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''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Cornwall Parish, Virginia|Cornwall Parish]]
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== History  ==
== History  ==
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==== Founded  ====
==== Founded  ====


*1757<ref>Freddie Spradlin, [https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/genealogy/HANCOCK/VA%20Colonial%20Parishes.html "Parishes of Virginia,"] VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; [https://usgenwebsites.org/vagenweb/hening/ ''Hening's Statutes at Large;''] Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., ''The Hornbook of Virginia History'' (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).</ref>
*1757<ref>Freddie Spradlin, [http://vagenweb.org/parishes.htm "Parishes of Virginia,"] VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; [http://vagenweb.org/hening/''Hening's Statutes at Large;''] Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., ''The Hornbook of Virginia History'' (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).</ref>


==== Boundary  ====
==== Boundary  ====
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==== Parish History ====
==== Parish History ====


Meade's 1861 history of Cornwall Parish is available [http://archive.org/stream/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft#page/490/mode/2up online.]<ref>William Meade, ''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia'', 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: [https://www.archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft Vol. I] and [http://archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis02meaduoft Vol. II].</ref>
Meade's 1861 history of Cornwall Parish is available [http://archive.org/stream/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft#page/490/mode/2up online.]<ref>William Meade, ''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia'', 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: [http://www.archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft Vol. I] and [http://archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis02meaduoft Vol. II].</ref>


==== Church Records ====
==== Church Records ====
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[[Category:Charlotte County, Virginia]] [[Category:Lunenburg County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Charlotte County, Virginia]] [[Category:Lunenburg County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Virginia Parishes]]

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History[edit | edit source]

Cornwall Parish has served Lunenburg and Charlotte counties.

Founded[edit | edit source]

Boundary[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Meade's 1861 history of Cornwall Parish is available online.[2]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Colonial parish registers have been lost.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
  2. William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.