Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy

Lower Norfolk County, Virginia genealogy and family history research page. Guide to Lower Norfolk County (established 1637) genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including wills, deeds and land records, family histories, cemeteries, and churches.

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.

Neighboring Counties
Nansemond | Upper Norfolk

Church of England
See also Elizabeth River Parish See also Lynnhaven Parish

DNA

 * Culpepper

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]

See also: Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy  Princess Anne County, Virginia Genealogy

General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Lower Norfolk, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 10,000 entries.


 * Snow, Helen F. The Dameron-Damron Genealogy, the Descendants of Lawrence Dameron of Virginia.: With Notes on Related Northumberland County Families of Gaskins, Harvey, Bledsoe, Tignor, Ball, Coppedge-Coppage, Waddy, Taylor, Smith, and the John Ladd Family Originating in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia. 929.273 D182s and Supplement:  929.273 D182s supp.
 * Walter, Alice Granbery. Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Family Ties--The Families of Yates, Horne, Markham, Whiddon, Cawson, Herbert, Ballentine, Llewellyn, Dale, Willoughby (of the Southern Branch): Containing Any Other Marriage Connections. Virginia Beach, Va.: A.G. Walter, [197-?]. PEDIGREES nos. 1202-1203].

Immigration

 * 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.]

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.]

Occupations
Philip Alexander Bruce's book Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (Vol. II, 1896, p. 334 footnote 1) includes a list of early English merchants in Lower Norfolk County.

Periodicals
The Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Antiquary (1899-1905) includes many items of interest to genealogists. All five volumes are available online for free:


 * Vol. 1
 * Vol. 2
 * Vol. 3
 * Vol. 4
 * Vol. 5

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.