Virginia law didn't require the registering of marriages with the county
clerk until 1780.  Before that date a couple might only announce banns
and have their wedding recorded by the church.  Most Virginia church
marriage registers for the colonial period (including for Albemarle
County's parishes) are not known to exist.  If a couple preferred to
take out a bond instead, there might be a record in the clerk's office.
If the bonds themselves are not extant, the clerk's fee book might
report the names of the couple (or at least the groom) and the date the
fee was paid.

Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian,
Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
  for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC),
Prince William Public Library System,
Bull Run Regional Library,
8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, VA  20110-2892
703-792-4540   www.pwcgov.org/library/relic


-----Original Message-----

Date:    Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:42:12 EST
From:    Sharon Leonard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Albemarle County Formation

Since Albemarle County was formed from a portion of Western Goochland
County about 1745, and Vogt and Kethley's "Albemarle County Marriages
1780-1853" begins in 1780, would marriages prior to 1780 be found in
Goochland? and/or  Amherst, Buckingham, Fluvanna and Nelson Counties,
depending on where my ancestor's land would be located? What maps would
be best  to look at in order to determine where the land would be
located?   Three-Notched road is 
mentioned in several deeds -
Sharon
 
 

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