Frederick County, Virginia Genealogy

Guide to Frederick County, Virginia ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Description
Frederick County is located in the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia and shares a border with West Virginia. The county was named for Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain and father of King George III.

County Courthouse
Frederick County Courthouse 5 North Kent Street Winchester, VA 22601-5037 Phone: 540-722-7208 Frederick County Website

Clerk Circuit Court has birth records 1853-1912, marriage records from 1782, death records 1853-1896, divorce records from 1870 probate and land records from 1743

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

History Timeline


The county is named after Prince Frederick of Wales (1707-1751), the son of King George II of Great Britain.
 * Nine square miles of Frederick County were annexed to the City of Winchester
 * The southern portion of the county was taken in 1772 to form Dunmore County (later called Shenandoah County).

Bible Records

 * 1607-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Business, Commerce, and Occupations

 * Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. Available at . [Includes a section on Winchester silversmiths.]

Cemeteries

 * 1800-1986 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Rosenberger, Fietta. "St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery (Old Furnace), Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1976):275-279; Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1977):36-42. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * Triplett, Ralph L. "Frederick County, Virginia, Cemeteries," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1971):97-98. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * Triplett, Ralph L. "Rock Enon Cemetery, Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1972):63-64. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * Triplett, Ralph L. "The Old Johnson Graveyard, Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1975):45. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * Triplett, Ralph L. "Triplett Cemetery, Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1971):9-10. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).

Census Records
1782 1790 - Lost. 1800 - Lost.
 * Frederick County Heads of Families - 1782 at U.S. Census Bureau - free. County begins on page 19.

1810
 * 1810 Frederick County, Virginia Census. Beverly, W. Va.: Crickard, 1970., 1979. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).

1890 Union Veterans
 * Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. By Ronald Ray Turner. .  Includes residents of this county.
 * 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census. Online at: Ancestry ($). Includes residents of this county.

Church Records
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Baptist Early Baptist churches (with years constituted): Frederick County fell within the bounds of the Ketocton Association.
 * 1) Bethel (1808)
 * 2) Buck Marsh (1772) . James Ireland served as pastor 1788-1806. He was buried at Buckmarsh Cemetery.
 * 3) Happy Creek (1783)

Church of England See also Beckford Parish See also Frederick Parish  See also Norborne Parish
 * Frederick Parish was organized in 1744. It was renamed in 1866.
 * Meade's 1861 history of parishes in Frederick County is available online.

Histories
 * 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. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * "Frederick Parish And Its Divisions," Proceedings of The Clarke County Historical Association, Vol. XIV (1956-1957):16-26; digital version at Clarke History.
 * Meade, Everard Kidder. "Frederick Parish, Virginia, 1744-1780, Its Churches, Chapels, Ministers and Vestries," Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Part I: Vol. 5 (1945):18-38 ( 975.598/B1 C4c v. 5 ([1945]); digital version at Clarke History); Part II: Vol. 6 (1946):24-46 ( 975.598/B1 C4c v. 6 ([1946]); digital version at Clarke History). See also "Appendix I: Legislative Record of Frederick Parish," in Vol. 6 (1946):47-49.
 * Reviewed by G. MacLaren Brydon in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 102-104. Review: ; digital version of review at JSTOR ($).

Records A register of baptisms, marriages, and burials cannot be found for Frederick Parish. Vestry minutes, 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 FS Library has microfilmed: 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 end 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.

Quaker Early monthly meetings (with years of existence):
 * Back Creek Monthly Meeting (1759-1869) aka Jesse Pugh's Meeting
 * Centre Monthly Meeting (begun 1734), Winchester, Va.
 * Gravel Springs Monthly Meeting (1700s)
 * Hopewell Monthly Meeting (begun 1732) aka Opequon. Monthly meeting records (1748-1869) and abstracts of minutes (1759-1791) have been microfilmed: . Monthly meeting minutes and certificates of removal (1777-1835) have also been microfilmed: . A history and early records have been published: . Hinshaw also published the early records:.
 * Hopewell (Orthodox) Monthly Meeting (1829-1935). Early records have been microfilmed (1829-1895):.
 * Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting (1771-1809) aka Fawsett's aka Cedar Creek. The cemetery is still in use:
 * (126+ entries)


 * Ridge Monthly Meeting (1735-1920) aka Apple Pie Ridge aka Upper Ridge aka Lupton's
 * Ridge Monthly Meeting, Whitehall, Va. (1777-1830) aka Hackney's aka Lower Ridge
 * Brown, Jane Douglas Summers and Jones Memorial Library. Jane Douglas Summers Brown (1903-) Quaker Records: Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia); MS 1515. MSS, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Va. Available on 26 microfilms through . Includes records of Frederick County Quakers; Brown assisted "William Wade Hinshaw in the writing of the Virginia volume of the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy."
 * Hutton, James V. "The Quakers Exiled in Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia, 1777-1778," Journal [Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society], Vol. 17 (2005).
 * Joint Committee of Hopewell Friends. Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934: Frederick County, Virginia: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell. Strasburg, VA, USA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1936. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Court Records
Online Court Indexes and Records The FamilySearch Library has a good microfilm collection of Frederick County court order books. The quality of the microfilm; however, obscures the page numbers in some early volumes, making them difficult to use.
 * Frederick County Chancery Cases Index, 1860-1912 - digitized and available online via the Library of Virginia. Index information is available for Frederick County chancery records for the years 1745-1926. Microfilm records available for years 1745-1859. Post-1912 chancery records index is incomplete and only the records indexed are located at the Library of Virginia. Additional original post-1912 chancery cases can be found at the Frederick County Circuit Court Clerk's office. The index may reference court designations (CC for Circuit Court, CSC for Circuit Superior Court, SC for Superior Court, DC for District Court, and no abbreviations indicates County Court.)

Emigration and Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Includes will of a resident of Frederick County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.


 * Wayland, John Walter. The German Element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. n.p.: J.W. Wayland, 1979. Available at FS Library; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups
African American
 * 1865-1872 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1935-2009 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Heinegg, Paul. "Frederick County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1802," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
 * Heinegg, Paul. "Frederick County Personal Property Tax List 1803-1836," Free African Americans.com, available online. [Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.]
 * Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized images of African Americans of Frederick County.

Funeral Homes

 * 1935-2009 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Genealogies
Compiled Genealogies by Surname A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 * See Frederick County, Virginia Compiled Genealogiesfor a list of published books and articles, or jump to the surname using the alphabet bar.

Compiled Genealogies for Multiple Families The Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room in the Handley Regional Library in Winchester has collected many published genealogies about local families. For manuscript descriptions, see: Index to Inventories. Major manuscript collections that have been microfilmed include:
 * Bly, Daniel W. From the Rhine to the Shenandoah: Eighteenth Century Swiss and German Pioneer Families in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and Their European Origins. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, c1993. (FS Library is missing Vol. 2)
 * Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. ; ; digital versions at Ancestry ($); FamilySearch Digital Library and Archive.org. [3 copies at FS Library.]
 * Clark Cather Records, 399 WFCHS: Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia. MSS. Microfilmed 2005:.
 * Daisy Amick Collection, 144 WFCHS: Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Wincester, VA. MSS. Microfilmed 2005:.
 * Garner, Grace Kelso. Earliest Settlers, Western Frederick-Eastern Hampshire Counties in Virginia, Their Descendants. 1978.
 * Hammond, Gene Paige. Shenandoah Valley Pioneer Settlers: A Few of Them and Some Notes of Interest: Includes Genealogical Sketches on the Bucher, Dellinger, Eye, Hammond, Sauvage and Walter(s) and Allied Families. Strasburg, VA.: Hammond Printing and Publishing, 1988..
 * Kerns, Wilmer L. Frederick County, Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley 1730-1830. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1995. . Includes a large section of family histories for the following families: Thomas, Smith, Babb, Malin, Julian, White, Pugh, Rogers, Lewis, Jenkins, Wright, Walker, Lupton, Barrett, Griffith, Ruble, McCool, Pearson, Scarborough, Chapman, Harris, Bevan, Fisher, Wickersham, Waln, Kackley, Rinker, Bageant, Coe, Larrick, Printzler, Secrist, Marple, Allemong, Purtlebaugh (Bartlebaugh), Sirbaugh, Trowbridge, and many others.
 * Lucy Hardesty Collection, 1460 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia. MSS. Online description. Microfilmed 2005: . Notes on hundreds of Frederick County families.
 * Norris, J.E. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time, Geological Features, A Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities, Cities, Towns and Villages, Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens. Chicago: A. Warner &amp; Co., Publishers, 1890. Digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive. Includes a chapter on Genealogy and Biography (pages 556-804).
 * O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia. Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1995. . One of the most impressively researched one-place studies in the United States. In a review, Dorman stated "Comprehensive studies such as this appear only rarerly. This volume should be in every Virginia genealogical collection."
 * Pollock, Michael E. and Lineage Search Associates. Frederick Findings. Mechanicsville, Va.: Lineage Search Associates, 1988-1997..
 * Strickler, Harry M. Forerunners, A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families, Their Kith and Kin: Including Kauffmans, Stovfrs [i.e. Stovers], Burners, Ruffners, Beavers, Shavers, Brumbachs, Zirkles, Blossers, Groves, Brubakers, Neffs, Rothgebs and Many Other Early Families of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Augusta, Frederick and Page Counties of the Shenandoah Valley: A Memorial to All Who Have Gone Before from About 1700 to the Present Time, 1924 Present Time, 1924. Harrisonburg, Va.: H.M. Strickler, 1925..

Land and Property Records
Online Land Indexes and Records

Grants and Patents
 * Dunn. 165 patents dated 1734-1790 in what is now Clarke and Frederick Counties, Virginia placed on a map. DeedMapper, 2004. Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's DeedMapper product.
 * 1742-1775 Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. Vol. II. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. Vol. III. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993. ; digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes Frederick County.
 * Massanutten Area Atlas. Original records, Shenandoah County Archives, Woodstock, Va. Microfilmed reproduction: . This is a bound book of hand drawn maps showing property boundaries for grant map, ca. 1748-1915. It covers parts of Shenandoah, Warren and Page counties.
 * Sims, Edgar Barr. Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia. [Springfield, Virginia]: Genealogical Books in Print, c1992. . Includes Frederick County, Virginia.

Local Histories

 * Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. FamilySearch Digital Library, 975.59 H2c 1963;; digital version at Ancestry ($); and Archive.org.
 * Clem, Gladys Bauserman. Stories of the Shenandoah. Staunton, Va.: n.p., 1948. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Davis, Julia. The Shenandoah. New York: Farrar &amp; Rinehart, c1945. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Gordon, Armistead C. In the Picturesque Shenandoah Valley. Richmond: Garrett &amp;Massie, c1930. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Hutton, James Vernon. Local History Articles, Frederick County, Virginia. Winchester, Virginia: n.p., 1979. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Ingersoll, Ernest. To the Shenandoah and Beyond: The Chronicle of a Leisurely Journey through the Uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, Sketching Their Scenery, Noting Their Legends, Portraying Social and Material Progress, and Explaining Routes of Travel. New York: Leve &amp; Alden, 1885. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * MacDonald, Rose Mortimer Ellzey. Clarke County, a Daughter of Frederick: A History of Early Families and Homes. Berryville, Va.: Blue Ridge Press, 1979. Original edition and supplement available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * 1885-1940 U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 at Ancestry ($)
 * Norris, J. E.. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time, Geological Features, a Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities, Cities, Towns and Villages, Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens. Chicago: A. Warner, 1890. Original edition available at ; 1972 reprint available at ; digital version of original edition at Ancestry ($); and MyHeritage ($).
 * Paxton, Alexander Sterret. Memory Days in which the Shenandoah Valley is Seen in Retrospection: With Glimpses of School Days and the Life of Virginia People of Fifty Years Ago. New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908. Available at ; digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * Strickler, Harry Miller. Massanutten, Settled by the Pennsylvania Pilgrim, 1726: The First White Settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. n.p.: n.p., c1924. ; digital version at Ancestry ($).

Historic Residences
 * Quarles, Garland Redd. Some Old Homes in Frederick County, Virginia. Winchester, Virginia Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1990.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Geertsema, Galtjo and Cecil O'Dell. Northern Neck of Virginia, Old Frederick County: A Historical Map Emphasizing the Period from 1725 to 1745: To Illustrate Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia by Cecil O'Dell. C. O'Dell, 1995. Available at.
 * Massanutten Area Atlas. Original records, Shenandoah County Archives, Woodstock, Va. Microfilmed reproduction available at . This is a bound book of hand drawn maps showing property boundaries for grant map, ca. 1748-1915. It covers parts of Shenandoah, Warren and Page counties.
 * FamilySearch Places: Cities and Towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records
French and Indian War
 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at . Online at: Ancestry ($). Identifies some Frederick County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.
 * Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at ; digital version at Internet Archive. Includes a chapter titled "Legislative Enactments connecting the preceding historic sketch [French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War] with the adjudication of the resulting accounts that follow; with the list of officers, soldiers and civilians entitled to compensation for military and other services rendered." For Frederick County, see pp. 79-82, 108.
 * 1651-1776 Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at ; digital book at Ancestry ($). Identifies some County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.
 * Milbourne, Anna. "Records of the Frederick County, Virginia, Militia in the French and Indian War Period," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 27 (1939):52-60.
 * Ward, Flora Lusk et al. Officers and Men of Frederick County, Virginia, Militia in the Year 1756. MSS., available at.

Revolutionary War
 * Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. ; digital version at Internet Archive. Includes a chapter titled "A Partial List of Capt. Daniel Morgan's Rifle Company of Winchester, Frederick Co., Va., July 14, 1775," see p. 171.
 * Hale, Laura Virginia. A Bicentennial Remembrance: The Revolutionary Years, 1776-1781, in Old Frederick County, Virginia. L.V. Hale, 1978. Available at.
 * Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society. Men and Events of the Revolution in Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia. Winchester, Virginia, 1975. Available at.
 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). 1967 reprint: 973 X2pc 1840. See Virginia, Western District, Frederick County on page 134.
 * Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include "an Added Index to States." ; digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes veterans. Virginia section begins on page 238.
 * Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War. By J.T. McAllister. 1913. Hot Springs, Va.: McAllister Pub. Co. Online at: Internet Archive

Regiments. Service men in Frederick County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Frederick County supplied soldiers for the:
 * - 8th Virginia Regiment
 * - 11th Virginia Regiment
 * - 12th Virginia Regiment

War of 1812 Frederick County men served in the 31st, 51st, and 122nd Regiments.
 * List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. 973 M2Lp v. 5; online at Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). See Vol. 5, Virginia, Frederick County, p. 81. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.

Civil War
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
 * 1861-1865 U.S., Union Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865 at Ancestry — index (free)
 * Civil War Battles in Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia, 1861-1865. Winchester, Virginia: The Commission, 1960?. Digital book available at Ancestry ($).

Regiments. Civil War service men in Frederick County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed here:
 * - 1st Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Local Defense (Confederate). Company A (Newtown Troop)
 * - 1st Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate).
 * - 2nd Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company F (Winchester Riflemen)
 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company A (Marion Rifles) and Company K (Continental Morgan Guards).
 * - 11th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry. Company A (The Wildcat Company) and Company H.
 * - 12th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company C.
 * - 13th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company H (The Winchester Boomerangs).
 * - 18th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company F.
 * - 24th Battalion, Virginia Partisan Rangers (Scott's). Company C.
 * - 39th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company A.

Civil War Battles The following Civil War battles were fought in Frederick County.


 * March 23, 1862 - Kernstown I.
 * May 25, 1862 - Winchester I, also known as Bowers Hill.
 * June 13-15, 1863 - Winchester II.
 * July 20, 1864 - Rutherford's Farm.
 * July 24, 1864 - Kernstown II.
 * September 19, 1864 - Opequon, also known as Third Winchester.
 * October 19, 1864 - Cedar Creek, also known as Belle Grove.


 * Battles of the American Civil War maps - filter by state or by battle name.

Naturalization and Citizenship
Online Naturalization Indexes and Records
 * 1906-1929 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette (1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburg website. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.
 * 1798-1820 Winchester Gazette (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
 * 1806-1809 Philanthropist (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
 * 1828-1836 Winchester Virginian (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).
 * 1855-1873 Winchester Virginian at Google News - free.
 * 2009-present Winchester Star (Winchester, Va.) at Genealogy Bank ($).

Other Records
Private Papers Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007


 * [Barton] Davis, Bruce G. "Barton Family Bible, Frederick County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1964):28-30. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).


 * [Byrd] Meade, Everard Kidder. "The Papers of Richard Evelyn Byrd, I, of Frederick County, Virginia. A Note on a Valuable Collection of Family Letters and Other Documents with Extracts Therefrom," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Apr., 1946), pp. 106-118. Available at ; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records Local Court SamPubCo has created a free online resource that serves as a good starting place to search for Colonial Frederick County wills: Other Frederick County probate resources include:
 * 1639-1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry — index, incomplete ($)
 * 1652-1900 Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1900 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1743-1751 Virginia Pioneers ($) Images of Wills and Estates plus Index to Wills and Deeds, Book 15. and Book 16.
 * 1773-1775 Virginia Pioneers ($) Index to Deeds
 * Frederick County, Virginia Will Testators Index, Books 1-3
 * Kangas, M. N. Frederick County, Virginia, Wills &amp; Administrations, 1795-1816. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. Available at ; . Digital book available at Ancestry ($).
 * "Wills in Frederick County, Va., Prior to 1805," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr. 1910):204-212. ; digital version at JSTOR ($).

London Courts
 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Includes will of a resident of Frederick County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.
 * Digital Images of Wills, Inventories and Estates, Book 2, 1752-61; Book 3, 1761-1700; Book 4, 1770-1783; Book 5, 1783-1794; Book 6, 1795-1802; Book 7, 1802-1804 ($) Virginia Pioneers $

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007

Tax Records
Online Tax Indexes and Records
 * 1746 Frederick County 1746 rental, Library of Virginia, Miscellaneous Microfilm 4,624.
 * 1750 Frederick County 1750 rental, Library of Virginia, Miscellaneous Microfilm 4,624.
 * 1758 Quisenberry, A.C. "Election of Col. Geo. Washington, 1758," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 6(1898):162-173. Available at ; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at ; digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * 1759 Frederick County 1759 rental, Library of Virginia, Miscellaneous Microfilm 4,624.
 * 1764 Frederick County 1764 rental, Library of Virginia, Miscellaneous Microfilm 4,624.
 * 1782 Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782, Frederick Findings, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 1990):253-262; Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1991):15-20..
 * 1782-1802 Heinegg, Paul. "Frederick County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1802," Free African Americans.com, available online. Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.
 * 1783 - Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
 * 1787 Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia: An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years, the Number of White Males Between 16 &amp; 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 &amp; Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle &amp; Carriages, and Also the Names of All Persons to Whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses Were Issued. 3 vols. Springfield, Va.: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987. . The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. Frederick County is included in Vol. 1.
 * 1787-1841 Winchester Personal Property Tax Lists 1787-1841 (images). - images.
 * 1800 "Frederick County, Virginia, 1800 Tax List," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1979):8-14; Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1979):97-103; Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1979):168-172; Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1979):266-270; Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1980):5-8; Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr. 1980). Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($). Vol. 24, No. 2 refers to the City of Winchester.
 * 1803-1836 Heinegg, Paul. "Frederick County Personal Property Tax List 1803-1836," Free African Americans.com, available online. Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.
 * 1815 Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . The source of this publication is the 1815 land tax. Frederick County is included in Vol. 4.
 * 1842-1850 Winchester Personal Property Tax Lists 1842-1850 (images). - images.

Vital Records
Vital Record Substitutes
 * Dr. Alexander Balmain, Rector of Frederick Parish, recorded details of more than 750 marriages he performed between 1781 and 1821 in his journal:
 * 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..
 * 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..

Birth

 * 1584-1917 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1715-1901 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1853-1866 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1855-1896 Fridley, Beth, comp. Frederick County Virginia Birth Records, 1855-96 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Available at Ancestry ($).
 * 1912-1913 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Marriage

 * 1660-1800 Virginia Marriages 1660-1800 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1660-1959 Virginia, United States Marriages at at Findmypast — index, ($) — index $
 * 1715-1901 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1740-1850 Virginia Marriages 1740-1850 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1771-1825 Davis, Eliza Timberlake. Frederick County, Virginia, Marriages, 1771-1825. Smithfield, Virginia: Davis, 1979. Available at . Digital versions at Ancestry ($); and MyHeritage ($).
 * 1771-1825, misc. pages Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds (Tilman to Webb)
 * 1773-1797 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1773-1798 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1785-1940 Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1785-1940 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index; Also at: MyHeritage ($)
 * 1788-1811 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1792 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1793 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1794 to 1796 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1801 to 1809 Virginia Pioneers ($) Marriage Bonds
 * 1810-1829 Marriages Performed by Rev. Thomas Littleton in Frederick Co., Va. 5 Apr 1810 - 25 Sep 1829 at VAGenWeb
 * 1853-1935 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at: Ancestry ($)
 * 1936-1988 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Death

 * 1715-1901 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1853-1911 Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853-1911 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1853-1912 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection;  index & images
 * 1912-1987 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Divorce

 * 1918-1988 at FamilySearch — index & images

FamilySearch Centers

 * Harpers Ferry West Virginia Charles Town FamilySearch Center
 * Winchester Virginia FamilySearch Center
 * Front Royal Virginia FamilySearch Center


 * Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County - AHHA - an affiliate library

Libraries
Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives Room, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia. Collection includes a vast amount of genealogical material.Website

Websites

 * Franklin County VAGenWeb
 * Cyndi's List
 * A View of Winchester in 1745 - The Four Public Lots Marker, The Historical Marker Database


 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.

Research Guides

 * "A Guide to the Counties of Virginia: Frederick County," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1966):174-178. Available at ; digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * Good, Rebecca H. and Rebecca A. Ebert. Finding Your People in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Genealogical Guide. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998. 4th ed.