Welcome to the Randolph County ILGenWeb Project website, my name is Dennis Partridge and presently I am the county coordinator for Randolph County, Illinois. The USGenWeb project is seeking new volunteers to assist it in developing state, county, and town project sites. If you have some spare time and are interested in history and genealogy and like helping others find their ancestors, please let them know. See here for more information!
A County website such as this is made up of many different volunteers who have provided genealogy data, sometime countywide, but most of the time specific to their family research within Randolph county. It is these contributions that have made this county website what it is today. Do you have anything you can contribute? If so please let me know using the contact me at the top right of every page and I’ll help get you started on the process.
Randolph County was organized in 1795 out of a part of St. Clair County. It was named in honor of Edmund Randolph, Governor of Virginia. The Northwest Territory was captured from the British near the end of the Revolutionary War by the army of Virginia. Illinois then became, for a brief time, Illinois County, Virginia. Edmund Randolph was Governor of Virginia at the time Virginia ceded the Northwest Territory to the United States. The county’s boundaries were last changed in 1827, when land was taken to form Perry County.
Randolph County is surrounded by the counties of Jackson, Monroe, Perry, St. Clair and Washington.
Surnames and Genealogy Research
- Settlers Index
- Thompson, McKee & Hissong Family Photos
- Memoirs of a French village: a chronicle of old Prairie du Rocher, 1722-1972
- Randolph County Genealogy Queries
Biographies
- Biography of Charles Edward Adams – CAGenealogy
- Biography of Rev. James C. Elliot
- Biography of George Fisher
- Biography of John Riley Lyons
- Biography of John T. McBride
Randolph County Cemetery Research
Randolph County Census Research
- 1820 Randolph County Census
- 1825 Randolph County Census
- 1850 Randoph County Census
- 1860 Randolph County Census
- 1870 – Randolph County Census
Randolph County Churches
- Church Book of Evangelical Lutheran St. Mark’s Congregation in Steeleville, Randolph County, Illinois
- Church Book, St. Peter’s Lutheran, Randolph (Bremen), Randolph County, Illinois, records
- St. Mary Help of Christians Roman Catholic Church, Vol. I, Baptism, Confirmation, Death, and Marriage Records, February 1848 – August 1871
- St. Mary Help of Christians Roman Catholic Church, Vol. II, Baptism, Confirmation, Death, and Marriage Records, February 1848 – August 1871
- Diocese of Belleville, Catholic Parish Records 1695-1956
- Church Records of Immaculate Conception Parish, Kaskaskia Island, Randolph County, Illinois 1695-1956
- Church Records of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois 1895-1957
- Church Records of St. Anne (transferred to St. Joseph) Parish, Fort du Chartres, Randolph County, Illinois 1721-1840
- Church Records of St. Anthony Parish, Coulterville, Randolph County, Illinois 1913-1960
- Church Records of St. Boniface Parish, Evansville, Randolph County, Illinois 1860-1965
- Church Records of St. Dismas Parish, Menard Prison, Randolph County, Illinois 1939-1953
- Church Records of St. John the Baptist Parish, Red Bud, Randolph County, Illinois 1862-1956
- Church Records of St. Joseph Parish, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, Illinois 1832-1930
- Church Records of St. Leo Parish, Modoc, Randolph County, Illinois 1883-1956
- Church Records of St. Mary Parish, Chester, Randolph County, Illinois 1848-1931
- Church Records of St. Mary of Divine Maternity Parish, Ellis Grove, Randolph County, Illinois 1934-1956
- Church Records of St. Patrick (formerly St. Mary) Parish, Ruma, Randolph County, Illinois 1832-1956
Randolph County Court Records
Randolph County Directories
- 1830 Directory of Kaskaskia, Illinois
- 1859 directory, business mirror, and historical sketches of Randolph County
Randolph County Ethnic Research
Black Research
Randolph County History
- Randolph County Township Histories
- The History of Randolph county, Illinois, including old Kaskaskia Island
- Combined History Of Randolph, Monroe, and Perry Counties Illinois
Biographical Sketches of some of their Prominent Men and Pioneers. - Historic Sites and Scenes in Randolph County, Illinois
Old Kaskaskia, the Drowned City; Fort Gage and the Traces of Old Fort Chartres, near Prairie Du Rocher. The Kaskaskia Commons and the Recent Decision of the Illinois Supreme Court - Kaskaskia
- Excavations at the Laurens Site
Probable location of Fort de Chartres - Kaskaskia and Its Parish Records
- Old Fort Chartres
- Kaskaskia, “The Versailles of the West”
- Excavations at the Laurens Site
- Prairie du Rocher
- Glimpses of Prairie du Rocher, its history from 1722 to 1942
Intimately linked with that of Randolph County and of the state of Illinois
- Glimpses of Prairie du Rocher, its history from 1722 to 1942
Military Records
- Federal Pension Roll of 1883
- Baird, William – CW Pension
- McKee, William – CW Pension
- McKinley, Robert – CW Pension
- Civil War Papers of James D. Gillespie
- Archived Military Records
- Randolph County in the Civil War
Old Photographs of Randolph County
- 1904-1905 Red Bud High School Class Photograph
- Randolph County Unknown Photos
- Sites Around Randolph County
- Thompson, McKee & Hissong Family Photos
Randolph County Newspapers
- Historical Newspaper Articles and Obituaries
- Chester Deaths from Local Newspapers
- Chester Marriages from Newspapers
- Oct. 13, 1860 Issue of Randolph County Republican
Vital Records Research
See Cemetery and Church records above for additional birth, marriage and death records.
- Birth Records
- Marriage Records
- Death Records
Yearbooks
- 1904-1905 Red Bud High School Class Photograph
- 1922 Sparta HS Freshman Class
- 1931 Coulterville Yearbook
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