Loudoun County, Virginia Vital Records

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See also: Loudoun County, Virginia Cemeteries

Birth

 * Birth and Death Records (Births 1853-1859, 1864-1866, 1869-1879, and 1912-1917). Available online, courtesy: The Archives of the Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court.
 * Duncan, Patricia B. Loudoun County, Virginia, Birth Registers. [1853-1896] 2 vols. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1999. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!

The original register of births, 2 vols. (1853-1859 and 1864-1866), are held at the Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg, Va. They are available on microfilm at FHL.

For illegitimate births, see:


 * Base Born Children, 1757-1872. Available online, courtesy: The Archives of the Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court. [This is an incomplete list, it may be viewed in alphabetical order by the name of the father, or the mother; the child's name was not usually recorded.]
 * Hutchison, Louisa Skinner. Apprentices, Bastards, and Poor Children of Loudoun Co VA 1757-1850. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 2000. Available at FHL.

Marriage
The Archives of the Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court has made the following information available online:


 * Marriage Bonds, 1767-1850. [Includes marriage and bond index 1767-1914; and marriage indexes 1852-1866, 1865-1879, 1879-1895, and 1896-1914.]

Free Lookups Available! for Loudoun County, Virginia marriages 1757-1853.

The original marriage bonds (1779-1850), ministers' returns (1793-1850), marriage records (1850-1866), and register of marriages, 4 vols. (1852-1914) are available on microfilm at FHL.

Additional Loudoun County marriage resources include:


 * Chiarello, Suzy. "Samuel Claggett's Marriage Bond," [1786] Northern Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Oct. 1998):159. Available at FHL. [Cannot be found in Leesburg, Va. Courthouse. Chiarello took this record from Claggett's Revolutionary War Pension Application (W6693).]
 * Dodd, Jordan. Virginia Marriages to 1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Abstracts of several hundred Loudoun County marriage records.]
 * Dodd, Jordan R., et al. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers, 1990. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). [Abstracts of approximately 1000 Loudoun County marriage records; alternate title: Virginia Marriages, Early to 1800: A Research Tool.]
 * Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Virginia Marriages, 1851-1929 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes Loudoun County 1851-1880.]
 * Duncan, Patricia B. and Elizabeth R. Frain. Loudoun County, Virginia Marriages after 1850 [1851-1880]. Westminster, Maryland : Willow Bend Books, c2000. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
 * Henry Furlong (Rev.) M.E. Marriages, 1833-1834. Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb. 1969).
 * Henry Furlong (Rev.) Marriages, 1834-51. Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May 1969).
 * Hutchison, Louisa Skinner. New Information About Old Marriages," Northern Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 5 (2000):513-514. Available at FHL. [Hutchison identifies biographical details omitted from the published abstracts of Loudoun's marriages by Vot, Kethly, and Wertz.]
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Marriage Records of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1751-1880, Typescript, 1952; available at FHL. [This manuscript differs in arrangement and indexing from the typescript made in 1959. Some of the information may also be different.]
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Marriage Bonds and Miscellaneous Marriage Records, 1767 through 1843, Loudoun County, Virginia. MSS., 1958, available on microfilm at FHL.
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Marriage Records of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1751-1880. MSS., 1959, available on microfilm at FHL.
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Loudoun County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds, 1762-1850. Berryville, Virginia: Chesapeake Book Co., 1962. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($). Reviewed in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1962):180. Review available at New England Ancestors ($).
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Loudoun County, Virginia, Marriage Records to 1891. [1798-1881] Berryville, Virginia: Virginia Book Co., c1975. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
 * [Loudoun County, Virginia] Marriage Bonds and Licences, 1804-1914, William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jul. 1912).
 * Marriage Records Collection. Available online, courtesy: Library of Virginia. [Based on a card index in the Library of Virginia; one entry for Loudoun County.]
 * "Marriage Records from the Genius of Liberty," [1810s-1820s] Loudoun: The 1757 Legacy, Newsletter of the Loudoun Genealogy Club, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 &amp; 2 (Mar.-June 2002):2-4. Available at FHL.
 * Marriages, 1793-1795, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Oct. 1920).
 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Prince William County, Virginia, Residents: Marriages from Sources Outside the County. Manassas, Va.: R.R. Turner, 1993. Available at FHL. [Some of these marriages were drawn from Loudoun County sources.]
 * "Unpublished Marriage Records," [1857-1866] Loudoun: The 1757 Legacy, Newsletter of the Loudoun Genealogy Club, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Summer 1995):1-2; Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar. 1996):3-4. Available at FHL. [180 marriage licenses and ministers returns dated 1857-1866 preserved in private possession of one of Loudoun County's sheriffs; now viewable at the Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Va.]
 * Vogt, John and T. William Kethley. Loudoun County Marriages, 1760-1850. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., c1985. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!
 * Wertz, Mary Alice. Marriages of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1853. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985. Available at FHL; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Death

 * Birth and Death Records (Deaths 1912-1917). Available online, courtesy: The Archives of the Clerk of the Loudoun County Circuit Court.

The original Loudoun County Register of Deaths 1853-1866 is at the Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg, Va. It is available on microfilm at FHL.

Elizabeth R. Frain has published these records:


 * Frain, Elizabeth R. Loudoun County, Virginia, Death Register, 1853-1896. Westminster, Maryland: Willow Bend Books, 1998. Available at FHL. Free Lookups Available!

Other Loudoun County, Virginia resources for death information include:


 * Death Records Commended by D. J. Hauer at the New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lovettsville (March 1837 - October 1852). Free Lookups Available!
 * Fishback, John. "Loudoun Death Records," [1700s] Loudoun: The 1757 Legacy, Newsletter of the Loudoun Genealogy Club, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1993):5; Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring 1993):3; Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer 1993):3; Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1993):3; Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 1994):3; Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 1996):2; Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sep. 1996):2; Vol. 4, No. 4 (Dec. 1996):2; Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar. 1997):2; Vol. 5, No. 2 (June 1997):2; Vol. 5, No. 4 (Dec. 1997):2. Available at FHL. [Fishback abstracted approximate dates of death from Loudoun County court records.]
 * Jewell, Aurelia M. Death Records of Loudoun County, Virginia. MSS., National Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.; also available on microfilm at FHL. [Volume covers 1853-1866 (from county death register?), 1892-1900 (from records kept by John James Dillon), 1869-1892 (from records kept by Burr W. Paxson), and 1818-1869 (from various newspapers and all related to Loudoun County).]
 * Stepp, Janet. "List of Deaths from Charles Paxson's Journal," [Loudoun County 1858-1870] Northern Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Oct. 1999):358-359. Available at FHL.