Roane Family Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Roane Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
0.50 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Roane Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Photographs, postcards, election material and family material of the Roane Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. Collection centers on the Roane Family, but also has material on Gloucester, Virginia organizations such as the Historical Society and Virginia organizations, such as the Clerk of Courts Association, and regional organizations, such as the Rotary Club.

Papers relating to the Primary Election on August 3, 1943 and documents from 1959.

Request from the Gloucester Historical and Bicentennial Committee for help with adding historical information to an attached list.

Scope and Contents

Daily Press clipping, November 15, 1964, on the service of the Gloucester County Clerks, one being R.R. Roane. Picture of the Abington Hotel in Gloucester Point, Virginia. undated

Scope and Contents

Souvenir album of visit at the country club at Gloucester, Virginia on May 1, 1946 when a group of South American Highway Engineers and other friends were guests of A.W. "Al." Evans at an informal party and demonstration of the AL. Evans Winch, and the Thew-Lorain Moto-Crane. Report of Proceedings of Virginia Court Clerks' Association, including list of officers and members. 1944-45. Bound copy, "Muster-Roll, Gloucester County, VA. in the War in Defense of Virginia, 1861-1865." Blank notecard with picture of Saint Peters Church. "Symbols of Quality" advertisement for Hallmark Cards. Nine books were removed from collection to be added to Swem Stacks or SCRC Rare Books. See list in folder.

Reports and correspondence about the Roane Family. Compiled by Congressman M. A. Romjue, Catherine C. Woodland and B.B. Roane.

Expenses from 1950, minutes for 1951 and a list of members from 1953.

Group of men in front of possible the confederate memorial at Gloucester Courthouse which was dedicated in 1880. Men are identified by W.C. Stubbs, Jr. in 1938 and are listed on a separate sheet.

Scope and Contents

Two postcards with descriptions written on them. Postcard of "High Gate" is dated 1908. Letter from Hoskins Mallory Sclater of Roanoke, Virginia to Bernard B. Roane, August 9, 1956, returning the postcards.

Scope and Contents

Two postcards addressed to Master R.D. Roane in Baltimore, Maryland from Carrie. Both postcards are of "Sunnyside" in Cash, Virginia. One postcard to B.B. Roane of Gloucester, Virginia from Maryland with a photograph of "The Water Works at Gloucester C.H." One postcard of an unidentified church.

Possibly Basil Bernard Roane.

Group of men, one who may be Basil Bernard Roane, eating crabs and drinking beer around a table.

Panaramic photograph of a group of men from each county of Virginia, with names and counties noted under their picture. Appears to be in Richmond, Virginia. Possibly the Clerks of Court in Virginia.

Panoramic photograph of men and women on horses in a field. November 29 to December 3, 1926.

Panoramic photograph of men standing in front of a brick building.

Commission for Basil Bernard Roane as a member of the Virginia War History Branch, Gloucester, signed by Westmoreland Davis, Governor of Virginia. July 25, 1919.

Panoramic photographs of attendees of the 87th District Rotary Conference at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. May 3, 1938.

Panoramic photograph of men, women and young people in front of a brick building. Note on photograph says Alexandria, Virginia.

Panoramic photograph of mean and women seated at banquest tables in a banquet type hall.

Photostat copy of the family tree of Rev. Lawrence Washington.

Item has been transferred to the Artifact Collection.

Biographical / historical:

Clerk of the Circuit Court of Gloucester County, Virginia from 1918 to 1974. Born at Cash, Gloucester County, Virginia on January 1, 1889.

Acquisition information:
Gift.
Processing information:

Processed by Anne Johnson.

Arrangement:

Collection is divided into folders, ordered alphabetically by subject, and into rolled items which include panoramic photographs and a genealogy chart.