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Position:Home>Genealogy> How do I find out who's on the FIRST FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA LIST?Question: 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 Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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/... the above site had some info |