Golden Norfleet Genealogy

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <P> </P> <P><CENTER><IMG SRC="sbg2.jpg" WIDTH=216 HEIGHT=195 ALIGN=bottom> </CENTER></P> <P> </P> <H1><CENTER><I>Golden Norfleet Genealogy</I></CENTER></H1> <H2><CENTER><B><TT>The Golden - Norfleet Family Genealogy Home Page</TT></B></CENTER></H2> <P><CENTER>August 31st, 1997</CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><B>This page hosted by <A HREF="/"><IMG SRC="/pictures/gc_icon.gif" X-SAS-UseImageWidth X-SAS-UseImageHeight BORDER=0 ALIGN=middle></A> Get your <A HREF="/">Free Home Page</A></B></CENTER></P> <P><CENTER> <HR> </CENTER></P> <P><CENTER>This page looks better in a browser that can display frames.</CENTER></P> <H2><CENTER><B><TT>Contents</TT></B></CENTER></H2> <P><CENTER><TT><A HREF="surnames.htm">Marriages</A></TT> </CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><TT><A HREF="kinship.htm">Kinship</A></TT></CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><TT><A HREF="fotos.htm">Family fotos</A></TT> </CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><TT><A HREF="iso.htm">In search of ...</A></TT> </CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><TT><A HREF="history.htm">Back in history</A></TT> </CENTER></P> <P>This homepage outlines the Henry Roosevelt Golden family of Jefferson County, Alabama, and the Alvah Edison Norfleet family of Chesapeake, Virginia. Other families of immediate interest are the Belcher (southeast U.S.) and Styron families (mid-Atlantic region). </P> <P>For Goldens, this very much is a homepage for all Goldens. My Goldens got off the boat from Ireland at Savannah, Georgia, just prior to the Revolutionary War. Some migrated up through the Carolinas, Virginia (and West Virginia), Kentucky and then down through Tennessee into Alabama. They since have relocated many times in the last generation or two. I've had a great deal of trouble tracking all of "my" Goldens so I've decided to track them all for a while at least: Golden, Goulding, Goldin, Gouldrick, and even McGoldricks.</P> <P>Family lore has it that my branch of Goldens were not Irish so much as temporary residents of Ireland. They could have been English, or they could even have been Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain several centuries earlier prior to their travels in the English and Irish isles. No Jews are known to be in the family today but lore has it that some Goldens were.</P> <P>One Golden of particular interest to me is Green Golden, circa 1840-1880 (AL, FL, GA, KY, TN, VA, WV). There were several Greens, some related and some possibly related. That is the grandfather at which I got lost. Family legend has it that he came from Southeast Kentucky and went down to Rome, Georgia, where he married an Indian woman. He and his bride then moved to Northeast Alabama and had a brood of children. Green later left the family and returned to Kentucky where he remarried and had more children. Green supposedly often visited his Alabama and Georgia kinfolk. In his later years he supposedly lived in the southeast Kentucky or western part of West Virginia, where he practiced as a folk herbal doctor.</P> <P>To all, this homepage is just a few weeks old and I hope to add a significant amount of information to it. I've been researching Goldens and Norfleets, plus their allied families, since the mid-1980s. Boxes of stuff will make it sooner or later to this homepage.</P> <P>Best regards,</P> <P>William "Bill" Golden<BR> <A HREF="mailto:goldenfamily@geocities.com"><IMG SRC="mailbox1.gif" WIDTH=107 HEIGHT=74 BORDER=0 ALIGN=bottom></A></P> <P> </P> </BODY>