Northumberland County Historical Society is posting the following list of surnames commonly researched in Northumberland County, Virginia. The Society has information on these surnames in our family files, family charts, Bible records, local genealogy books, and in our Bulletin which has been published yearly since 1964.
Please call us at 804.580.8581 or contact us if you need further information or help in researching your Northumberland County family connections.
A
Abbott
Acker
Acre/Acree
Adair
Adams
Adkins
Ainsworth
Aires/Airs
Alden
Alderman
Alderson
Aldridge
Alexander
Allen/Allan
Allerson
Allerton
Allison
Alverson
Anderson
Andrew(s)
Angel/Angell
Anthony
Appleby
Archer
Argall(s)
Armistead
Armstrong
Armsworthy
Arnest
Arnett
Arnold
Asberry/Asbury
Ash
Ashburn(e)
Ashbury
Ashton
Askins
Atherold
Atkins
Atwell
Atwill
Austin
Avery
Ayers
Aylett
B
Bacon
Baggess/Baggiss
Bailey/Bayley
Baird
Baker
Balderson
Baldwin
Ball
Ballantine
Banks
Barber/Barbour
Barecroft
Barford/Bareford
Barnes
Barnett
Barnhart
Barrack/Barrick
Barrett/Barratt
Bartlett
Bartley
Barton
Bass
Basye/Basyie
Bateman
Bates
Bathurst
Battee/Battie
Battle
Baylis
Bayne
Baytop
Beacham/Beachum
Beadles
Beale
Beane
Beasley
Beatley
Beauchamp
Beaulieu
Beckham
Beckwith
Belfield
Bellows
Benjamin
Bennett
Berkley
Berriman
Berry
Berryman
Betts
Biggs
Billings
Bingham
Biscoe
Bishop
Blake
Blackerby
Blackley
Blackwell
Blankenship
Bledsoe
Blincoe
Bluford
Boatman
Bonner
Bonum
Booker
Booth
Botsford
Bowen
Bowles
Boyd
Bradford
Brady
Branch
Brann
Bransford
Braxton
Breckinridge
Brent
Brereton
Brewer
Brewster
Briant/Bryant
Bridgar
Bridges
Bright
Bristow
Broaddus
Brockenbrough
Bromley/Brumley
Brook(e)
Brooks
Broun
Brown(e)
Brownlee
Bruton
Buckley
Bundick
Burgess
Burke
Burnett
Burrough
Bussell(s)
Bush
Bushrod
Butler
Byrd
Byrne
C
D
Daingerfield
Dalton
Dameron
Dandridge
Daniel
Darby
Dare
Dashiell
Daugherty
Davenport
Davidson
Davies
Davis
Davison
Dawson
DeAtley
DeButts
Degges
Deihl
Deitz
Delano
Demerett
Dennis
Deshields
Dew
Dickinson
Dixon
Dize
Dobyns
Dodson
Doggett
Donaldson
Douglas(s)
Doulin/Douling
Downing
Downman
Downs
Dozier
Dudley
Dunaway
Duncan
Dungan
Dunton
duPont
Dyne
E
Earle
Edmonds
Edwards
Efford
Elliott
Ellis
Ellison
Elmore
English
Ennalls
Eskridge
Eubank
Eustace
Evans
Everette
Ewell
F
Fairfax
Fallin
Farish
Farnefold
Faulkner
Fauntleroy
Fearns
Ficklin
Fidler
Field
Fielding(s)
Fisher
Fitchett
Fitzhugh
Fleet(e)
Fleming
Fletcher
Flowers
Flynt
Fones
Forbush
Ford
Forrester/Forester
Foster
Foushee
Foutch
Freeman
Frissell
Fry(e)
Fulks
G
Gaines
Galloway
Gardy
Garland
Garlington
Garner
Garnett
Garrett
Garrison
Gascoigne
Gascoyne
Gaskins
Gawen
Gayle
Genn
George
Gerrard
Gibbons
Gibson
Gilbert
Gill
Gilliam
Glascock
Godron
Goff
Goodman
Goodridge
Gordon
Gorham
Gough
Graham
Grant
Gray/Grey
Green(e)
Greenstreet
Greenwood
Gregory
Gresham
Griffin
Griffith
Griggs
Grimstead
Grinstead
Groves
Gulick
Gutridge
Gwyn
H
Hack
Haislip
Hale/Haile
Hall
Hamblin
Hames
Hamilton
Hammack
Hammond
Hanks
Harcum
Hardesty
Harding
Harper
Harris
Harrison
Hartley
Harvey
Harwick
Hastings
Hathaway
Hawkins
Hayden/Haydon
Hayes
Haynes
Haynie/Haney
Hazzard
Headley
Heale
Heath
Henderson
Henry
Hickman
Hill
Hillman
Hinson
Hinton
Hobson
Hogan
Holland
Hopkins
Hornsby
Hoskins
Howard
Howe
Howland
Howson
Hubbard
Hudnall
Hudson
Hughes
Hughlett
Hull
Humphries
Humphreys
Hundley
Hunt
Hunter
Hunton
Hurst
Hutchinson
Hutt
I
Ingram
J
Jackson
Jacques
James
Jameson
Jamieson
Jarvis
Jefferson
Jeeffries
Jenkins
Jesse
Jeter
Jett
Jewell
Johnson
Johnston
Jones
Judson
Justice
Justis
K
Kay
Keane/Keene
Keeve
Kelly/Kelley
Kellum
Kelsick
Kelso
Kendall
Kennedy
Kenner
Kent
Kerr
Kesterson
Ketcham
Ketchum
Keys/Keyes
Keyser
Kilduff
Kines
Kilpatrick
King
Kirk
Knight
Knott
Krentz
L
Lackey
Lamkin/Lampkin
Landsdell
Lankford/Langford
Lattimore
Laws
Lawson
Ledford
Lee
Leggett
Leland
Lemoine
Levering
Lewis
Lincoln
Lindsay/Lindsey
Litchfield
Lloyd
Locke
Long
Love
Lowe
Lowry/Lowery
Lucas
Luckham
Lumpkin
Lumsden
Lunceford
Lunsford
Luttrell
Lydell
Lyell
Lynch
Lyne(s)
M
Mahan/Mahanes
Manahan
Mann
Markham
Marmaduke
Marsh
Marshall
Marston
Martin
Marvin
Mason
Massey
Matthews
Mattingly
Mayes/Mays
Mayo
McAdam(s)
McAloney
McCarty
McClanahan
McDaniel
McDonald
McFarland
McGinnes
McGuigan
McGuire
McKenney
McKildoe
McNeal/McNeil
McTyre
Mealey
Megill
Menzies
Merideth
Meriwether
Metcalf(e)
Middleton
Miles
Miller
Mills
Minor
Minty/Mintree
Miskell
Miskimon
Mitchell
Moncure
Monroe
Montague
Moore
Morgan
Morrison
Morton
Mosby
Moss
Mothershead
Motley
Mottrom
Mozingo
Mullin
Murphy
Murray
Muse
Myers
N
Nash
Neale
Nelms
Nelson
Newbill
Newby
Newman
Newsome
Newton
Nicholls
Nickens
Noel/Noell
Norman
Norris
North
Northern
Norton
Nottingham
Nugent
Nutt
O
Oakley
O’Bier
O’Brien
Ocany
Oldham
Oliver
Omohundro
O’Neal/O’Neil
Opie
Oren/Orem
Osburn
Osmond
Overton
Owen(s)
Owings
P
Page
Palmer
Pankey
Parker
Parrott
Parsons
Pasquith
Patterson
Payne
Peachey
Peake
Peale
Pearson
Peirsey
Pendleton
Perciful
Perkins
Perry
Peyton
Phillips
Pickering
Pierce
Pillsbury
Pinkard/Pinckard
Pittman/Pitman
Pitts
Plummer
Pollard
Poole
Pope
Porter
Potter
Potts
Poulson
Powell
Power
Pratt
Presly/Presley
Price
Prichard
Pridham
Pritchett
Prosser
Pugh
Pullen
Purnell
Purcell/Pursell
Pusey
Putnam
Q
R
Raines
Raitt
Ramsay
Ransdell
Randolph
Read(e)
Redman
Reed/Reid
Roberson
Reiblich
Reamy/Remy
Revere/Riveer
Reynolds
Rice
Rich
Richardson
Roane
Rose
Roberts
Robertson
Robins
Robinson
Rock
Rodham
Roe
Rodgers/Rogers
Routt
Rowe
Royal (l)
Ruick
Russell
Rust
Ryland
S
Sadler
Saffin
Salisbury
Samford
Sampson
Sams
Sanders
Sandford
Sandy
Sanford
Saunders
Savin
Sayre
Scarborough
Scarburgh
Schofield
Schools
Schreever
Scott
Sebree/Sebra
Selby
Selden
Self/Selph
Settle
Sewell
Shackelford
Shapleigh
Sharp(e)
Shearman
Shears
Shehigh
Shelton
Shepherd
Sherman
Shirley
Short
Shuck
Simmons
Simonson
Sims
Sisson
Skelton
Slacum
Slaughter
Smith/Smyth
Smither(s)
Smoot
Snead
Snow
Sorrell
Span(n)
Spellman
Spencer
Spicer
Spiller
Spriggs
Spruill
Stakes
Starke
States
Stebbins
Stegeman
Steptoe
Sterling
Sterne
Stephens/Stevens
Steward/Stewart
Stith
Stoneham
Storke
Stott
Straughan
Stuart
Sullivan
Suttle
Sutton
Swann
Swift
Sydnor
T
Taliaferro
Tallent
Talley
Tankard
Tankersley
Tapscott
Tayloe
Taylor
Tebbs
Ticer
Tidwell
Tiffey
Tignor
Tillery
Thomas
Thompson
Thorndike
Thornton
Thrall
Threlkold
Thrift
Tolley
Tolson
Tomlin
Toulson
Towles
Townsend
Travers
Treakle
Trible
Trowbridge
Trower
Trudell
Truitt
Trussell
Tucker
Tullos
Tune
Tunnell
Turbeville
Turner
Tyler
Townley
U
Unruh
Updike
Urban(e)
V
Valk
Vanlandingham
Vaughan
Vaulx
Vickers
W
Waddell
Waddy/Waddey
Wadsworth
Wagner
Walker
Wallace
Walmsley
Walters
Ward
Waring
Warner
Warren
Warwick
Washington
Waters
Watkins
Watson
Watts
Way/Whay
Weathers
Weaver
Webb
Welch
Wells
West
Weymouth
Whaley
Wharton
Whealton
Wheatley
Wheeler
Wheelwright
White
Whitlock
Whittaker
Wiatt
Wiggins
Wildey
Wiles
Wiley
Wilkins
Williams
Williamson
Willing
Willis
Willoughby
Wilmore
Wilsford
Wilson
Winder
Wingate
Winstead
Winston
Wise
Withers
Wood
Woodhull
Woodson
Woolard
Wornom
Wren
Wright
Wroe/Rowe
X
Y
Yarrett
Yates
Yeardley
Yeatman
Yearby/Yerby
Young
Younger