Tally, Taylor, Thompson, Tolliver, Tuppance, Turner, Ware, Watts, Weaver, White, Whited, Wilkins, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wisby, Wise, Wood, Wright, Wyatt, Wynn, Monacan surnames of Beverly, Branham, Johns, Pinn and Terry. 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. What was a Melungeon? West Virginia were noted by Dr. N. Brent Kennedy during his Its been a long road just to here! Morris Baker and Jane Smith had a daughter, my 5th great grandmother, Mary Polly Baker 1780-1831 m. Owen Meredith Ballou, my 5th great grandfather, 1766-1847. C 2. Jackson Joel Gilliam is my 4th great grandfather, and he is from Scott County Virginia. Hi Pinky Blevins, I read your post interesting. Thank you, Victoria Thornton. My DNA shows a very small amount of sub saharan Congolese (.3%) and .5% Native American. They were from tennessee and mixed but no paper trail to show that. What I know this far is that theres a definite Cherokee lineage with respect to Benjamin Sinnes (daughter, Jemima Sinnes-Goin). My uncle says their daughter, Martha Gilliam Barnett, was 100% Cherokee. Let me know how it goes. These families became the plantation aristocracy. The best way to find out your heritage is to do a DNA test with Ancestry. Her skin was so dark her lips looked blue and she had a line on the side of her hands where the pigment stopped and the skin of her palms began. Thank you for writing, so let us see where this takes us. Also, if you know who they were their spouse, this will help even more. Nancy Wish I knew of someone that could help point me in the right direction. 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. 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. Im just so tired of not knowing a connection and many of extended family feel the same Where was your Clarence Gibson fromScreenshot 2022-11-29 at 9.43.57 AM I wish there was a way to do further research on these surnames in my family. I wont be attending, as I live 3000 miles away, but it might be useful to you who live near Virginia. Found your list of names. If I can help Id be glad to offer more suggestions once you begin your tree. Hi everyone, Im currently researching my fathers side of the family who is from the area of Halifax and Sampson County, and the Virginia borderline. Among the northern Europeans, the Melungeon ancestors include English, Scot, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and German parents. Home > Forum > Surnames > Melungeon . Crooked pinky fingers, high cheekbones, lumps under my jawbone, ridiculously thick, curly hair, shovel teeth on SIX teeth. I just came across your blog this afternoon. She was very religious. MULLINS, NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL NORRIS, PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS Martin. My grandfather was known as Brownie because of his color, and had indian looking features but his sisters had blonde hair. My last name is Carter from my fathers sur name. Another tree said his daughter Lizzie was Cherokee so Im not sure how much can be believed from what Ancestry shows because of lack of documentation. The oldest two were blondish and blue eyed. We just about cover all of those people. 185 thoughts on " Common Melungeon Surname List " Debbie Foresman says: February 22, 2020 at 10:04 am. My grandmother, a Chapman, when young was always asked if she were Jewish, to which she simply replied, no. In the early 80s when I was a little girl, I remember Papaw Chapman (her father) always saying we were Dutch Indian and Black Dutch. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou. Is there a place I can compare my family tree to yours? Her father was surname a Steadman. Bennett. My sons DNA came back recently with >1% Cameroon/Congo. Love recognizes no barriers. I was always told my fathers maternal grandmother was Cherokee. They also married into the Goins, Ashe, Whitworth, Hunt, Hunter, Richardson, Gibbs, and other families. My great grandfather was a Freeman of color in South carolina. I'm still digging on into the melungeon . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. She just said, our only concern was surviving. My name Is Brent Stanley, I live in CT. I am from these areas as well on both sides of my family, paternal and maternal, back 8 generations. This years meeting is in a couple of days! Thanks for adding me. These last names show up in my family try. Trying to put all the pieces of the Shumpert family in place. Smith (40), Williams (27), Johnson (26), Brown (26), Davis (19), Jones (16), Martin (15), Moore (15), Clark (13), Taylor (13), Cox (11), Jackson (10), Hill (10). hello, my name is hannah Branham. We are Tacketts, Dial, Salyer/Sawyer, Green, Smith, Mullins, Coffey, and Sizemore. I wish I could prove anything but I know it is a long time family claim. I am on Ancestry and 23andme I do have both Indigenous and African dna, as well as Iberian and Ashkanazi Jewish. My brother is very fair and red hair. 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. Bunch shows up as a Melungeon last name. Her family is from the Cumberland Gap area of Kentucky. Little. WILLIAMSON WILLIS WILSON WISBY WISE WOOD WRIGHT WYATT WYNN. My 84 year old Aunt just did DNA it came back with Camaroin/Bantu/Congo. Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother. Thank you, Page 100 - Research Melungeon in the Surnames forums on Genealogy.com, the new GenForum! My fathers name was Creed and his mothers name was Emma Jo Hall. Grew up in eastern tn near church hill and sneedeville home of melungeons. Melungeon. Barker, Barnes, Bass, Beckler, Bedgood, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Beverly, Biggs. They were from Roanoke Va, Patty, if youre on Facebook we can chat find me Joyceann Gray, I just checked your list of family namesfound two His 7 th/gg/was Mary rock Smith whos dad was LT John Rock Smith from plymouth,ma colony. Does anyone have any information to share? My grandpa Short had black hair and black eyes. I did a DNA but found there was very littlelike 1 or 2%. George Alvin Jr. 1787-1864 from N.C. to Illinois, Clark Co. Just to note, a lot of Melungeon families are mixed with Roma. Oxendine, Paine. Would love to hear more. HI ,Ihave Halls in my line too! We were always told we had Indian blood. RICHARDSON RIDDLE RIVERS ROBERSON ROBERTSON ROBINSON RUSSELL, SAMMONS SAMPSON SAWYER SCOTT SEXTON SHAVIS Ive been stumped. She grew up there and was adopted by a Mitchell family. Right back to Newmans Ridge. Dalton, Dare, Davis, Denham, Dennis, Dial, Dorton, Doyle, Driggers, Dye, Dyess. I saw where the name Branham is mentioned and my great-great grandmothers name was Ressie Branham and her husband was Charels Zolly Moody. White. Some of the other names in my tree of life are Ashworth,Sweat, Hoosier. The pages wont let me open them . My grandmother was adopted and sadly was a victim of the Tennessee Childrens Home Society and was stolen from her family. Hope you can find your connections. My ancestor, John Washington Cooper, left Virginia for Louisiana circa 1830, where he and his children married into old French Creole families. My grandmother is Bessie Zackery and her mother was Elizabeth Collier or Dicey Elizabeth Collier and her mother was a Mary Ann Norris. : /mlndn/ m-lun-jn) is the name of a Southern U.S. ethnic minority once found in the Appalachian Mountains in parts of the states of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Most of my siblings and I have those chestnut color eyes like our mother and grandfather. Thanks in advance. ROBERT DEGNEN 5/31/00. I am looking for any leads towards a melungeon bloodline within my family because it would answer a lot of questions. My family has web page on Facebook. Have you run across any melungeon Johnsons in your research from that part of VA? I have been trying for so long to do this on my own. The Bass family married into my Malone family, so if you need any info on that-I can help. I suspect that they were mulungeon and passed as white after moving to Indiana. Hello! I will soon be 74 and just have forgotten where I have put a lot of things. Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America. My grandparents are from Big Stone Gap Virginia. All I know is that his mother was likely named Polly, and I can find a Polly Cooper in the 1810 Virginia census with appropriately aged dependents; she is listed as a person of color. From DNA tests, I know I have both Iberian and Native American DNA. Her folks were from Pennsylvania. Sand Mountain extends from South Pittsburg in Tennessee to Boaz, Alabama. Now my Grandfather was George Denham and his father was Edward Denham and mother was Betty Collins. These laws required anyone with one drop of African blood to be classified as black. I just recently found out about maternal grandmothers line. Would taking one of the ancestry dna tests help determine this or just make it more confusing? My aunt Mamie, the second youngest was olive completed with striking green eyes. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I see you have the surname Quattlebaum in your files. Have you ever heard of Lowerys or Roses in your findings? On the 1870 Census it states that his race is Black. Are they Mulatto or Melungeon? I would suggest you begin with establishing a family tree and building from there. If given the space, we could present complex scores of intermarriages of Melungeon and other mixed surnames beginning in the 1600s of colonial America. The Melungeons were dark-skinned and isolated, but the ethnicity of these olive and brown-skinned families has been in question since the early 1800s. Just trying to find the source of my Spanish/Portugeuse heritage. Someone told me a while back I had the Melungeon background. I have EVERY characteristic of being of melungeon decent, shovel teeth, ridge at neck, disease, skin color, and the eye fold. 2 Answers. By the way we are a 9CM match on gedmatch, distant cousins. All maternal lines tested have been European. I have Iberian, Sardinian, Turkish, North African and Nigerian DNA. I would love to talk with you and compare notes. She was born in Hancock County, TN we assume. She was a black person in Memphis, Tenn., I believe. If this helps my ftdna kit # B511534. Native American descendant. My mother never discussed what our family was mixed with or the tribe, when I asked. My "Brown" Genealogy-East Tenn/Ky. 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 If you would like to check it out its kit#XN3591432. 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