Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Goochland 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 Goochland was founded in 1728 from Henrico shire, and was the first county to split from Henrico (followed by Chesterfield County in 1749). Goochland was named after Sir William Gooch, the royal lieutenant governor from 1727-1749 (the nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle, remained in England without much authority). At the time of its founding, Goochland included all of the land from Tuckahoe Creek, on both sides of the James River, west to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The first court in Goochland County was held in May 1728. The exact location of this first court is unknown, but researchers believe that the first courthouse was constructed in Goochland between 1730 and 1737. In the mid-1700s, the location of the first courthouse was moved. Then once more in the early-1800s the courthouse was moved to its current location along Rt. 522 in central Goochland (source: Wikipedia.org) UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES: * Goochland * Manakin-Sabot * Oilville * Maidens 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 May 2012 Frank X. Manteiro Obituary Mrs. Fannie A. Mason Obituary Jan 2012 Anthony Martin Branch Biography Henry W. McDearmon Obituary 1866 Marriage Records Oct 2011 Willaim T. Walker, M.D. Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Louisa County - north * Hanover County - northeast * Henrico County - east * Powhatan County - south * Cumberland County - southwest * Fluvanna 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.