Upper Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy
Upper Norfolk County, Virginia genealogy and family history research page. Guide to Upper Norfolk County (1637-1646) genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including wills, deeds and land records, family histories, cemeteries, and churches.
Upper Norfolk was a county, now extinct, in seventeenth-century Virginia.
County Courthouse
The original records of Upper Norfolk County, Virginia are now held at the Chesapeake City Courthouse, Chesapeake, Va. and at the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.
History
Parent County
1637-- New Norfolk County was split and renamed Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk.
Boundary Changes
1646-- Upper Norfolk County was renamed Nansemond County.
Record Loss
Places/Localities
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Cemeteries
Church
List of Churches and Church Parishes
Church of England
See also East Parish
See also Elizabeth River Parish
See also Lower Parish
See also South Parish
See also Upper Parish
See also West Parish
Genealogy
Use this list to:
- Locate publications about direct ancestors
- Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
- Identify publications about an ancestor's "FAN Club" (Friends, Associates, and Neighbors)
- [Carter] Meade, William. Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. 2 vols. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861. Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.
- [Gookin] Thornton, J. Wingate. "The Gookin Family," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1 (1847):345-352. Digital versions at Google Books, Internet Archive, and American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
- [Gookin] Gookins, Richard N. A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America. Rev. ed. Salem, Ore.: R.N. Gookins, 1991. FS Library Book 929.273 G641g 1991 and supp..
- [Newton] "Notes and Queries," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39 (1885):194. Digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($). [Announces plans of Mr. Virginius Newton to publish a family history on the Newtons of Lower Norfolk, Nansemond, and Stafford counties.]
- [Norfleet] Perkins, Dorothy Neblett. Thomas Norfleet of 1666: Some of His Descendants and Allied Families, Volume I. Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.: privately published, 2001.
- [Smithwick] Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011. FS Library Book 975.6 D3bj v. 1.
Immigration
Headright grants identify many Upper Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy immigrants who arrived before 1720.[1] The Virginia Immigration article provides tips about using this source.
Additional resources include:
Land and Property
Maps
- FamilySearch Places: Cities and Towns in this county - How to Use FS Places
Probate Records
Websites
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- FamilySearch Catalog
References
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, "Review of Cavaliers and Pioneers," in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1980):221. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FS Library Book 975.5 B2vg v. 24 (1980)