I had dark hair and green eyes from 2 blue eyed parents. 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 Home > Forum > Surnames > Melungeon . Bryson Gibson was born between 1775 and 1782 Washington County, Virginia to Thomas and Mary Gibson. Turkish, Jewish, Italian, Syrian, Nigerian, My eldest cousin knows Great Grands maiden name. (LogOut/ Its Brent Stanley aka Peppy my Louisiana Redbone name. Mama was the darkest white woman that I ever saw. called Quattlebaum Nation: besides the Quattlebaum surnames, I see many other names on my family tree. My mother never discussed what our family was mixed with or the tribe, when I asked. I am just trying to think of other places to look, other avenues to try. Other Surnames in his line are Brewer, Davis, Seals, Phipps, Tagliaferro(toliver) and many more. but im very sure my father is of melungeon descent, he is a dark ivory skin with dark hair and blue eyes. I never realized that tri-racial folks as these even existed. Williamson, Wood. Love recognizes no barriers. As soon as I get things settled and get back to researching Id love to connect with you. the opinions in this page are strictly the author's, based upon My name is Relaeh and this journey has been wild. Some of the more common surnames, or variations thereof, having been identified so far as having Melungeon origins are: Adams, Adkins, Allen, Allmond, Ashworth I recently read a wonderful novel based on that terrible place. If you would like to check it out its kit#XN3591432. I asked my grandfather (1885-1973) what his familys origins were and he said Black Dutch. 3 great grandmother Ramey who wasnt related to my grandmother Davis was also said to be black dutch. But alot of these surnames are in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana AKA No Mans Land. The Majority of my ancestors are from The Appalachians. This page was submitted by Nancy Sparks Morrison and Ive been stumped. 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. I wish I knew more about, but anyone I can ask are now passed. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Change). 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. Among the northern Europeans, the Melungeon ancestors include English, Scot, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and German parents. Family still has very unique mix of features listed in connection with Melungeon. I say supposed because there is a discrepancy. Over the generations, many other surnames have become associated with the Melungeons. msladyjae@gmail.com, The Lumbee Indians live down toward to coast of N.C. Carol Kaurish. Is Jones her maiden name? Thank you for this site. maxg, Nov 28, 2007 #22. While I have some information, I would like to trace him back to Ireland, as my DNA shows over 70% Irish. Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother. My grandmother Margaret Davis is dark and had coarse hair. I know is name was simply Bill Hall and his father name was Earnest Hall. I am researching the following names of my Hancock/Hawkins Tennessee ancestors who apparently had ties to the border areas in Virginia and Noryh Carolina as well . The surnames most associated with the Melungeons are the Irish name Collins, and the English name Gibson. Jackson Joel Gilliam is my 4th great grandfather, and he is from Scott County Virginia. Gann, Garland, Gibbs, Gibson/Gipson, Goins/Goings, Givens, Gowan/Gowen, Graham, Green(e), Gwinn. my father's last name is King but that is not a Melungeon name but Brown is. ROBERT DEGNEN 5/31/00. Found your list of names. From the Little Peedee in S.C. too Hancock Cty.,TN. The core Melungeon families in Hawkins County, Tennessee are Bolin, Bolling, Bunch, Collins, Denham, Gibson, Goins, Goodman, Minor, Moore, Mullins, Sullivan, and Williams. I'm pale in the winter but will tan a nice golden . Some these Wood cousins have JM 172 Haplogroups. He was definitely a minor in 1756 (deed of gift of Gilbert Gibson). I did have an Uncle by the name of Neal who was married to Loretta. But, some of her DNA was from the Mediterranean. Thank you so much, in advance, for any consideration and for what you are bringing to others!!! No Cherokee blood showed up in my daughters DNA test. My email is msladyjae@gmail.com and I have a tree and DNA to see if we have a connection.- Joyceann. I have noticed that it can be difficult to discern skintones in old black and white photos unless some one was very pale or very dark skinned depending on the photo.I was that way too, until I moved to Vermont 20+ yrs ago, the 9 month long Winters have taken their toll but a week of 80 degree sunny days and bam its back, LoL, lots of blue eyes and some green to, I have brown but its a pretty light colored brown, I grew up in the 15th from time to time(name comes from long ago, instead of a county they were numbered districts or something to that effect) my family also looked quite a bit different than most of the people in the grassyfork/ delrio/ Hartford tn area. His grandfather may have been of African descent. They also married into the Goins, Ashe, Whitworth, Hunt, Hunter, Richardson, Gibbs, and other families. Please contact me if you have any information you would like to share or questions. On the early 1900s census our family was classified as mulattos born in Virginia/Western Virginia. I am on Ancestry and 23andme I do have both Indigenous and African dna, as well as Iberian and Ashkanazi Jewish. GOINGS GORVENS GOWAN GOWEN GRAHAM GREEN(E) GWINN, HALL HAMMON(D) HARMON HARRIS HARVIE HARVEY Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt. Thank you for providing a surnames list, Ive been trying to find out anout my mothers fathers side, surname is Boone and Richardson. We think she was born in Wythe County, Va in 1927 and was married to my great grandfather John Rufus Mink, Sr around 1913-1914 as she had their first child in 1915. My great grandmother was Leeann Cox and it was said she had Indian blood. As a researcher and family historian, I was excited when a . Would taking one of the ancestry dna tests help determine this or just make it more confusing? I do not know if they would be of your lineage but you could check those out. The Melungeon, who called their leaders "king" instead of "chief," intermarried with the Cherokee Indians and were considered a branch of the tribe. 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 .". I am researching my family.actually that of my husband and children. These laws required anyone with one drop of African blood to be classified as black. I am stuck on finding any census records or ethnic listings for these women. Sammons, Sampson, Sawyer, Scott, Sexton, Shavis, Shepherd/Shephard, Short. I am so sorry that it took me a bit to see this response. Supposedly Calloways father was John Henry Jeremiah Bunch (again according to Ancestry family trees) who may have been Melungeon at least a tree has that in their comments. One of my great uncles. I have a light olive skin and can wear colors that a lot of other people in my family cannot wear. I have several of these surnames in my tree. Melungeon Geography and Surnames. Martin. BROOKS BROWN BUNCH BULLION BURTON BUTLER BUTTERS BUXTON BYRD, CAMPBELL CARRICO CARTER CASTEEL CAUDILL CHAPMAN As the study's authorsRoberta J. Estes, Jack H. Goins, Penny Ferguson and Janet Lewis Crainnote: At one time isolated geographically and socially due to their dark countenance, they were known. (And no Cherokee.) Langston, Lasie, Lawson, Locklear, Lopes, Lowry, Lucas. research for The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People They were originally from SC and settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gaston/Lincoln Co, Rutherford Co and Cleveland Co. Louise Ralston Brown 4/23/02. Thanks for posting. They were originally from SC and settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gaston/Lincoln Co, Rutherford Co and Cleveland Co. linda mckee 12/16/08. So interesting! Johnson, Jones. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. If given the space, we could present complex scores of intermarriages of Melungeon and other mixed surnames beginning in the 1600s of colonial America. Archivist and founder of the Melungeon Core DNA project. Any info on the Boone line would be appreciated, or sites with Boone dna projects. I was able to trace her lineage back to Captain Nathaniel Basse whose son, Reverend John Basse, married a Nansemond woman. Joseph Higdon says: February 9, 2023 at 4:17 am. MULLINS, NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL NORRIS, PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS My grandmother Daviss mothers was kitts and I have that line complete. I have lots of Bass surnames including Aaron Bass of Bertie, NC. I am looking for information on the Jones, Barker, and Smith lines specifically but I cross about 15 of these families in my tree several times. My Grandfather was Cleo Berry Son of Lydia Price and Calvin Berry. Someone told me a while back I had the Melungeon background. Family is from WVA named McCumbee but I now find he was from NC and it seems it was Cumby/Cumbo/. I had no idea what that meant. Please contact me if you have any information you would like to share or questions. They also have a very specific twang or dialect when speaking. Hi! Then she leaned over and whispered Its okay, you can come. Just found out through 23 and me that I have spanish/portuguese ancestry. Additionally, Jack founded both the Y-DNA, mitochondrial (maternal) DNA and autosomal Families of Interest . HER FATHER WAS Richard and they say he was a Pony Express rider. Jeremiahs father Jeremiah Sr. b.1724 then Edward Bass b.1697 Bertie, N. Carolina. She lived from 1818 to 1894, but I dont have any info on her race, My great great grandfathers name is Russell Vicars. (LogOut/ The Melungeon culture has typically been associated with the Appalachian region. In 1997, Brent Kennedy published The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People - An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. All of them were from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North carolina. Just learned there is a Jesse Taliaferro Toliver connected through the Wood/Stamper line. Our DNA came back though with european, african, NA . Jan. My mammaw was a Smith , heard they Indians in there blood line. Brent Kennedy based his primary genetic proof on a 1990 study of blood samples from 177 Melungeon descendants taken in 1969. Webster (1962, 1122) described the Melungeon as "a member of a dark-skinned people of mixed Caucasian, Negro, and Indian stock, inhabiting the Tennessee mountains."5 Davis (1963, 16) identified the Melungeons as "dark-skinned, reddish- brown complexioned people [who were] supposed to be of Moorish descent, neither Indian nor Negro, but . 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. From my mother Chapman. People that have looked at my results say that they are out of the ordinary. Senator named John Sherman Cooper who was my mother-in-laws first cousin. This surname means from the anchor in Dutch. Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother. Learn more. I appreciate all that you are doing. Reply message to 540.529.2592. Viccars. Typical Melungeon physical traits are said to include dark hair and skin with light-colored eyes. My husband is a Buford, Collins, Conner. But I believe the melungeon is on my grammaws side. Would you mind giving me some pointers as to where I can look to find birth records of Melungeon children? My 84 year old Aunt just did DNA it came back with Camaroin/Bantu/Congo. ajpilkey76@gmail.com. Sincerely, Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) Willis. What do you have on the BARKERs, my grandfather on my fathers side was GEORGE WASHINGTON BARKER. But it can be difficult to trace. God Bless. Some say we were black dutch. Grew up in eastern tn near church hill and sneedeville home of melungeons. HI ,Ihave Halls in my line too! All my mother would ever say isI dont need to know. Trying to put all the pieces of the Shumpert family in place. At that time, their native Angolan fa- The Bollings go all the way back to Eastern Virginia in the 1700s. "Jordan, son of Gilbert Gibson was undoubtedly born after 1746/7, possibly as late as 1752 or so. My mothers side not so much. My maternal grandfather was Clarence Gibson from Wharn Cliff West Virginia. By genealogy.com user November 22, 2001 at 05:34:49. Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt. Of course, these surnames are common names in America, and are only considered "Melungeon" names in the areas where Melungeons live. My great great grandfather and even his wife. 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 reading and research of various materials noted herein. My mother is very racist and maybe she didnt know until after I was conceived or whatever, but she tells me nothing. Since then, the Dutch started adopting surnames. (pulasky County). The pages wont let me open them. A good deal of my research, in addition to Mulungeon, leads back to Cherokee heritage from northeastern AL. She just said, our only concern was surviving. My great grandmother, born Dema Delph, was adopted by another family and we have no insight into her birth parents. Thank you, Victoria Thornton. Maddox, Maggard, Major, Male/Mayle, Maloney, Marsh, Martin, Miles, Minard, Miner/Minor, Mizer, Moore, Morley, Mullins, Mursh. The Melungeons were a people of mysterious origins who had swarthy complexions, straight black hair, black or gray eyes and were found by the first pioneers. Cherokee Roots. That we were from the Carolinas , Virginias and Appalachias. And from Chancery records digitized by the Virginia State Archives and on-line for Louisa County he appears to have . Thank you, Redbone, Your comment has given me a great idea of how to tackle all the incoming messages regarding our Melungeon line. 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." I am hoping to find out if there is any Melungeon history in from my past. Some even claimed to be members of the Saponi tribe in North . Have you ever heard of Lowerys or Roses in your findings? My 3rd great grandfather was called Spanish Jim. The family line I have been researching is Perkins. Compared to the sophistication of genetics in the second decade of the 21 st century, Melungeon DNA testing in the 1990s was rather simplistic. Barker, Barnes, Bass, Beckler, Bedgood, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Beverly, Biggs. Im now wandering if may have originally been a Custalow or Croston??? My maternal grandfather was Clarence Gibson. With there descendants moving west over the centuries. 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