>-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:43:29 -0600 >From: "Deborah Parks" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [VIRGINIA] Brooke County > >Hi > >Does anyone know what Brooke County, Virginia was? Or what it became? I >have a listing for the 1820 Virginia Census that includes Brooke >County. Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks > >Deborah Thurman Parks > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:06:47 -0600 (CST) >From: "Ira L. Harris III" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA] Brooke County > >Deborah, > >The following information comes from: > The Handy Book for Genealogists, edited by George B. Everton Sr., 6th > Edition > Published by The Everton Publishers, Inc. > >Brooke County (now West Virginia) was created in 1796 from Ohio >County. The County Seat is Wellsburg. Census records are available >from 1850. > >Ohio County (now West Virginia) was created in 1776 from the District >of West Augusta. Wheeling is the county seat. Census records are >available from 1810. > >Ira L. Harris III >Evansville, Indiana =================================== Also, Brooke == > Hancock 1848 WV The whole story is shown as: |= Marshall 1835 WV | Ohio 1776 WV === |= Tyler 1814 WV == Wetzel 1846 WV | |= Brooke 1797 WV == > Hancock 1848 WV Source: Vogt, John. 1985. Formation of Virginia Counties from 1634. Iberian Pub. Co., 548 Cedar Creek Dr., Athens, GA 30605. (11 x 17 in. chart) Dale in Georgia (copy on hand)