By T. Michael Miller
"Alexandria Virginia Birth and Death Records: 1853-1896." Source provides date of birth, race, place of birth, father's name, residence, mother's name and residence. Alexandria Library, Special Collections microfilm: 00149.
"Alexandria Virginia Birth and Death Records." Alphabetical index of death records 1912-1939; Alphabetical index of birth records 1853-1911, 1912-1939, compiled by the W.P.A. Material provides date of death, place of death, cause of death, plus marriage information. Alexandria Library, Special Collections microfilm: 00095.
Business and Biographical References
Brockett, F.L. The Lodge of Washington--A History of the Alexandria Washington Lodge No. 22--1783-1876. Alexandria, VA: George E. French, Publishers, 1876. (Includes many biographical sketches of Alexandria lodge members).
Brockett, F.L. & Rock, George W. A Concise History of the City of Alexandria, Virginia from 1669 to 1883, with a Directory of Reliable Business houses in the City. Alexandria, Virginia, Printed at the Gazette Book and Job Office, 1883.
Miller, T. Michael. Artisans and Merchants of Alexandria, Virginia 1780-1820. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1991, 1992. A directory of artisans and merchants who peddled their wares in Alexandria, Virginia. Appendices include "A Calendar of Historical Events for Alexandria, Virginia/D.C., 1779-1818;" "Alexandria born Sailors;" "The 1808 and 1816 Censuses of Alexandria, Virginia;" "Register of Free Negroes and Mulattos in Alexandria, Virginia for the Year 1809;" "A list of Clergyman who served in Alexandria, 1765 to 1860;" "A Directory of Alexandria, D.C. for 1834" -- 2 volumes
Miller, T. Michael. Portrait of A Town: Alexandria District of Columbia [Virginia] 1820-1830. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995. A supplemental directory of artisans, merchants and institutions in Alexandria during the 1820s. Appendices include "Apprenticeship Indentures: 1801-1805; 1811-1817; 1822-1830;" "Tavern Licenses issued for Alexandria and Alexandria County, 1820-1830;" "Alexandria Personal Property Tax Records, 1820;" "Abstract Report of Aliens, 1820-1827."
Slusser, H. Robert. A Street Guide to the Buildings and Sites Pictured in Alexander J. Wedderburn's Souvenir Virginia Tercentennial 1607-1907 of Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Illustrated. Alexandria, VA: City of Alexandria, VA, Alexandria Archaeology, 1992.
Bruch, Virginia Irene. Beneath the Oaks of Ivy Hill. Alexandria, Virginia, 1982.
Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. St. Paul's Cemetery Records. Alexandria, VA, October 1991.
Miller, T. Michael. Burials in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.
Miller, T. Michael. "Ghosts, Goblins & Graveyards--A History ofAlexandria Cemeteries" in Artisans & Merchants of Alexandria, Virginia, Vol. II,, Appendix VIII. Includes tombstone transcriptions and burial data for the following cemeteries: Old Presbyterian Meeting House Cemetery; First Presbyterian Church Cemetery; Trinity Methodist Cemetery, Christ Church Cemeteries (N. Washington St. & upper Wilkes Street); Methodist Protestant Cemetery; Penny Hill Cemetery; Spa Spring Cemetery; Old Methodist Independent Meeting House Cemetery; Fendall Family Cemetery, Shuter's Hill Cemetery; Quaker Cemetery.
Miller, T. Michael. Burials in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery Alexandria, Virginia 1798-1983. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1986.
Pippenger, Wesley E. Tombstone Inscriptions of Alexandria, Virginia. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4. Includes tombstone transcriptions and burial data for First Old Presbyterian Meeting House Cemetery; Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Trinity United Methodist Church Cemetery, Home of Peace Cemetery, Agudas Achim Cemetery, Penny Hill Cemetery, Union Cemetery of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; Freedmen's or Contraband Cemetery; Methodist Protestant Cemetery; Quaker Cemetery, Auld Family Cemetery, Black Baptist Cemetery, Bloxham Cemetery, Dove Family Cemetery, Fendall Family Cemetery, Goings Family Cemetery, Howard Family Cemetery, Moore-Holland Cemetery, Shuters Hill Cemetery, Terrett Family Cemetery, Trisler Family Cemetery, Christ Church Cemeteries, Douglass Memorial Cemetery, Lebanon Union Church Cemetery, Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery, Summers Family Cemetery, Theological Seminary Cemetery, Bethel Cemetery.
Miller, T. Michael. Alexandria Virginia City and County 1860 Census. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.
Tallichet, Marjorie D. Alexandria Virginia City and County 1850 Census. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.
Dow, Richard B. A History of the Second Presbyterian Church, Alexandria, VA 1817-1950. Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, printers, 1952.
Hedman, Kathryn Pierpoint. Washington Street United Methodist Church--Alexandria, Virginia Reflections, 1849-1974., 1974.
Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. The History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria, VA: The Goetz Printing Company, 1984.
St. Rita's Parish -- 1924-1974.
Sengel, William Randolph. Can These Bones Live? -- A History of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House. Kingston Press, 1973.
St. Mary's: 200 Years for Christ. 1795-1995. Alexandria, Va:. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1995.
Stephens, Edward L. One Hundred and Fifty Years for Christ--1795-1945. A History of St. Mary's Church, Alexandria, Virginia.
Stukenbroeker, Fern C. A Watermelon For God--A History of Trinity United Methodist Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 1774-1974. Alexandria, Virginia: 1974
Alexandria Library, Special Collections Staff. Obituary Notices from the Alexandria Gazette 1784-1915.
Pippenger, Wesley E. Alexandria (Arlington) County, Virginia Death Records, 1853-1896.
Munson, James D. Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria Hustings Court Deeds 1797-1801. Bowie, MD: Heritage books, Inc., 1990, 1991, Vols. I & II.
Wardell, Patrick G. Alexandria City and County Virginia Deed Book Extracts 1801-1818. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1989, Vol. I.
Abstracts of Marriage and Death Notices from the National Intelligencer Newspaper: 1800-1850. (The set has a very usable alphabetical index and it lists many marriages and deaths in the Washington/Alexandria area--Alexandria Library microfilm: 0064).
Braumbaugh, Gaius M. Marriage Licenses of the District of Columbia-- Alexandria County, 1801-1820.
Hinshaw, William Wade. The Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy -- The Alexandria Monthly Meeting, Vol. 6. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978.
"Marriage Records of Christ Church, 1828-1849." Alexandria Library, Special Collections No. 975.5296 BRI.
"Marriage Records of the First Presbyterian Church." Alexandria Library, Special Collections microfilm No. 00440.
Miller, T. Michael compiler. Minister Returns and Marriage Bonds,1801-1852. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1987.
Pippenger, Wesley E. Husbands and Wives Associated with Early Alexandria, Virginia. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991.
Pippenger, Wesley E. Alexandria County (Arlington) , Virginia Marriage Records 1853-1895. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994.
Pippenger, Wesley E. Alexandria, Virginia Marriages 1870-1892. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994.
Powell, Mary. "Marriage Records of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House, 1780-1815." in Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vols. 50 & 54.
Ring, Connie, compiler. "Fairfax County Marriages Prior to 1853." The Historical Society of Fairfax County Virginia. Vol. 16, 1980.
Wardell, Patrick G. Alexandria City and County Virginia Wills, Administrations and Guardian Bonds 1800-1870. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1986.
General Books on Alexandria History
Barber, Lucy, compiler. African American History Sources -- A Bibliography, Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Library, Special Collections, 1992. (An excellent annotative bibliography of Black history resources. Topics include genealogy, reference books, African-Americans in Alexandria and Virginia; slavery, Reconstruction, etc.).
Barber, James G. Alexandria in the Civil war. Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, 1988.
Blomberg, Belinda, Ph.D. "Free black adaptive responses to the Antebellum urban environment: Neighborhood formation and socioeconomic stratification in Alexandria, Virginia, 1790-1850. Ph.D. Dissertation, American University, 1988, p. 388.
Carne, William F. Alexandria's Forgotten Legacy -- The Annals of Wm. F. Carne -- (The Oldest Known Systematic History of Alexandria) T. Michael Miller, ed. & compiler. Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Library, Special Collections, 1983.
Caton, James R. Legislative Chronicles of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria, Virginia; Newell-Cole, 1933.
Cox, Ethelyn. Historic Alexandria, Virginia -- Street by Street. Alexandria, VA: Historic Alexandria Foundation, 1976
Cox, Ethelyn & Van Landingham, eds. To Wit intentional & unintentional. [Humorous incidents in Alexandria's early history] Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Bicentennial Committee, 1973.
Cressey, Pamela J., Ph.D. "The Alexandria, Virginia city-site archaeology in an Afro-American neighborhood, 1830-1910." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Iowa, 1985.
Davis, Deering, Stephen Dorsey and Ralph Cole Hall. Alexandria Houses 1750-1830. New York: Bananza Books, 1948.
Dickman, William J. Battery Rodgers at Alexandria, Virginia. Manhattan, KS, Ma/AH Publishing, 1980.
Erickson, Cdr. Philip M. Alexandria Water Company Permits -- The First 1000 "Pipers". City of Alexandria: OHA, Alexandria Archaeology, 1988.
The Fireside Sentinel. ed. T. Michael Miller. Alexandria, Virginia: Alexandria Library, Special Collections. (This periodical published many diverse articles on Alexandria's history. It was issued from 1987 to December 1995. Copies may be viewed at the Alexandria Library, Special Collections).
Fitzgerald, Oscar. The Green Family of Cabinetmakers--An Alexandria Institution--1817-1887. Alexandria, Virginia: The Lyceum, 1986.
Glasgow, William M. Northern Virginia's Own--A History of the 17th Virginia Infantry. Alexandria, VA: Gobill Press, 1989.
Hambleton, Elizabeth & Van Landingham, eds. Alexandria, A Composite History. Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Bicentennial Commission, 1975. (Articles document the founding of Alexandria, Colonial Alexandria, 1749-1776, the Fairfax family, streets and alleys of old Alexandria, the port of Alexandria, the McKnight family, The Fairfax Resolves, Alexandria's Revolutionary militia, African Americans in Colonial Alexandria, the Stabler-Leadbeater family, Alexandria in the Civil War).
Hahn, Thomas Swiftwater & Kemp, Emory L. The Alexandria Canal: Its History & Preservation. Morgantown, W. VA: West Virginia University Press, 1992.
Hurd, William B. Alexandria, Virginia 1861-1865. Alexandria, VA: City of Alexandria Print Shop, 1989.
Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. Legend & Folk Tales of old Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria, VA, 1975.
Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. "Eighteenth Century Medicine in Alexandria Virginia--1749-1799" Alexandria, VA: n.p. , 1988. (Sketches of 18th century Alexandria physicians).
Mackay, James. "The Development of Taverns in Alexandria, Virginia, 1750-1810." M.A. thesis, George Mason University, 1994.
Macoll, John D. & Stansfield, George, eds. Alexandria, A Towne in Transition, 1800-1900. Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Bicentennial Commission & Alexandria Historical Society, 1977. (Topics address government, commerce and industry, banks and banking, transportation, fire and police protection, education, churches, architecture, theatre, music and other amusements, everyday life).
McCord, Ted B. Across the Fence But a World Apart: The Coleman Site 1796-1907. Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Archaeology, City of Alexandria, VA, 1985.
Miller, T. Michael. Murder & Mayhem--Criminal Conduct in old Alexandria, Virginia 1749-1900. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1988.
Miller, T. Michael. Pen Portraits of Alexandria, Virginia 1739-1900. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1987.
Miller, T. Michael. Manuscripts of An Old Bachelor--Reminiscences of Alexandria in the 1830s. Alexandria, Virginia, n.d.
Miller, T. Michael & Smith, Wm. Francis. A Seaport Saga--Portrait of Old Alexandria, Virginia. Norfolk, Virginia: Donning Publishing Co., 1989.
Moore, Gay Montague. Seaport in Virginia--George Washington's Alexandria. Richmond, Virginia: Garrett and Massie, Inc., 1949.
Morrill, Penny C. Old Town Alexandria Architecture, 1750-1900. Arlington, Virginia: Vol. 1, 1979.
Morrill, Penny C. Who Built Alexandria/Architects in Alexandria 1750-1900. Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, 1979.
Munson, James, Ph.D. Col. John Carlyle Gent.--A True and Just Account of the Man and His House. Northern Virginia Park Authority, 1986.
Munson, James, Ph.D. "From Empire to Commonwealth: Alexandria, Virginia 1749-1780." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1984.
North Ridge Citizens Association. North Ridge Lore--Stories about Alexandria's North Ridge. North Ridge Citizens Association, 1981.
Presser, Thomas M. "Eighteen-Century Alexandria, Virginia before the Revolution, 1749-1776.11 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, College of William & Mary, Virginia, 1977: typescript.
Our Town: 1749-1865. Likenesses of this Place & its People Taken from Life. Artists Known and Unknown. Richmond, VA: Diet. Printing Co., 1945.
Powell, Mary Gregory. History of Old Alexandria, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia, 1928.
Seale, William. A Guide to Historic Alexandria. Time-Life Books, 2000.
Shomette, Donald. "Maritime Alexandria--An evaluation of Submerged Cultural Resource Potentials." City of Alexandria, Virginia: Alexandria Archaeology Center, 1987.
Somerville, Mollie. Washington Walked Here. Alexandria on the Potomac. One of America's First "New" Towns. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1970.
Stark, Elizabeth, ed. Recollections of Old Alexandria and Other Memories of Mary Louisa Slocum Bienheim (1802-1884). Starkville, Mississippi, 1978.
Stoessel, John. "The Port of Alexandria, VA in the 18th Century," Dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1969.
Tallichet, Marjorie D. Alexandria City Directory 1791. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1986.
Tilp, Frederick. This Was Potomac River. Alexandria, Virginia: privately published, 1978.
Voges, Nettie Allen. Old Alexandria -- Where America's Past is Present. McLean, Virginia: EPM Publications, 1975.
Wedderburn, A.J. Souvenir Virginia Tercentennial of Historic Alexandria, Virginia 1607-1907. Alexandria, Virginia: 1907.
