A Guide to the Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color and Marriage Register Colored, 1866-1919 Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color, 1866-1881, and Marriage Register Colored, 1881-1919 1156264, 1099667

A Guide to the Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color and Marriage Register Colored, 1866-1919

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Barcode Number 1156264, 1099667

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Repository

Library of Virginia

Barcode number

1156264, 1099667

Title

Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color and Marriage Register Colored, 1866-1919

Physical Characteristics

2 vol.

Location

State Records Center - Archives Annex, Library of Virginia

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

For Marriage Register Colored, 1881-1919, use microfilm copy, Roanoke County (Va.) Reel 362. For Marriage Register 1 and 2, use microfilm copy, Roanoke County (Va.) Reels 360-361. For master index to marriages, use Roanoke County (Va.) Reels 350-352.

Preferred Citation

Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color, 1866-1881, and Marriage Register Colored, 1881-1919. Local Government Records Collection, Roanoke County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Roanoke County.

These items are located at the State Records Center. Contact Archives Research Services for access information, directions and hours.

Historical Information

Roanoke County was formed in 1838 from Botetourt County. Part of Montgomery County was added in 1849.

Scope and Content

Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses issued to Freed People of Color, 1866-1881, contains information about the date of marriage, names of male and female parties getting married, age and condition (single or widowed) of each person before this marriage, place of marriage (town or county), places of birth and residence for both parties, names of parents for both bride and groom, and the occupation of the male. There is no index. This volume contains 14 pages of undated notes at the beginning of the book related to road and bridge engineering.

Roanoke County (Va.) Register of Marriage Licenses or Marriage Register Colored, 1881-1919, is a continuation of the previous volume. It is labelled Volume 1B. It records the same information as the previous volume. A loose and incomplete marriage license for Jess Slade to Letha Foust dated 1916 March is inserted in the front of the volume. There is no index.

The African American marriages from these two volumes are also re-recorded together with white marriages in Marriage Register 1, 1853-1919 (barcode 1099698) and Marriage Register 2, 1919-1934 (barcode 1099708). These marriage registers have individual indexes within each volume and are also indexed by the master index to marriages found on microfilm on Roanoke County (Va. ) Reels 350-352.

African Americans--Marriage--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Engineering--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Freedmen--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Local government records--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Marriage licenses--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Marriage records--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Marriage registers--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Marriage--Virginia--Roanoke County.
Roanoke County (Va.)--History--19th century.
Roanoke County (Va.). Circuit Court.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Roanoke County (Va.)--History--19th century.