Research report of records in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and elsewhere for individuals and families bearing the Delk surname between the early 1600s and 1915. Sources searched included vital records, land and property, probate, census, cemeteries, published works (books and periodicals), etc. Includes Roberts and other connected families.

The Simmons family appears to have originated in Leicestershire, England and were there from an early date. While the first Simmons in America were here before the American Revolution, the first documented ancestor of this Simmons family was Robert Simmons (1780- 1855) and his wife Ann Turner Harper (1783-1846). They were from Georgia and were the parents of ten children. Some of these children and grand-children participated in the Civil War on the...

Christopher Hollyman (d.1691) immigrated from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, California and elsewhere. Lists other Hollyman immigrants (without tracing descendants and relatives).

Alexander Shadrach Barlow was born in 1794 in Virginia to George Barlow. He married first in 1824 to Keturah Crocker who was the daughter of Joseph Johnson Crocker and Sabrah (Sarah) Adderson. She died ca. 1840 and he married next in 1843 Martha Ann Pettit. He died in 1865 in Virginia. Allied families were Crocker, Delk, Batten, Goodrich, Pittman, Womble, Reckley, and others. Descendants lived in Virginia.

Ulisse Antoine Albergotti was born in Arezzo, Italy and became a Huguenot in 1713. He and his wife, Prudence, settled in Purisburgh, South Carolina by 1734 and later moved to Beaufort, South Carolina where he later died. Descendants lived in South Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, California, Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and elsewhere. Includes information on the early Albergottis of Europe.

Coonrod Poyle or Pile (1766-1849) was born in Germany and immigrated to America after the American Revolution settling first in North Carolina and then in Tennessee by 1791. He was the father of at least eleven children. His numerous descendants live in Tennessee and throughout the United States and include such well known figures as World War II reporter Ernie Pyle and World War I hero, Sargeant Alvin C. York.