Abingdon Parish, Virginia Genealogy

United States   Virginia    Abingdon Parish

History
Abingdon Parish serves Gloucester County, Virginia.

Founded

 * abt 1653

Cemetery
The tombs in existence at Abingdon Parish Church in 1894 are identified in:


 * Tyler, Lyon G. "Inscriptions on Old Tombs in Gloucester Co., Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr. 1894):219-229. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

A few hundred of the graves at the parish church cemetery are described at Find A Grave.

Land
Abingdon Parish landowners and land usage from 1639 to 1659 are identified in:


 * Thornton, James R. "The Hills, Gloucester County Home of the Immigrant William Thornton," The Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Feb. 2001):5-29. Digital version at Ancestry ($).

Parish History



 * Abingdon Church: A Chronology of its History, 1650-1970. (c)1972.

Parish Registers

 * Robins, Robert W. The Register of Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1780. Arlington, Va.: Honford House, 1981. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 80-85448

Websites

 * Abingdon Church, The Historical Marker Database