Dettingen Parish, Virginia • FamilySearch

United States Virginia Dettingen Parish

History

Dettingen Parish has served Fauquier and Prince William counties. Quantico Church and Broad Run Church (also known as "Slaty Run Church" and "the church at Redmans") belonged to this parish.

Founded

1744 from Hamilton Parish^[1]

Resources

Cemetery

A survey of the graves at Quantico Church was published in 1993.^[2] FHL Book 975.52732 V32t.

List of Ministers

List of Rectors of Dettingen Parish 1745-1978, The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct. 1987):32-33. FHL Collection

Parish History

Meade's 1861 history of Dettingen Parish is available online.^[3]

Parish Records

"A list of tithables between Sedderrun [sic] (Cedar Run) and Boolrun [sic] (Bull Run) in Ditingin[sic] (Dettingen) Parish in Prince William County for 1747" See Prince William "Taxation" entry in this catalogue [1]

Parish Registers

Colonial parish registers have been lost.

"Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia, Dumfries Church Register, 1815-1824," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1986):90-98. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 26 (1982).^[4] Includes register of communicants and baptisms.
Dettingen Parish Register of Marriages, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb. 1986):84.

Vestry Books

Records of Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia: Vestry Book, 1745-1785, Minutes of Meetings of the Overseers of the Poor, 1788-1802, Indentures, 1749-1782. Dumfries, Va.: Historic Dumfries Virginia, Inc., 1976.

Websites

Dumfries Cemetery, The Historical Marker Database
Quantico Church, The Historical Marker Database

References

↑ 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).
↑ Ronald Ray Turner, Prince William County, Virginia, Burial Index, 1800-1993 (Manassas, Va.: R.R. Turner, c1994).
↑ 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.
↑ Margaret B. Binning, "Birth Records of Prince William County, Virginia Prior to 1912 (From Various Sources Except the Official Register)," available online, courtesy: RELIC.

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