VA Ready Reference

Local Research:

·        Census Records for Gloucester County for the years 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, & 1900

·        Cemeteries of lower Gloucester County, Virginia & More cemeteries of Gloucester County, Virginia

·        Death records of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1865-1890

·        Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865

·        Guide to Gloucester County, Virginia, historical manuscripts, 1651-1865

·        Marriage records of Gloucester County, Virginia, Book 1: 1853-1895

·        Personal property tax list for the year 1787 for Gloucester County, Virginia

·        Records of colonial Gloucester County, Virginia

Churches:

·       Abingdon Church: a chronology of its history, 1650-1970

·       History of Abingdon Parish, 1655-1955

·       Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia 1678-1761

·       Index to Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1678-1761

·       Kingston Parish Register, Gloucester and Mathews Counties, Virginia, 1749-1827

·       Petsworth Baptist Church Cemetery

·       Register of Abingdon & Ware Parishes, Gloucester, Virginia, 1830-1918

·       Vestry book of Kingston Parish, Mathews County, Virginia (until May 1, 1791, Gloucester County) 1679-1796

·       Vestry book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793

Places:

·        African American heritage trails

·        Country stores and rural post offices of Gloucester County

·        County of Gloucester (place names)

·        Discovering Rosewell

·        Historical evidence regarding “Powhatan’s Chimney”

·        Location of “Werowocomoco”

·        Notes on Virginia/ Werowocomoco: Ye seate of Powhatan

·        Rosewell, garland of Virginia

·        Stories of Old Gloucester

·        Story of Elmington: as found in the records

·        Times past: a Gloucester notebook

·        Treasure houses of Gloucester

·        Waverly

People:

·        Descendants of Mordecai Cooke, of “Mordecai’s Mount, Gloucester Co., Va., 1650, and Thomas Booth of Ware Neck, Gloucester Co., Va., 1685

·        Family Tree Searcher / by Gloucester Genealogical Society

·        History of two Virginia families transplanted from County Kent, England.  Thomas Baytop, Tenterden, 1638, and John Catlett, Sittinghourne, 1622

·        Honey-pod tree: the life story of Thomas Calhoun Walker

·        Sketches of home life in Virginia before and after 1861 / by Frederick Baytop Jones

·        Virginia Todds

Local Histories:

·        Gloucester County (Virginia) / by Mary Wiatt Gray

·        Gloucester County / by Sara E. Lewis

·        Gloucester County, Virginia: a history / by Clementine R. Bowman

·        Gloucester County, Virginia: landmarks by/ Gloucester Historical Committee

·        Gloucester fun and facts

·        Gloucester’s past in pictures / by Caroline Baytop Sinclair

·        Gloucester.  One of the first chapters of the commonwealth of Virginia / by Sally Nelson Robins

·        “Past is prologue”, Gloucester County, Virginia

·        With reverence for the past:  Gloucester County, Virginia

Military:

·        Gloucester County in the Civil War

·        Gloucester County, Virginia, in the American Revolution

·        Reminiscences:  Confederate soldiers of Gloucester County of Gloucester

·        Revolutionary War roster, Gloucester County, Virginia

·        Governors’ Island: Gwynn’s Island, Virginia during the Revolution

·        16^th Virginia Infantry

·        26^th Virginia Infantry

·        Compendium of the Confederate armies:  Virginia & North Carolina

·        African American & American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War

Neighboring Counties Research:

·        Census Records for Mathews County for the years 1850 & 1860

Birth & deaths of Mathews County, Virginia, 1865-1910

Marriages in Mathews County, Virginia 1861-1900

Mathews County, Virginia Land and Personal Tax Lists 1791-1800

·        Mathews County, Virginia records:  including executor’s bonds, 1795-1825; guardian bonds, book B, 1806-1822; marriages, 1827-1850, performed by Rev. William A Billups; marriage, 1817-1870, & death, 1807-1890, announcements from Virginia newspapers

·        Tombstones of Mathews County, Virginia, 1711-1986

·        Cemeteries of Middlesex County, Virginia

·        Gwynn’s Island, Virginia: a history and pictorial essay

·        Family histories of Middlesex County, Virginia

·        History of African-Americans in Middlesex County, 1646-1992

·        Marriages of Middlesex County, Virginia, 1740-1852

Virginia Research:

·        Burned county data, 1809-1848: as found in the Virginia contested election files

·        Courthouses of early Virginia: an architectural history

·        Heads of families at the first census of the United States: Virginia, 1790

·        Here I lay my burden down: a history of the black cemeteries of Richmond, Virginia

·        Heritage of Virginia: the story of place names in the Old Dominion

·        Historic Virginia homes and churches

·        Hornbook of Virginia history

·        Houses Virginians have loved

·        Old Virginia houses

·        Shadows in silver

·        Twelve Virginia counties, where the western migration began

·        Virginia colonial records, 1600s-1700s (computer file)

·        Virginia county records

·        Virginia tithables from burned record counties