Calling all Williamson's from VA?

Question

Any Williamsons from the Family of Robert Williamson (1790-1847) & Abigail King (1796-1877)

Robert Williamson was the son of Thomas Williamson & Elizabeth Hinds of Darlington, SC.

....He was the brother of Colonel Bright Williamson and Abraham Williamson of Darlington,

SC.

Abigail King was the daughter of John King, SR & Zilpha Stanley of Darlington, SC.

....She was the granddaughter of Captain George King and Mary KOLB of Darlington, SC.

I have the story all the way back to 1699 where they landed here in VA...they moved around Kent. They called one of the towns Manakintown and one of the descendants had a place called Cobham Hall.

Any answers would be great. Just so there are no jerks I will ask questions only those who know this genealogy can answer.

Answer 1

You may want to see what the Library of Virginia has available. A quick search pulls up some manuscripts on the Williamson family, including one back to 1601. See if this helps...there's probably more there if you do a detailed search in the online catalog. http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/X6CNLKQYD1J6...

Answer 2

You may find better responses at the Williamson section at genforum, since ALL of those will have an interest in the family or the name.

In addition..you may not realize how yahoo answers works.. your question is posted for about 3 days, then "closed" to new replies.  Unless you have your email enabled, persons will not be able to contact you after that time.

Answer 3

There are a couple of other ways you can make connections.

Run a "Descendants of" report, "print" to a text file, delete the living people, add "Looking for connectios - here is what I have" at the top and post the report on one of the county pages on GenForum:

http://genforum.genealogy.com/va/countie...

Also, as mentioned above, post it on the Williamson page.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/williamson...

Join a surname or county mailing list on RootsWeb

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mailli...

Upload a GEDCOM to Roots Web World Connect. Write if you need a link.

If you are afraid of spam, jerks or anything else on any of these, get a second e-mail account through Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail and use it.

Answer 4

I believe when you said "Kent" you meant the County of "New Kent".

The Library of Virginia in Richmond is really an amazing place!  They have every kind of archival source you can imagine on anything that is Virginia.  They have old newspapers, magazines, old family bible collection, civil war records, census and church records, possibly some old vital records, Revolutionary War records, settlement records, old photographs, etc., etc.  You can spend weeks in there using their archives and resources.  It will require more than just a day trip from DC to search the library records as they have so much, but you can take a few days now and then.  It is only a 2 hour drive from DC.  The address is:

800 East Broad Street

Richmond, Virginia 23219

804-692-3500

This link below is to their page of info regarding hours, parking info, and driving directions:

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/visit/...

My husband and I currently live in Florida, but just got word that we are moving back to Virginia (YAY!!!!!!!!!) so I cannot wait to get there and get to the Library.