Hi,
I am a researcher of an interesting group of people called Melungeons.
Carrico is one of a number of common surnames among this group of fascinating
people.
Are you familiar with the term Melungeon? If you answer, �Who or what are
Melungeons,� you are like most people. If you have been researching your
family in the Cumberland Plateau of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, West
Virginia, and Tennessee, during the early migration years, you may be able to
find them through a connection to this group of people who are only now being
researched with unbiased eyes. The Melungeons are a people of apparent
Mediterranean descent who may have settled in the Appalachian wilderness as
early or possibly earlier than 1567. (The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a
Proud People; N. Brent Kennedy, Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, USA, 1997;
introduction, p. xiii) The Mediterrean includes areas of North Africa,
southern Europe and Central Asia
Certain surnames are associated with this highly interesting group of people.
I am
including a copy of those names. Be aware, however, that many people bearing
these surnames, even if they come from the Appalachian area, are NOT connected
to the Melungeons. The surnames are to be used as an INDICATOR of POSSIBLE
Melungeon ancestry. Also, note that many Melungeon women �out-married,�
carrying the heritage with them, but not the names. Not having one of these
names DOES NOT mean that the family was not of Melungeon descent.
There are also physical characteristics common to Melungeon descendants, many
have an Indian ''myth" or orphan/adopted story in their background, and
important health issues as well. I will be glad to send an informational
packet including this information as well as a mailing list and URLs, FREE and
via e-mail to anyone interested.
Nancy S
Common Melungeon Surname List:
North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia
ADAMS ADKINS ALLEN ALLMOND ASHWORTH * BARKER BARNES BASS
BECKLER BELCHER
BEDGOOD BELL BENNETT BERRY BEVERLY BIGGS BOLEN BOLLING
BOLTON BOONE BOWLIN
BOWLING BOWMAN BRADBY BRANHAM BRAVBOY BRIGER/BRIDGER
BROGAN BROOKS BROWN
BUNCH BULLION BURTON BUTLER BUTTERS BUXTON BYRD * CAMPBELL
CARRICO CARTER CASTEEL
CAUDILL CHAPMAN CHAVIS CLARK CLOUD COAL COFFEY COLE
COLEMAN COLES COLLEY
COLLIER COLLINS COLLINSWORTH COLYER COOPER CORMAN COUNTS
COX COXE CRIEL
CROSTON CROW CUMBA CUMBO CUMBOW CURRY CUSTALOW * DALTON
DARE DAVIS
DENHAM DENNIS DIAL DOOLEY DORTON DOYLE DRIGGERS DULA DYE
DYESS * ELY EPPS EVANS
* FIELDS FREEMAN FRENCH * GALLAGHER GANN GARLAND GIBSON
GIPSON GOINS GOINGS
GORVENS GOWAN GOWEN GRAHAM GREEN(E) GWINN * HALL HAMMON(D)
HARMON HARRIS
HARVIE HARVEY HAWKES HENDRICKS HENDRIX HILL HILLMAN HOGGE
HOLMES HOPKINS HOWE
HYATT * JACKSON JAMES JOHNSON JONES * KEITH(E) KENNEDY KISER *
LANGSTON LASIE
LAWSON LOCKLEAR LOPES LOWRY LUCAS * MADDOX MAGGARD MAJOR
MALE MALONE(Y)
MARSH MARTIN MAYLE MINARD MINER MINOR MIZER MOORE MORLEY
MOSELY
MOZINGO MULLINS * NASH NELSON NEWMAN NICCANS NICHOLS NOEL
NORRIS * ORR OSBORN
OSBORNE OXENDINE * PAGE PAINE PATTERSON PERKINS PERRY PHELPS
PHIPPS PRINDER POLLY
POWELL POWERS PRITCHARD PRUITT * RAMEY RASNICK REAVES REVELS
REEVES RICE
RICHARDSON RIDDLE RIVERS ROBERSON ROBERTSON ROBINSON RUSSELL
* SAMMONS
SAMPSON SAWYER SCOTT SEXTON SHAVIS SHEPHARD SHEPHERD SHORT
SHORTT SIZEMORE
SMILING SMITH STALLARD STANLEY STEEL STEVENS STEWART
STROTHER SWEATT SWETT
SWINDALL * TALLY TACKETT TAYLOR THOMPSON TIPTON TOLLIVER
TUPPANCE TURNER *
VANOVER VICARS VICCARS VICKERS * WARE WATTS WEAVER WHITE
WHITED WILKINS
WILLIAMS WILLIAMSON WILLIS WILSON WISBY WISE WOOD WRIGHT
WYATT WYNN