Dear Bruce,
I saw your post on the Va. Roots list. Could you please tell me whether you have any information on the Shelley/Shelly family, expecially Richard Harrison Shelly (c. 1804-1869), who moved there from Isle of Wight in the early 1820s? He and most of his sons were mariners on the Cheasapeake Bay and its rivers, and most eventually settled in King & Queen (his family is there by the 1840 census) and King William counties, Norfolk, or Richmond, so would have been in Nansamond only briefly, but probably married there, alas for knowing who his wife Ann was. I would love to have any scrap of information that you might have in your records concerning any early Shelley/Shellys, as I suspect that several marriages of Richard's parents generation took place there, as they are not in the remaining records of Isle of Wight, Southampton or Surry counties where I would have expected to find them.
Thank you for your assistance,
Anne Gwaltney
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>From: Bruce <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 26, 2011 2:19 PM
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>Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Nansemond county
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>The records for Nansemond County and Suffolk were burned last in 1866.
>Some records have been rerecorded in the surrounding counties of Isle of
>Wight, Norfolk and Southampton Counties of Virginia and Gates County in
>North Carolina.
>The Norfolk County records are in Portsmouth, Va.
>There are Bible records the Fillmore Norfleet book "Bible Records of Suffolk
>and Nansemond County, Virginia" paperback.
>He also wrote a book "Suffolk In Virginia" 1795 - 1840
>I've also sent quite a few area Bible records to the Library of Virginia
>(over 250)
>I also have the cemetery records for that area on-line, of course there are
>still many family cemeteries to be found.
>Look for family Surnames booklets and papers.
>More of Fillmore Norfleet's papers are in the library of University of
>Virginia
>Prentis papers (early lawyer in Nansemond) are in the University of North
>Carolina library I believe.
>There are other sources.
>
>If you want our local websites that cover Suffolk/Nansemond, Franklin,
>Southampton and Isle of Wight let me know.
>What families are you looking for?
>Bruce
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>Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Nansemond county
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>I have been unable to obtain early (1610-1650) information on Nansemond
>County due to natural catastrophies:: burned courthouse, records lost ....as
>well as political reasons e.g. absorption of the county into other
>civil-political entities. Any help out there with court, chancery or county
>data? Thanks in advance. George Williams
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