Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

No restrictions

Preferred Citation

VA Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth and Death Records - Rivanna District, MS 690, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Gift of Jeanette May

Biographical/Historical Information

The VA Bureau of Vital Statistics required records of births and deaths for the Virginia State Board of Health. This collection is mostly versions of Form Vs. No. 18 and has some of No. 12. The Magisterial District of Rivanna was District Number 11A and encompassed part of northeast Albemarle County.

Scope and Content

Five birth record books for Albemarle County from 1917 to 1938, including information of child, father, mother, and attending physician or midwife.

Five death record books for Albemarle County from 1918 to 1936, including place of death, personal and statistical particulars, medical certificate of death, burial/cremation information, and the undertaker. Cases of interest include Spanish Influenza Pandemic, dying from old age at 102, homicide, suicide, railroad accidents, and deaths ruled of natural causes by jurors.

Arrangement

Chronological

Folder 1- Records of Births

Folder 2- Records of Deaths

Index Terms

Persons:

• Baptist, H.L.
• Bocher, Nettie
• Boore, Lawson
• Branham, Sigourney
• Brown, Miria
• Carr, Mildred
• Caulter, J.C.
• Coles, Laurel
• Dabney, Cecil
• Daniel, T.H.
• Davis, E.D.
• Drisins, Bettie Ann
• Earley, J.E.
• Faucett, Mary Alice
• Haney, J.R.
• Haney, M.D.
• Hundon, Ann
• Johnson, George F.
• Kyger, W.A.
• Long, Edgar A. Jr
• Macon, N.W.
• Madison, Docia A.
• McCue, F.C.
• Morris, Lucy Paine
• Mundy, J.O.
• Rea, MS
• Sims, T.W.
• Smith, J.W.R.
• Smith, Jane
• Thomas, Ethel
• Tomson, Elija
• Truehart, Blanche
• Trueheart, Jane
• Wavis, E.H.
• Williams, Cornelia Frances

Subjects:

• Albemarle County (Va.)--Statistics, Vital

Geographical Names:

• Earlysville, Va.
• Eastham, Va.
• Proffit, Va.