Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Elizabeth City 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 This county is extinct. Elizabeth City County was a county in southeastern Virginia from 1634 to 1952. Originally created in 1634 as Elizabeth River Shire, it was one of eight shires created in the Virginia Colony by order of the King of England. In 1636, it was subdivided, and the portion north of the harbor of Hampton Roads became known as Elizabeth City Shire. It was renamed Elizabeth City County a short time later. Elizabeth City was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kecoughtan and Kikowtan), presumably a word for the Native Americans living there when the English arrived in 1607. The shire and county were named for Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of King James I, sister of Princes Henry and Charles. The town of Hampton, established in 1680, became the largest city in Elizabeth City County, and was the county seat. In 1952, Elizabeth City County merged with Hampton and is today the independent city of Hampton. The city also includes the former Town of Phoebus, resulting in modern-day Hampton encompassing nearly all of what was Elizabeth City County. Major Communities in Elizabeth City County * Buckroe Beach * Fox Hill * Langley Field * Plum Tree Point * Phobeus * Hampton (before it became an independent city) * Wythe * Aberdeen Gardens * Pine Chapel Village Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Families County History Marriages Military Land Deeds Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates Dec 2011: John Wesley Richardson Biography; Colonel John B. Cary Biography  Lynhaven Parish   Jun 2011: George Wythe Bio April 2011 Bios: Wythe Hampton National Cemetery Addition Mar. 2011 1813 Postmasters Feb 2011 Will Abstracts: Alston, Archer, Barnes, Browne, Copeland, Creeke, Davis, Dolby, Ferguson,Field, Harris, Jarvis, Jenkins, Miller, Naylor, Perrin, Petter, Ruddel, Sheppard, Smythe, Sweney, Symons, Taylor, Whitfield, Williams, Winterton, Wythe, Yeo Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Warwick County Gloucester County York County Princess Anne County Northampton County 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.