Mobile County, Alabama Genealogy

United States   Alabama    |Mobile County

County Courthouse
Mobile County Courthouse 109 Government Street Mobile, Al 36602- 3108 Phone: 334-690-8700

Probate Judge has marriage records from 1813 Probate Records from 1812 and land records from 1813

History
Mobile initially fell within the bounds of Mississippi Territory.

Parent County
1812--Mobile County was created 1 August 1812 from West Florida. County seat: Mobile

Record Loss
Mobile, Alabama Wind Storm

July 5, 1916

1916-MOBILE IS SWEPT BY 85-MILE-AN-HOUR WIND. . The county courthouse was severely damaged, and faces of the clock on all four sides were blown off. . . The courthouse tower was wrecked and rain poured into the court rooms. . . (source:GenDisasters)

Cities
Bayou La Batre | Chickasaw | Citronelle | Creola | Mobile | Prichard | Saraland | Satsuma

Towns
Dauphin Island | Mount Vernon

Census Designation Places
Grand Bay | Theodore | Tillmans Corner

Unincorporated communities
Bucks | Eight Mile | Kushla | Mauvilla | St. Elmo | Semmes | Whistler

Ghost town
Beaver Mills

Neighboring Counties
Baldwin | Clarke | Washington | Mississippi counties: George | Greene | Jackson

African American

 * 1865-1930s - in "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950," at FamilySearch.org - free. (skips books 5 and 38)

Biography

 * Mobile County Biographies at The USGenWeb Archives Project - free.

Cemeteries
BillionGraves:


 * Casher Cemetery, Mobile
 * Cold Springs cemetery, Theodore
 * Ebenezer Cemetery, Mobile
 * Mobile Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Tillmans Corner
 * New Hope Cemetery, Mobile
 * St. Rose of Lima, Mobile off Hwy 193 on island near Mon Louis.

Websites operated by the cemetery itself:


 * Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, AL

Additional Mobile County cemeteries are included in Alabama Cemetery Records and  at FamilySearch Books Online - free.

Directories

 * 1890-1892 - Mobile, Alabama City Directories, 1890-92 at Ancestry ($). Includes 1890, 1891, and 1892 directories.

Local Histories

 * Bi-centennial Celebration, May 26-28, 1911, of the Founding of Mobile by Jean Baptiste de Bienville, 1711. Mobile: Commercial Print. Co., 1912. Digital version at Ancestry ($).


 * Craighead, Erwin. Mobile: Fact and Tradition, Noteworthy People and Events. Mobile, Ala.: Powers Print. Co., 1930. Digital version at Ancestry ($).


 * Delaney, Caldwell. Remember Mobile. Mobile, Ala., 1948. Digital version at Ancestry ($).


 * Hamilton, Peter J. Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin and the old South West from the Discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Digital version at Ancestry ($).


 * Hamilton, Peter J. Mobile of the Five Flags: The Story of the River Basin and Coast about Mobile from the Earliest Times to the Present. Mobile: Gill Print. Co., 1913. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Civil War, 1861-1865
Civil War service men from Mobile County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies or regiments that were formed from men of Mobile County.


 * - 1st Battalion, Alabama Artillery, Company A

Civil War Battle Fought in Mobile County

 * Mobile Bay, also known as Passing of Forts Morgan and Gaines, August 2-23, 1864 (partly fought in Baldwin County)

Battle information from Civil War Battle Summaries by State, by the Heritage Preservation Services.

Map showing Civil War battles in Alabama, by the Heritage Preservation Services.

Taxation

 * 1814 -, courtesy: FamilySearch - free. (browse under Hancock, Jackson, Mobile)


 * 1816-1817 -, courtesy: FamilySearch - free.


 * 1816 - Inhabitants of Alabama in 1816. Broken Arrow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1955. Digital version at - free. Includes Mobile County.

Birth

 * 1881-1930 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Marriage

 * 1813-1929 - in "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950," at FamilySearch.org - free.


 * 1813-1855 - King, Clinton P. and Merlem A. Barlow. Marriages of Mobile County Alabama, 1813-1855. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1985. Free Name Search ; publisher's bookstore: Genealogical.com ;.


 * 1816-1957 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection. Incomplete.

Death

 * 1881-1952 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection


 * 1908-1974 - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection

Family History Center

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Mobile Alabama
 * 5520 Ziegler Blvd Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States Phone: 251-344-9270 Hours: M - F: 10 am - 12 pm; Th: 6 pm - 8 pm. Closures: May 30; Jul 4; Sep 5; Nov 21 - 25; Dec 23 - Jan 6

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * USGenWeb Archives Project~ contains record transcriptions from Bibles, obituaries, court records and more.
 * Mobile County ALGenWeb ~ record transcriptions and information pertinent to the county.
 * Mobile County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)
 * Mobile County, Alabama Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)