Gloucester County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1651--Gloucester County was created in 1651 from York County. County seat: Gloucester

Neighboring Counties

 * James City
 * King and Queen
 * Mathews
 * Middlesex
 * York

Research Guides

 * A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865, Archives Division, Virginia State Library, Richmond, September 1976

African American

 * Johnson, Martha C. Black Families of Elizabeth City Co., VA, 1800-1990: Research of Families of Callis, Davis, Simpson, Radcliff, Originating from Gloucester Co., Mathews Co., York and James Counties and Elizabeth Co., Hampton, Virginia. 1985?. Available at FHL.

Cemeteries

 * Cemeteries of Lower Gloucester County, Virginia, by Harry R. Jordan. Available at FHL.


 * Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865, 1959, The Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia. Available at FHL.


 * More Cemeteries of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Harry R. Jordan.

Church Records

 * A Guide to Church Records in the Library of Virginia

Anglican / Church of England / Episcopal Church

 * A Guide to Episcopal Church in Virginia, by Edith F. Axelson, Iberian Publishing Company, Athens, Georgia, ISBN 0-935931-45-7.


 * Abingdon Parish


 * The Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1780, Compiled by Robert W. Robins, Honford House, Arlington, Virginia, (c)1981, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 80-85448


 * Abingdon Church: A Chronology of its History, 1650-1970. (c)1972, Gloucester County, Virginia.


 * Kingston Parish


 * Kingston Parish Register, Gloucester and Mathews Counties, Virginia, 1749-1827, by Emma R. Matheny and Helen K. Yates. Reprinted 2004.


 * The Vestry Book of Kingston Parish, Mathews County, Virginia (until May 1, 1791, Gloucester County), 1679-1796. Transcribed, annotated, and indexed by C.G. Chamberlayne. Originally published Richmond, Virginia, 1929. ISBN 0-8063-4842-9.


 * Petsworth Parish


 * The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793, by Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne,


 * Ware Parish


 * The World of Ware Parish in Gloucester County, Virginia, by Spotswood Hunnicutt Jones, The Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, (1991). ISBN 0-87517-063-3. Library of Congress Number: 91-91176

Baptist Church

 * Dover Association


 * The Baptists of Virginia, 1699-1926, by Garnett Ryland, The Virginia Baptist Board of Missions and Education, Richmond, Virginia, 1955


 * A Chronicle of Christian Heritage, Dover Baptist Association: 1783-1983. by William L. Lumpkin. Skipworth Press, Inc. Richmond, Virginia. (c) 1983, ISBN 0-931804-11-6


 * A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia, by Robert B. Simple. Revised and extended by Rev. G. W. Beale, Pitt and Dickinson, Publishers, Richmond, Virginia, 1894.

Methodist Church

 * Gloucester County, Virginia, Methodist Records, by Michael Pollock, New Papyrus Publishing, Athens, Georgia, (c)2007.

Court
Chancery Court


 * Indexed images of Gloucester County, Virginia Chancery Records 1866-1931 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Family Histories

 * [Booker] Booker, J. Motley. A Booker Family of Virginia: Gloucester and Essex Counties and the Northern Neck, with Some of the Descendants and Related Families. Heathsville, Virginia: The Northumberland County Historical Society, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Booker] von Schilling, Jean Marshall. Booker: Descendants of Captain Richard Booker of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Bryan] Dorman, John Frederick. The Bryan and Stewart Families, Descendants of John Randolph Bryan of "Eagle Point", Gloucester County, Virginia: And His Wife, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and of John Stewart of "Brook Hill", Henrico County, Virginia, and His Wife, Mary Amanda Williamson. 1969. Available at FHL.
 * [Cooke] Stubbs, William Carter and Elizabeth Saunders Blair. Descendants of Mordecai Cooke of "Mordecai's Mount", Gloucester Co., Va., 1650, and Thomas Booth of Ware Neck, Gloucester Co., Va., 1685. New Orleans, Louisiana: n.p., 1923. Available at FHL. [2 copies at FHL.]
 * [Dunston] Altemus, William Hollowell and Sarah Levenia Dunston Altemus. The Dunston Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. MSS., microfilmed in 1982, available at FHL.
 * [Garnett] Garnett, Douglas Acree. Garnett Family, Ancestors &amp; Descendants of Joseph B. Garnett Sr. (1849-1931): Involving Gloucester, Essex, Caroline and King &amp; Queen Counties, Virginia. Chesterfield, Virginia: D. Garnett, 2000. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Hogg] Ironmonger, Elizabeth Hogg. Hogg Family of York and Gloucester Counties, Va. Seaford, Virginia: Ironmonger, 1968. Available at FHL.
 * [Hogg] Hogge, Shirley S. The Genealogy of Shirley S. Hogg(e) and the Stubblefields of Gloucester County, Virginia. Melbourne, Florida: S.S. Hogge, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Hundley] Chatham, Anne Bassett Stanley and Karen Kampsula Clifford. Tidewater Families of the New World &amp; Their Westward Migrations: Case Studies in Southern States Research: Ancestors of Chatham, Gwyn, Armfield, Gray, Stanley, Walker, Bassett &amp; Hundley Families. Austin, Texas: Historical, 1996. Available at FHL.
 * [Lewis] Lewis, Stanford Bacon. Descendants of John Lewis (b.1692, d.1754) Married 1718 to Frances Fielding, "Warner Hall," Gloucester County, Virginia. Arlington, Virginia: Lewis Family Foundation, [1990?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Rich] Jacobus, Donald Lines. "The House of Rich," The American Genealogist, Vol. 21 (1944):234-238. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [Roane] Selden, Jefferson Sinclair. Charles Roane the Immigrant and His Wife Frances Roane: The First of the Name in Virginia Settled in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1664. Hampton, Virginia: Jefferson Sinclair Selden, 1983. Available at FHL.
 * [Stubblefield] See Hogg.
 * [Stubbs] Stubbs, William Carter. The Descendants of John Stubbs of Cappahosic, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1652. New Orleans: American Printing, 1902. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Willis] See Rich.

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Abingdon Parish, Ware Parish, and Gloucester County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]
 * [http://www.immigrantservants.com/search/advancedResults.php?surname=&givenName=&varientSurnameSpellings=&gender=&dateOfBirthDay=&dateOfBirthMonth=&dateOfBirthQuantifier=&dateOfBirthYear=&placeOfBirthParish=&placeOfBirthTown=&placeOfBirthCity=&placeOfBirthCounty=&placeOfBirthColony=&placeOfBirthNation=&occupations=&religions=&orphan=&familyPosition=&immigrationYearQualifier=&immigrationYear=&portOfDepartureTown=&portOfDepartureCity=&portOfDepartureCounty=&portOfDepartureNation=&placeOfArrivalTown=&placeOfArrivalCounty=&placeOfArrivalColony=&shipName=&convict=&yearOfIndentureQualifier=&yearOfIndenture=&lengthOfIndentureYears=&lengthOfIndentureMonths=&yearOfFreedomQualifier=&yearOfFreedom=&placeOfIndentureTown=&placeOfIndentureCity=&placeOfIndentureCounty=Gloucester&placeOfIndentureColony=Virginia&agentSurname=&agentGivenName=&agentTitle=&masterSurname=&masterGivenName=&masterTitle=&residenceParish=&residenceTown=&residenceCity=&residenceCounty=&residenceColony=&residenceNation=&landowner=&literate=&spouseSurname=&spouseGivenName=&spouseMarriageDateDay=&spouseMarriageDateMonth=&spouseMarriageDateQualifier=&spouseMarriageDateYear=&spouseMarriageLocationParish=&spouseMarriageLocationCounty=&spouseMarriageLocationColony=&spouseMarriageLocationNation=&deathDateDay=&deathDateMonth=&deathDateQualifier=&deathDateYear=&deathLocality=&deathCounty=&deathColony=&deathState=&testate=&proofServantStatus=&proofConvictStatus=&headright=&preServitudeSources=&postServitudeSources=&comments=&family=&sourceCitations=&interestedResearchers= List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe] who served labor terms in Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

Local Histories

 * A Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia Historical Manuscripts, 1651-1865. Compiled by Charles A, Bodie and William H. Steriner. Archives Divisionn, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, September 1976.


 * "...past is prologue", Gloucester County, Virginia, A publication of Gloucester County and The Gloucester Historical and Bicentennial Committee, (c)1973, Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 73-87-914


 * Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia, A Collection of Abstracts from Original Documents Concerning the Lands and People of Colonial Gloucester County. 2 vols. in 1


 * Six Periods in the History of Gloucester County. DeHardit Press.


 * With Reverence for the Past: Gloucester County, Virginia. by Martha W. McCarthney, The Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia.(c)2001.ISBN 0-9710690-0-X.

Military
Colonial Militia


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Gloucester County militia officers and/or soldiers; see place name index.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FHL; digital book at Ancestry ($). [Identifies some Gloucester County militia officers; see place name index.]

French and Indian War


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Gloucester County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]


 * Revolutionary War


 * The Governors' Island, Gwynn's Island, Virginia, During the Revolution. By Peter Jennings Wrike.(c) 1993, The Gwynn's Island Museum, Gwynn, Virginia. ISBN 1-883911-00-1 (pbk.). ISBN 1-883911-01-X (cloth).


 * Revolutionary War - Gloucester District Battlion


 * A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787, Compiled by E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Maryland, ISBN 1-58549-652-9.


 * Civil War


 * Gloucester County In The Civil War, by Ludwell Lee Montague, The DeHardit Press, Gloucester, Virginia.


 * Reminiscences, Confederate Sollders of Gloucester County, Virginia and Other matter pertaining to local history during the War betweeen the States, 1861-1865, written by notable Richmond and Gloucester women of the Confederancy. Collected and compiled by Nellie Shackleford Smith.


 * 26th Virginia Infantry, by Alex L. Wiatt, (c)1984, H. E. Howard, Inc.

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette(1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburgwebsite. In addition, 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 this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.

Probate
London Courts


 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes wills of residents of Abingdon Parish, Ware Parish and Gloucester County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Taxation

 * Woodson, Robert F. and Isobel B. Woodson. Virginia Tithables from Burned Record Counties: Buckingham, 1773-1774; Gloucester, 1770-1771, 1774-1775; Hanover, 1763 and 1770; James City, 1768-1769; Stafford, 1768 and 1773. Richmond, Virginia: I.B. Woodson, 1970. Available at FHL. ISBN 0-89308-306-2.
 * The 1789 and 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Gloucester County, Virginia are indexed online at Binns Genealogy.
 * The 1790 and 1800 Land Tax Lists of Gloucester County, Virginia are indexed online at Binns Genealogy.

Vital Records
Death


 * Hunt, L. Roane and Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia. Death Records of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1865-1890: Special Project of the Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia. Gloucester, Virginia: Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia, 2000. Available at FHL.

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog