The Old Elizabeth City Co., Foxhill District census for 1850 is a great place to find many of the early ancestors in that area. It's on the VA GENWEB I believe. Elizabeth Curtis Graham -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: FRMRNYR@aol.com <FRMRNYR@aol.com> To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: [VAROOTS] Elizabeth City, >I have a little bit of Confusion, When It comes to Elizabeth City, >To me its NC, however the NEWS considers EC to be part of Hampton >Roads/Tidewater area. >For those of you not familiar with the border changes down here in Norfolk/Va >Bch, they could fill a book.............. >But anyway i was thinking (because I thought it was NC) THAT it was the >bottom part of Norfolk and PAC. I was WRONG. >After reading some of these marriages, wills, It looks like EC is the area >that is today Hampton. or Newport News, area Below York County. > >Some of the Surnames are: > >William H. Abdell and Elizabeth Bradley (widow) Dec 12 1872 Ft. Monroe >Joseph Backoosky of Buda Pest, To Bertha L. Banks St. John's >John Bennet to Maria Coles (colored) at Ft. Monroe Dec 3 1863 >Reuben Hart Boughton to Mary Elizabeth Eaton Dec 8 1864 >George W. Topping to Miss Mary E. Bryon Jan 16 1866 at mill creek. >George W. Cooper to Elizabeth Ann Cary at Feb 26 1835 blackbeards point >George Washington Hoover to Stella Helena Coffin April 11 1898 >Alfred Davis to Maria E. Pryor Feb 20 1834 >William Thomas Gatewood to Virginia Clay Saunders Dec 11 1873 >James Hawkins to Mary Eliza Drummond April 2 1835 > >others include >HOWARD >HOWE >HOWELL >HUBBARD >HUDGINS >JOHNSON >JONES >KEELING >LAWSON >LEE >LIVELY >MARTIN >MELLEN >MILLER >MOODY >MORE >MORGAN >OUTTEN >PHILLIPS >PURSE >ROBERTS >ROBINSON >SCAEFFER >SCHLEE >SCHMIDT >SEMPLE >SEWALL >SINCLAIR >SMITH >STEWART >TAYLOR >TENNIS >TILFORD >TOMLINSON >TURNBULL >UPSHUR >WALLACE >WATTS >WEBBER >WEEKS >WIESENHOFFT >WILBURN >WILKINS >WILLIAMS >WOOD >YOUNG >ZOELLER >AND OTHERS........... >kristina > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237