Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Gloucester 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 Gloucester was formed in 1651 in what was then known as the Virginia Colony.  It was named after Henry Stuart the Duke of Gloucester, and the son of King Charles l of Great Britain.  It borders the York River and the lower Chesapeake Bay.  Richmond, Virginia's capital, is about 75 miles to the west.  Gloucester was the site of Werowocomoco, the capital of the Native American group known as the Powhatan Confederacy.  The recorded Native American history of Gloucester County, began soon after the settlement of Jamestown in 1607.  It also was once home to members of early First Families of Virginia and important colonial leaders of the American Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson composed some of his early work at Rosewell Plantation, for Virginia and Colonial Independence.  Rosewell Plantation overlooked the York River and was the home of his close friend John Page.  John Page was from one of the First Families of Virginia, and a famous patriot who served as the Governor of Virginia and also in the U.S. Congress.  When the war came to its conclusion at Yorktown, across from Gloucester Point, the county almost was an escape route for the British forces led by General Cornwallis.  Gloucester County is rich in farmland. An area of Gloucester county is called Guinea, which includes the unincorporated communities of Achilles, Bena, Severn, and Big Island, located near Gloucester Point. Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates Nov 2012 1890 Veteran's Census - Abingdon 1890 Veteran's Census - Warr District Jun 2012 Smith - Sedden Marriage Manning - Bland Marriage Taliaferro -Marshall Marriage Crump - Tabb Marriage Manning - Bland Marriage Jan 2012 Ralph Wormeley Biography John Lightfoot Biography William Carter Stubbs Biography Lewis Burwell Biography Luke Pryor Biography Dec 2011 Colonel John B. Cary Biography Christ Church Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Middlesex County - north * Mathews County - east * York County - south * James City County - southwest * King and Queen County - west 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.