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Fluvanna County was formed on 1 July 1777 from the eastern portion of Albemarle County. In earliest documents this county is sometimes referred to as "Anne's River", the translation from the Latin and the early name of the Upper James given in honor of Queen Anne of England. Fluvanna is bounded on the east by Goochland County, to the north by Louisa County, on the west by Albemarle County, and on the south by Buckingham and Cumberland counties. A portion of the boundary between Goochland and Fluvanna was settled in 1785, and the latter's boundaries have remained unaltered since then.

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Fluvanna County,Virginia 1810 Federal Census: A Transcription
John Vogt, 2011, x, 16 pp., 8x10 format, illustrations, maps, index. A faithful and accurate transcription of the first surviving census for this Virginia county.
Surname list
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THE DOUGLAS REGISTER, Being a detailed record of Births, Marriages and Deaths together with other interesting notes, as kept by the Reverend William Douglas, from 1750 to 1797 [With an Index of Goochland Wills and Notes on the French Huguenot Refugees who Lived in Manakin-Town].
Richmond, Va., 1928 edition, vi, 408 pages AVAILABLE IN ELECTRONIC (PDF) FORMAT ONLY

The celebrated Douglas Register is an indispensable compilation of births, marriages, and deaths covering the period from about 1750 to 1797, with some miscellaneous records going back to 1705. The registers are for the parishes of St. James Northam (Dover Church) and King William, but they concern individuals who were residents of the Virginia counties of Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Orange, and Spotsylvania. Entries under the headings of births, marriages, and deaths are arranged alphabetically, with marriages divided into separate lists for husbands and wives. The entries exceed several thousand in number. The book also includeslists of Huguenot settlers at Manakin-Town (King William Parish) and an index of Goochland County wills, 1728-1840, containing about 1,000 names with references to dates and locations.

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FLUVANNA COUNTY MARRIAGES, 1781-1849 John Vogt & T. William Kethley, Jr. 1984, ix, 103 pages, indices, figure, map. Fluvanna County was created from a portion of Albemarle County. The 1,275 marriage records in this volume are primarily ministers' returns from a register now in the Virginia State Library, Archives Division.
Surname list
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FLUVANNA COUNTY DEATH RECORDS, 1853-1896 by Nell Hailey, vi, 296 pages, index. A thorough and accurate abstraction of all the data contained in the first death register for Fluvanna County. Many of the older inhabitants can be traced into the later eighteenth century from the extrapolation of the data given on their death record. A valuable resource.
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Fluvanna Co. 1815 Directory of Landowners by Roger G. Ward. 2005. 18 pages, map, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
For a full description of the 1815 LAND DIRECTORY Records and a listing of available counties, see combined volume below

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1815 DIRECTORY OF VIRGINIA LANDOWNERS & GAZETTEER, vol. 1 Central Region (Includes the counties of Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Buckingham, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, independent city of Petersburg, independent city of Richmond, Louisa, Nelson, New Kent, Nottoway, Powhatan, and Prince George.) abstracted by Roger G. Ward. 1997, vi, 239 pages, indices, maps.
In 1782 the General Assembly of Virginia enacted new tax laws which created within each county an enumeration of land and certain personal property. These early land tax laws required a tax commissioner in each district of a county to record a list of the names of persons owning land or town lots, the quantity of land owned and its value, and the amount of tax owed. By 1813, a brief geographic description (usually citing an adjacent stream, road, or other landmark) was required; in 1814, the distance and direction from the courthouse for each parcel was also added to the tax rolls.
The present work is an alphabetical listing of all 1815 landowners found in each county, as well as the accompanying description of the location of the said property. We have not included the number of acres, taxes assessed, or any transactions between landowners which may have been noted on the tax rolls; also, in many cases the geographic location was provided as "adjacent to John Smith", etc. and, while useful many times to a genealogist, was considered to be beyond the objectives of this project. The reader is encouraged to consider the information here-in as an "outline" of early landowners in Virginia rather than a "text" due to the year-to-year variation in information provided to the clerk (or recorded by the clerk), omissions, lack of "identifiers" to determine if "same name" was also "same person" within a district or across districts, marginal quality/clarity (in a few cases) of the microfilm copy, and, not least, errors on the part of either the original clerks or the current author while transcribing.
Some of the approaches to utilizing the 1815 landowner information include:
observe distinct clusters of the same surname within a county in order to clarify the common surnames such as "Smith", "Anderson", etc;
identify non-resident landowners and their county (or state) of residence (these people often being former residents of the current county);
determine neighbors with different surnames (often being relatives);
use the 1815 information as a "bridge" from the 18th and 19th century deed/will books to the 17th and 18th century land grants/patents in the county;
evaluate the 1810 to 1840 census information which generally grouped neighbors;
substitute this information for missing deed/will books in the "burned" counties; and, clarify/enhance vague deed/will information in the counties with more complete records.
FORMAT OF PRESENTATION: Each entry is listed as: Surname, name, personal identifiers (if any); location/place-name of land; miles/direction from the 1815 courthouse. If multiple owners are listed for a property, the listing is duplicated under each of the owner's surnames (i.e "Smith and Brown" is also listed as "Brown, --see Smith"); when multiple owners share a common surname, the property is only listed once. When a landowner had land at more than one location/place-name, the miles/direction listing for each parcel is in the same sequence as the location listing (i.e. James RV, Slate CK; 12N, 5SW.). In the few cases where a landowner had "many" parcels, the miles/direction notation is attached to the location listing (i.e. Sandy RV- 5NE, Willow CK-7S, etc.)

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Fluvanna Co. Revolutionary Public Claims transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten.. 2005. 34 pages, 5 1/2X8 1/2.
For a full description of the Virginia Revolutionary Public Claims and a listing of available counties, see: Revolutionary "Publick" Claims series

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For more records pertaining to FLUVANNA COUNTY, VIRGINIA see also:

Goochland County
Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812
Chart on the Formation of Virginia Counties
Atlas of County Boundary Changes in Virginia, 1634-1895
Index to the 1810 Virginia Census

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Iberian Publishing Company's On-Line Catalog: Fluvanna County Virginia

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