Bullitt County Migrations

from Louisa & Hanover Co. VA

The following couples are known to have been in Louisa or Hanover Co. VA before migrating to Bullitt County and surrounding areas. Most Hanover records were lost which makes this migration and these clusters much more difficult to reconstruct. Some of these families seemed to have stopped in the Bedford Co. VA area before coming on to Kentucky and some show up in the Stokes/Surry NC area and later make it to Kentucky.

Anderson, John Poindexter & Elizabeth (Clark)

John reportedly b. 1757 in Louisa Co. died 1814 Nelson Co. KY

Bailey, Thomas & Nancy (Gentry)

Thomas b. ca 1759 lived in Louisa Co. VA died 1825 in Hardin Co. KY - married Nancy Gentry 6 May 1780 in Louisa Co. VA

Barrett

Baughn

Bibb

Booker, Richard & Elizabeth (Palmer)

Richard b. ca 1751 in Amelia Co. VA, lived in Louisa Co. died 7 Feb 1805 in Shelby Co. KY

Bunch, Mary - see Gentry, Blackstone & Mary (Bunch)

Cardwell, George & Sarah (McGehee)

George b. ca 1746 in VA - his father was from Henrico Co. VA wife Sarah b. 1757 in Louisa Co. VA d/o Jacob & Eleanor (Dejarnette) McGehee. Unsure where they were prior to KY. She dies 1828 in Shelby Co. KY.

Clark, Elizabeth - see Anderson, John Poindexter & Elizabeth (Clark)

Cosby

Crenshaw

Dedman, Samuel

Samuel b. ca 1740 in Louisa Co. VA also lived Albemarle Co. VA - brought his family to Shelby Co. KY and later went to Indiana

Foster

Gentry, Blackstone & Mary (Bunch)

Blackstone b. ca 1760 VA s/o Nicholas & Elizabeth (Stringer) Gentry - Mary b. 1757 Louisa Co. VA they were both in Bedford Co. VA before coming to Bullitt Co. KY (Blackstone may have been born in Bedford Co. but his family was of Louisa Co.)

Gentry, Nancy - see Bailey, Thomas & Nancy (Gentry)

Gentry, Nicholas & 1. Sarah (Dickens) 2. Elizabeth (Stringer)

Nicholas b. ca 1726 lived Louisa and Bedford Co. VA before coming to Bullitt Co. and later Adair Co. KY

Graven William & Polly (Spencer)

Wm. b. ca 1781 Louisa Co. VA - lived Bullitt Co. KY - he names a son Austin Graven who marries Maria Ridgeway in Bullitt Co. KY

Graves, David & Agnes (Holloway)

David b. 1730 in Louisa Co. VA - he moves to Stokes/Surry Co. NC and finally to Shelby Co. KY where he dies in 1808. Do not know where he married Agnes

Hall

Lovell, Susannah - see Stringer, Edmund & Susannah (Lovell)

McGehee, Sarah - see Cardwell, George & Sarah (McGehee)

Meriwether, James & Sarah

James b. ca 1753 Louisa Co. VA d. 1801 Shelby Co. KY

Meriwether, Nicholas & Elizabeth

Nicholas b. 1749 Louisa Co. VA d. 1828 Shelby Co. KY

Moorman, William

William b. ca 1746 Louisa Co. VA died 1829 in Hardin Co. KY. He had also lived in Goochland Co. VA

Morton, Susan - see Venable, James & Judith (Morton)

Overstreet

Overton

Parris/Parris/Parrish

Porter

Ragland

to Shelby Co. KY

Shelton, David & Henrietta (Thompson)

David b. ca 1765 in Louisa Co. VA s/o Peter Shelton - siblings married into the Atkinson, Parrish/ Parris & Austin families

Stringer, Edmund & Susannah (Lovell)

Edmund b. probably Louisa Co. VA s/o Edward & Frances (Blackstone) Stringer. He died 1821 in Bullitt Co.

Thompson - see Shelton, David & Henrietta (Thompson)

Venable, James & Judith (Morton)

James b. 1734 VA lived Louisa Co. VA d. 1814 Shelby Co. KY