They were originally from SC and settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gaston/Lincoln Co, Rutherford Co and Cleveland Co. Native American descendant. I grew up in upper east tn living in the tri cities (bristol/kingsport and Johnson city) area from 1964 until 1988 when I moved toive in Richmind,va. By the way we are a 9CM match on gedmatch, distant cousins. "Jordan, son of Gilbert Gibson was undoubtedly born after 1746/7, possibly as late as 1752 or so. Cooper. My Reeves family always claimed Indian descent. [https://nativeheritageproject.com/2012/08/10/a-report-on-research-of-lumbee-origins-by-robert-k-thomas-part-18-appendix/?fbclid=IwAR21JgwWwyYej0aPBQ8JKjGvNaHk_pXexc7Ddmkn6kKdxF6vaLxJdglOIf8](https://nativeheritageproject.com/2012/08/10/a-report-on-research-of-lumbee-origins-by-robert-k-thomas-part-18-appendix/?fbclid=IwAR21JgwWwyYej0aPBQ8JKjGvNaHk_pXexc7Ddmkn6kKdxF6vaLxJdglOIf8). 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. I imagine you had a fruitful trip. Scott. If you are Melungeon and do not see your family name or a qualifying county please contact our historian at midwestlosthistory@gmail.com SURNAMES Adkins Allen Bowling/Bollin (g) Bennett Brown Bowman Bunch/Punch Campbell Carter Childers/Childress Chavis Clark Cox Collier Collins Cumbow Duncan Davis Denham Dial We have been told of Native American ancestry, but the rest is a mystery. I also have connections to various surnames on common Melungeon surname list and trace various branches back to the different areas moving E to SE in Virginia, NW NC and SE Kentucky (Hall surname in Floyd Co. KY). I too have always thought Cherokee but found out it was Creek. He is the Hawkins County, TN archivist, has written 2 books on Melungeons, "Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families," now out of print, and " Melungeons, Footprints from the Past .". So then we need to go to our trees This list is subject to expansion. Have fun tracing your lineage. The college of UVA Wise, Va. held an event several years ago about Melungeon. Sand Mountain extends from South Pittsburg in Tennessee to Boaz, Alabama. These common kinships of cousins show the Melungeon society was becoming cohesive and distinctively apart in colonial America at least 100 years before the American Revolution. An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. People that have looked at my results say that they are out of the ordinary. Can you help me figure out if there is a melange in connection which might explain this family claim? I just came across your blog this afternoon. My grandfathers was a Falin, Gilliam, Cox, Mickelborough, Mayo, Hylton, Burnett, Pettus, Strachey, Ogilvie, Graham, Wells Witt, Skaggs, Hatfield, McCoy, Mace, and so on. Love recognizes no barriers. Apr 9, 2017 - COMMON MELUNGEON SURNAMES Adams, Adkins, Allen, Allmond, Ashworth, Barker, Barnes, Bass, Beckler, Bedgood, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Beverly,. 1819 in NC) had 5 children with a Native American and gave them her last name. Also known as the "Lost People of Appalachia," these darker-skinned people were called "Melungeons," a word derived from the Arabic "Melun-Jinn" meaning one who has been abandoned by God - a cursed soul. I would suggest you begin with establishing a family tree and building from there. My ancestral lines take me to Muskogee (Creek) in Georgia/SouthCarolina ending in Oklahoma. The parents settled in Owens Co. Ke. My mother and grandfather are directly from the Hall lineage. I have Iberian, Sardinian, Turkish, North African and Nigerian DNA. The study found the truth to be somewhat less exotic: Genetic evidence shows that the families historically called Melungeons are the offspring of sub-Saharan African men and white women of northern or central European . I believe that she was melungeon. My ftdna family finder test revealed several matches within the Melungeon Families of Interst Group Page. She is 86 years old and sadly, that time is coming closer than we want to admit and I would love to help her find her moms family before it is too late. I am stumped here and cant seem to find much on them. (LogOut/ People publish scholarly books, not gangster rap records, with Redbone or Melungeon in the title. 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. Annete. And then there was Mama, the youngest. If you would like to check it out its kit#XN3591432. Robert K Thomas mentions an offshoot of Lumbees settling in Lincoln Co, Asheville and Macon Co NC in the link below. Some Notes on Jordan Gibson. It is part of Ancestry.com but the site is free. But it can be difficult to trace. A lot of evidence has led me to see that I come from Ashkenazi and Portuguese Sephardic descent. Can you help me determine if there are melungeon connections? 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. Initially, it drew a strong reaction from historians and genealogists who noted the absence of evidence to document the key claim: 12 My maiden name is Page and I suspect Melungeon DNA is my line that ended up in south central Kentucky. But their surnames arent on this list. The mother of my grandfather, Harris Brown, her name is Eliza Ann Jenkins Richardson (Brown). John Brown-Warrants 26 Dec 1760, 700 acres on the Flatt River, includes Bolins, Riddles and Collins Improvements. Locklear. I descend from the Brooks, Clarks and Cooper lines. My grandmother was adopted and sadly was a victim of the Tennessee Childrens Home Society and was stolen from her family. My husband is a Buford, Collins, Conner. His grandmother was a Julia Jones. I have photos, and a tree on family search org if anybodys intersted. 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. BENNETT BERRY BEVERLY BIGGS BOLEN BOLLING BOLTON BOONE BOWLIN Thank you for your response! Any help would be greatly appreciated from anyone who may be familiar with these family lines. She was very religious. Also, if you know who they were their spouse, this will help even more. . My great grandmother was Leona G. Phipps from Grayson County, Virginia. Other relations are Chavis and Locklear which are frim the Lumbee Indians.HELP! 185 thoughts on " Common Melungeon Surname List " Debbie Foresman says: February 22, 2020 at 10:04 am. Im now wandering if may have originally been a Custalow or Croston??? Good afternoon, You have so much work put into this. Fingers crossed! My grandparents are from Big Stone Gap Virginia. Enjoying The Company While On TheJourney. Volume 2 lists Cherokees west of the Mississippi from rolls . I would like to email you about my connection to the Shavers/Chavis/Chavers, Brown, Hall, Kelley and other family names in Alabama and Franklin County Tennesse. I saw where the name Branham is mentioned and my great-great grandmothers name was Ressie Branham and her husband was Charels Zolly Moody. My fathers side was 100% European. My family is from Tennessee and Northern Alabama. 7. Jack, a Melungeon descendant through several ancestors, expected that his Y paternal . Please email me when you are available. 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. Over the generations, many other surnames have become associated with the Melungeons. Would appreciate any comments/information you may be able to provide. My last name is Carter from my fathers sur name. What are your Stallard Roberson and Mullins ancestors? I do know they all did come out of Tennesee and settled down into Kentucky. They also married into the Goins, Ashe, Whitworth and Wellman families. Some Melungeons suspect Abe Lincoln, Elvis Presley and Ava Gardner may all have had some Melungeon blood. Are they Mulatto or Melungeon? Were most of these peoples of Native American ancestry? Most of my siblings and I have those chestnut color eyes like our mother and grandfather. Thank you, Fathers surname of CROS(S)LOW seems to hit a wall several generations back. Patterson. I have the knot . 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 . I would really like to know all I can find out about my grandparents. Interview your folks and any elders still alive. Hi, on my fathers side I have Davis, Spillman and Ramey as well as Berry all from south eastern kentucky. (LogOut/ April Pilkey Williams People are always asking me exactly what are you? Anyone with any info or connection, please email me!!!! Are there any distant cousins related to them? Her folks were from Pennsylvania. All maternal lines tested have been European. I cannot find any info on early Portugeuse settlements in South Carolina or Virginia. Growing up I was told tales that on my dads side we had a definitive blood line to the Monacan Nation out of Amhurst County VA. On my moms side I was always told her family was Melungeon and my Greatgrand father having the name Woodrow Baker. In this regard, Melungeons retained enough European ancestry to still participate in many institutions of the United States but still be treated with racial scorn and remain isolated from broader social acceptance. I believe that in the frontier days a colony of Melungeon people migrated from Virginia and North Carolina to what is now Claiborne County, Mississippi. Where are you living I too am a Foresman. I have added links to certain names that I have more information to share. Thank you. It has taken years and both of my parents have been gone over about 20 years. Try this https://jgraydiscovery.com/2019/08/13/melungeon-tuscarora/, Check this page out.. https://wordpress.com/post/jgraydiscovery.com/2646. On my grandmother side we are Callaway,Ray and Mitchell. The surnames most associated with the Melungeons are the Irish name Collins, and the English name Gibson. Hi. They also have a very specific twang or dialect when speaking. Thank you for your timely response and for sharing. 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. If you are researching in Alphabetical order, let me know when you get to the Gibsons. (I am particularly intrigued by this period, as I have recently been following a deep and growing pull to connect with the Monacan people of Bear Mountain.). And for some not any death dates. My "Brown" Genealogy-East Tenn/Ky. My blue-eyed, somewhat darker skinned, maternal grandfather had a mysterious father whose parents, William Wright and Malissa Delph (my great-great grandparents) were born in Tennessee and both age 24 in the 1860 census. I was raised not knowing anything of my fathers family, he died when I was 18 months old. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Please contact me if you have any information you would like to share or questions. So youre saying that your grandmother was a Melungeon? From my mother Chapman. 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). Change). Im a 25 year old Graduate student and I just want to know more about where my family comes from. Mama was the darkest white woman that I ever saw. Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother. . Im a direct descendant of the Davis, my great grandmother was from the VA / Tennessee area. Maddox, Maggard, Major, Male/Mayle, Maloney, Marsh, Martin, Miles, Minard, Miner/Minor, Mizer, Moore, Morley, Mullins, Mursh. I am a Cooper. Melungeon families themselves claimed to be Indian, white and Portuguese. He also stated that his cousin, Beulah, told him in the 40s that she had documented this. I have traced my ancestry back to the right areas at the right times, I have pictures of them that just dont match up with the white on their census records. I do not know if they would be of your lineage but you could check those out. On the early 1900s census our family was classified as mulattos born in Virginia/Western Virginia. Jane Taylor was born in Virginia in 1798 and died in Marietta ,Ohio in 1883 or 1888. The `so-called,' Melungeons were `discovered' in the Appalachian Mountains in 1654 by English explorers and were described as being `dark-skinned, reddish-brown complexioned people supposed to be of Moorish descent, who were neither Indian nor Negro, but had fine European features, and claimed to be Portuguese." (Louise Davis, "The Mystery of the I am researching my family.actually that of my husband and children. Turkish, Jewish, Italian, Syrian, Nigerian, My eldest cousin knows Great Grands maiden name. Sincerely Just Another Redbone Looking For Roots! Melissa, I too am from the Blevins family from Eastern Kentucky. At the most basic level, he learned, they were a group of interconnected families that had lived in certain counties in Tennessee, Virginia, and. Ms. Lady Jae: Received some great information from you sometime ago for surname Goin. The pages wont let me open them. Ely, Epps, Evans, Fields, Freeman, French. Recently made a trip to Clairborne County TN to travel the lands near the Cumberland Gap where some of my people are from. Our roots go back to the late 1600s and early 1700s. RICHARDSON RIDDLE RIVERS ROBERSON ROBERTSON ROBINSON RUSSELL, SAMMONS SAMPSON SAWYER SCOTT SEXTON SHAVIS Take a look at this website: https://the-melungeons.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-best-of-will-allen-dromgoole.html?fbclid=IwAR3n_jqz-VJhuT8WDjuQJxnQmGUhh5C6azEmc687FNvJurqMwFqraBlIPDs, Take a look at this blog: https://the-melungeons.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-best-of-will-allen-dromgoole.html?fbclid=IwAR3n_jqz-VJhuT8WDjuQJxnQmGUhh5C6azEmc687FNvJurqMwFqraBlIPDs. But alot of these surnames are in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana AKA No Mans Land. Home. called Quattlebaum Nation: besides the Quattlebaum surnames, I see many other names on my family tree. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. If I run across anything new Ill shoot it your way or post it here on my site. A few years ago I came across a possible Melungeon connection. Surname is Turner. If anyone knows anything concerning the melungeons from Grayson County, Virginia. They lived in Gilbert, West Virginia. What a great feeling you must be experiencing with this new found gem! her parents names? My great great grandmother was a Callaway! Sammons, Sampson, Sawyer, Scott, Sexton, Shavis, Shepherd/Shephard, Short. A lady invited me to a revival at her church. Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. Cumbo. I wish I knew more about, but anyone I can ask are now passed. My grandfather had a very dark complexion and when I asked him about this he said these traits were Black Dutch. Native American ancestry have photos, and the English name Gibson died when I was 18 months.. 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