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History[edit | edit source]

Frederick Parish has served Frederick and Clarke counties.

Frederick Parish was organized in 1744. It was renamed in 1866.[1]

Old Chapel is now located within the bounds of Clarke County.[2]

Founded[edit | edit source]

  • 1738 or 1744[3]

Boundary[edit | edit source]

Record Loss[edit | edit source]

  • Colonial parish register

Resources[edit | edit source]

Cemetery[edit | edit source]

  • Brown, Stuart E., Lorraine F. Myers and Eileen M. Chappel. Biographical and Genealogical Record of Persons Buried at Old Chapel. Berryville, Va., 1987.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Meade's 1861 history of Frederick Parish is available online.[4]

  • Chambers, Benjamin Duvall. Old Chapel and the Parish in Clarke County, Virginia: A History from the Founding of Frederick Parish, 1738 to the Centenary of Christ Church, Millwood, 1932. Washington: unknown, 1932. FHL Collection; digital version at Ancestry ($).
  • "Frederick Parish And Its Divisions," Proceedings of The Clarke County Historical Association, Vol. XIV (1956-1957):16-26; digital version at Clarke History.
  • Hughes, Charles Randolph et al. Old Chapel, Clarke County, Virginia. Berryville, Va.: The Blue Ridge Press, 1906. Digital version at Internet Archive; FHL Film 564365 Item 3
  • Meade, Everard Kidder. "Frederick Parish, Virginia, 1744-1780, Its Churches, Chapels, Ministers and Vestries," Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Part I: Vol. 5 (1945):18-38 (975.598/B1 C4c v. 5 ([1945)]; digital version at Clarke History); Part II: Vol. 6 (1946):24-46 (FHL Book 975.598/B1 C4c v. 6 ([1946)]; digital version at Clarke History). See also "Appendix I: Legislative Record of Frederick Parish," in Vol. 6 (1946):47-49.
    • Reviewed by G. MacLaren Brydon in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 102-104. Review: FHL Collection; digital version of review at JSTOR ($).

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

Parish Registers[edit | edit source]

A register of baptisms, marriages, and burials cannot be found for Frederick Parish.[5]

Dr. Alexander Balmain, Rector of Frederick Parish, recorded details of more than 750 marriages he performed in his journal (1781-1821):

  • Tylor, Dola S. "Marriages from 'The Journal of Dr. Alexander Balmain,' Rector, Frederick Parish, Winchester, Virginia, 1781-1821," Frederick Findings, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring 1993):121-124; Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 1993):179-182; Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 1993):273-278; Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 1994):61-67. FHL Book 975.59 D25f.
Vestry Books[edit | edit source]

Vestry books, dating from 1764 to 1818, are kept at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia Library, near Alexandria, Va. The Library of Virginia has a photocopy, which FHL has microfilmed: FHL Collection 31331. Noted Virginia genealogist Victor S. Dunn published abstracts of the records in Volumes 43 to 48+ of the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy. Indexes may be found at the back of each volume:

  • Dunn, Victor S. "Frederick Parish, Frederick County, Virginia Vestry Book, 1764-1818 (Overseers of Poor)," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Aug. 2005), 179-198; Vol. 43, No. 4 (Nov. 2005):281-290; Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb. 2006):23-44; Vol. 44, No. 2 (May 2006):119-130; Vol. 44, No. 3 (Aug. 2006):241-260; Vol. 45, No. 1 (Feb. 2007):32-38; Vol. 45, No. 2 (May 2007):156-166; Vol. 45, No. 3 (Aug. 2007):215-222; Vol. 46, No. 1 (Feb. 2008):51-60; Vol. 46, No. 3 (Aug. 2008):222-230; Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov. 2008):309-319; Vol. 47, No. 4 (Nov. 2009):310-318; Vol. 48, No. 1 (Feb. 2010):71-79; Vol. 48, No. 2 (May 2010):141-150; Vol. 48, No. 3 (Aug. 2010):235-246.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Frederick Parish And Its Divisions," Proceedings of The Clarke County Historical Association, Vol. XIV (1956-1957):16-26; digital version at Clarke History.
  2. ↑ Old Chapel, The Historical Marker Database.
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Victor S. Dunn, "Frederick Parish, Frederick County, Virginia Vestry Book, 1764-1818 (Overseers of Poor)," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Aug. 2005):179.


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