Tillotson Parish, Virginia

United States   Virginia    Tillotson Parish

History
Tillotson Parish has served Albemarle and Buckingham counties. Old Buckingham Church belonged to this parish, until 1784, when it became Buckingham Baptist Church. Goodwin Church, the church at Curdsville, and another possibly near the Methodist Female College all fell within the bounds of Tillotson Parish.

Founded

 * 1757 from St. Anne's Parish (Albemarle Co.)

Cemetery
A survey of Buckingham Baptist Church Cemetery, made in 1997, has been published: (pages 112-174).

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

Parish Records
The Library of Virginia has collected two sets of Tillotson Parish records. One covers the years 1771-1796, and the other 1773-1796. In 1861, Meade said the vestry book had been lost.

Hopkins published:


 * Hopkins, William Lindsay. "Surviving Records of Tillotson Parish, Buckingham County, 1771-1796," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Aug. 1989):183-190. Digital version at Ancestry ($);.

Warren abstracted early marriages:


 * Warren, Mary Bondurant et al. Buckingham County, Virginia, Church and Marriage Records, 1764-1822. Athens, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1993..

Websites

 * "Old Buckingham Church," The Historical Marker Database
 * "Buckingham Baptist Church," The Historical Marker Database