Hungars Parish, Northampton County, Virginia Genealogy

History
Hungars Parish has served Northampton County, Virginia.

Founded

 * 1691

Lost Records
Colonial parish registers are lost

Cemetery
A survey of the graves at Hungar's Church was published in 1984. This survey is available online at Eastern Shore Stuff. .

Ministers
Ann Graves was married to three rectors of Hungar's Parish: (1) William Cotton, (2) Nathaniel Eaton, and (3) Francis Doughty. Their biographies are published in:


 * Hiden, Mrs. P.W. "Three Rectors of Hungar's Parish and Their Wife," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan. 1939):34-41; digital version at JSTOR ($); Addenda: Vol. 19, No. 3 (Jul. 1939):299-301. ; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Parish History
Meade's 1861 history of Hungar's Parish is available online.


 * Stitt, Susan. "The Will of Stephen Charlton and Hungars Parish Glebe," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Jul., 1969), pp. 259-276. ; digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Upshur, Anne Floyed and Wilsom M. Stitt. The History of Hungars Episcopal Church, Hungars Parish, Northampton County, Bridgetown, Virginia. Undated pamphlet. Digital version at ghotes of Virginia.

M.C. Howard's history of Hungars Church, Northampton County, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.

Parish Records
The original parish register is lost, but two years of entries, dating from the Restoration, were recorded in civil court books kept in the Northampton County Courthouse. Births, marriages, and burials from Lady's Day 1660 (March 25) to Lady's Day 1661 (March 25) were recorded in Northampton County's Book of Orders, Deeds, &amp;c. Abstracts:


 * Robertson, Thomas B. "Hungars Parish Records for 1660-1661," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jan. 1910):178-181. ; digital versions at JSTOR - free and USGenWeb Archives. Republished in Genie (Journal of the Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association), Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct. 1980).

Births, marriages, and burials from Lady's Day 1661 (March 25) to Lady's Day 1662 (March 25) were recorded in Northampton County's Book of Deeds, Wills, &amp;c. (1657-1666). Abstracts:


 * Robertson, Thomas B. "Hungars Parish Records," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jul., 1913), pp. 39-43. ; digital version at JSTOR - free.

Websites

 * Hungars Episcopal Church, Bayside Road, Bridgetown, VA