Newhorn Newkirk Newton Niceley Nicely Nicholas Nicholls Nichols Nicholson Nick Nickolls Nocks Noel Norcross Norman North Northern Novies Nowell Nowells Nuckles Null Nutty O’Brian O’Brien O’Hara O’Neal Occroman Ocheltree Ocle Odell Ogden Oiler Oilinger Oliver Oody Orbison Orenbaum Oreboun Orenbourn Orendorf Ormbourn Ornbaum Ornbourne Orndorf Ornduff Osborn Osborne Otey Ott Owen Owens Owins Oyler Pace Packet Packett Padgett Page Paine Painter Palmer Parent Park Parke Parker Parks Parrit Parry Parson Parsons Paton Patterson Patton Paul Paxton Payne Payton Pearman Peatross Peatt Peck Peel Peerman Peers Peery Peeters Pendall Pendell Penn Pennington Pepper Perry Peter Peterie Peterman Peters Peterson Petticrew Pettigrew Pettycrew Pharris Philips Philllips Pickens Picket Pierman Pine Pines Pinkerton Piper Pitt Platt Plauger Pleasants Plott Plummer Plunket Plunkett Poage Poague Poindexter Pole Pollock Pore Porter Potter Powers Pratt Presley Presly Pressley Preston Price Prichard Priestly Pring Pryor Ptomey Ptomy Pullen Pullin Pursley Purvis Putnam Pyatt Quann Quean Quigley Quinn Ra Rail Raison Ralston Ramsay Ramsey Renalds Ransbostian Ranson Rapp Raredon Ray Raycroft Rea Read Reainey Redman Redy Reece Reed Reid Reiny Rennick Replogle Repogle Reyburn Reynolds Rhea Rhoads Rhodes Rice Richards Richeson Richey Ricket Rickett Ridde Riddle Ridpath Riggins Riley Rine Rineheart Ripley Ripply Risk Rison Ristine Ritchey Ritchy Roach Rladcap Roades Roads Roberts Robertson Robinson Robison Rodenezer Rodenizer Rodes Rodgers Rogers Rolinson Rolison Rolston Roonkle Rose Ross Roulston Rowan Rowen Rowland Rowlinson Rowlison Rowsey Ruff Ruffner Rule Ruley Ruly Runcle Runnels Rupe Rupp Rush Russell Rust Ruth Ryan Ryns Sale Salling Sally Sample Sanders Sandford Sandige Sandridge Saunders Savage Savil Savill Saville Sawyer Sawyers Schermerhorn Scott Sea Seabrook Seacat Seagler Seahorn Seal Seay See Sehorn Seisson Selby Self Selinder Selph Senecor Sensabaugh Sevack Sevel Shafer Shaffer Shainer Shaner Shank Shanor Sharp Shaver Shaw Sheckle Sheets Shekle Sheltman Shepherd Sheppard Shereman Sherrett Shewy Shields Shiner Ship Shipley Shiply Shirk Shirley Shiry Shoemaker Short Shoulder Shroyers Shuey Shults Shultz Siders Siler Silor Silvey Simbrow Simmerman Simmonds Simonds Simons Simpkins Simpson Sims Sincks Sintz Siron Sitlington Sivell Sizer Sizor Skean Skeen Skidmore Slagle Slaughter Sloan Slone Slough Slow Sly Smeltz Smiley Smith Smithson Smyth Snead Sneed Snider Snodgrass Snyder Solis Soloman Solomon Somervell Somerville Sorrell Sorrells Sorrels Sousong Sowers Spance Spears Speer Spence Spencer Spitler Spitzer Spodern Spohr Spriggs Sprinkle Sproul Sprouse Sprowl Staley Stanage Standoff Stanley Staples Stark Starke Starr Staten Staton Steel Steele Stephen Stephens Stephenson Sterling Sterrett Stevens Stewart Stickleather Stiff Still Stillwell Stinnett Stirling Stockdale Stockdell Stokely Stokes Stone Stoner Stoop Stoops Stout Stowell Strain Strange Strathan Stratton Straub Strauss Stricker Stricklan Strickland Stricklen Strickler Stricklin Strong Strothers Struthers Stuart Studdy Stuple Sturgen Suddith Summers Supinger Surface Surfix Susong Suthard Sutherland Sutten Sutton Swadley Swan Swanson Swartzer Swearingham Sweet Swink Swinney Swisher Swoope Swope Snyders Sylers Sylor Tadford Taggart Taliaferro Tankersly Tankery Tapscot Tapscott Tarbet Tardy Tate Taylor Teaford Tedford Teel Teele Telford Tellor Temple Templeton Tenant Tennant Tennett Terry Tetherly Tharp Thomas Thomason Thommison Thompson Thorn Thornton Thurman Tidd Tierney Tigart Tilford Till Tillery Timberlake Tinslay Todd Tole Tolley Tolls Tolly Tolston Toman Tomlinson Tooley Tooly Topping Torbit Tosh Townsley Tracy Travis Treavy Trencher Tgresham Trevey Trevy Tribbet Gribbett Tribett Trice Trimble Trisham Trivett Trotter Trout Troxall Troxel Troxell Trusler Truxal Truxall Tucker Tudor Tuley Tuly Tungate Tungit Tuning Turner Turpin Tutwiler Tygret Tyler Tyree Unroe Unrow Updike Upton Ustick Utley Vandegraft Vanpelt Vansandt Vansant Vance Vardy Varner Vaughan Vena Venable Venrick Venus Vernon Vernon Vess Vest Via Vickery Viers Vigus Vinsant Vinzandt Vines Vineyard Waddle Wade Waid Walker Walkup Wall Wallace Wallacve Waller Walls Walter Walters Walton Wamack Wane Ward Wardlaw Wardlow Ware Warner Warrall Warren Warwick Waskey Wasky Wason Wasson Waters Watkins Watson Watt Watters Watts Waugh Wauson Waysman Weare Weathers Weaver Webb Weed Weeks Weer Weightman Weir Welch Welchaus Wellchon Wells Welsh Welter Wence Wentz West Westrip Weyble Whealiss Wheat Wheeler Whipple Whistler White Whitelock Whitely Whiteman Whitesel Whitesell Whiteside Whitezel Whitley Whitlock Whitman Whitmore Whitsel Whitt Whitten Whitzel Whitzell Wiars Wilber Wilburn Wilcher Wiles Wiley Wilhelm Wilkerson Wilkins Wilkinson Williams Willamson Willocks Willson Wilmore Wilmoth Wilson Wiltshire Wimer Winat Windell Windle Wine Winegar Winn Winner Winter Winters Wire Wise Wieseman Wisenburg Withers Withrow Wood Woodard Wooden Woods Woodson Woodward Workman Worley Worly Worsley Woskey Wright Wyand Wyatt Wyer Wyler Wynant Wynat Wyre Yeast Yeates Yeats Youel Youell Young Zimbron Zink Zollman

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Book Review: "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" with Last Name Index A-L

The following is a summary of the last name index, A-L, of "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriages 1778-1850" by Dorthie and Edwin Kirkpatrick, 443 pages, index, figures, map. Rockbridge County's creation in 1778 from portions of Augusta and Botetourt counties was part of a flurry of new county organizations and older county subdivisions during the Revolutionary period. Despite the war, the frontier was moving inexorably westward, and the new county of Rockbridge represented an area now more densely settled and requiring its own polity. A total of 4,785 marriages have been extracted directly from courthouse records as well as from newspaper and other published sources; these references include parents' name, bondsmen, ministers' names and their denominations. This is a soft cover reprint of a 1985 original, printed by New Papyrus Co. of Athens, Georgia.

If you would like to purchase a copy, you can click here to get it at Amazon:


FYI, the book you would get contains all letters A-Z but I broke them up here into two posts so they would not look so long.

Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Moore James & Mary Kirkpatrick 19 Jan 1797; d John min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
  • "Adair Elizabeth & Samuel Snodgrass 22 Nov 1792; d James min - Samuel Houston, Presbyterian"
The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Abbot Abbott Ackerly Acres Acton Adair Adam Adams Agar Ager Agner Agnew Agnor Agor Aignor Aiken Ailstock Aires Airhart Aken Albright Alestock Alexander Alison Allbright Allen Alley Allison Almonrode Alphin Amick Ammen Amole Ampy Amyx Anderson Andrew Andrews Anthony Aps Archer Archibald Argenbright Armentrout Armstrong Arnold Arry Arthur Asby Aschew Asher Ashford Athens Athon Atkins Atkinson Auld Austin Axton Aylett Ayres Ayrs Bacon Baer Bagby Baggs Bagley Bailey Bailor Bails Baily Baker Baldock Baldwin Bales Ball Ballard Balser Balsor Baltzer Bane Bannen Banning Bannington Barclay Barcus Barger Barington Barker Barkey Barlow Barnett Bartley Barton Bates Battles Bauserman Baxter Bay Bayles Beach Bean Bear Beard Beason Beats Beattie Beatty Beaty Beaver Becket Beckett Beckham Bedford Beech Beers Beeson Beetley Beets Beggs Below Bell Belser Bely Bennett Bennington Benson Benton Bernard Berry Berryhill Best Bettis Bettisowrth Beverly Bias Bicket Bickle Biddle Bierly Biggs Bill Bird Birmingham Black Blackburn Blackwell Blain Blair Blakey Blane Blessing Blosser Blueford Blunt Bly Bobbit Bobbitt Bodkin Bodkins Bogan Bogges Boggess Boggs Bogle Bohrer Bolen Bollen Boltaon Bonnett Booker Boon Booz Borden Borders Bordin Bosserman Bosters Bowler Bowlin Bowman Bowyer Boy Boyd Boys Bracken Brackley Bradds Bradley Bradly Brads Brady Braford Brand Brant Bratton Braun Brawford Brawley Bready Breedlove Breslin Bridge Bridgeland Bridges Bridget Bridgett Bright Britt Broaddus Brobeck Brobick Brock Brockenbrough Brogan Broobach Brook Brooks Broom Brosius Brown Brownfield Brownless Brubeck Bruce Brush Bryan Bryant Buchanan Buckingham Buckley Buckner Buckridge Bumgardner Bunch Buntain Bunton Burden Burford Burgess Burkholder Burks Burns Burris Burton Bush Butler Butt Byars Byass Byer Byers Cahoon Cails Caldwell Cale Cales Calvert Calwell Camden Cameron Camlin Cammock Camp Campbell Campden Campstom Caperton Care Carlock Carnes Carpenter Carper Carr Carrick Carrier Carruthers Carson Carter Cartwright Caruther Caruthers Carver Carwell Casady Cash Caskey Casky Cassady Casteel Catlett Catlin Cato Caulk Caven Cavin Cawfel Chambers Chandler Chandley Chaplin Charlton Chasteen Cheatum Cheesman Cherry Chestnut Chew Childers Childress Chillis Chitham Chittum Chowning Christian Christopher Church Ciders Circle Cizar Clark Clarke Clarkson Clayton Cleerk Cleghorn Clemer Clemmer Clifton Climer Cline Clinebell Clownby Cloyd Clyburn Clyce Clymer Coalter Cobbs Cobham Cochran Cocke Cockeran Cofflin Coffman Cohenour Cohenower Coin Coiner Cole Coleman Collins Colston Conn Connelly Conner Connevy Connevy Connor Conolly Consolvin Conway Cook Coon Coons Cooper Coots Coper Copper Corbett Corby Cornelius Cosby Cotter Coughenour Coulter Coulton Coursey Cowan Cowfell Cowman Cox Craddy Craft Craig Craighead Cravin Crawford Cress Crigler Crist Crocket Crockett Croddy Croft Crogen Crosley Croson Cross Crossley Crossly Crouse Crout Crown Crowl Crozen Crumb Cryden Culberton Cull Culton Cumberford Cumings Cumins Cummings Cummins Cunningham Cups Curren Currey Currice Currie Curry Cusach Cusick Dabney Dads Daft Daggerm Dale Dalton Dameron Daniel Danner Darst Daugherty Davidson Davie Davies Davis Dawson Day Deacon Deal Dean Deatrick Deaver Debar Decker Deen Deerfield Defries Deitrich Deitrick Dell Demasters Dempsey Denton Desher Deshler Dial Dice Dick Dickens Dickey Dickinson Dickson Diehl Dihart Dill Dillan Dillard Diller Dillon Dingledine Divise Dix Dixon Doak Dodd Dodds Doherty Dold Donaho Donahoe Donahow Donahy Donald Donaldson Donally Donelly Donihoo Donoho Dooly Dorman Dorsey Dotson Doty Dougherty Douglas Douglass Douthat Dove Dow Dowell Down Downey Downs Doyle Drain Draper Drawband Drawbone Drumheller Drummond Dryden Dubeck Dudding Dudley Duff Duke Dunaway Duncan Dunfield Dunkum Dunlap Dunn Dupee Durkee Dutton Dyal Dyce Eads Eagle Eaken Eakin Early East Eaton Ebberd Ebert Echard Echart Echols Eckerly Edens Edington Edley Edminson Edmiston Edmondson Edmonson Edmundson Edsall Edward Edwards Egner Egnor Elder Elliot Elliott Ellis Ellwood Elwell Elwood Emick Emtsminger English Entsminger Epley Eply Eppard Epperd Epperson Ervin Erwin Eskew Eskridge Estell Eubank Eubanks Evans Everett Eves Evins Ewin Ewing Eyers Eyres Fainter Falley Fanter Farley Farra Farrell Fausnaught Feazle Fencher Fenter Fenton Ferguson Ficklin Fields Figgat Figget Findlay Findley Fink Finley Finney Firebaught Firestone Fisherf Fitzgerald Fitzpatric Fitzpatrick Fix Flanigan Fleming Flemming Fletcher Flinn Flint Flournoy Floyd Flynt Foran Forbes Forbet Ford Forean Forebaugh Forehan Forsyth Forsythe Foster Fowler Fowlyon Fox Fraiser Frame Francisco Frankham Franklin Frazer Frazier Frazor Freed Freeman French Frush Fry Fulks Fullen Fuller Fulton Fulwider Fulwiler Gabbert Gadberry Gailor Galbraith Galbreath Gale Gallaspy Gamble Gardner Garges Garison Garland Garner Garret Garrett Garrison Garth Garvey Garvie Garvin Gated Gates Gatliff Gaul Gay Gaylor Gealor Geary Geer Geerhart Geldmaker George Gerald Gibbs Gibson Gifford Gilbert Gilian Gilkeson Gilkson Gill Gilleland Gillespie Gilliam Gilliat Gillis Gillock Gilmore Ginger Gladden Glawgow Glass Glenn Glimph Glover Gosey Goff Goint Gold Gooch Good Goodbar Gooden Goodloe Goodman Goodwin Goolsby Gordan Gordon Gore Gorman Goshen Goss Goten Goul Gowen Gowl Goyne Grady Graham Grainer Grant Gray Green Greene Greenlee Greer Gregory Grice Griffin Griffith Grigsby Grim Grimes Grinstead Grist Groah Groover Grove Groves Gue Guffey Guffy Guilenger Guin Gullifer Gun Gunn Gunnel Gunter Guthery Guthrie Gutridge Hack Hadden Haden Hagan Hagen Hagett Hais Hale Hall Ham Hamnmand Hamer Hamilton Hammaker Hammers Hampton Hancock Handley Hanger Hanna Hanson Hardbarger Harden Hardwick Hardy Hare Harkins Harnest Harsbarger Harper Harrel Harris Harrison Hart Hartigan Hartless Hartman Hartsook Harvey Haslet Haslett Hatcher Hatfield Hattan Hatten Hatton Haughawout Hawott Hawpe Hay Hayes Hays Hayse Hayslet Hayslett Hayslip Haywood Heack Heck Hedley Hegins Heiser Henderson Hendran Hendron Henkle Henley Henning Hennings Henry Henton Hepler Herndon Heron Heslep Hess Hiatt Hickman Hicks Higgens Higginbottam Higgins High Highman Hight Hildreth Hileman Hill Hillen Hillery Hilliard Hillis Hilmore Himes Himo Hindman Hinds Hinkle Hite Hobbs Hobson Hodge Hoff Hoffman Hogg Hoghead Hogshead Hogue Hoilman Holbrook Holden Holingsworth Holley Holman Holmes Holt Hook Hoover Hope Hoping Hopkins Hopping Horde Horn Horner Hostater Hosteter Hostetter Houghawout Householder Houston Howard Howell Hoyless Hoylman Huddle Hudlow Hudson Huff Huffman Hugart Huggart Hughart Hughes Hughs Hull Hulsinger Humbler Humes Humphrey Humphreys Humphries Hunt Hunter Hurley Hutcheson Hutchison Hutson Hutton Hyde Hyman Hyme Hymes Icemon Icehower Imboden Imes Ingles Ingram Inkleka Innis Ireland Irick Irvin Irvine Irwin Irwine Isenhower Itchell Jack Jackson Jacob Jacobs James Jameson Jamison Jarret Jarrett Jarvis Jemeson Jenkins Jennings Jernigan Jervis Jessup Johns Johnson Johnston Jolley Jonas Jones Jordan Judy Jurnigan Kahle Kaiger Karnes Karns Karr Kay Kayler Keffer Keith Keller Kelly Kelsey Kelso Kelson Kelsy Keltmaker Kemph Kenady Kennnedy Kennerly Kennet Kenney Kenny Kent Kepler Kerland Kerlin Kerr Keslar Kessler Key Keyes Keys Keyton Kidd Kiddy Kigar Kiger Kilburn Kile Kilpatrick Kincaid Kindig Kinear King Kingan Kigen Kinging Kinkade Kinkaide Kinnear Kirk Kirkpatrick Kirkwood Kirtz Kisor Kizer Kizzer Knicely Knick Koontz Krebs Kulp Kyles Kyser Labrie Lackey Lackland Lacy Lair Laird Lam Lamb Lambert Land Lane Langhorn Lanton Lants Lantz Larew Larkin Larkins Larue Latham Latshaw Laughlin Laurance Laurence Law Lawhorn Lawless Lawrence Lawson Layman Laymer Layton Leach Leahy Leamon Lear Leckey Lecky Leece Leech Leek Leese Leforge Leget Legget Leighton Lemon Lenmons Leopard Lepard Lessley Lessly Lester Letcher Letick Letshaw Lewis Leyburn Ligan Ligget Liggin Liggins Liggon Lilley Lilly Lindsay Link Linkswiler Linn Linsford Lipscomb Lipstrap Liptrap Litten Litteral Little Lloyd Lockard Lockett Lockhart Lockridge Lodon Logan Long Loop Lots Lotts Love Lovwell Lowe Lowe Lowman Lowry Lowther Lucas Ludwick Lunsford Lusj Lusk Luster Lydick Lyford Lyle Lynn Lyons

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Book Review: "Augusta County Virginia Marriages 1747-1850" with Last Name Index M-Z

The following is a summary of the last name index, M-Z, of John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr.'s "Augusta County Virginia Marriages 1747-1850." 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 Athens, Georgia of a 1986 original, contains 414 pages plus figures, appendices & fold-out map. Augusta County was formed from Orange County in 1738 and originally encompassed all western lands of Virginia beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains and south of Frederick County. This book contains a total of 5,244 marriage records including bonds, licenses and/or minister's returns.

If you would like to purchase a copy, you can click here to get it at Amazon:


FYI, the book you would get contains all letters A-Z but I broke them up here into two posts so they would not look so long.

Here are two sample entries from the book:
  • "Hawkins, Alexander & Jane Guinn 30 Aug 1832; min - William Calhoon"
  • "Hays, Richard & Rachel Risk 27 Dec 1792; d. Elizabeth Stuart, who consents wit - Charles Stuart (Stewart) & John Risk b - John Risk min - John Brown - 24 Jan 1793"
The following is a list of names made from the surname frequency index at the front of the book:

Mackaby Madison Mahan Mahon Mahoney Mahony Malcolm Malcom Mandele Mansfield Manuell Mardis Mares Marks Markwood Marshall Martin Marton Masincup Mason Masoncup Massey Massie Masters Mateer Matheny Mathews Maupin Maury May Mayes Mayfield Mayo Mays Maze McAdams McAfee McAlary McAlear McAlery McBride McClure McCaaley McCabe McCadden McCaferty McCaleb McCames McCamey McCampbell McCan McCann McCannon McCarty McCaslin McCauley McCausland McCawley McChesney McClanahan McClaughlin McCleland McClelland McClenachan McClentock McClintic McClintick McClune McClung McClure McColley McCollins McColmick McComb McCommis McCorgar McCorkell McCorkle McCormack McCormick McCoskey McCown McCoy McCray McCreery McCrery McCroskey McCue McCulloch McCullock McCullough McCune McCurdy McCutchan McCutchen McCutcheon McDade McDaniel McDead McDonald McDowell McElroy McElvanny McElwee McElwrath McFadden McFaddin McFall McFarland McFarlane McFeeters McGaffock McGarry McGee McGill McGilvray McGlaflin McGlamery McGlammery McGlaughlin McGraw McGuffin McIlree McIlvain McIntire McIntosh McKamy McKee McKemy McKenny McKensey McKenzie McKesson McKinney McKinny McKitrick McKnight McKoskry McLaughlin McLeas McLeer McMahon McMillen McMinn McMullan McMullen McMullin McMullins McMurtry McNabb McNair McNeil McNight McNutt McPheeters McQuain McQueen McTear McWhorter McWilliams Mede Means Meck Meddings Meek Meeks Mefford Mell Mellen Melrose Melton Menker Menzies Merit Meritt Merit Merritt Mesner Messersmith Messmaker Meyers Michael Michel Michie Middleton Miely Miller Milliken Mills Milsap Milton Mims Mines Minga Mingo Minick Minnick Minnis Miser Mitchel Mitchell Mizener Mizer Moeler Moffet Moffett Moffette Mohler Mohr Moirs Molds Moneymaker Monroe Montgomerie Montgomery Mood Moon Mooney Moony Moor Moore Moorman Moredock Morel Morgan Morrell Morris Morrison Morriss Morrow Morton Mosby Moses Moss Mount Mowbray Mowrer Mowrey Mowry Moyer Moyers Muchmore Muck Mulholland Mulinx Mulnix Mummer Muncy Murphy Murray Murry Meyrs Mynes Myres Nabours Naher Nair Nales Neal Near Nebergall Neere Neighborrgall Neighbourgall Neill Neislon Neizer Nelson Nesbet Nesbit Ness Nest Nevins New Newcomb Newell Newham Newlan Newlen Newman Newton Nichol Nicholas Nichols Nicholson Nickel Nickenson Nickey Nickle Nickoles Nigle Nimerick Nimmo Nixon Noffinger Noland Nolin Noll Nonyer North Norton Nutty Nyman O’Kane Oakley Ocheltree Odell Oder Oehler Offlinder Offlighter Offord Ohrbough Oldham Olinger Oliver Olves Ong Orbison Orbough Orebaugh Orebough Orner Orr Orrele Osborne Ott Ougheltree Overshiner Owens Owie Padget Page Paine Painter Palmer Pannel Pannell Panzle Papper Parent Paris Parks Parmer Parr Parratt Parrent Parris Parry Parson Parsons Pary Pateson Patrick Patterson Patton Pauf Pauff Paul Pauley Paulus Pauss Paxton Payne Peaco Pearce Pearey Pearsen Pearson Peatt Peck Pecker Pecot Peebles Peer Peerie Peery Pelter Pence Pendell Pendleton Pennell Penrose Peples Pepperley Percy Perkey Perkins Perry Peters Peterson Petty Peyatt Peyton Pfifer Phagan Phifer Philips Phillips Pickering Pickle Pickral Pifer Pillson Pilson Pine Pinkerton Piper Pirkey Pitman Pitzer Platt Plecker Plumb Plunket Plunkett Poage Pockrott Poe Poindexter Pointer Points Pollard Pollock Pool Porter Porterfield Posey Potter Potts Poulas Powell Powers Powlas Prewer Price Printz Prior Probst Props Propst Pryor Ptomey Ptomy Puckett Pue Puff Puffenbarger Puffenberry Puffinbarger Pugh Puls Pumphrey Pursell Quick Raab Rabb Rabern Rader Radner Rady Rafferty Ragan Ragen Ragland Raidner Raines Ralston Ramsay Ramsbottom Ramsey Ramsy Randal Randolph Ranicks Ranken Rankin Ransbarger Ransberger Ranson Rapp Rauch Rauly Rawley Ray Rayburn Reaburn Ready Reah Reburne Red Redder Redifer Rediford Redman Redmond Redner Rednour Reece Reed Reese Reeser Reeves Reglor Regon Reid Reidenour Reif Reiff Reignheart Reimensnyder Reiser Reitenour Rennick Repetoe Resley Resors Reubush Revercomb Reyburn Reynolds Rezer Rhea Rhinehart Rhoades Rhodes Rhyan Rice Richards Richardson Richeson Richey Rickett Riddle Rife Rigby Riley Rimel Rine Rinehart Riner Ringuson Rippetoe Ript Risk Ritchey Rittenhouse Ritter Roach Roadcap Roades Roads Roberts Robertson Robinson Robison Rodchers Rode Rodenheizer Rodes Rodgers Rogers Roland Roler Roles Rolestone Roller Rolston Roop Roople Root Roots Rosenbarger Ross Roudabush Roudenbush Rough Row Rowe Rowh Rowland Rowler Royer Rozen Rubush Ruddle Ruff Ruhle Rumbough Runkel Runkle Runnels Runnolds Rupe Rupert Ruple Rush Rusht Rusk Rusmisel Rusmisle Rusmissel Russel Russell Russmassell Rust Rutherford Rutledge Rutlidge Rutt Ryan Ryanhart Ryder Safley Salvage Sampson Samuels Sanders Sandy Sansebough Saufley Saunders Savage Sawyers Saxon Sayers Scantland Schenbly Scholl Schooler Schoue Scott Screle Scribner Scrogden Scull Scylor Seal Searaight Searight Sears Seawright Seftle Seig Seldomredg Seldomridge Sellers Selling Sensabaugh Sensebaugh Sensebough Sensibaugh Seiver Sewall Sewell Seylor Shackelford Shafer Shaffer Shalley Shally Shaner Shank Shankland Shanklin Shannon Sharp Sharret Shaver Shaw Sheaffer Shearley Shedden Sheets Sheetz Sheffer Sheigis Shell Shelley Shelly Shelman Sheltman Shelton Shempe Shepard Shephard Shepherd Sherley Sherly Sherman Sherrets Sherror Shettman Shetz Shewe Shewy Shibley Shickel Shields Shiflet Shiflett Shindler Ship Shiplet Shipman Shipton Shirer Shirey Shirfey Shirley Shoemaker Shoemate Shonk Shore Shoritz Short Shott Shotts Shotwell Shoue Shoults Shoultz Shover Showalter Shown Shreckhise Shreve Shriver Shroader Shropshire Shuby Shue Shuey Shull Shultz Shumate Shura Shutler Shyrigh Siddons Sieg Silings Silknatre Silknitter Silling Sillings Silor Silvers Simbro Simmerman Simmon Simmons Simpson Sims Sink Siron Sisler Sites Sitlington Sively Skelton Skillern Skiner Skyles Slagel Slagle Slanker Slaten Slaughter Slaven Sligh Sloane Slone Sluser Slusher Sly Slye Small Smallshoffer Smiley Smiltzer Smily Smith Snapp Snedgar Sneders Snedicor Sneed Snell Snideman Snider Snodgrass Snyder Solleday Somer Sorrells Sorrels Sours Soughard Southwood Sowers Spangler Spatts Spear Spearing Spears Speck Speers Spence Spencer Sperry Spicer Spindle Spinkle Spitler Sponter Spotts Sprigs Spring Springer Sprinkle Sproul Sprouse Sprowl StClair StJohn Staggs Standforth Stanton Staples Stark Starks Start Staubus Stauffer Staunly Staunton Steel Steele Steigle Stephen Stephens Stephenson Sterlinger Sterret Sterrett Sterrit Sterritt Stevens Stevenson Steward Stewart Sticer Stickleman Stickley Stiegle Stiff Stiles Stockdale Stogall Stofer Stoffer Stokes Stombock Stone Stoner Story Stoudamire Stoutamire Stoutamoyer Stover Strain Strane Street Stribling Strickland Strickler Strine Stoader Strong Stuart Stull Stulzer Stunkard Sturm Suddarth Sullivan Summer Summers Supple Surber Surface Swab Swang Swank Swartsley Swartz Swartzel Swartzley Swats Swatsley Swatzel Swatzley Swearingen Sweed Sweetz Swick Swink Swisher Switzer Swoope Swope Swords Syford Syfort Syler Sylor Symmerman Syple Syrcle Tacket Tackett Talbert Taliaferor Taliaferro Talley Tallman Tally Taner Tankersley Tankesley Tanner Tapp Tarbert Tascott Tate Taylor Teabo Teaford Teagle Teany Tebo Teebo Teeford Tees Teese Teford Teitrick Telfair Telford Temereman Templeton Teney Tennant Tenton Terrell Terrill Terry Teter Tetrick Tevenbaugh Tevenbough Thacker Tharp Thomas Thomason Thompson Thomson Thorp Throp Thurman Tiefenback Tiffany Tinkle Tisdale Todd Toeme Tole Tolmink Tomblinson Tomlinson Toms Toole Torbet Torbett Towberman Towel Towell Towerman Townsend Trainer Trainum Travis Trayer Tremper Trencher Trent Trible Trimble Trobaugh Trobough Trorabaugh Trorebach Trorebaugh Trotter Troughrobaugh Trout Troxal Troxall Troxel Troxell Trump Tucker Tuening Tumbleston Tumblin Tummins Turk Turner Turnins Turnipseed Tuttle Tutwiler Tweedy Tyerie Ulery Ulrick Underwood Usher Ustler Utsler Utz Vachub Valentine Vance Vancent Vanfosen Vanfossen Vanlear Vanosdal Vanosdale Vanpelt Vansical Vanstaven Vantrump Varley Varner Varnum Vauchob Vaughn Venable Vernon Vernum Via Vians Vickers Vigar Vines Waddell Waddle Waddy Wade Wadsworth Wagey Waggener Waggoner Waggy Wagner Wagoner Waid Waide Wakely Wakle Walace Walch Walker Walkup Wall Wallace Walls Walsh Walters Walton Waltz Wandless Wanlis Ward Wardlaw Ware Warley Warner Warren Warrenburgh Warrick Warris Wartsook Warwick Waseman Waserman Washington Wason Waterman Walters Watkins Watson Watts Way Wayland Wayt Wead Weade Weast Weathers Weaver Web Webb Weckle Weed Weeks Weer Wehn Weickel Weiford Weigant Weigle Weikle Weir Weirly Weitzel Weitzell Welch Weles Weller Welsh Wenger Wenner Weri Werley Wesit West Western Weston Wetzel Wheelbarger Wheeler Wheeling Wherley Whetesel Whisler Whisman Whist Whitaker White Whitemore Whitesell Whiteside Whitesides Whitlock Whitmore Whitsal Whitsel Whitsell Whitzel Wickle Wicle Wiekle Wiferd Wikel Wilds Wilen Wiles Wiley Wilfong Wilhelms Wilkerson Will Willfong Williams Williamson Willis Wills Willson Wilson Wily Wimer Wims Windle Windsor Wine Winefield Winegar Winegardner Wineinger Wines Wingfield Winters Wise Wisehart Wiseman Wishart Witherow Withrow Whitsal Witsel Witts Woland Wolf Wolfe Woltz Wolwine Wombledorf Wonderlake Wonderlick Wood Woodall Wooddell Woodell Woodram Woods Woodson Woodward Woolard Woolf Woolwine Worh Woventuery Wright Wyan Wyand Wyatt Wykle Wyms Xaupi Yager Yancey Yancy Yarberry Yates Yeagly Yeaky Yearour Yearouse Yearout Yonas Yorkshire Yost Youel Youell Young Younger Younkard Yount Youstler Youtzler Zahns Zee Zeller Zimbro Zimmerman Zink Zumbro Zwitchel

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