Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia Genealogy

Guide to Antrim Parish, Halifax County ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

History
Antrim Parish has served Halifax County, Virginia. Mount Laurel Church belonged to Antrim Parish.

Rev. Charles A. Dresser, formerly Rector of Antrim Parish, is the minister who married Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd out in Illinois in 1842.

Founded

 * 1752 from Cumberland Parish

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

Antrim Parish reports:


 * Convention of 1829 (p. 233)
 * Convention of 1830 (p. 246)
 * Convention of 1831 (p. 259)
 * Convention of 1832 (p. 274)
 * Convention of 1833 (p. 290)
 * Convention of 1834 (p. 306)
 * Convention of 1835 (pp. 325-326)

Parish Records
Colonial parish registers have been lost.

Vestry Books
Antrim Parish's vestry book (1751-1817) is kept at the Virginia Theological Seminary. Copies: Library of Virginia and. The records have been abstracted:


 * Chiarito, Marian Dodson. Vestry Book of Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia, 1752-1817. Nathalie, Va.: Clarkton Press, 1983.

Select abstracts were also published in the early twentieth century:


 * Carrington, Wirt Johnson. "Extracts From First Vestry Book of Antrim Parish," The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1927), pp. 61-63. ; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Websites

 * Minister Who Married Lincoln, The Historical Marker Database