Abingdon Parish, Virginia Genealogy

History
Abingdon Parish serves Gloucester County, Virginia.

Founded

 * abt 1653

Cemetery
The tombs in existence at Abingdon 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 ($).

The Virginia State Library published a survey of the graves at Abingdon Cemetery in 1959. (pages 12 to 22).

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


Meade's 1861 history of Abingdon Parish is available online.


 * Sinclair, Carolina Baytop. Abingdon Church: A Chronology of Its History, 1650-1970. Gloucester County, Virginia. White Marsh, Va.: Abingdon Episcopal Church, 1972.

Rev. William Byrd Lee's history of Abingdon Church, Gloucester County, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.

Abingdon and Ware Parish reports:


 * Convention of 1827 (pp. 203-204)
 * Convention of 1828 (p. 219)
 * Convention of 1830 (p. 245)
 * Convention of 1831 (p. 261)
 * Convention of 1832 (p. 273)
 * Convention of 1833 (p. 292)
 * Convention of 1834 (p. 306)

Parish Registers
The early registers have been abstracted:


 * Lee, C.H. and Sallie Nelson Robbins. [Abingdon] Parish Register, 1678-1761. MSS. Library of Virginia. Copy:
 * 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

The original Register for Abingdon and Ware parishes, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1830-1916 is kept at the Library of Virginia. Copies:. Contains births and christenings 1830-1924, confirmations 1838-1917, list of members, communicants 1850-1914, marriages 1831-1916, deaths 1830-1918, and a few tombstone inscriptions. Includes some entries for "coloured persons".

The earlier original register was destroyed in a fire in 1916, but fortunately, the information printed, mentioned above, had been abstracted before that time.

Websites

 * Abingdon Church, The Historical Marker Database