Fairfax County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1876-1877

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Fairfax County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1876-1877. Local government records collection, Fairfax County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Summary

Creator:
Fairfax County (Va.) County Court.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Fairfax County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1876-1877. Local government records collection, Fairfax County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Background

Scope and content:

Fairfax County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1876-1877, records marriages in the county during the late nineteenth century. This original volume contains the following information: date and place of marriage, full names of both parties, race of parties (white or colored), age and condition of parties before marriage, birth places of parties, places of residence of parties, names of their parents, occupation of husband and name of person performing marriage ceremony.

Biographical / historical:

Fairfax County was formed from Prince William County in 1742. Part of Loudoun County was added in 1798. The county exchanged land with the city of Fairfax in 1980, 1992, and 1994. The county was named for Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the Northern Neck.

In 1853, the General Assembly passed a law requiring the systematic statewide recording of vital statistics. The marriage register, still compiled by the county clerk from ministers' returns and other original marriage records, became more standardized and comprehensive.

The original records, from which this register was compiled, were created by the County Court.

Original wills and deeds as well as many other loose papers were destroyed during the Civil War; deed books for twenty-six of the fifty-six years between 1763 and 1819 are missing. Numerous pre-Civil War minute books are missing as well.

Acquisition information:
These original items came to the Virginia State Library (now the Library of Virginia), under the accession number 33146, in a transfer of court papers from Fairfax County.
Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically by month, day and year.

Physical location:
State Records Center - Archives Annex, Library of Virginia
Physical description:
2 items (3 p.)