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.

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.

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


It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, 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 - free.
 * [Gookin] Thornton, J. Wingate. "The Gookin Family," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1 (1847):345-352. Digital versions at Google Books - free, Internet Archive - free, and American Ancestors ($).
 * [Gookin] Gookins, Richard N. A History and Genealogy of the Gookin Family of England, Ireland, and America. Rev. ed. Salem, Ore.: R.N. Gookins, 1991..
 * [Newton] "Notes and Queries," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 39 (1885):194. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). [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..

Web Sites

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