Dates: 1917-1938
Collection Number: MS 690
Physical Location: Archive Room File Cabinet
Extent: 2 folders
Creators/Collectors: William Currier
Access Restrictions: Open for research
User Restrictions: none
Preferred Citation: VA Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth and Death Records - Rivanna District, MS 690, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Va
Acquisition Information: Jeannette May
Biographical/Historical Information: The VA Bureau of Vital Statistics had 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 Albemarle County to the Northeast.
Scope and Content:
5 books filled with Certificates of Births in Albemarle County from 1917 to 1938, including information of child, father, mother, and attending physician or midwife.
5 books filled with Certificates of Deaths in 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:
Folder 1- 5 Records of Births in Chronological Order
Folder 2- 5 Records of Deaths in Chronological Order
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, M.D.
- Haney, J.R.
- 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:
- Acute Indigestion Collapse
- African American midwives -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Anasarca
- Aortic Insufficiency
- Apoplexy
- Bronchopneumonia
- Birth certificates -- Virginia
- Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Childbirth
- Coronary Thrombosis
- Chronic Nephritis
- Constipation
- Diabetes Meletus
- Diphtheria
- Gastritis
- Heart Disease
- Homicide
- Infectious Diarrhea
- Influenza
- Measles
- Meningitis
- Midwifery
- Midwifery -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Midwifery -- Virginia
- midwives
- Midwives -- United States -- History
- Midwives -- Virginia -- History
- Mitral Stenosis
- Physicians -- Virginia -- Albemarle County
- Physicians -- Virginia -- Charlottesville
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- Registers of births, etc -- Virginia --
- Senile
- Skin Ulcer
- Spanish Influenza
- Stillbirth
- Strougestated Femoral Hernia
- Suspicious Death
- Train
- Tuberculosis
- Undertakers and undertaking -- Law and legislation -- Virginia
- United States -- Statistics, Vital
- Virginia -- Bureau of Vital Statistics
- Virginia -- Statistics, Vital
- Vital Statistics -- Virginia
Geographical Names:
- Proffit, Va.
- Earlysville, Va.
- Eastham, Va.
Record Types: Legal Instruments
