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Lunenburg County, Virginia Wills 1746-1765, By Katherine Elliott, Originally published in 1967, Published by Southern Historical Press, Inc., 2016, 178 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-377-1.
Lunenburg County was created in 1746 out of Brunswick County, VA. The earliest records in Lunenburg County cover this entire area. The records included in this volume have been abstracted from wills and administrations found in the back of Deed Book I and Will Book I & II. Because some of the early records of Lunenburg County do not seem to have been preserved, the compilers have included in this volume some 20 pages of records abstracted from ORDER BOOK 1-6. These notes from the order books give names of deceased persons not of record in the will books, and names of orphans and other notes pertaining to the period covered in Volumes 1 and 2 of these reprints. Also found is a listing of marriages taken from Deed Books and other vital records, as well as apprenticeships, guardianship and much other valuable data important to the person searching this area of Virginia. There are more than 2,200 names of persons found in the above records listed in the full-name index.
Lunenburg County, Virginia Wills 1746-1825, by Landon C. BELL, published by Genealogical.Com, ISBN: 9780806350493.
Lunenburg County in southeastern Virginia was created from Brunswick County in 1746. The wills abstracted for this volume, shortly before the compiler’s death, embrace all of those recorded in Lunenburg County from its formation through 1825. Most of the original wills were recorded in the county’s official Will Books; however, Mr. Bell also discovered some early wills in county deed books as well as in circuit court records. Each abstract typically provides the following information: the name of the testator, his date of death and the date of probate, the names of the surviving spouse, children, or grandchildren, and the names of the executor(s) and witnesses. Mr. Bell also gives the page reference to the Lunenburg County Will Book where the original will may be found. The complete name index at the back of the volume, which was prepared by the Virginia Book Company following Mr. Bell’s death, refers to some 7,000 persons in all.
Sunlight on the Southside: Lists of Tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748-1783. by Landon C. Bell, 1931, (1998), paper, 503 pp.
Lunenburg County was the parent or grandparent of the counties of Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, Franklin, Bedford, Campbell, and Appomattox–a domain embracing one-quarter of the State of Virginia. Since Lunenburg’s records are unique in their high survival rate, the lists of tithes presented in this work are rich in genealogical detail and constitute, in substance, the earliest census records of the Colony of Virginia. No other public records of the period contain so complete an account of the population as do these tithes, or tax lists. The tithes make it possible to construct, for this part of the Southside, a census record earlier in point of time and more complete and authentic than for any comparable section of the state. In particular, the available lists of tithes before any subdivision of the county took place are among the most critical and important materials known for the study of early Virginia origins.
Some Early Landowners in Southern Nottoway and Northern Lunenburg Counties, Virginia, and the Cocke (Coke) Family Who Once Lived There by Ben H. Coke, Published by Iberian Publishing Company, 1997. 138 pp.
Some Early Landowners in Southern Nottoway and Northern Lunenburg Counties, Virginia, and the Cocke (Coke) Family Who Once Lived There. Ben H. Coke. locate eighteenth-century residents of this are in a number of ways: through the tract itself, where the tract, year, grantor, grantee, acreage, and source are listed; through an alphabetic listing of grantees with the same essential information; and a listing of grantors; In addition, there are a number of topographic maps, plus name and plat indices at the end. Anyone with early landowning colonial family in the region will welcome this study.
Lunenburg County Marriages, 1750-1853, by John Vogt & T. William Kethley, Jr., Published by Iberian Publishing Company, 1988.
Lunenburg County was created in 1746 from a portion of Brunswick County. 2,435 marriage records are reflected in the current volume. They are drawn from a variety of primary sources, including copies of typed bonds in the county court house (the original bonds are missing), scattered ministers' returns in will and deed books, and microfilm records in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. Two appendices provide a date frequency and a listing of all ministers reporting returns.
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CUMBERLAND PARISH Lunenburg Co. Va 1746-1816 and Vestry Book 1746-1816 by Landon C. Bell. Lookups by: Harold Wayne Cochran and
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Lunenburg County Va, Deed Books 1-16 (1746-1795).
An Every-name Index Copyright 1992 TLC Genealogy (This lists the book and page # in TLC's abstracted deed books [A-K], not the page # in the actual deed book) The TLC books refer to the recording dates for the following years: A-1746-52, B-1752-57, C-1757-61, D-1761-64, E-1763-64, F-1764-71, G-1771-77, H-1777-84, I-1784-87, J-1787-90, K-1790-95. Lookups by: Nancy Wilson