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History[edit | edit source]

Truro Parish has served Prince William, Loudoun and Fairfax counties. Pohick Church fell within the bounds of Truro Parish.[1] The Falls Church fell within the bounds of Truro Parish for a time during the eighteenth century, before it became a part of Fairfax Parish.[2] Goose Creek Chapel (built 1736) served parishioners as a chapel of ease.[3]

Founded[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

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Cemetery
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A survey of the graves at Pohick Church was published in 1981.[5]

Surveys of the graves at Falls Church and Pohick Church were published in the late 1990s by the Fairfax Genealogical Society.[6] FHL Book 975.5291 V3f v. 3.

Earlier surveys of Falls Church Cemetery were conducted in 1923, c1939, 1989, and 1995.[6]

A survey of the graves at Goose Creek Burying Ground was published in 1996 by the Thomas Balch Library.[7] This book is available online at the Town of Leesburg website. (Is this the cemetery of Goose Creek Chapel??) FHL Book 975.528 V32L.

  • Remey, Charles Mason. A Series of Twelve of the Preliminary Architectural Studies for a Mausoleum Known Now as the Remeum: For the Family of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey, United States Navy, and His Wife, Mary Josephine Mason, Built at Pohick Church Glebe, Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia. Washington, D.C.: C.M. Remey, 1954. FHL Film 1036144 Item 7.

Genealogy[edit | edit source]

  • Liddle, Chester A. and Patricia H. Osisek. Families of Pohick Church, Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1991. FHL Collection has original edition and two supplements.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Meade's 1861 history of Truro Parish is available online.[8]

  • Hopkins, Margaret Lail and Nancy Hopkins Phillips. The Anglican Parishes of Loudoun County, Virginia, Truro, Cameron, and Shelburne, 1736-1805. Lovettsville, Virginia: Willow Bend Books, 1997. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
  • Slaughter, Philip and Edward Lewis Goodwin. History of Truro Parish in Virginia. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs, 1907. Available at FHL. Digital versions available at Ancestry ($); FamilySearch Digital Library - free; Google Books - free; and World Vital Records ($).

Rev. Samuel A. Wallis's history of Pohick Church, Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.[9]

Rev. George S. Somerville's history of The Old Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.[10]

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

Parish Registers[edit | edit source]

Some births in the parish between 1730 and 1737 were recorded in the vestry book. Otherwise, colonial parish registers have been lost. Abstracts:

  • Lee, Ida J. "Births from the Truro Parish Vestry Book," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr. 1930):190. FHL Book 973 H25w; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Also published by Wright:

  • Wright, F. Edward. Early Church Records of Alexandria City and Fairfax County, Virginia. Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1996. FHL Book 975.529 K2w.


Vestry Books[edit | edit source]

Digital images of the original Truro Parish Colonial Vestry Book (1732-1785) and the Proceedings of the Overseers of the Poor (1787-1802) are available online, courtesy: Truro Church website.

These records have also been abstracted and indexed:

  • Truro Parish and Pohick Church. Minutes of the Vestry, Truro Parish, Virginia, 1732-1785. Lorton, Va.: Pohick Church; Annandale, Va.: Baptie Studios, c1974. Available at FHL.


Websites[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia
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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Wikipedia Contributors, "Pohick Church," Wikipedia, accessed 1 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Falls Church," in National Register of Historic Places Inventory, p. 8, accessed 17 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "Goose Creek Chapel", The Historical Marker Database.
  4. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ Edna May Stevens, Lesba Lewis Thompson, and Sue E. Wood, Tombstone Records of Pohick Church, Fairfax County, Virginia (Owensboro, Ky., 1981).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fairfax County, Virginia Gravestones (Merrifield, Va.: Fairfax Genealogical Society, 1996-1998). Vols. III, V. (Falls Church appears in Volume III, pages FC-1 to FC-18; Pohick Church appears in Volume V, pages LR-35 to LR-131).
  7. ↑ Thomas Balch Library, Loudoun County, Virginia Cemeteries, A Preliminary Index (Lovettsville, Va.: Willow Bend Books, c1996).
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907), 122-128.
  10. ↑ Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907), 129-133.


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