Upper Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    Upper Norfolk County

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.

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

Probate
London Courts

Web Sites

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