Sources
The Lanhams of Maryland and the District of Columbia
Compiled by Dr. Howard G. Lanham
Sources used in site.
- Frederick County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
- Baltimore County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
- Montgomery County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
- Anne Arundrel County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
- Prince George's County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
- Washington, District of Columbia Marriage Licenses
- Parish Records of King George's Church (also known as Saint John's), Piscataway (Broad Creek), Prince George's Co., Maryland Established in 1691
- Parish Records of Prince George's Parish (also known as Rock Creek), Mongomery Co., Maryland Established in 1719
- Parish Records of Holy Trinity, Collington, Prince George's Co., Maryland
The early records of this church have not survived.
- Miscellaneous Church Records
- Family Bible Records Received from Paul Lanham
- Family Bible Records Received from Etta Childs
- Miscellaneous Family Bible Records
- Cemetery Records Lanham Methodist Church, Prince George's Co., Maryland
- Cemetery Records St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, Prince George's Co., Maryland
- Cemetery Records St. John's Church, Prince George's Co., Maryland
- Cemetery Records St Barnabas Church, Prince George's Co., Maryland
- Cemetery Records Whitemarsh Roman Catholic Church, Prince George's Co., Maryland
- Miscellaneous Cemetery Records in Prince George's County, Maryland
- Prince George's County, Maryland Wills
- Prince George's County, Maryland Administration Bonds
- Prince George's County, Maryland Inventories
- Prince George's County, Maryland Accounts
- Prince George's County, Maryland 1810 and 1810A Files
These are very interesting records consisting of loose original papers concerning the settlements of estates.
- Prince George's County, Guardianship Bonds
- Prince George's County, Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Montgomery County, Maryland Wills
- Montgomery County, Maryland Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Charles County, Maryland Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Kent County, Maryland Miscellaneous Estate Records
- District of Columbia Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Anne Arundel County, Maryland Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Miscellaneous Estate Records
- Prince George's County Court Minutes
This source is extremely difficult to read in its original form. The older part of the record has been transcribed in Joseph Smith and Philip Crowl's Court Records of Prince George's County, Maryland 1696-1699 (Washington, D.C.: The American Historical Assocaition, 1964)
- Provence of Maryland Land Office Warrents
- Archives of Maryland: Proceeding of the Council of Maryland 1681-1685/6
- Maryland Land Records: Patents
- Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records
I will cite only those records that contain genealogical information or are otherwise notable in some way. The number of Lanham mentions in P.G. land records is huge.
- Montgomery County, Maryland Land Records
I will cite only those records that contain genealogical information or are otherwise notable in some way.
- Charles County, Maryland Land Records
I will cite only those records that contain genealogical information or are otherwise notable in some way.
- Frederick County, Maryland Land Records
I will cite only those records that contain genealogical information or are otherwise notable in some way.
- Maryland Land Patent Records
- Kent County, Maryland Court Proceedings
- Hanson's Laws of Maryland 1763-1784
- Laws of Maryland 1785-1791
- 1800 Tax List Prince George's County, Maryland
- 1828 Tax List Prince George's County, Maryland
- District of Columbia Land Records
I will cite only those records that contain genealogical information or are otherwise notable in some way.
- State of Maryland Chancery Court Records
- Miscellaneous Publications or Manuscripts from State of Maryland Archives or their Web Site Maryland Archives On-Line
- 1790 Census of the United States
- 1800 Census of the United States
- 1810 Census of the United States
The 1810 District of Colmubia Census appears to be missing.
- 1820 Census of the United States
- 1830 Census of the United States
[Note: both Prince George's and Montgomery Counties are missing from the 1830 census.]
- 1840 Census of the United States
- 1850 Census of the United States
- 1860 Census of the United States
- 1870 Census of the United States
- 1880 Census of the United States
- 1900 Census of the United States
- 1910 Census of the United States
- 1920 Census of the United States
- 1930 Census of the United States
- 1776 Census of the State of Maryland
This record is incomplete in that not all jurisdictions survived.
- District of Columbia Court Records
- War of 1812 Bounty Land and Pension Applications
- Miscellaneous Newspaper Obituaries
- Martenet's Map of Prince George's County, Maryland Published by Simon J. Martenet, C.E. Baltimore, Maryland 1861
- Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington, Including Prince George's County, Maryland, Published by G. M. Hopkins, C.E. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1878
- Oath of Fidelity and Support required by a Act of the General Assembly of Maryland February 5, 1777
- 1777 Montgomery County, Maryland Tax List
- Newspaper Obituaries
- Civil War Pension Records
- Prince George's County, Maryland Coroner's Inquests
- 1850 Census Slave Schedules
- 1860 Census Slave Schedules
- Matchett's Baltimore Directory (various years)
- Maryland Death Certificate Index (Maryland Archives)
- Internal Revenue Service Tax Assessments
- R. L. Polk Company Washington, D.C. Directory 1890
- Revolutionary War Pension Applications, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- National Intelligencer Newspaper, Washington, D.C.
- District of Columbia Wills
- Miscellaneous Records from the District of
Columbia copied at the DAR Library
- Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly
- Family Bible Records of the Hanson Lanham family received from Marie Overturf
- 1863 Draft Registration Records
- Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
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