At long last, a comprehensive genealogy of the Virginia Turbervilles! Volume I contains background information on the early members of the family that immigrated to this country. There were numerous early settlers named Turberville found in the records of the American colonies between 1650 and 1750. Nineteen of these early Turbervilles are discussed here. A significant portion of this volume deals with family roots in Bere Regis, England; Coity, Wales; and Normandy, France. This volume also contains genealogies, wills, deeds, Bible records, manuscripts about ancestral plantation homes, an abundance of photographs, and helpful indices.Volume II contains Court of Claims Records of Margaret Virginia DeBell Turberville (post-Civil War); family papers found at Leeton, Virginia; newspaper articles about the family; the life story of the author's uncle, George T. McWhorter, Jr.; modern day Turberville family photos, and, last but not least, letters from the Turberville family starting in the mid-1700s and continuing to the present.
Patricia Lynn Petitt
2006, 8.5" x 11", paper, 2 volumes, index, 764 pp.
ISBN: 9780788425967
101-P2596
