Cumberland Parish, Virginia
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United States Virginia
Cumberland Parish
History[edit | edit source]
Cumberland Parish has served Lunenburg and Bedford counties.
Founded[edit | edit source]
- 1745[1]
Boundary[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of Cumberland Parish is available online.[2]
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Parish Registers[edit | edit source]
Colonial parish registers have been lost.
- Cameron, John. Rev. John Cameron's Marriage Register of Bristol, Cumberland and Nottoway Parishes, Virginia, 1784-1815 and Other More Recent Records, Mainly of Nottoway Parish. FHL Film 32928 Item 3
Vestry Books[edit | edit source]
Cumberland Parish's original vestry book (1747-1831) is kept at the Library of Virginia. Copies: FHL Film 30824. Abstract:
- Bell, Landon C. Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816, Vestry Book, 1746-1816. Richmond, Va.: William Byrd Press, 1930. FHL Film 1036822 Item 2; 1974 reprint: FHL Book 975.5643 K2b 1974
Websites[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.