Wicomico Parish, Virginia
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United States Virginia
Wicomico Parish
History[edit | edit source]
Wicomico Parish has served Northumberland County, Virginia Genealogy. Also known as Great Wiccocomoco Parish and Lee Parish.
Founded[edit | edit source]
- abt 1648[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of Wicomico Parish is available online.[2]
- Northern Neck Historical Society. Commemorating the Establishment of a Memorial Monument to the Parish of Great Wiccocomoco: Northumberland County, Va. June 5, 1961. 1961.
- Overholt, John L. and Arthur C. Johnson. The History of Wicomico Parish: Including 1703-1795 Vestry Minutes. Wicomico Church, Va.: Wicomico Parish Church, 1999. FHL Book 975.521 K2o 1999.
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Parish Registers[edit | edit source]
Wicomico's Parish Registers have not survived.
Vestry Books[edit | edit source]
The original Wicomico Parish Vestry Book (1703-1795) is kept at the Library of Virginia. Copy: FHL Film 34216. Overholt published abstracts of these records (see Parish History).
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.