Portsmouth Parish, Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy
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History[edit | edit source]
Portsmouth Parish has served Norfolk County, Virginia Genealogy.
Founded[edit | edit source]
- 1761 from Elizabeth River Parish[1]. The parish church was named Trinity Church.[2]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of Portsmouth Parish is available online.[3]
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Colonial parish registers do not survive.
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Trinity Episcopal Church (official website)
- Trinity Church Marker, The Historical Marker Database
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Edward W. James, "Trinity Church, Portsmouth," The Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Antiquary, Vol. 4, Part 2 (1902):72-74. Digital version at Google Books - free.
- ↑ 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.