How do I find out who's on the FIRST FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA LIST?

Question

My uncle (deceased) once told me our family was a FIRST FAMILY OF VIRGINIA name.He made a lot of money in the COAL business in western Penna. and had the money to look it all up in the 50's & 60's. My family name is GRUBBS

Answer 1

First Families of Virginia is an informal association of people who can trace their ancestry to the original Virginian colonists from England who landed at Jamestown in 1607.

Many members of the First Families of Virginia most likely did not settle at Jamestown in 1607. Instead, they came some 20 odd years later. The first families of Virginia are basically the most prominent names that we see in Colonial Virginia. They were considered part of the Aristocracy of England that claimed land in the New World, namely in the Southern colonies during the Colonial period in American history. The First Families of Virginia, as a consequence of primogeniture, evolved heavily from third or second sons of English nobility who inherited land grants or land in the New World. This formed part of the Southern Aristocracy in America.

Most members of the first families of Virginia would likely not have been part of the Jamestown settlement. The earliest Jamestown settlers, those who arrived in 1607, were mostly a group of skilled tradesmen, young gentlemen and soldiers, all eager for new opportunities. Women arrived only on later supply voyages. A larger number of the royalists and wealthy land owners came to Virginia a few years later. However, notwithstanding some lineage of English aristocracy, many of the First Families of Virginia trace their lineage to both Pocahontas and John Rolfe through their only son, through Thomas Rolfe, joining an Englishman who arrived in 1611 and a Native American who was already in Virginia in their combined heritage.

In shorthand, families/family members can be called FFV.

Some family names include:

Ackiss
Allerton
Armistead
Bacon
Bailey
Ballard
Baskerville Robert and John Baskerville arrived 1635
Bassett
Beale
Bell--Sir Robert Bell
Berkeley
Belt
Beverley
Blair
Bland
Branch -- although Christopher Branch did not arrive until 1620
Bray
Bridger
Browne of "Four Mile Tree"
Browning
Burwell
Byrd
Carter
Cary
Chandler
Chichely
Churchill
Claiborne
Corbin
Custis
Cole
Compton of Henry Co.
Cox
Dawson
Digges
Eppes
Fairfax
Farrar
Firby
Fitzhugh
Garrett
Gooch
Gilbert
Grymes
Hammond
Haywood of Gloucester Co.
Harrison
Hobby
Holland
Hopkins
Jenings of Ripon Hall
Kemp
Lewis
Limerick (Vincent Limerick 1635)
Limbrick
Littleton
Ludwell
Lunsford
Lee
Lightfoot
Martiau
Matthews
Morris
Nelson
Page
Percy
Parke
Pickett
Presley
Randolph
Robinson
Rolfe
Scarborough
Smith of Gloucester Co.
Spotswood
Snipe
Sullivan
Talliaferro/Toliver
Tayloe
Thompson
Thorogood
Thornton
Tredway
Tyler
Venable(s)
Ware
Warner
Washington
West
Whiting
Willoughby
Willis
Wood
Woodson
Wormeley
Yardley
Young


Sorry - didn't find any Grubbs



******** I did just find this, are you by anychance a descendant of John Grubbs?

http://sheppardpioneers.freeservers.com/112/index.htm

the above site had some info

Answer 2

First Families Of Virginia

Answer 3

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How do I find out who's on the FIRST FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA LIST?
My uncle (deceased) once told me our family was a FIRST FAMILY OF VIRGINIA name.He made a lot of money in the COAL business in western Penna. and had the money to look it all up in the 50's & 60's. My family name is GRUBBS

Answer 4

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Dad - Alastair Phillip Mom - Susanna Juniper Twins - Tobias Bennett and Avalon Carys Daughter - Naomi Aurelia Daughter - Verity Joscelin Son - Gideon Leif

Answer 5

My family was on the list. Thomas Page who was born in Ireland in 1627 and came to VA and I think they got here around 1650's he had a son named Thomas Page who was born in Isle of Wight VA on 21 Apr 1657.

Answer 6

One Grubbs Genealogy - England to Virginia
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=walfam&id=I27290

Answer 7

Corbins

Answer 8

Dameron omitted from list.