Collection SC 0150 Emmanuel Episcopal Church Register, Middleburg, VA 1840-1935 Table of Contents User Information Historical Sketch Scope and Content Note Container List Processed by Maria Christina Mairena October 2019 Thomas Balch Library 208 W. Market Street Leesburg, VA 20176 USER INFORMATION VOLUME OF COLLECTION: less than .33 cubic feet COLLECTION DATES: 1840-1926 PROVENANCE: Unknown ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection open for research USE RESTRICTIONS: No physical characteristics affect use of this material. REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from Thomas Balch Library. CITE AS: Emmanuel Episcopal Church Register, Middleburg, VA, 1840-1926 (SC 0150), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA. ALTERNATE FORMATS: None OTHER FINDING AIDS: None TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: None RELATED HOLDINGS: Loudoun County, VA Cemetery Collection, 1990- (M 017), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA; Vertical File “Emmanuel Episcopal Middleburg” Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA; Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Middleburg, Va. 1928. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Middleburg, Va. 1905-1928: Baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials. Philadelphia, Pa: MacCalla & Co. V REF 283.75528 EMM; Smith, Vme Edom, Gwen Dobson, and Robyn Dobson Yovanovich. 1999. Middleburg and nearby. [Middleburg, Va.]: Robert Dobson. V REF 975.528 SMI. ACCESSION NUMBERS: None NOTES: Previously catalogued as “Emmanuel Episcopal Church register, Middleburg, VA : 1840-1926” V REF 975.528 EMM 2 HISTORICAL SKETCH In the 18th century, Cameron Parish created from Fairfax County’s Truro Parish in 1748, was the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Anglican church in pre- revolutionary Virginia. (In English canon law, a parish is an area under the spiritual care of a priest. Not to be confused with the more commonly understood use of the word “parish” meaning a local “fully self-supporting congregation with a full-time priest.) Cameron Parish had jurisdiction over the western part of Fairfax County and with its creation in 1751 all of Loudoun County. Cameron Parish came from a minor title of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron. With the end of the Revolutionary War, the Episcopal Church in Virginia held its first assembly to organize the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Commonwealth of Virginia on 18 May 1784. On 22 December 1784 the Episcopal Church was incorporated in Virginia, with the Diocese of Virginia being created by 1790. Cameron Parish was followed by Shelbourne Parish in 1770 and these two parishes encompassed all of Loudoun County until 1840, when Meade Parish was created and named for the third Episcopal bishop of Virginia, William Meade (November 1789-March 1862). Emmanuel Church was consecrated on 21 July 1843, as part of Meade Parish and included Trinity Church in Upperville, VA. In 1853, Meade Parish was divided into two, to create Johns Parish for the eastern half of Loudoun County. Johns Parish was named for Bishop John Johns (July 1796- April 1876), fourth Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Emmanuel Church now became part of the newly created parish which also included Episcopalians of Aldie; who did not yet have their own church building but used a common building shared amongst other Protestant denominations in Aldie. The Church of Our Redeemer in Aldie was eventually built in 1890. Johns Parish now encompassed the towns of Upperville, Middleburg, and Aldie. Another reorganization happened in 1885 when Oatlands’ Church of Our Savior became part of Johns Parish and Upperville reverted back to Meade Parish. The registers in this collection originally were in one large “Parish Register” but for ease of use by researchers, the pages have been separated into folders by church and location. SOURCES: N.A., “An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A-Z Glossary,” Accessed 24 September 2019. https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/parish N.A., “The History of Trinity”, Accessed 24 September 2019. https://trinityupperville.org/history 3 Bond, Edward L., “The Parish in Colonial Times,” Accessed 24 September 2019., https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Parish_in_Colonial_Virginia_The Caulk, Alworthy, “A Small History of the Church of Our Redeemer,” 1999. Accessed 24 September 2019. https://aldiechurch.org/a-small-history-of-the- church-of-our-redeemer/ Cocke, Charles Francis. Parish Lines Diocese of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1978. Coffey, E. Allen and Emily Cherry, “The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: History: Descended from the First Anglican Parish in the New World, 1607,” 1983, rev. 2012. http://www.thediocese.net/who-we-are/history/ Hodges, George. Three Hundred Years of the Episcopal Church in America. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1906. Low, Chet and Courtney Kohler, “Historical Essay of Emmanuel Christian Church”, 1993. Accessed 24 September 2019, https://www.emmanuelmiddleburg.org/about-us 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection consists of photocopied Parish Records from Johns’ Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia 1840 - 1935 documenting activities of Emmanuel Church, Middleburg; Church of Our Redeemer, Aldie; and Church of Our Savior; Oatlands. Parish records include histories of John’s Parish and Meade Parish and their communications; Baptisms 1840 – 1922; Confirmations 1851 – 1925; Marriages 1845 – 1853, 1905 – 1924; and Burials 1853 – 1899, 1906 – 1926. Records predating 1888 have been hand-copied from an earlier ledger. Some correspondence, 1921 – 1933, regarding member transfers and requests for information has also been copied and included. CONTAINER LIST Box Folder 1 Histories of the churches in Aldie, Middleburg, Oatlands, and Upperville Folder 2 Handwritten history of the churches from the Parish Register Folder 3 Register: Church of Our Redeemer, Aldie Folder 4 Register: Emmanuel Church, Middleburg Folder 5 Register: Church of Our Savior, Oatlands Folder 6 Register & History: Meade Parish Folder 7 Miscellaneous Letters, 1911 - 1933 5 6 .