Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Gloucester County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1854-1919. Local government records collection, Gloucester County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of court records from Gloucester County as part of accession 22207.

Historical Information

Gloucester County was named probably to honor Henry, duke of Gloucester, the third son of King Charles I, or it may also have been named for the English county. It was formed from York County in 1651.

Created in 1651. All records were destroyed by an 1820 fire, and most of the records created after 1820 were destroyed by fire on April 3, 1865, in Richmond, where they had been moved for safekeeping during the Civil War.

Scope and Content

Gloucester County (Va.) Fiduciary Records, 1854-1919, include miscellaneous records filed in a local court by trustees, administrators, executors, guardians, and committees that related to the performance of their duties managing a person's estate. These records typically include the following; bonds, appraisements, audits, inventories, accounts, estate divisions, settlements, dowery records, etc. Information related to enslaved people are commonly found in these records.

This collection includes Circuit Court Fiduciary Settlement Book, General Index to Fiduciary Accounts, and Ledger and Cashbook of Wyndham Kemp

Related Material

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

See the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note .

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