Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Hanover 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 Hanover County was created on November 26, 1720, from the area of New Kent County called St. Paul's Parish. It was named for named for the Duke of Hanover, afterwards George I. of England, or from the Prussian province and city belonging to him.(Ray Ryan, Powhatan, Va. .) Hanover County was the birthplace and home of noted American statesman Patrick Henry and is the home of the Hanover Courthouse, which was the site of the Parson's Cause case in the Virginia Colony, in which attorney Henry argued against taxes levied on preachers by the King. Hanover County was also the birthplace of politician Henry Clay, author of the Missouri Compromise. Hanover County was the site of a number of Civil War battles, including the Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 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 Jan 2013 Yarrington - Carrick Marriage Nov 2012 John Langford Obituary 1890 Veteran's Census - Not Stated 1890 Veteran's Census - Henry 1890 Veteran's Census 0 Ashland  Jun 2012 Fulcher - Vaughan Marriage Johnson - George Marriage Landram - Underwood Marriage Smith - Cross Marriage Smith - Smith Marriage Woodson - Kennedy Marriage May 2012 Church History - The Fork Church Tom Layne Obituary Joseph Busby Obituary Mrs. Carrie L. Wingfield Obituary Apr 2012 1799 Personal Property List Mar 2012 Freedman Marriages Search our Sites Queries Surrounding Counties * Spotsylvania County - northwest * Caroline County - north * King William County - northeast * New Kent County - east * Henrico County - south * Goochland County - southwest * Louisa 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.