Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy

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Lower Norfolk was a county, now extinct, in seventeenth-century Virginia.

County Courthouse
The original records of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia are now held at the Chesapeake City Courthouse, Chesapeake, Va. and at the Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

Parent County
1637-- New Norfolk County was split and renamed Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk.

Boundary Changes
1691-- Lower Norfolk County was split and renamed Norfolk and Princess Anne.

Family Histories

 * [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 New England Ancestors ($).
 * [Newton] "Notes and Queries," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39 (1885):194. Digital versions at Google Books and New England Ancestors ($). [Announces plans of Mr. Virginius Newton to publish a family history on the Newtons of Lower Norfolk, Nansemond, and Stafford counties.]

Land
Land Grants and Patents


 * Lea, J. Henry. "Certificates of Head Rights in the County Court of Lower Norfolk, Virginia," [1630s-1650s] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 47 (1893):60-71. Digital versions at Google Books, Internet Archive, and New England Ancestors ($). [Includes extensive notes further identifying persons who appear in these records.]

Probate
London Courts


 * Will of Joseph Thorowgood, Merchant, of London, England, dated 11 October 1683, proved 19 January 1684, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Cann, 12. Abstract published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 43 (1889):154. Digital versions at Google Books, Internet Archive, and New England Ancestors [Includes material relating to the Thorowgood family of Lower Norfolk County.]
 * Will of Henry Woodhouse, of Linhaven [Lynnhaven] Parish, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, dated 29 January 1686, proved 24 July 1688, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Exton, 102. Abstract published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 38 (1884):67. Digital versions at Google Books, Internet Archive, and New England Ancestors ($).

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog