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Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] St Andrews Parish Church
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:34:54 EST
Dear Gayle Austin
You wrote:
Has the St Andrews Parish Church records ever been published or even
found? If so does anyone know where I can find a copy?
Gayle
A useful paperback which I found at the VA State Library some years ago (and
I believe it is still in print) is Parish Lines, Diocese of Virginia by
Charles Francis Cocke and published by the VA State Library. The first
edition was 1967 and my copy is a 1978 reprint. I believe it cost less than
$20. It may be on a shelf in your library.
Under a paragraph labeled Spotsylvania County, 1721:
"By an Act of the General Assembly in 1720, it was enacted: [not quoted by me
as it does not pertain to St. Andrew's Parish].
However, this paragraph follows:
By this same act, Brunswick County and St. Andrew's Parish was created. St.
George Parish was created to cover the entire county of Spotsylvania.
The index to this book. A companion book called Parish Lines, Diocese of
Southwestern Virginia, same author, same publisher, different date (1960),
various reprints. Both these books are valuable reference books for any
serious researcher of Virginia. In the back of each book are some pertinent
maps of the parishes and the county or counties in which they lay at various
times.
Recently I was at the VA State Library, and our class (Elderhostel) was
given a sheet with a list of surviving parish vestry books and registers
(there's a difference) and which ones have been published. I have so many
papers from that experience that I have not yet located the list. Perhaps
you can send a self-addressed stamped envelope and ask that you be sent one.
However, you might also try their online catalog as well as the LDS family
history library catalog to learn whether it has been published.
Many books on colonial Brunswick Co. have been recently been published.
E.W.Wallace
southern California
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