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I'm led to believe my great grandma was a Parker from Virginia her name is Geraldine and I am wanting to learn more about my family and our history and lineage
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All of the people I have mentioned in any of my posts were census enumerated as white, and during all of those decades, Virginia had forceful eucenics patrols to make sure some races did not try to pass as others. It does appear that your Parker line had been white, not Native, for some long time back. Any Native blood, Cherokee or whatever, may have been so slight by modern times that it was not noticeable And maybe it only became an interesting memory in early 20th century when acknowledging Native blood was no longer an issue.
I'm done now, good luck. Patricia Ross Parker
I do not know enough about your people to say they are your Geraldine's family, but perhaps. .That Parker family left Lunenburg Co after 1910 and moved up the Chesapeake shoreline to Mathews in Mathews Co. They remained there through available 1940 censuses or longer.
Much earlier, ca. 1650, the Mathews Co. area was inhabited by the Chiskiake tribe of the Powhatan confederation. The English controlled it thereafter. It is today a very prosperous, upscale tourist area.
Today's Meherrin Nation is centered in Hertford Co. NC, on a southern branch of the same Meherrin River mentioned above. The Meherrins are of Iroquois/Algonguin descent who coexisted with the Powhatans in 17th century Virginia. They later mingled with the Eastern Cherokee of NC. Hertford is an area filled with my family's Parker YDNA Project Family Group #7 males, both living and ancestral.
You may wish to also explore the Beasley surname among Powhatan, Meherrin, Chickiake, Nansemond, and Eastern Cherokee tribes and reservations of Virginia and North Carolina. Parker is one of many surnames used by Native Americans.
I hope these bits will give you some research material. Good luck.
Patricia Ross Parker, researcher
I have learned much about the tribes of Powhatan (name for the chief, the town, the county, AND the early 17th century-to-date Powhatan confederation of 34 tribes, 10,000 people at their largest.) They lived east of the Tidewater. Tribes among the Powhatan you and I might recognize were the Pamunkey and Mattaponi who still live today in Virginia on their original reservation. Also the Rappahannock and Nansemond who were absorbed into other tribes such as Eastern Cherokee or disappeared. The other tribes also died out or assimilated.
A large number of the Powhatan Indians migrated to South New Jersey some time in the recent past. They were on the Rakokus Indian Reservation and since 1982 were called the Powhatan Renape Nation. The reservation is in Burlington County, New Jersey.
If you have any clues about where in NJ your Margaret died/was buried, we might find something on a tribe or a subset of a tribe.
Patricia Ross Parker, researcher
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Patricia Ross Parker, researcher for Parker Heritage