MELUNGEON Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln

[AussieMick]

I realise that Lee is a very common surname. But it is known to be one of the British Gypsy/Roma surnames. Gypsys are of course considered to be swarthy and dark-skinned.

https://gypsiesroma.blogspot.com/2008/11...-roma.html has this : -

"Some find a Roma or Gypsy connection with the Melungeons.

It is like a missing link, geneologically. How to explain the origins, the broad variation in characteristics, where they came from. This Roma connection is explored by Linda Griggs in "Patrin," a Roma Journal. The article is "The Black Dutch, German Gypsies, or Chicanere, and Their Relation to the Melungeons," by Linda Griggs. See http://www.oocities.org/~patrin/melungeon.htm

With a landing point at the South Carolina coast for many enslaved Roma, see "The Never-Ending Road American Roma (Gypsies), Travellers and "Others," at https://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/ , this makes sense. Start there, many end up in Appalachia.by Henry Burke at two sites --
a. "Origins of the Appalachian-Melungeon Subculture: A More Plausible Explanation for the Origin of Melungeons." See https://web.archive.org/web/201101200647...RB_MEL.HTM and

b. "A Possible End to the Mystery of the Melungeons," https://web.archive.org/web/201306241459...yBurke.htm