St. Georges Parish, Spotsylvania, Virginia
United States Virginia
St. George's Parish
Contents
History[edit | edit source]
St. George's Parish has served Essex and Spotsylvania counties.
Founded[edit | edit source]
- 1714[1]
Boundary[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemetery[edit | edit source]
In 1892, the Ladies' Cemetery Guild of St. George's Church published a survey of the graves and a history of the cemetery. Their book is available online at FamilySearch Digital Library.
WPA made a survey of the graves at St George's Church in 1936. It is available at the Rappahannock Library in Fredericksburg.[2]
The noted genealogist George Harrison Sanford King transcribed the tombstones in 1940: FHL Film 850092 Item 1.
The USGenWeb Archives, available online, includes transcripts of many graves found there in a 1999/2000 survey.
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of St. George's Parish is available online.[3]
- Slaughter, Philip and R.A. Brock. History of St. George's Parish in the County of Spotsylvania, and Diocese of Virginia: With a Biography of the Author and a Continuation, Embracing the History of St. George's and Trinity Churches to the Present Time. Richmond, Va.: J.W. Randolph & English, 1890. Digital version at Google Books; 1998 reprint: FHL Collection.
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Colonial parish registers do not survive.
Vestry Books[edit | edit source]
The original St. George's Parish Vestry Books (1727-1843) are kept at the Library of Virginia. Published abstracts:
- "Vestry Book, Saint George's Parish, Spotsylvania County, 1726-1745," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997):63-72; Vol. 41, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1997):141-148; Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1997):194-204; Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1997):264-274; Vol. 42, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1998):18-28; Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1998):102-110; Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1998):171-182. Digital version at American Ancestors ($).
Websites[edit | edit source]
- St. George's Episcopal Church (official website). Includes history, visitor directions, church schedule.
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).
- ↑ Margaret C. Klein, Tombstone Inscriptions of Spotsylvania County, Virginia (Palm Coast, Fla.: M.C. Klein, 1983), 68.
- ↑ 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.