PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi04910::A Guide to the Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920)//EN" "vi04910.xml" A Guide to the Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920 Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics 1043058, 1101692, 1101699, 1164994-1164995 Callie Lou Freed Library of Virginia © 2018 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Callie Lou Freed, 08 February 2018 Description is in English A Guide to the Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1043058, 1101692, 1101699, 1164994-1164995

Library of Virginia 2018 Library of Virginia Staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920 1043058, 1101692, 1101699, 1164994-1164995 State Records Center--Archives Annex, Library of Virginia 3 boxes; 2 v. English Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Court. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920. Local government records collection, Westmoreland County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These records came to the Library of Virginia in a shipment of court records from Westmoreland County under 30143 and 41890.

Historical Information

Westmoreland County was named for the English county. It was formed from Northumberland County in 1653. The county seat is Montross.

Many loose papers were burned during the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Volumes that record deeds, court orders (except an order book for the period 1764-1776) and wills exist.

Scope and Content

Westmoreland County (Va.) Marriage Records and Vital Statistics, 1826-1920, consists of a folder of Marriage Licenses and Ministers' Returns in an oversized box, a volume of Ministers' Returns, a register of Marriage Licenses with Marriage Certificates and 2 boxes of Birth and Death Records.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.

 Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Additional Westomoreland County Records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.

Related Material

Westmoreland County (Va.) is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Westmoreland County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

Index Terms Corporate Names: Westmoreland County (Va.) Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records--Virginia--Westmoreland County. Geographical Names: Westmoreland County (Va.)--History. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records--Virginia--Westmoreland County.