Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Mathews 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 Mathews County was established out of a part of Gloucester County in 1791.  It's named after Brigadier General Thomas Mathews, the Speaker of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly of Virginia. 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 County Updates May 2012: 1890 Veterans Census Apr 2012 Cemetery List Dec 2011 Colonel John B. Cary Biography Surrounding Counties | Northampton | Middlesex | Gloucester | 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.