The following Melungeon and Melungeon-related surnames were encountered by N. Brent Kennedy while researching his book The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. According to Kennedy, "The possession of one of these surnames does not necessarily indicate a Melungeon or related group bloodline, nor does the absence of any of these family names indicate a lack of such a bloodline. These names are simply the most common surnames encountered and may prove useful to those pursuing genealogical research."
ADAMS ADKINS
BARKER BARNES BECKLER BELL BENNETT BERRY BIGGS
BOLEN BOWLIN BOWLING BOWMAN BRANHAM BROGAN BULLION BURTON BYRD
CAMPBELL CARRICO CARTER CASTEEL CAUDILL CHAVIS
CLARK COAL COFFEY COLE COLEMAN COLES COLLEY COLLIER COLLINS
COLLINSWORTH COLYER COUNTS COX COXE CROW CUMBA CUMBO CUMBOW CURRY
DAVIS DENHAM DORTON DYE
ELY EVANS
FIELDS FREEMAN FRENCH
GANN GARLAND GIBSON GIPSON GOINS GOINGS GORVENS
GOWAN GOWEN GRAHAM GWINN
HALL HAMMOND HENDRICKS HENDRIX HILL HILLMAN
HOPKINS
JACKSON
KEITH KENNEDY KISER
LAWSON LOPES LUCAS
MAGGARD MALONEY MARTIN MINER MINOR MIZER MOORE
MORLEY MULLINS
NASH NICCANS NOEL
ORR OSBORN OSBORNE
PERRY PHELPS PHIPPS POLLY POWERS PRUITT
RAMEY RASNICK REAVES REEVES ROBERSON ROBERTSON
ROBINSON
SEXTON SHEPHARD SHORT SIZEMORE STALLARD STANLEY
STEEL SWINDALL
TOLLIVER TURNER
VANOVER
WATTS WHITE WHITED WILLIAMS WILLIS WRIGHT WYATT
BOONE BRAVEBOY BUNCH
CHAVIS CRIEL
DRIGGERS
GOINS GOINGS
HARMON
JACKSON
RUSSELL
SAMMONS SCOTT SHAVIS SWEAT SWETT
WILLIAMS
GIBSON
NICHOLS
PERKINS
COLEMAN
EPPS
MARTIN
SHEPHERD
STEWART
TALLY
ADAMS
COLLINS CROSTON
DALTON DORTON
KENNEDY
MALE MAYLE MINARD MINER MINOR
NEWMAN NORRIS
PRITCHARD
ALLEN
BENNETT BERRY BRIDGER BRIGER BROOKS BROWN
BUTLER
CHAPMAN CHAVIS COLE COLEMAN COOPER CUMBA CUMBO
CUMBOW
DARE DIAL
GRAHAM
HARRIS HARVIE HARVEY HOWE
JOHNSON JONES
LASIE LOCKLEAR LOWRY LUCAS
MARTIN
OXENDINE
PAINE PATTERSON POWELL
REVELS
SAMPSON SCOTT SMITH STEVENS
TAYLOR
VICARS VICCARS VICKERS
WHITE WILLIS WILLIAMSON WOOD WRIGHT
ADAMS ADKINS ALLMOND
BASS BEVERLY BRADBY
CARTER COLLINS COTMAN COOK(E) CUSTALOW
DENNIS
GREEN(E)
HARMON HAWKES HOGGE HOLMES
LANGSTON
MAJOR MARSH MILES MURSH
NELSON
OSBORN
PAGE
RICHARDSON
SAMPSON SAWYER STEWART SWETT
TUPPONCE
WEAVER
WHITE WILKINS WILLIAMS WISE WYNN
ASHWORTH
BEDGOOD BUTTERS BUXTON
CHAVIS CLARK CLOUD
DOYLE DYESS
GIBBS GOINS
HYATT
JAMES JOHNSON
MADDOX
NELSON
PERKINS PINDER
SMILING STROTHER SWEAT
THOMPSON
WARE WILLIS WISBY
This page was submitted by Martha Short and is
based upon the surnames listed in the Appendix to the second
edition of The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People An
Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America by N. Brent Kennedy
with Robyn Vaughan Kennedy.
© Martha Short, 1998, 1999.
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