So youre saying that your grandmother was a Melungeon? Please contact me if you have any information you would like to share or questions. Sand Mountain extends from South Pittsburg in Tennessee to Boaz, Alabama. Its been a long road just to here! How did you find out who your great-grandmother was? Bennett. With blonde hair blue eyes. Are there any distant cousins related to them? 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. There was a guy by the last name of Kennedy. BARKER BARNES BASS BECKLER BELCHER BEDGOOD BELL My Clarks were Portuguese/Croatan. So glad I could be of help. I have the knot . reaves/osteen/lawson. My great great grandfather and even his wife. While I have some information, I would like to trace him back to Ireland, as my DNA shows over 70% Irish. HAWKES HENDRICKS HENDRIX HILL HILLMAN HOGGE HOLMES HOPKINS HOWE Suddenly thing are starting to make so much more sense. Thank you for your work. I am stumped here and cant seem to find much on them. Other relations are Chavis and Locklear which are frim the Lumbee Indians.HELP! I have attached some pics to this email of my great great grandfather, my 4th great grandfather, and my 4th great grandmother. STANLEY STEEL STEVENS STEWART STROTHER SWEATT SWETT SWINDALL, TALLY TACKETT TAYLOR THOMPSON TIPTON TOLLIVER Melungeon and Melungeon-related surnames (Carolina's, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky) ADAMS ADKINS BARKER BARNES BECKLER BELL BENNETT BERRY BIGGS BOLEN BOWLIN BOWLING BOWMAN That never added up, because the neighbor lady was 100% Cherokee and she was lighter skinned than my mother. COLLINS COLLINSWORTH COLYER COOPER CORMAN COUNTS COX COXE CRIEL Carol Kaurish. Richard Lister on the trail of a lost people. 3 great grandmother Ramey who wasnt related to my grandmother Davis was also said to be black dutch. My ancestral lines take me to Muskogee (Creek) in Georgia/SouthCarolina ending in Oklahoma. Is Jones her maiden name? A few years ago I came across a possible Melungeon connection. The Clarks were said to be Portuguese. Just found out through 23 and me that I have spanish/portuguese ancestry. I appreciate all that you are doing. Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or at least a representative republic-to North America. 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. Thank you for posting this. Alternatively, Italian pioneers in Virginia used their word for aubergine to. But when I get to these relatives I can not find any birth dates. ROBERT DEGNEN 5/31/00. and we are talking and gathering info. One of their kids, Wyatt Wert Wood, born in Illinois, 1913 1993, moved to Garland, Texas. Grandmaw Janie Perkins always told me we came from the Carolinas and the Virginias. . Hello Ms. J Gray: On another list the surname Riddle was given as a surname for Melungeons. Grew up in eastern tn near church hill and sneedeville home of melungeons. Hello! Email: [emailprotected]. Some Melungeons suspect Abe Lincoln, Elvis Presley and Ava Gardner may all have had some Melungeon blood. Among the northern Europeans, the Melungeon ancestors include English, Scot, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, and German parents. We were Black Dutch, Melungeon, Blackfoot and Osage. 18 of those being in the US all with my last name or variants and very distant matches. 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 . If given the space, we could present complex scores of intermarriages of Melungeon and other mixed surnames beginning in the 1600s of colonial America. My grandmothers biological family is originally from Wise Virginia and Morristown, Tn areas. 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. Note: One of my ancestors, a Mulungen, was a signer of the Declaration. Beginning in the early 1800s, or possibly before, the term Melungeon (meh-LUN'-jun) was used as a derogatory term to describe a group of about 40 families along the Tennessee-Virginia border. Mixed Melungeons had lived in Vir- ginia from 1660. All of them were from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and North carolina. I havent done a lot of research on these names yet I just know they show up in my line. Co. Kentucky. I descend from Reeves coming into Tennessee via Virginia. They were originally from SC and settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gaston/Lincoln Co, Rutherford Co and Cleveland Co. Thanks for what you are doing. My grandparents and all 13 kids used to go up to NJ and work the fields when jersey was the garden state still. C 2. Melungeon/Indian Genealogy By Marion Pezzullo April 08, 2005 at 12:29:40. Thank you for this site. I took a DNA test a couple of years ago and many of these names have shown up amongst my cousin matches surname list, especially Bass, Adkins, Castill, Carter, Dyes, Driggers, Goins, Sheppard and so many others. Native American descendant. And from Chancery records digitized by the Virginia State Archives and on-line for Louisa County he appears to have . Lasie. Nash, Nelson, Newman, Niccans, Nichols, Noel, Norris. Thank you for contacting me, how can I help? Thanks again and Ill keep a lookout for the mail. I would really like to know all I can find out about my grandparents. Sammons, Sampson, Sawyer, Scott, Sexton, Shavis, Shepherd/Shephard, Short. Do the companies get different results? Im researching my Berry family from Hawkins /Tennesse and Virginia . On my Daddys side my Grandmaw was Pearl Bass. 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. (And no Cherokee.) MULLINS, NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL NORRIS, PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS April Pilkey Williams Page 100 - Research Melungeon in the Surnames forums on Genealogy.com, the new GenForum! My ancestors lived in Lee Co. and Scott Cos. VA then to Hawkins Co. TN. There are Coopers who live in Somerset, Ky. and a lot of the older generations have died. GOINGS GORVENS GOWAN GOWEN GRAHAM GREEN(E) GWINN, HALL HAMMON(D) HARMON HARRIS HARVIE HARVEY Where can I look to find more information? Does anyone know anything about Po (Napoleon) Brown from south east Kentucky? Any help would be greatly appreciated from anyone who may be familiar with these family lines. Good afternoon, I have been on a search for a little while now trying to find out where my heritage rests. So then we need to go to our trees These families became the plantation aristocracy. Ely, Epps, Evans, Fields, Freeman, French. 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. Thank you. Bryson Gibson was born between 1775 and 1782 Washington County, Virginia to Thomas and Mary Gibson. We believe the melungeon came through from my direct Collins and Gabbard lines from that area. The oldest two were blondish and blue eyed. Also, I am related to the Bolling which go back to the Randolph and then to the Carters, and Hill last names. She was in her 20s, married to James Elbert Manis Ferrell. Do you have any information on the Bunch family? What do you have on the BARKERs, my grandfather on my fathers side was GEORGE WASHINGTON BARKER. Surname is Turner. They were considered black from then on out, right down to my grandma whose maiden name was Goins. I appreciate any help you can give. I have been wondering if we are Melungeons. The center of Melungeon territory in former times was Newman's Ridge, Hancock County, Tennessee. They, along with associated families, migrated to western NC from the eastern/coastal NC and borderline SC/NC. Wright. Home > Forum > Surnames > Melungeon . Other researchers have speculated that "Melungeon" derives from the Turkish melun can, (meaning "cursed soul"); the Italian melongena ("eggplant," referring to one with dark skin), or the old English term "malengin" ("guile; deceit"). Had always been told a great great grandma was Native-Cherokee but both my fathers and my own DNA shows minimal to no Native. At that time, their native Angolan fa- Additionally, Jack founded both the Y-DNA, mitochondrial (maternal) DNA and autosomal Families of Interest . My grandma also removed warts, used scripture to stop bleeding, blew the fire out of a burn. This is what my husband and I have done. These words do not seem to carry the same negative connotations for people who identify as Redbone or Melungeon. Havent heard back from George yet, when I do Ill be sure to let you know! Family still has very unique mix of features listed in connection with Melungeon. (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.). They were originally from SC and settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains around Gaston/Lincoln Co, Rutherford Co and Cleveland Co. 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. Since then, the Dutch started adopting surnames. My grandmother was adopted and sadly was a victim of the Tennessee Childrens Home Society and was stolen from her family. The Melungeon, who called their leaders "king" instead of "chief," intermarried with the Cherokee Indians and were considered a branch of the tribe. Thanks for adding me. Yet my sons 23&me results showed Iberian Peninsula ancestry that is not showing up on mine, nor on my husbands, from ancestry. Oct 26, 2022 - Explore Polly Collins Mullins's board "Melungeons", followed by 258 people on Pinterest. Rumors of Indian heritage, a great grandma that ran a hotel for coal miners in WV and family from Kentucky, WV , VA, OH and NC. Shari Wahls stepfather is Franklin C. Hatter. Greetings, Brown. I dont have much on my 4th great grandmother, She is from Scott county Virginia. I have 21 of those melungeon surnames in my direct bloodlines. Surnames on my maternal grandmas side are Mullins, Stallard, Stanley and Roberson/Robertson/Robinson. My grandfathers mother came from Kentucky and her last name was Bolling. So hopefully I can hear more. "Jordan, son of Gilbert Gibson was undoubtedly born after 1746/7, possibly as late as 1752 or so. Children of both these sets were Morris Baker 1750-1810 m. Jane Smith 1755-1810, my 6th great grandparents both Wilkes NC. The family line I have been researching is Perkins. My name Christy I have always been the odd duck in my family. LumbeePrincess, the oral history you've shared makes a lot of sense to me. 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. BENNETT BERRY BEVERLY BIGGS BOLEN BOLLING BOLTON BOONE BOWLIN We are most likely cousins as I have jones/hall/hill/clarks/browns all in my direct bloodlines. Thank you so much, in advance, for any consideration and for what you are bringing to others!!! Bunch shows up as a Melungeon last name. 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. He was buried in Arlington, Virginia. Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother. It was an open secret that they were not white. [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). She just said, our only concern was surviving. Thank you for being our [an error occurred while processing this directive] visitor since July 1, 2 Answers. My dad and all his siblings are dark skinned with dark hair with some having blue eyes. 2 vols. Correlating Historical Facts to DNA Test Results. She died in 1906 during childbirth with my grandmother. One set of my 7th great grandparents were Jane Bunch, Carolinas, 1740-1782 m. Hugh Smith, d. Wilkes Co. NC, 1738-1781. I met him years ago. I just recently found out about maternal grandmothers line. I would love to talk with you and compare notes. Grandson of John Snow Creek Taliaferro and Sarah Smith, both from Virginia. All around 1700-1800 time frame. FORUM ARTICLES SEARCH. Any help would be awesome. Hello! Change). MARTIN MAYLE MINARD MINER MINOR MIZER MOORE MORLEY MOSELY MOZINGO (pulasky County). Im from Eastern Kentucky also. FORUM ARTICLES SEARCH. I believe we could also match and I am eager to speak with you. She grew up there and was adopted by a Mitchell family. Sincerely Just Another Redbone Looking For Roots! God Bless. A good deal of my research, in addition to Mulungeon, leads back to Cherokee heritage from northeastern AL. 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