King and Queen County, Virginia Genealogy

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

Description
King and Queen County is located in the eastern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia about 50 miles from the Chesapeake Bay and was named after King William III and Queen Mary of England.

County Courthouse
King and Queen County Courthouse 242 Allens Circle PO Box 86 King and Queen, VA 23085-0067 Phone 804-785-5982 King and Queen County Website

Clerk Circuit Court has birth and death records 1865-1898, marriage and divorce records from 1864 probate and court, records from 185 and land records from 1782

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 was named after King William III of England (1650-1702) and his wife Queen Mary II (1662-1694) who ruled the American colonies at the time of King and Queen County's organization.

Bible Records

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

Cemeteries

 * 1800-1986 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Census Records
1890 Union Veterans
 * Turner, Ronald Ray. Virginia's Union Veterans: Eleventh Census of the United States 1890. 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):
 * Bruington (1790). A profile was published in Virginia Baptist Register, Issue 42 (2003). A bicentennial history was published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 70 (Jan. 1991);cemetery transcripts were published in that publication in Issue 53 (Jul. 1982); another history is available in Issue 21 (Jul. 1966):.
 * Exol. Information was published about this church (1775) in Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Feb. 1996). A history was published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 58 (Jan. 1985). Tombstones were published in the same Bulletin, Issue 34 (Jan. 1973):.
 * Mattaponi (1824). Originally an Episcopalian place of worship. A history was published in the 1920s. Additional information, including tombstone transcriptions, was published in Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Aug. 1992):.
 * Upper King and Queen. Membership lists from 1774 to 1788 have been published: . They are also online at Ancestry ($) in Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Feb. 1992):60-64. Histories were published in King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 50 (Jan. 1981) and in Issue 59 (Jul. 1985):.

Church of England
 * Chamberlayne, C.G. The Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County, Virginia, 1729-1783. Richmond, Va.: n.p., 1931. Available at ; 1980 reprint at.
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). [Includes St. Stephens Parish Petition 1683.]
 * Mason, George Carrington. "The Colonial Churches of King and Queen and King William Counties, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct. 1943):440-464. Available at JSTOR.
 * Mason, George Carrington. Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1945. Available at ; digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library. Includes King and Queen County.
 * Vestry Book of Stratton Parish Register 1729-1783 Virginia Pioneers ($)

Court Records
Online Court Indexes and Records

General
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes Crittenden vs. Crittenden.

Chancery Court
 * Indexed images of King and Queen County, Virginia Chancery Records 1818-1913 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. These records, often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Local Court
 * Hopkins, William Lindsay. Some Wills from the Burned Counties of Virginia and Other Wills Not Listed in Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800. Richmond, Virginia: W.L. Hopkins, 1987. . Includes King and Queen County.

Copies of some destroyed wills have been collected and preserved:


 * "Listing of Copies of Wills Held by King and Queen County Historical Society," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 9, No. 4 (February/March 2001):226-232. 975.51 D25t

London Courts
 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Includes wills of residents of King and Queen County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.

Emigration and Immigration

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

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
 * Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. "A List of Free Negroes and Mulattoes, 1833 King and Queen County," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (August/September 1998):108-115. 975.51 D25t
 * Heinegg, Paul. "King and Queen County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1823," Free African Americans.com. Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.
 * Search the Library of Virginia's Virginia Untold collection for digitized records related to African Americans of King and Queen 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 King and Queen 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
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County Records Concerning 18th Century Persons. 7 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. . Digital versions at Ancestry ($):  Vol. 1; Vol. 2; Vol. 3; Vol. 4; Vol. 5;  Vol. 6; Vol. 7
 * Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908. Available at ; 1990 reprint at ; digital version at Ancestry ($); FamilySearch Digital Library. Genealogies of the Bagby, Bird, Bland, Boulware, Brooke, Byrd, Collins, Corbin, Corr, Crittenden, Courtney, Davis, Dickey, Fauntleroy, Fleet, Gaines, Garnett, Govan, Gresham, Harwood, Henley, Hill, Hutchinson, Lyne, Pollard, Porter, Purks, Richie, Roane, Roy, Ryland, Semple, Todd, Walker, and Ware families.
 * Harris, Malcolm Hart. Old New Kent County: Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places in... 2 vols. West Point, Va.: M.H. Harris, 1977.
 * Ryland, Elizabeth Hawes (1879-1954). Genealogical Notes. 1930-1954. Available at Virginia Historical Society. "Include genealogical notes, Bible records, and charts concerning the following Virginia families, primarily of King William and King and Queen counties: Arnold, Banks, Baylor, Beverley, Braxton, Brooke, Burwell, Camm, Carter, Chamberlayne, Claiborne, Dandridge, Gaines, Garlick, Gregory, Gwathmey, Jennings (oversize), Johnson, Littlepage, Moore, Nelson, Page, Pendleton, Robinson, Quarles, Rootes, Temple, Todd, Tunstall, Walker, West, Whiting, Winston, and Wormeley."
 * Spain, Jack. "Bewdley and Its Families," King and Queen Historical Society. Its Bulletin, No. 75 (Jul. 1993):1-4. Fleet, Gerlach, Latane, Mason, Pointer, Roy, Smith, and Tunstall families.

Land and Property Records
Online Land Indexes and Records

Deeds
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes transactions with residents of Amelia, Chesterfield, and Essex Counties.
 * 1704 - Quit Rents Virginia Pioneers ($)

Grants and Patents
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes patents 1711-1718 and early land grants.
 * Gray, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742. Vol. I. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987. Available at . Includes King and Queen County.

Local Histories

 * Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908. Available at ; 1990 reprint at ; digital versions at FamilySearch Digital Library, Ancestry ($).

Maps and Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places: Cities and Towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records
French and Indian War Revolutionary War
 * Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988. Available at . Online at: Ancestry ($). Identifies some King and Queen County militia officers, soldier enlistments, and veterans; see place name index.
 * Boogher, William F. Gleanings of Virginia History: An Historical and Genealogical Collection, Largely from Original Sources. Washington: n.p., 1903. Available at ; digital version at Internet Archive. Includes a chapter titled "Legislative Enactments connecting the preceding historic sketch (French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War) with the adjudication of the resulting accounts that follow; with the list of officers, soldiers and civilians entitled to compensation for military and other services rendered." For King and Queen County, see p. 111.
 * 1651-1776 Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954. Available at ; digital book at Ancestry ($). Identifies some County militia officers and soldiers; see place name index.
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes Revolutionary War services.
 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841. Digital versions at FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). 1967 reprint: . See Virginia, Eastern District, King and Queen County on page 131.
 * 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 King and Queen County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. King and Queen County supplied soldiers for the:
 * - 7th Virginia Regiment

War of 1812 King and Queen County men served in the 9th Regiment. Civil War
 * 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; digital versions at Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). See Vol. 5, Virginia, King and Queen County, p. 86. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.
 * 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)
 * Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. Baltimore: Clearfield Company. with company rosters on pages 139-148.
 * A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865.

Regiments. Civil War service men from King and Queen County County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company whose regiment in their county or an adjacent county. Listed below are regiments that were formed using, in part, men from King and Queen County.
 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate)
 * - 5th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (12 months, 1861-62) (Mullins') (Confederate). Company E (King and Queen Cavalry).
 * - 24th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate). Company C (Chesapeake Rangers), Company E, and Company F.
 * - 26th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate). Company C (The King and Queen Minute Men), Company G (The Clifton Guards), Company H (The King and Queen Guards), and Company I (The Jackson Grays).
 * - 34th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Confederate) - There is confusion surrounding the designation of this regiment. Read pages149-156 from to learn the details as to how "Bagby's Company" of the King and Queen Artillery was redesignated as an infantry unit.

Civil War Battle The following Civil War battle was fought in King and Queen County.
 * March 2, 1864 - Walkerton], also known as Mantapike Hill.
 * 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.

Other Records
Private Papers
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes Harris collection and Webb papers.
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes Beverley Prayer Book, Corbin-Randolph Memo, 1799, Row Memo, The Horrid Behavior of John Pigg, Esq., George Lyne-1780, Hill Diary Excerpts from the Revolutionary Diary of Baylor Hill, Baylor Hill Diary (Notes by Miss Ryland), Richmond Commercial Compiler, Crittenden vs. Crittenden, Col. Holt Richeson, and Bingham-West.

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1639-1850 Virginia Land, Marriage and Probate Records 1639-1850 at Ancestry — index, incomplete ($)
 * 1652-1900 Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1900 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1831-1881 Indexes to Wills & Estates at Virginia Pioneers ($)
 * 1832-1926; 1864-1893; 1894-1913; 1926-1945 Images of Wills & Estates at Virginia Pioneers ($)

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 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Tax Records
Online Tax Indexes and Records
 * 1704 "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28 (1920):207-218, 328-339; Vol. 29 (1921):18-28, 337-343, 402-412; Vol. 30 (1922):21-30, 280-285, 341-347; Vol. 31 (1923):70-75, 153-163, 215-231, 314-318; Vol. 32 (1924):69-75, 144-158, 281-287, 338-343; Vol. 33 (1925):47-50, 359-370; Vol. 34 (1926):113-119, 252-258, 313, 321. Available at ; reprinted in Virginia Tax Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983, which is also available at ; digital version of VMHB at JSTOR ($). King and Queen County appears in 32:144-158.
 * 1782 Fothergill, Augusta B. and John Mark Naugle. Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-87, Other Than Those Published by the United States Census Bureau. 1940; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. . Online at FamilySearch Digital Library, - images. 1782 personal property tax list of King and Queen County.
 * 1782-1820 Ward, Roger G. "Burned County Gleanings: King and Queen County Land Tax Lists, 1782-1820," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb. 1999):43-48. ; digital version at Ancestry ($). Some abstracts of taxpayers, including "genealogical tidbits," such as relationships, land transfers, etc.
 * 1782-1823 Heinegg, Paul. "King and Queen County Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1823," Free African Americans.com. Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.
 * 1782-1863 Personal property tax lists, 1782-1863.  - images.
 * 1782-1863 Land tax lists, 1782-1863. - images.
 * 1783  Personal Property (or Land) Tax List, 1783; index online at Revolutionary War Service website - free.
 * 1783 Personal Tax List, 1783, Researcher [Chillicothe, Missouri], Vol. 132 (1987). Available at.
 * 1783 Personal Tax List, 1783, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 91, No. 9 (Sep. 1957).
 * 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 & 21 Years, the Number of Slaves over 16 & Those Under 16 Years, Together with a Listing of Their Horses, Cattle & 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. Available at . The source of this publication is the 1787 personal property tax list. King and Queen County is included in Vol. 2.
 * 1787 "Land Tax List of King and Queen County, 1787," The Researcher: A Magazine of History and Genealogical Exchange, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul. 1928):144-146. Available at.
 * 1800 Tax List, 1800, The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan. 1990). Available at ; online at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($).
 * 1815 Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at . The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. King and Queen County is included in Vol. 3.
 * Tax Books, King and Queen County Historical Society Bulletin, Issue 67 (Jul. 1989).

Birth

 * 1715-1901 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1853-1866 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1912-1913 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1584-1917 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 ($)
 * 1771-1989 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1785-1940 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; Index; Also at: MyHeritage ($)
 * 1785-1940 Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1853-1935 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at: Ancestry ($)
 * 1936-1988 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Fleet, Beverley. King and Queen County. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961. Digital version at Ancestry ($). Includes marriages from the Virginia Gazette.

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

 * Richmond Virginia FamilySearch Center
 * Richmond Virginia Midlothian FamilySearch Center
 * Tappahannock Virginia FamilySearch Center


 * Heritage Public Library - New Kent - an affiliate library
 * Mathews Memorial Library - an affiliate library

Societies
Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society Website Tidewater Genealogical Society

Websites

 * King and Queen Co., VAGenWeb. Part of the USGenWeb Project. Maps, name indexes, history.
 * Cyndi's List


 * – 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

 * Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. "Records of Tidewater Virginia Counties," Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May-June 1992):53-66. 975.51 D25t. For King and Queen County, see pp. 59-60