The National Melungeon Registry

WHO ARE THE MELUNGEONS?

The Melungeons are most likely the descendants of the late 16th century Portuguese and Turks stranded on the Carolina shores when the settlement of Santa Elena, South Carolina was abandoned by the Spanish. They later intermarried with the Powhatan, Pamunkey, Chickahominy and Catawba Indians.

After being abandoned in the outlying Spanish forts, they settled in the Appalachians and further intermarried with the Chreokees and much later with the northern European settlers; primarily the Scotch-Irish, becoming part of the American Melting Pot.

The word Melungeon is both Portuguese, meaning "white person" and Turkish, meaning "cursed soul."

The National Melungeon Registry has been established to collect and preserve Melungeon genealogical and historical information.

For a one-time fee of $10.00 your genealogical information will be maintained in a perpetual database of ancestral charts and family group sheets kept on file and available to researchers.

Please remember to always keep your information updated: new genealogical information, changes in mailing and e-mail addresses.

The following surnames are considered to be of Melungeon descent

Adams, Adkins, Allen, Allmond, Ashworth, Barker, Barnes, Bass, Beckler, Bedgood, Bell, Bennett, Berry, Beverly, Biggs, Bolen/Bowlen/Bolling/Bowling, Boone, Bowman, Badby, Branham, Braveboy, Briger/Bridger, Brogan, Brooks, Brown, Bunch, Butler, Butters, Bullion, Burton, Buxton, Byrd, Campell, Carrico, Carter, Casteel, Caudill, Chapman, Chavis, Clark, Cloud, Coal/Cole/Coles, Coffey, Coleman, Colley, Collier/Colyer, Collins, Collinsworth, Cook(e), Cooper, Cotman, Counts, Cox/Coxe, Criel, Croston, Crow, Cumba/Cumbo/Cumbow, Curry, Custalow, Dalton, Dare, Davis, Denham, Dennis, Dial, Dorton, Doyle, Driggers, Dye, Dyess, Ely, Epps, Evans, Fields, Freeman, French, Gann, Garland, Gibbs, Gibson/Gipson, Goins/Goings, Gorvens, Gowan/Gowen, Graham, Green(e), Gwinn, Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt, Jackson, James, Johnson, Jones, Keith, Kennedy, Kiser, Langston, Lasie, Lawson, Locklear, Lopes, Lowry, Lucas, Maddox, Maggard, Major, Male/Mayle, Maloney, Marsh, Martin, Miles, Minard, Miner/Minor, Mizer, Moore, Morley, Mullins, Mursh, Nash, Nelson, Newman, Niccans, Nichols, Noel, Norris, Orr, Osborn/Osborne, Oxendine, Page, Paine, Patterson, Perkins, Perry, Phelps, Phipps, Pinder, Polly, Powell, Powers, Pritchard, Pruitt, Ramey, Rasnick, Reaves/Reeves, Revels, Richardson, Roberson/Robertson/Robinson, Russell, Sammons, Sampson, Sawyer, Scott, Sexton, Shavis, Shepherd/Shephard, Short, Sizemore, Smiling, Smith, Stallard, Stanley, Steel, Stevens, Stewart, Strother, Sweat/Swett, Swindall, Tally, Taylor, Thompson, Tolliver, Tuppance, Turner, Vanover, Vicars/Viccars/ Vickers, Ware, Watts, Weaver, White, Whited, Wilkins, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wisby, Wise, Wood, Wright, Wyatt, Wynn

Help us preserve Appalachian and Melungeon genealogy. Please submit your family ancestral charts and group sheets for preservation in our archives. You may submit either copies by mail or on computer disksubmit in GedCom or in Family Tree Maker, Brothers Keeper, Family Gathering, or PAF. You may send your files via the Internet to Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com We will print your material, bind and place in our archives with your name and address so that anyone tracing these families can contact you directly.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Submit Melungeon family information to:

WCHS: The Wise County Historical Society,
P. O. Box 368, Wise, VA 24293

If you have any additional questions, e-mail Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com or P.A. Baldwin at: nuleef@foothills.net.

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Last updated: 4/19/98

 

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