Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Essex 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 Essex County was established in 1692 from Rappahannock County. The county name possibly came from either the shire/county in England or for the Earl of Essex. INCORPORATED COMMUNITY: Tappahannock (county seat) UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES: Brays Fork - Bowler's Wharf - Butylo - Caret - Center Cross - Champlian - Dunbrooke - Dunnsville Hustle - Laneview - Loretto - Miller's Tavern - Passing - Supply - Wars Warf Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2012 Jas. R. Broocke Obituary Mrs. Oliver Obituary Mrs. William H. Street Obituary Apr 2012 W. Palmer Clarkson Biography Jan 2012 William Brockenborough Biography Luke Pryor Biography Rev. W. B. Rowzie Obituary Dec 2011 Colonel Richard Tunstall Biography Jun 2011 James Hoge Tyler Biography Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Westmoreland County - north * Richmond County - northeast * Middlesex County - southeast * King and Queen County - south * Caroline County - west * King George 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.