Frederick Parish, Virginia

United States   Virginia    Frederick Parish

History
Frederick Parish has served Frederick and Clarke counties.

Frederick Parish was organized in 1744. It was renamed in 1866.

Old Chapel is now located within the bounds of Clarke County.

Founded

 * 1738 or 1744

Record Loss

 * Colonial parish register

Cemetery

 * Brown, Stuart E., Lorraine F. Myers and Eileen M. Chappel. Biographical and Genealogical Record of Persons Buried at Old Chapel. Berryville, Va., 1987.

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


 * 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 ($).
 * "Frederick Parish And Its Divisions," Proceedings of The Clarke County Historical Association, Vol. XIV (1956-1957):16-26; digital version at Clarke History.
 * Hughes, Charles Randolph et al. Old Chapel, Clarke County, Virginia. Berryville, Va.: The Blue Ridge Press, 1906. Digital version at Internet Archive;
 * Meade, Everard Kidder. "Frederick Parish, Virginia, 1744-1780, Its Churches, Chapels, Ministers and Vestries," Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association, Part I: Vol. 5 (1945):18-38 (digital version at Clarke History); Part II: Vol. 6 (1946):24-46 (digital version at Clarke History). See also "Appendix I: Legislative Record of Frederick Parish," in Vol. 6 (1946):47-49.
 * Reviewed by G. MacLaren Brydon in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan., 1948), pp. 102-104. Review: ; digital version of review at JSTOR ($).

Parish Registers
A register of baptisms, marriages, and burials cannot be found for Frederick Parish.

Dr. Alexander Balmain, Rector of Frederick Parish, recorded details of more than 750 marriages he performed in his journal (1781-1821):


 * 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..

Vestry Books
Vestry books, 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 back 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.

Websites

 * Old Chapel, The Historical Marker Database