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Surry County was named for the county of Surrey in England.\n","Prior to 1853, when the Commonwealth began recording vital statistics, Virginia marriages were recorded at the county or city level.  Beginning in 1661, in order to be married by license, the groom was required to go before the county clerk and give bond with security that there was no lawful reason to prevent the marriage.  The license, issued then by the clerk, was given to the minister who performed the service.  Written consent from a parent or guardian was needed for individuals younger than twenty-one years.\n","Created in 1652. Order books for 1718–1741 and various other early\nvolumes are fragmentary. Most loose records prior to 1806 are missing. Courthouse fires in 1906 and 1922\ndid not result in loss of records, however, because at that time records were housed in a separate clerk’s office.","Additional Surry County Marriage Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm\" found on the Library of Virginia web site at www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/local/local_rec/index.html.\n","Surry County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Surry County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory.","Surry County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1768-1853, is essentially divided into two sections.  The first section covering pages 1-206, 1768-1850, records the date of the marriage bond, the names of both parties, the names of the parents or guardians and the security or witnesses present.  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The register shall follow a set form and each descriptive list shall be attested by said clerk.\"\n","In addition, \"the clerk of every court of record of each county or corporation, other than the county or corporation court, shall within ten days from the date of conviction of any person in his court of any offence mentioned in the first section of this act, deliver to the clerk of the county or corporation court, for record in said register, an attested descriptive list of the person so convicted, in the form hereinbefore prescribed.\" The judges of the respective courts are responsible for seeing that the provisions of the act are \"punctually and properly carried out\" by their respective clerks. The act was amended on 18 January 1871 and outlined the following: \"For the services mentioned in this or the first section of this act, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, to be paid out of the state treasury.\" By and large, the county and circuit court clerks went about compiling these registers throughout the counties of Virginia as late as the 1960s.\n","Instead of entries in order or minute books, lists of convicts appear in Justices of the Peace dockets for the county--as noted in Volume 2.\n","The original registers were created by the County and Circuit Courts.\n","Additional Surry County Court Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.  Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm\"","Surry County is one of Virginia's Lost Record Localities.  Additional Surry County Court Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. 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