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Welcome to Anson County! Anson County was named in honor of British Admiral Lord George
Anson, a First Lord of the Admiralty. He commanded the vessel which brought Princess Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, to her future husband King George III. Germans emigrated to the area around
Anson County, as did many settlers from the British Isles, Africa, and Moravia. In 1750 Anson County was formed
from Bladen County. At that time, it reached all the
way to the Mississippi River. Although it has been cut in physical size five times since then, the people of that
county have enabled its presence to reach beyond the Mississippi to the far corners of the world.
The following counties were once part of Anson County:
Alexander,
Alleghany,
Ashe,
Avery,
Buncombe,
Burke,
Cabarrus,
Caldwell,
Catawba,
Cherokee,
Clay,
Cleveland,
Davidson,
Davie,
Forsyth,
Gaston,
Graham,
Guilford,
Haywood,
Henderson,
Iredell,
Jackson,
Lincoln,
Macon,
Madison,
McDowell,
Mecklenburg,
Mitchell,
Montgomery,
Polk,
Randolph,
Richmond,
Rockingham,
Rowan,
Rutherford,
Scotland,
Stanley,
Stokes,
Surry,
Swain,
Transylvania,
Tryon,
Union,
Watauga,
Wilkes,
Yadkin,
Yancey.
 NOTICE: These boards have been merged with the boards at Ancestry.com, and are no longer available as a separate entity. New boards are being developed and I will link to them here as soon as they are available. I am sorry for the inconvenience. If you have records to contribute, you can, as always, send them directly to me. Angie Rayfield Anson County NCGenWeb |
