Haplogroup R1b. She was a black person in Memphis, Tenn., I believe. George Boone 1850 m. to Rose/Rosa Richardson. As time permits my intention is to research as many of these families as I can. I, too, have no Native American or black ancestry showing up in my DNA results from ancestry.com, nor any Spanish, Portuguese, or Mediterranean ancestry. Thanks for what you are doing. My family goes very far back in this area and I have many Names in the family tree you listed: Sizemore, Green, Robertson, Robinson, Bowlin, Jackson, Allen, Thompson, Collins, Hall, Jones, Martin, Perkins, Stevens, Other names to look at maybe that are very intertwined Abbot, Stacey, Griffith, Griffin,Godsey, Lacy (maybe same as Lasie you have listed). I have looked through the regular channels on Ancestry and also in records local to me but have yet to drive over to Lee County, Va or to Hancock county to look at physical records but it is in the plans at some point. The name "Melungeon" was not applied to these first Afri- cans by white outsiders or slave owners. The family claimed Cherokee and white but resided around Roanoke, VA at least since the 1850s. Melissa, I too am from the Blevins family from Eastern Kentucky. Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt. So too his wife, Nancy Stamper. From the Little Peedee in S.C. too Hancock Cty.,TN. Im having trouble finding record of who the father would be, as the only census I have is for 1860 Census (in Brier Creek, Hancock, Tennessee)and she is listed as head with no other male partner in the house and everyone is white. We were always told we had Indian blood. HI ,Ihave Halls in my line too! So here we are. I would suggest you begin with establishing a family tree and building from there. Is there a place I can compare my family tree to yours? My fathers name is Harrison Brown, son of Harris Brown and Rosa Burt (Brown). Hello! Researchers with ancestral roots in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia may have Melungeon genes. I do not know much more than what is below, but my father (Jerry Lee Wood, son of Wyatt Wert Wood) who claimed Welch/Irish descent, had straight dark hair, turned nut brown in the slightest bit of sun, and had hazel green eyes. TUPPANCE TURNER, WARE WATTS WEAVER WHITE WHITED WILKINS WILLIAMS If I run across anything new Ill shoot it your way or post it here on my site. Genealogist " Do you need some help in your genealogy search? Try this https://jgraydiscovery.com/2019/08/13/melungeon-tuscarora/, Check this page out.. https://wordpress.com/post/jgraydiscovery.com/2646. I descend from the Brooks, Clarks and Cooper lines. Thank you for this site. My Clarks were Portuguese/Croatan. This article provides greater insight into my families probable history. My uncles name was Earnest Hall. Where are you living I too am a Foresman. There may also be "Native American features," as well as "a particular type of bump or ridge at the back of the head (usually just above the neck) known at the Melungeon bump." 18 Kathy Lyday, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina, has said that in older photos . And thank you for checking in on my site, I hope you enjoyed reading! I wish there was a way to do further research on these surnames in my family. But I still need help. I did have an Uncle by the name of Neal who was married to Loretta. They had L. Wyatt (Linder) Wood, 1833-1911. I can not find any information about Elizbeth Katherines birth, or her as a child, it is as if she just appears as an adult out of the blue. Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. I had dark hair and green eyes from 2 blue eyed parents. My daughter will be helping us in the future so if i find it, I will try to send it to you. Jan. My mammaw was a Smith , heard they Indians in there blood line. BARKER BARNES BASS BECKLER BELCHER BEDGOOD BELL I have been trying to place my Melungeon ancestors as well as my Native ancestry. "Price emphasis on the existence of a group is fundamental to studying the genealogy of social isolate groups, as . Hello! hello, my name is hannah Branham. They also married into the Goins, Ashe, Whitworth, Hunt, Hunter, Richardson, Gibbs, and other families. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material Both of my maternal grandparents are from that area. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. F denton/watts fron jamestown/white/Sara Williams ( b1720s) married to samuel jobes (born 1720s) married in the 1750s lived in roqan,nc/woods marriedcinyo my froakie in 1800s in jobesborough,tn area. Recently made a trip to Clairborne County TN to travel the lands near the Cumberland Gap where some of my people are from. The Melungeon, who called their leaders "king" instead of "chief," intermarried with the Cherokee Indians and were considered a branch of the tribe. I have photos, and a tree on family search org if anybodys intersted. An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. where o you believe she was raised? I joined facebook today. Please email me when you are available. That is the route I took and it worked quite well. These families settled in Lincoln Co and are mentioned in the Indian Commission Affairs and in a report by Robert K. Thomas. All around 1700-1800 time frame. Surnames include Adkins, Beam (er), Black, Blevins, Brown, Bunch, Bundren, Burke, Burns, Cooper, Davis, Fields, Gist, Gunter, Keys, Lackey, Lowrey, Redwine, Riley, Shankles, and Sizemore. My mother and grandfather are directly from the Hall lineage. My grandfather had a very dark complexion and when I asked him about this he said these traits were Black Dutch. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. My 3rd great grandfather was called Spanish Jim. Anyway if you are able to help me find more information about Betty and her Collins and the Colliers and Norris, I would really be grateful. Hi! Im a 25 year old Graduate student and I just want to know more about where my family comes from. Where can I look to find more information? I cannot find any info on early Portugeuse settlements in South Carolina or Virginia. Im researching my Berry family from Hawkins /Tennesse and Virginia . She had very dark brown eyes and black hair. They were from Middlebourne WV. Hi, on my fathers side I have Davis, Spillman and Ramey as well as Berry all from south eastern kentucky. I suspect that they were mulungeon and passed as white after moving to Indiana. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Johnson, Jones. They were listed as white on census, but Im at a dead end before 1850 census, a Daniel Boone is listed as the father, and the only other earlier record I can find is a Daniel Boone in Amherst, VA that fits his birth year, but listed black. It is nice to find this site. Melungeon. MULLINS, NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL NORRIS, PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS Little. But, some of her DNA was from the Mediterranean. North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky. My Grandfather was Cleo Berry Son of Lydia Price and Calvin Berry. They lived in Gilbert, West Virginia. My mothers side not so much. Ncestry.com i have them all uploaded my Denton family tree. I just recently found out about maternal grandmothers line. Melungeon (pron. Wow!! I have that genealogy somewhere but trying to find it is a different thing. We are just looking to complete our family trees, our heritage, and to find medical information as well because we have several relatives that have odd illnesses that have no known origins. Im from Eastern Kentucky also. Enjoying The Company While On TheJourney. Lowry. Viccars. I have EVERY characteristic of being of melungeon decent, shovel teeth, ridge at neck, disease, skin color, and the eye fold. and we are talking and gathering info. My direct line melungeon surnames are Some these Wood cousins have JM 172 Haplogroups. We are finding out all kinds of things about our heritage that we never knew. I have always been the odd duck in my family. And I also did a dna test. My ancestors lived in Lee Co. and Scott Cos. VA then to Hawkins Co. TN. This is seen in all generations that I know of in my family. I would love to talk with you and compare notes. 1999. So hopefully I can hear more. Him and his wife did not have any children. Hi there I am researching my ancestry and possible Melungeon roots and have hit a brick wall. Are there any distant cousins related to them? My ancestral lines take me to Muskogee (Creek) in Georgia/SouthCarolina ending in Oklahoma. Stoney Creek church records show the name "Melungeon" was known in Virginia before it ap- peared in Tennessee. In January of 1943, Plecker sent a circular to all public health and county officials in Virginia, listing, county by county, the surnames of all families suspected of having African ancestry. On the 1870 Census it states that his race is Black. North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky. Because I just dont know. Elizabeth Katherine Jones supposed DOB was February 27, 1901. her parents names? Jack Goins is the patriarch of Melungeon research. Do the companies get different results? DORTON DOYLE DRIGGERS DULA DYE DYESS, GALLAGHER GANN GARLAND GIBSON GIPSON GOINS These last names show up in my family try. Redbone & Melungeons !!!! Melungeon-related surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky) ADAMS ADKINS BARKER BARNES BECKLER BELL BENNETT BERRY BIGGS BOLEN BOWLIN BOWLING BOWMAN BRANHAM BROGAN BULLION BURTON BYRD CAMPBELL CARRICO CARTER CASTEEL CAUDILL CHAVIS CLARK COAL COFFEY COLE COLEMAN COLES COLLEY COLLIER COLLINS Does anyone know anything about Po (Napoleon) Brown from south east Kentucky? I did take my fathers death certificate when she was unaware. I hope Im on the right track. Dad claimed their was Cherokee on his side but I have found no proof. Ive been stumped. Among the northern Europeans, the Melungeon ancestors include English, Scot, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and German parents. Cynthia Millican 2/06/01. In addition, it leaves untouched some of the families who in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were typically classed as whites, but who claimed Native American ancestry, such as the Sizemore claimants among the Eastern Cherokee applicants." Andrew Jackson Chavers was my 2nd great grandfather. I am researching my family.actually that of my husband and children. I do not have dark skin and for the most part people are shocked about my skin. I am seeing Miner, Smith, Bolling, Nichols.. Hello, Some even claimed to be members of the Saponi tribe in North . What are the Common Melungeon Surnames? I, too, am kin to Reeves from the VA/WV area who claimed unproven Native blood, even though there descendants were dark-skinned, dark-haired, etc. My husband is a Buford, Collins, Conner. Thank you. A famous bearer of this name is Jelmer Wiersma a Dutch heavy metal guitarist. Her siblings varied greatly in their appearance. April Pilkey Williams And for some not any death dates. Thank you for your consideration. I came across this site and am hoping to find some answers. Suddenly thing are starting to make so much more sense. Com. BOWLING BOWMAN BRADBY BRANHAM BRAVBOY BRIGER/BRIDGER BROGAN I am hoping to find out if there is any Melungeon history in from my past. My name is Nikki Landerkin. My great great grandfather was born in Hancock County, Tennessee He lived from 1852 to 1927 On the 1870 Census it says that he is Mulatto. What I know this far is that theres a definite Cherokee lineage with respect to Benjamin Sinnes (daughter, Jemima Sinnes-Goin). They were from tennessee and mixed but no paper trail to show that. My great grandmother, born Dema Delph, was adopted by another family and we have no insight into her birth parents. I am researching my family tree. My great grandfather is Harris Brown, a Melungeon, and also has Portuguese ancestry, however I dont have information past his father John Brown who married Eliza Ann Jenkins Richardson a I have been doing a lot of research just using Family Search. Thank you, Victoria Thornton. The family names from your list above are: Berry, Davis, Jones, Tolliver (Sara Isabelle Tagliferro is my ancestor via the Berry Line), Phipps, Osborne, Richardson and many more. These families seem to have originated in the same place and traveled together to Mississippi after the Louisiana Purchase. I have been trying for so long to do this on my own. Annete. I am 4 th cousin s with lowry,revels and bakers per my 2018 ancestry.com test results. Hope you can find your connections. Mixed Melungeons had lived in Vir- ginia from 1660. Would you mind giving me some pointers as to where I can look to find birth records of Melungeon children? Now I am trying to gain more information abt my grandfathers father, John Brown Jr, who married Eliza Ann Jenkins Richardson. Thanks, Rachel. I too have very little information about about my fathers family so if you would like to get in touch feel free to do so. Cherokee, North Carolina: B. Blankenship, 1992.FS Library book 970.3 C424bL Volume one has rolls of Cherokees east of the Mississippi for the years 1817, 1818-1835, 1848, 1851, 1852, 1869, 1883, 1908, 1909, and 1924. Hello! My grandparents and all 13 kids used to go up to NJ and work the fields when jersey was the garden state still. Trying to put all the pieces of the Shumpert family in place. Ramey, Rasnick, Reaves/Reeves, Revels, Richardson, Roberson/Robertson/Robinson, Russell. My fathers side was 100% European. Grandson of John Snow Creek Taliaferro and Sarah Smith, both from Virginia. This Thomas and Mary are believed to be the same Thomas and Mary found in Stoney Creek Church Records.Thomas and Mary Gibson along with Charles, Reubin and Henry are found in the early church records with Valentine Collins . We are looking for information on these family lines not to upset current family members, or to find living people, nor to upset lives. 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