Lunsford Family Research Collection

2026 Digital Preservation & Recovery Project:

When Ancestry migrated and made "read only" the legacy RootsWeb platform, which was the host site for the Dinwiddie County, Virginia USGenWeb pages, some early pre-2006 USGenWeb transcriptions were not transferred to modern servers and became unavailable to researchers. As part of our Dinwiddie County USGenWeb Record Recovery Project, we are actively recovering and republishing these lost resources into our updated local repository.

Special Thanks: We extend our sincere gratitude to former County Coordinator Carol A. Morrison (Fayetteville, NC) for initiating this massive collection of records for the Lumsford family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and making the initial records available online.

Recovery Project Notice: The current county coordinator has revived this and subsequent pages on the Lunsford line as part of the 2026 Recovery Project. The county coordinator has no additional information and does not verify the accuracy of the research provided, which is assumed to have been accurate when posted by Carol Morrison c. 1997. In reviving this page, some editing and additional work were done in 2026.

📜 Patriarch Overview

Full Name: Sir Thomas Lunsford
Birth: c. 1610, Sussex, England
Death: c. 1653, Virginia
Burial: He was initially buried near Greenspring, the home of Sir William Berkeley.² His tombstone was removed sometime later and placed in the churchyard of Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Spouses: Anne Hudson, Katherine Neville, Elizabeth (maiden name uncertain), widow of Richard Kempe¹
Children:
- (Unnamed son) — with Anne Hudson
- Elizabeth, Philippa or Philippe, Mary — with Katherine Neville
- Katherine — with Elizabeth Kempe¹

Sir Thomas Lunsford by William Nelson Gardiner, 1794. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

📂 Available Records & Transcripts

Biographical & Overview

Sir Thomas Lunsford Overview

Vital & Court Records

Deeds Personal Property Tax Records Marriages Patents and Land Grants - Virginia Wills and Estates

Census Extracts

1790 Census 1810 Census

Cemetery Records

Lunsford • Blandford Cemetery Interment Records Sir Thomas Lunsford Tombstone and Transcription

Miscellaneous

Bible Records Miscellaneous Notes

Archived Queries

To view archived Queries (1996–2005), visit the archived Queries webpage via Internet Archive Wayback Machine Record (February 11, 2005). Please be advised that email addresses are more than 20 years old, so they may not work anymore.

Historical Reference

To view the original 2005 snapshot of this index page as archived during the RootsWeb era, Internet Archive Wayback Machine Record (February 7, 2005) .

Additional Resources

¹https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lunsford-515, accessed 2026.07.28
²“Sir Thomas Lunsford.” The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, vol. 8, no. 3, 1900, pp. 183–86. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1920203. Accessed 28 July 2026.
Findagrave.com Memorial (#90358279) Accessed 28 July 2026.
Wikipedia page.Accessed 28 July 2026.

Disclaimers: Links to offsite content are provided as a convenience to our visitors. The Dinwiddie County VAGenWeb Project is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any external site. Please use your best judgment when exploring outside resources. Some of the email addresses listed on this site were provided in past submissions and may no longer be active. These addresses have not been recently verified, so please be aware that messages may not reach the intended recipient.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia USGenWeb Project • Preserving Local History & Keeping Genealogy Free

Last Updated: July 28, 2026

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