Nottoway County, Virginia Genealogy

United States Virginia  Nottoway County





Parent County
22 December 1788: Nottoway County was created 22 December 1788 from Amelia County. County seat: Nottoway

African American

 * Heinegg, Paul. "Nottoway County Personal Property Tax List, 1789-1822," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in this source.]

Bible Records

 * Featherston "Bible Record of William Featherston (Nottoway Co., Va. - Robertson Co., Tenn.)," Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1963):20.

Biography

 * Cummins, A. B. Nottoway County, Virginia: Founding and Development with Biographical Sketches. Richmond, Va.: W.M. Brown and Son, Printers, 1970.
 * William Craddock of Nottoway Co., Va., and his Texan connection

Business Records and Commerce

 * Contract book of the Richmond Cooperative Milk Producers Association, 1930-1931

1850

 * 1850 census of Nottoway County, Virginia

1860

 * The 1860 federal census for Nottoway County, Virginia

1890 Union Veterans

 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. Available online, courtesy: Prince William County Virginia website. Includes residents of this county.

Episcopal

 * Rev. John Cameron's marriage register of Bristol, Cumberland and Nottoway parishes, Virginia, 1784-1815 and other more recent records, mainly of Nottoway Parish

Presbyterian

 * A brief history of the Blackstone Presbyterian Church 1823-1961. This church was formed in 1824 as a branch of the Nottoway Presbyterian Church. In 1911 it became a separate church.

Chancery Court

 * Indexed images of Nottoway County, Virginia Chancery Records 1818-1968 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Correctional Institutions

 * A register of persons convicted of felony, etc., 1931-1966 {(FHL|1008979|item}}

History
Biography


 * Pritchett, John W. Southside Virginia Genealogies. CD-ROM. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Free online index, courtesy: Virginians - The Family History of John W. Pritchett. [Includes a great deal of information about residents of Nottoway County, see discussion of cited sources.]
 * Turner, W. R. Old Homes and Families in Nottoway. Blackstone, Va.: Nottoway Pub. Co., 1950, c1932. . For the index compiled by Colonel R. Bolling Batte and the Projects Committee of the Virginia Genealogical Society

Grants and Patents

 * Hudgins and Sullivan. 901 patents dated 1717-1779 in what is now Amelia and Nottoway Counties, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2003. Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.

Migration

 * Elliott, Katherine B. Emigration to Other States from Southside Virginia. 2 vols. South Hill, Virginia: K. B. Elliott, 1966. Includes individuals who migrated out of Nottoway County to other parts of the country. FHL Collections

War of 1812

 * Douthat, James L. Roster of War of 1812, Southside, Virginia. Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Mountain Press, 2007. Includes Nottoway County.

Newspapers
Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in the Virginia Gazette and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia.

Vital Records

 * The Farmville Herald: index to births, deaths and marriages. Contents: v. 1. 1893-1912, also includes 1873-1876 of The Farmville Mercury & The Farmville Commonwealth.

Probate Records
SAMPUBCO hfree online index resource that serves as a good starting place to search for Nottoway County wills.

Taxation
How can Virginia tax lists help me?


 * 1747 Amelia Tithables, 1747, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy. Richmond VA: Nov 2004. Vol. 42 Iss. 4.
 * 1782-1822: Heinegg, Paul. "Nottoway County Personal Property Tax List, 1789-1822," Free African Americans.com. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in this source.]
 * 1791, 1801: Indexed images of the 1791 and 1801 Personal Property Tax Lists of Nottoway County, Virginia are available online, courtesy: Binns Genealogy.
 * 1800: Tax List, 1800, Virginia Genealogist. Falmouth VA: Oct 2002. Vol. 46 Iss. 4
 * 1815: Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Nottoway County is included in Vol. 1.]


 * Minute book, 1915-1916
 * Personal property tax lists, 1789-1850

Vital Records

 * Marriage register, 1865-1942; general indexes, 1866-1958, 1969-1975

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * Account book, 1875-1877. This is the account book for Council no. 124, F. of T, which is a temperance society.

Websites

 * Nottoway County VA Trails to the Past
 * Linkpendium
 * USGenWeb Archives
 * USGenWeb Archives backup site
 * Family History Library Catalog