Loudoun County, Virginia Genealogy

United States &gt; Virginia &gt; Loudoun County

Parent County
1757--Loundoun County was created 25 March 1757 from Fairfax County. County seat: Leesburg

Neighboring Counties

 * Clarke
 * Fairfax
 * Fauquier
 * Frederick County, Maryland
 * Jefferson County, West Virginia
 * Montgomery County, Maryland
 * Prince William
 * Washington County, Virginia

African American

 * Tyler-McGraw, Marie. "'The Prize I Mean Is the Prize of Liberty': A Loudoun County Family in Liberia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 97, No. 3, "A Sense of Their Own Power": Black Virginians, 1619-1989 (Jul. 1989):355-374. Available at JSTOR.

Church
Church of England


 * 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.

Quakers


 * Janney, Asa Moore and Werner Janney. Ye Meetg Hous Smal: A Short Account of Friends in Loudoun County, Virginia, 1732-1980. Lincoln, Virginia: n.p., 1980. Available at FHL.

Family Histories

 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. and Margaret Poe McCarley. George Abel Born 1754 in Germany, Married Catherine Roller: Family in Loudoun Co., Va. Intermarry [i.e., Intermarried] with Crim Family in Loudoun Co., Va. &amp; Ohio, Wagner Family in Carroll &amp; Logan Co., Ohio, Armstrong Family in Ohio. 1980. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. and Margaret Poe McCarley. The Abel - Keller Genealogy: Eleven Generations, Earliest Born in Switzerland: Central Figure in America was George Abel (1754), Home was in Loudoun Co., Va., Bought Land in Harrison Co., Ohio for Children but Died at Home Place 6 mi. from Harper's Ferry; Hessian Soldier Deserted to the American Side. 1982. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Abel] McCarley, Walter R. George Abel, Born 1754 &amp; Wife, Catherine Roller - Germany to Loudoun C., Va. to Carroll Co., Ohio, Harrison Co., Tuscawarus Co., Morgan Co., Belmont Co., Logan Co. &amp; Elsewhere to 1991. Medina, Ohio: W.R. McCarley, 1991. Available at FHL.
 * [Adams] Ljunstedt, Milnor. "The Adamses in the Northern Neck of Virginia (Upper Counties) and Some Nearby Counties of Maryland," The American Genealogist, Vol. 13 (1936):82-88, 233-241. Available at New England Ancestors ($).
 * [Ball] Ball, William Lee. Genealogy of William Ball Born 1812 Loudoun County, Virginia. Honolulu, Hawaii: W.L. Ball, 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Ball] Maerz, Claudette Atwood.Ball Families of Loudoun County, Virginia. Bloomington, Minnesota: C. Maerz, [199-?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Caldwell] Clark, Edythe Maxey. Joseph Caldwell of Loudoun County, Virginia: and His Descendants. Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Carter] Carter, F.R. Nicholas. Genealogy of William R. Carter of the State of Pennsylvania, of Loudoun County, Virginia, of Preble County, Ohio, and Clinton County, Indiana: With Genealogy of the Following Allied Famalies: The Byers Family, the Richards Family, the Jury Family, the Thomas Family, the Douglass Family, the Hughes Family, the McCulloch Family, the Smiley Family. South Bend, Indiana: F.R.N. Carter, [1977?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Champe] Ballantyne, Robert Jadwin. Descendants of John Champe of Truro Parish and Loudoun County, Virgin[i]a: Three Generations. New Delhi, India: R.J. Ballantyne, 2001. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Clayton] Ferguson, Frances Luke. The William Clayton Family: From "Clayton Hall", England ---to "Clayton Hall", Loudoun Co., Va. 198-?. Available at FHL.
 * [Conard] Bowen, Amy Metcalf. The Descendants of John Conard of Loudoun County, Virginia. 1939. Available at FHL.
 * [Counts] Bushnell, Jean. Counts - Countz Surname Appearing in the Loudoun County, Virginia Tithables, 1761-1782. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Crim] See Abel.
 * [Crumbacker] Poling, Virginia S. and Newton L. Poling. John Crumbacker, Son of Hans Crumbacker, and Eve Filler Crumbacker of Loudoun County, Virginia and Their Descendants. Hagerstown, Maryland: V. &amp; N. Poling, 1994. Available at FHL.
 * [Diehl] Genealogy of the Descendants of Samuel Diehl and Margaretha Ritchey His Wife of Loudon County, Va.: and Bedford County, Pa., 1740-1828. Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania: Diehl Genealogy Publishing Committee, 1976. Available at FHL.
 * [Dilley] Jones, Thomas W. "Dilley of Northern Virginia and Ohio: A Proposed Solution Hanging on a Single Word," The American Genealogist, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Jul. 2004):220-227.
 * [Duncan] Bertsch, Amy. Gardner-Duncan Family: of Loudoun County, Virginia and Marion County, Missouri. Alexandria, Virginia: A. Bertsch, 2007. Available at FHL.
 * [Fred] Fred, Rosa Parrott. History of the Fred Family in Loudoun County, Virginia. 1969. Available at FHL.
 * [Gardner] See Duncan.
 * [Goodwin] "Appendix U: The Goodwins of Loudoun County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1897):126. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Gregg] Ewers, Dorothy Violet Wood. Some Gregg Records: Records of Birth[s], Marriages and Deaths, Etc., of the [Gregg] Members of Fairfax Monthly Meeting at Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia, 1740-1880. MSS., microfilmed in 1974, available at FHL.
 * [Gregg] Casey, Nancy A. Ancestors and Descendants of Hamilton and Dinah (Gregg) Rogers of Loudoun County, Virginia. Hadley, Massachusetts: N.A. Casey, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [Hough] Hough, Orville Louis. Hough in Loudoun County, Virginia, 1744-1850: An Unfinished History. Denver, Colorado: [O. L. Hough], 1974. Available at FHL.
 * [Lovett] Lovett, Daniel Jackson. Early Lovett Family of Bucks County, Pennslyvania [i.e. Pennsylvania] and Loudoun County, Virginia. Camden, South Carolina: D. Lovett, 1992. Available at FHL.
 * [Lucas] Tyler-McGraw, Marie. "'The Prize I Mean Is the Prize of Liberty': A Loudoun County Family in Liberia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 97, No. 3, "A Sense of Their Own Power": Black Virginians, 1619-1989 (Jul. 1989):355-374. Available at JSTOR.
 * [McCabe] McCabe, Michael V. Descendants of Dr. John Henry McCabe, Mayor of Leesburg and Sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia: Especilly through Dr. Henry McCabe, New Martinsville, West Virginia, and the McCabe Ancestral Line. Sterling, Virginia: M.V. McCabe, 1997. Available at FHL.
 * [McMakin] McMakin, Dean. McMakin and McMeekin: Some Descendants of Alexander McMakin of Loudoun County, Virginia; Includes the Surnames: Briggs, Campbell, Hays, Henson, Hinkle, Howard, Leachman, Litsey, McMeekin, Miller, Sudduth, Wheeler. St. Charles, Illinois : D. McMakin, [199-?]. Available at FHL.
 * [Maffett] Maffett, Everett L. Henry Maffett of Loudon [sic] County, Virginia and Descendants. Eaton, Ohio: Silver Press, 1987. Available at FHL.
 * [Morrison] King, John Walter. Archibald Morrison of Loudoun County, Virginia, and His Descendants. MSS., available at FHL.
 * [Oakley] Oakley, Eura and Betty Sellers. The George Oakley Family of Loudoun and Shenandoah Counties, Va. and Some of His Descendants. Melber, Kentucky: Simmons Historical Publications, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * [Pursell] Winchester, Warren. Benjamin Pursley (Pursell): of Loudoun County, Virginia, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Madison County, Kentucky. Middletown, Kentucky: W. Winchester, 1995. Available at FHL.
 * [Pursell] Winchester, Warren. "Thomas Pursell of New York New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware: Early Descendants in Maryland, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Kentucky," The American Genealogist, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Apr. 2006):110-120.
 * [Pursley]See Pursell.
 * [Rogers] See Gregg.
 * [Rousseau] Rousseau, Marilyn K. "The Colonial Virginia Ancestry of a Pioneer Florida Family: William H. Rousseau (1818-1870), Florida House of Representatives 1852, Florida State Senate 1865," The American Genealogist, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Jul. 2004):184-198.
 * [Shaw] Anderson, Bruce. The Descendants of John Shaw of Loudon Co., Virginia, Perry Co., Ohio. Lancaster, Ohio: Bruce Anderson, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [Shedd] Shedd, Joel P. The Shedd Family of the Southern States, Descended from James Shed of Loudoun County, Virginia. Arlington, Virginia: J. P. Shedd, 1981. Available at FHL.
 * [Simpson] Neibling Robert C. Solving the Identities of Gilbert Simpson (1699 - 1773) of Charles County, Maryland &amp; Fairfax County, Virginia &amp; His Son John Simpson (1739 - 1801) of Fairfax County Virginia &amp; Loudoun County, Virginia. Gulf Shores, Alabama: R.C. Neibling, 2000. Available at FHL.
 * [Skinner] Holcombe, Lester Granville. Descendants of Richard Alexander Skinner of Loudoun County, Virginia. Bourbonnais, Illinois: L.G. Holcombe, 1972. Available at FHL.
 * [Tavenner] Rose, Lois Esther Hammond. My Missouri Cousins, Jesse and Cecelia (Morris) Tavenner: Loudoun County, Virginia; Jefferson County, West Virginia; Cooper County, Missouri,1806-2005. Van Nuys, California: L.E.H. Rose, 2005. Available at FHL.
 * [Whaley] Cramb, Levi Kelsey. Whaleys of Loudoun County, Virginia,: and Some of Their Descendants Who Migrated to Kentucky. Fairbury, Nebraska: L.K. Cramb, 1947. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.
 * [Whaley] Foelsch, Donald H. and Levi Kelsey Cramb. An Index to Levi Kelsey Cramb's Preliminary Notes on the Whaleys of Loudoun Co., Va. Williamsport, Pennsylvania: D.H. Foelsch, 1982. Available at FHL.
 * [White] White, Stanley R. White Connections, Loudoun County, Virginia, Illinois, Dakota: A Genealogy of White, McIlhany, Vanandy, Roberts, Hunter, Tamblin, Ransom. Long Beach, California: S.R. White, 1981. Available at FHL.
 * [Wright] Perrine, Howland Delano. Anthony Wright of Loudoun County, Virginia and His Descendants. MSS., Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines, available at FHL.
 * [Wyatt] Peters, Genevieve E. John Wyatt of Loudoun, Shenandoah, and Franklin Counties, Virginia. 1969. Available at FHL.

Historic Residences

 * McGhee, George C. "George Washington's Trusteeship over the Estate of the Reverend Dr. Charles Green, 1765-1772, Which Included the Present Area of Farmer's Delight Farm, Loudoun County, Virginia," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 143, No. 4 (Dec. 1999):639-647. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Monroe, James. "Monroe's Estate in Loudoun County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Apr. 1934):168. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * Williams, Harrison. Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck. Richmond Virginia: Garrett and Massie, 1938. Available at FHL; digital book at BYU Family History Archives.

Immigration

 * [http://www.immigrantservants.com/search/advancedResults.php?surname=&givenName=&varientSurnameSpellings=&gender=&dateOfBirthDay=&dateOfBirthMonth=&dateOfBirthQuantifier=&dateOfBirthYear=&placeOfBirthParish=&placeOfBirthTown=&placeOfBirthCity=&placeOfBirthCounty=&placeOfBirthColony=&placeOfBirthNation=&occupations=&religions=&orphan=&familyPosition=&immigrationYearQualifier=&immigrationYear=&portOfDepartureTown=&portOfDepartureCity=&portOfDepartureCounty=&portOfDepartureNation=&placeOfArrivalTown=&placeOfArrivalCounty=&placeOfArrivalColony=&shipName=&convict=&yearOfIndentureQualifier=&yearOfIndenture=&lengthOfIndentureYears=&lengthOfIndentureMonths=&yearOfFreedomQualifier=&yearOfFreedom=&placeOfIndentureTown=&placeOfIndentureCity=&placeOfIndentureCounty=Loudoun&placeOfIndentureColony=&agentSurname=&agentGivenName=&agentTitle=&masterSurname=&masterGivenName=&masterTitle=&residenceParish=&residenceTown=&residenceCity=&residenceCounty=&residenceColony=&residenceNation=&landowner=&literate=&spouseSurname=&spouseGivenName=&spouseMarriageDateDay=&spouseMarriageDateMonth=&spouseMarriageDateQualifier=&spouseMarriageDateYear=&spouseMarriageLocationParish=&spouseMarriageLocationCounty=&spouseMarriageLocationColony=&spouseMarriageLocationNation=&deathDateDay=&deathDateMonth=&deathDateQualifier=&deathDateYear=&deathLocality=&deathCounty=&deathColony=&deathState=&testate=&proofServantStatus=&proofConvictStatus=&headright=&preServitudeSources=&postServitudeSources=&comments=&family=&sourceCitations=&interestedResearchers= List of imported servants from Europe] who served labor terms in Colonial Loudoun County, Virginia (work in progress), Courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

Military
French and Indian War


 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at FHL. [Identifies some Loudoun County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.]
 * Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at FHL; digital book at Ancestry ($). [Identifies some Loudoun County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.]

Revolutionary War


 * "Resolutions of Loundoun County: Loudoun County a Hundred Years Ago," [1774] The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr. 1904):231-236. Available at JSTOR ($).

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette(1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburgwebsite. 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.

Private Papers

 * Miller, Adrian Cather. Baldwin-Brown Bible Records, Loudoun County, Virginia: Including the Names of Burson, Chamblin, Ewers, Love, Tavenner, Saffer and Van Sickler. MSS., available at FHL.

Taxation

 * Indexed images of the 1789 Personal Property Tax List of Loudoun County, Virginia are available online at Binns Genealogy.
 * Images of the 1800 Personal Property Tax List of Loudoun County, Virginia are available online at Binns Genealogy.

Websites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog