The Lanhams of Maryland and the District of Columbia Compiled by Dr. Howard G. Lanham
Bibliography of Secondary Source Publications Devoted to Lanham Genealogy
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.
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