Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Buckingham County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History Buckingham County, lying south of the James River at the geographic center of the state, was established on May 1st, 1761 from the southeastern portion of Albemarle County. The origin of the county name probably comes from the Duke of Buckingham (Buckinghamshire, England). Some sources say that the county was named for Archibald Cary's estate "Buckingham" which was located on Willis Creek. This is the only Buckingham County in the entire United States. In 1778 a small triangular area bordering the James River was given to Cumberland County. In 1845, another part was taken from Buckingham to form the northern portion of Appomattox County. A final adjustment of the Appomattox-Buckingham county line was made in 1860 and Buckingham's borders then became fixed in their current form. A fire destroyed the courthouse (designed by Thomas Jefferson) in 1869 and most of the early records of this county were lost. UNCORPORATED COMMUNITIES Arvonia - Buckingham - New Canton Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records Court Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2012 1866 Census of Children of Ceased Cohabitation Miss Adocia Ann Gibson Obituary Josephina Irving Thronton Obituary 1890 Veteran's Census - Maysville Mar 2012 Edward A. Palmer Biography Jan 2012 Anthony Martin Branch Biography James Oscar Prude Biography Dec 2011 Price Williams Biography Jun 2011 Philip Watkins McKinney Biography Major John H. Flood Biography Captain Leonard F. Lucado Biography Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Fluvanna County - northeast * Cumberland County - east * Prince Edward County - south * Appomattox County - southwest * Nelson County - west * Albemarle County - northwest Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.