This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.

William Burgess and his wife, Suzannah were living in Albemarle and Bedford Counties, Virginia around 1760. They had at least eight children. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, California and elsewhere.

John Mark Willcott was born 25 October 1834 in Brixham, Devon, England. His parents were John Willcott (b. 1792) and Ann Raston. He married Eliza Gattey (1832-1896), daughter of Joseph Gattey and Mary Thorn, 10 August 1856 in Exeter. They had ten children. They emigrated in 1872 and settled in Leavenworth, Kansas. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and California.

Daniel Carmichael was born in 1736 in Scotland. He immigrated to Richmond Co., North Carolina in 1789, married twice, and died in 1822. Includes Hunter, Walker, Young and related families.

William Boddy (1634/1635-1717) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia during or before 1661, and married three times (probably once in England). Other early Boddy immigrants are listed. William spelled his surname Boddy, but many records in early Virginia record the surname as Body, Bodye, Bodie, etc. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. Includes records of various ancestors in England, Scotland and elsewhere to the early 1400s.

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