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Surname ID: 1894
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- UPDATED: 7.21.2025
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ancestors:
connections:
English | Welsh | Melungeons | Brass Ankles | Pamunkey | Powhatan | Muscogee (Creek) | Choctaw | Seminole
RESOURCES
lists/rolls:
Surnames of the Tri-Racial Families of the Upper South | Choctaw Freedman Surnames | Creek Freedman Surnames | Seminole Surnames – Freedman and Blood Rolls | Recognized Melungeon Names Today | Melungeon-Related Surnames (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky) | Brass Ankles (South Carolina) | Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians (Virginia) | Surnames of Probable Melungeon Descent
records:
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina | 
1820 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky | 
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee | 
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky | 
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee | 
1860 U.S. Census – Panther Creek, Hancock County, Tennessee
resources:
mentions:
Free Negro Owners of Slaves in 1830 | 
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population | 
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past | 
Melungeons Yesterday and Today | 
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio | 
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel) | 
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided | 
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race | 
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky | 
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy