The Lanhams of Maryland and the District of Columbia Compiled by Dr. Howard G. Lanham

The following is a particle list of books, booklets, articles and manuscripts that contain material relating to Maryland Lanhams.

• Barnes, Robert, "The Lanham Family and Descendants" Maryland Genealogical Soceity Bulletin, 38 (Winter 1997): 12-23.

  This well documented article by a professional genealogist contains data on 52 individuals descended from John Lanham, the immigrant.

• General Levi Casey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Records and Manuscripts: Lanham Family, Dallas, Texas MS 1963.

  This 197-page manuscript abstracts records dealing with the surname Lanham from over 20 different U.S. states.

• Goodknight, Lillian Prewitt (1887-1972), Early Maryland Records of the Lanham Family Ms. Pasadena, California, August 20, 1965.

  This 78-page unindexed manuscript abstracts or transcibes many early Maryland Lanham records.

• Lanham, Charles Benton, Lanham Genealogy 1600-1997, Keyser, West Virginia, Privately Printed, 1997.

  This 253-page book traces various Lanham lines in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. It includes some data on 787 individuals.

• Lanham, Honey Sue, The Lanham Sampler, Texas, Privately Printed, 1979.

  This 28-page booklet is a collection of records from Maryland, Vriginia and Kentucky. It was intended to be a series, but was not continued after the first issue.

• Lanham, Hugh Asa, The Lanham History, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Privately Printed, 1972.

  This 199-page book lists descendants of Perry Lanham of Washington County, Kentucky, a line with a Maryland origin.

• Lanham, Oran Stroud, Our Lanham Family, Dothan, Alabama, Privately Printed, no date.

  This book traces descendants of Sylester Lanham (1790-1863, including some Maryland material.

• Lanham, William Joseph, The Lanham Family's Seventh-Century Origins from Maryland's Eastern Shore," Maryland Historical Magazine 81(1): 90-93, Spring 1986.

  This article presents a theory that Edward Lanham (died 1766) of Prince George's County, Maryland descended from Josias Lanham of Kent Co., Maryland.

• Lanham, William Joseph, Lanham: from Josias to Thomas Walter, a Family History 1660-1860, Clemson, South Carolina, Privately Printed 1992.

  This 144 page book gives information on the Maryland ancestors and descendants of Walter Lanham (1782-1817) of Edgefield District, South Carolina.

• Lanham, William Joseph, Wonderful Pilgrimage: A Lanham History and Personnal Journey, Clemson, South Carolina, Privately Printed 1995.

  This 343 page book expands the material of the 1992 one.

• Lannom, Thomas W., The Lannoms and Allied Families (Two Volumes), Portland, Oregon, Privately Printed, 2009.
  
  
• Pound, Betty and Norma Giles, Ancestors and Descendants of the Lanham Family (Maryland Branch), Summerville, South Carolina, MS, June 14, 1996.

  This 53-page computer generated manuscript lists data on 227 individuals descended from Lewis Lanham (1757-1822).

• Lanham Centennial Committee (Historian Paul Trueman Lanham), Souvenir Book of the Lanham Area Past Present and Future, Lanham, Maryland, 1972.

  This 111-page booklet includes a chapter on the Trueman Lanham family that gave its name to the town in 1872.

• The Media Research Bureau, The Name and Family of Lanham or Langham, Washington, D.C., MS, no date.

  A 12-page manuscript abstracting mention of Lanham or Langham appearing in 29 secondary sources listed in a bibiography at the end.

• Scofield, Flossie, One Line of Descent of Thomas Alley; and Allied Lines of Browne, Cheney, Darter, Gibson, Martin Mitchell, Need, Osborne, Pendlay and Venrick, MS, 1973.

  A 18-page manuscript gives information about a John Lanham who married Comfort Browne in Maryland and moved to Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina.