Gene C Key

The Key Family Deep Roots In Chesterfield County, South Carolina Gene C Key

The Key Family Deep Roots In Chesterfield County, South Carolina is a genealogy and family history for the Key family that arrived in Virginia in about 1668. This family became well established in Virginia and became known as "The Famous Key Family of Virginia." This genealogy makes a link of this family to the Kay family of West Yorkshire, England. Of the early Keys, John and Martha Tandy key has the largest number of descendants and thus this work is mainly about their family through John Key, Jr., Henry Key and his son John Alfred Key who settled in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. This author descended from John Alfred Key through his son John Boliver Key. The author also descended from Pleasant Peter Key, s/o John Boliver Key and his son Andrew Jackson Key. Much attention is given through this line. Individual family group reports are given for John Key 1630, John Key 1650, Martin Key 1670, John Key 1696, John Key 1715 and Henry Key of 1730. The origin of the Key family is found in the beginning of the book and concludes that the Virginia Key family likely came from Huddersfield or Almondbury in West Yorkshire, England. This author also has a series of family histories for the Plyler, Cotton and Threatt families that are also titled "Deep Roots In Chesterfield County, South Carolina"