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Can anyone tell me when Berkeley County Va became Berkeley Co WVA, Also some info on a migration between Pennsylvania and Berkeley Co. Did this take place mid 1700’s? Also can anyone share surnames from there.
I am looking for HOKE, LIGHT surnames, went Pa to Berkley Co,
I know along time ago I put the Hoke name up, but not Light.
Techteach, saw some of your posts, maybe you can help me out on Berkeley co.
Oh one more Surname CLICE
Thankyou:D
Has anyone seen this page?
Boyd’s on here
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/WV/Berkeley/berhistory.html
Found somethin on Light Family
anyone no about Lick Plantation in Berkeley County? Stories, History?
mrsapatino:
One of my groups comes from Berkeley County. The names are Green (Greentown), Butt (Buttstown), Metcalfe, Willis, Duncan, Williamson. I am not sure of the date that it became WVA. My folks originally came from MD and bought land from Lord Fairfax and relocated to Berkeley County. Van Meter is one of the names, one that connects both my grandfather and grandmother’s family. We know that Gramma’s family had NA but we only suspect it of Grandpa’s. His family included the Swearingens and Van Meters of Berkeley County who intermarry with the Carpenters. One of these Van Meter’s descendents, a son of Isaacc (I think), is taken prisoner by one of the Ohio tribes. He continues to live as native, marries a relative (sister?) of Joseph Brandt, lives in the same location as the Senecas of the Sandusky. One of my Sinkeys lives very near them while one of my Green/Beavers is known to have belonge to the same church. Van Meter is not in my direct line, but marries into my lines.
I have read an online newsletter talking about the Tuscarora known to have been there for a while. Martinsburg lies on Tuscarora Creek, while my relatives belonged to Tuscarora Church. Yet, I have also found possible evidence that the Butts might have been Monacan.
I don’t find your names on my list. They might be in “The Green Tree” which is a more extensive Green genealogy than the genealogy on my laptop. However, I just moved and have no idea where the book is right now. Can’t even get at my clothes. Yesterday, getting ready for work, I had the choice of a couple of dresses and costumes. I just could not go to my university dressed as Mrs. Santa.
When the book surfaces, I can look for those names. I suspect that it is in one of the book boxes blocking my main closet.
Techteach
You know every time I am doing look ups I come across Green Family, know matter where it is, Va, OH but I’ve yet to see them linked to my family.
Thank you for looking though.
BTW Good Luck with the cloths thing, but if you do choose to wear a costume, just go in a pretend nothing is wrong, you know like Christmas in August!
Hi Techteach,
You wrote: “I have read an online newsletter talking about the Tuscarora known to have been there for a while.”
May I ask the name of this newsletter? I have West Virginia Native ancestry, but their earliest known location is in Kanawha County. There are clues that some of them may have been in the eastern panhandle prior to that, so I’m trying to follow every lead I can.
The surnames I’m researching are Miller, Shaver & Blackhawk.
Thanks! John
Christina,
Berkeley County was created in 1772 from a part of Frederick Co., Va. (“Ancestry’s Redbook – American State, County & Town Sources”.) It became West Virginia in 1863.
Bill
John and mrssapatino:
The newsletter is an old newsletter of the Appalachian American Indians of West Virginia. If you go to their web site, http://www.aaiwv-ani.org, you can find the old newsletters posted. It is one of them. I just moved; I have no clue where is the particular newsetter that I found is in this new house to tell you which newsletter it is, but you can look around and find it. It talks of the Indians near Martinsburg, WVA in the 1700s when my Greens and Butts were there.
Techteach
Thank you for checking on that for me, I found a little more information on the plantation but not that much, it changed hands a few times, it’s name changed to Lick Run Plantation or the Anne Light House- Garden Tour discription, it was also a mill, back in the 1700’s. I believe I saw in a historical description there were slave quarters but I attempted to find their names and no luck, thinking there might be a connection there.
I am interested in this plantation, it might explain some of the mix in my family.
knowing that all My Grandfathers were Garfield I am checking on all the Grandmothers and G Gma’s ect… before them, stories are the native blood came from the woman. Not leaving any stones unturned. Especially in that time in that place. This is further back than my Colley family, but from what I have gathered so far I think the Men of the Hoke & Light families might have been French or Welsh.
I am still trying to concentrate on my Colley’s but I am thinking they were shuttled by aliens and dropped off in Ohio, I found a large group of Colley’s living in Kentucky, I am speculating that maybe part of that family, were part of my Colley line, who knows.
Christina,
My folks left Berkeley County and went to Licking County, Ohio starting from the late 1700s until the early 1800s. They left in a large group.
Techteach
Your Family in Ohio, was only 2 counties south of mine techteach, the Colley fam anyway, they were in Richland, interesting, it is good to know this, it gives me some idea of migration.
Christina,
Well, well, well. I just found an interesting name on my genealogy. That name is McColley. Isn’t that interesting? Married into the Greens, but not my direct line. My Regnal Green Junior’s brother, William, was this person’s ancestor. Now, I cannot imagine that McColley is not somehow connected with Colley. Something I read said that often the Mc was added to a name to explain dark complexions and/or accents.
This ought to help you establish when your Colleys left Berkeley County, shouldn’t it? When my copy of The Green Tree surfaces in the box I packed it in, I will check further possibilities and the dates that they left WVA. My information lacks any dates. It is just a listing of names.
Techteach
I really need to check into that a little more the, Mc Colley thing.
Oh wait on the Colleys, I think we have a slight mis understanding, I honestly cannot locate where my Colleys came from, ( I told Tommy Tsunami, I think they were dropped off in Ohio by Aliens) I only have them in Richland Co, Ohio in the mid to late 1800’s, I dont have that particular line in WVA, just the Light’s and the Hoke’s in Berkeley co.
I am just thinking that there might be a possibility. techteach if you want to take a look at what Bill C and I were working on, it is in Genealogy forum under William Colley. But I am glad you put that up here because I do have a feeling there is a connection and I did come across a web site of the Green and I think Bailey family tree, that had Colley’s or McColleys on it.
Oh and I just think it is interesting that our families were not that far away from eachother in Ohio, 2 counties thats all. very close
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