Belknap / Beltoft Family

Included below are links to important resources on the direct Belnap/Belknap/Beltoft ancestry of Gilbert Belnap:

Belnap/Belknap/Beltoft Family Genealogical Data

• See Charts and Records for links to important genealogical information on the Belnap/Belknap/Beltoft ancestry of Gilbert Belnap, including ancestry and descendancy charts and other compiled genealogy data.
• See Origin of the Surname Belknap or Belnap for a brief overview of the origin and history of the surname Belknap (including variations Belnap, Bellnap, Belknappe, etc.).

Belnap/Belknap Individuals (some individual links below include links to and other information on additional family members)

• Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
  For information on specific descendants of Gilbert Belnap, click here.
• Rosel Belnap (1789-1832)
  For further information on the children of Rosel Belnap, click here.
• Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)
  For further information on the children of Jesse Belnap, click here.
• Jesse Belknap (1739-after 1818)
• Samuel Belknap (about 1702-before 1757)
• Ebenezer Belknap (1667-1762)
• Samuel Belknap (chr. 1627/1628-1701)
• Abraham Belknap f/k/a Beltoft (chr. 1589/1590-1643)
• Bennet Beltoft alias Belknap (about 1560-1624)
• Richard Beltoft (about 1520-1599)
• Laurence Beltoft (about 1495-before 1545)
• Richard Beltoft (before 1470-before 1510)
• Notable Belnap/Belknap Relatives

Belknap/Beltoft Ancestry Publications

• Belknap, E. Clinton. A Belknap Genealogy (1974)
• Belnap, W. Dean. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
• Ruttenber, E. M. History of the Town of Newburgh (1859)
• Warren, William E., et al. The Belknap Family of Newburgh and Vicinity (1889) (scan of Hyrum Belnap copy; marginal notations for LDS temple ordinances in handwriting of Flora Belnap)

Belknap/Beltoft Family in England

• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. The English Ancestry of Abraham Belknap, Who Settled in Lynn, Mass. 1635 (1914)
• “Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 6 (Apr 1852), p. 208
• Warren, W. E. “The Belknap Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 13 (Jan 1859), pp. 17-19
• Codman, Arthur Amory. “Belknap,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 49 (Jan 1895), pp. 68-69
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “The English Ancestry of the American Belknaps,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 68 (Jan 1914), pp. 83-92
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “The English Ancestry of the American Belknaps,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 68 (Apr 1914), pp. 190-98
• Belknap, Henry Wyckoff. “Belknap: Additional Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 85 (Jul 1931), pp. 265-88
• Moriarty, G. Andrews. “The Family of Abraham Belknap of Lynn, Mass.,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 104 (Oct 1950), pp. 316-17
• Threlfall, John Brooks. Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins (1990), pp. 17-36: “The Ancestry of Abraham Belknap and Mary Stallon”
• Goodmansen, Mark. Sir Robert Belknap and Abraham Belknap of Massachusetts: Linking Two Noble Families [n.d.]

Early English/Noble Belknaps

• Early English Belknaps: Sir Robert Belknap Family

Later English Belknaps (for whom the connection to early English/noble Belknaps or the “New World” Belknap family through Abraham Belknap is presently unknown)

• Later English Belknaps

Early Beltofts (not thought to have any connection to the Beltofts/Belknaps of Sawbridgeworth)

• Beltoft Family of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

Last update:  22 Jun 2022