Worcester County Archives

New England Vital Records, Cemetery Records, and More - HERE or HERE


GENEALOGIES

1. HINDS

2. BANISTER

3. ALDRICH

4.GREEN

5.Sue's Genealogy Garden in New EnglandAll my pages are linked from my main page,The Unofficial Home Page of John Gardner/Garnet of Hingham, MA; Pierce Surname Project; and Gardner Surname - Vital Records of Massachusetts

6. Burnap Family from Sutton

7. Whitney Family Genealogy page

8. ONE COLE FAMILY OF WORCESTER COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS

9. Clemans Family of Charlton

10. Information about the ancestry of Edmund Rice as well as current and well-researched information about his children and grand children. You will also learn more about the Edmund Rice (1638) Association and several of our programs to encourage research about Edmund Rice's descendants.

11.Charles James Wilson family

12. William Lawrence family

13. Rudbergs and Larsons in Worcester

14. Lovell family

15. The New England KENDALL Family

16. The Murphy's* Sullivan's* Riordan, * Cronin * Buchanan's * Foley's Wilson * Cornell

17. Hall Family of Uxbridge and Douglas

18. Hall Family Genealogy

19. Lancaster families: Beaman, Farrar, Houghton, Lewis, Linton, Waters, Whitcomb, White



Photos


1. Early 1900's Photos of Worcester People and Places by E.B.Luce

2. Places From Worcester's Past

3. David Taylor

4. Lake View School, Class of 1928B graduation picture, taken Jun 29 1928 by C. J. Anderson

5. Worcester Postal History Photos

6. Worcester Post Cards

7. Old Sterling Photos



Books Online


1.New England History and Genealogy Books Online - Various Town Historiesmostly Boston area, but very interesting!

2.Early Records of Lancaster MA, 1643-1725EDITED BY Henry S. Nourse, A.M.- it includes land records and early BMD records. For a linked index - Click here.

3.Boylston Historical Series - Index only

4. History of Worcester County Masachusetts with Historical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, D. Hamilton Hurd, (ed.)(Philadelphia: J. W.Lewis & Co., 1889), vol. I,
pp. 780-810 ONLY. The History of Shrewsbury BY WILLIAM T. HARLOW- with corrections to the text added by Hiram Harlow; computer transcription by Robert J. Cormier.

5. History of Worcester and Its People, Volume 4, edited by Charles A. Nutt, 1919 - bios and photos -

     A. Scanned portions of Volume 4 - INDEX of Names

     B. Transcribed portions of Volume 4 - INDEX

     C. Transcribed portions of Volume 3 - INDEX

6. List of Persons whose Names Have Been Changed in Massachusetts - 1780-1883, collated and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth - 1885

7. "Worcester County" A Narrative History; Volume 3, by John Nelson; American Historical Society, New York,1934.
Name Index

8. "History of the Town of Princeton MA ", by Francis Everett Blake - published by the town of Princeton, MA 1915.
History and Genealogies

9. "History of the Town of Harvard MA - 1732-1893", by Henry F. Nourse, AM - Coulter Press, Clinton, MA 1894.
Marriages and Deaths - early 1700's to 1800

Cemeteries


Tombstone Project

Worcester County Cemeteries

CEMETERY SEARCH

Search Worcester Cemeteries on Rootsweb [Hope in Worcester, Lancaster OId Burial Ground, Memorial Park in Paxton]

1. St Pauls Cemetery, Sutton

2. County Bridge Cemetery, Millbury

3. DWINNEL CEMETERY, Millbury

4. West Millbury Cemetery (Grass Hill), 4 South Oxford Road, Millbury

5. FOWLER FAMILY CEMETERY - Northbridge

6. FRIEND'S CEMETERY - Northbridge

7. Oxford South Congregational Church Cemetery, Church St, Oxford

8. THE ARMSBY CEMETERY, Town of Sutton

9. ARNOLD CEMETERY, Sutton

10. THE DODGE CEMETERY, Town of Sutton

11. THE HOWARD CEMETERY, Town of Sutton

12. THE MILLBURY CEMETERY, Town of Sutton

13. Putnam - Hutchinson Cemetery, Sutton

14. SUTTON TOWN CEMETERY, Sutton

15. THE WILKINSONVILLE CEMETERY, Town of Sutton

16.Worcester State Hospital, Hillside Cemetery Renovation Project, Shrewsbury

17. Old Burial Ground, Boylston

18. Epitaphs from The Old Burial Field, Lancaster, MA

19. Epitaphs from the Cemetery of Worcester Common, Worcester[city], MA

20. Various cemeteries

21. Hope Cemetery, city of Worcester - NOTE- this is a rootsweb search engine

22. Cole/Woodbury Cemetery - Sutton

23. Lackey Cemetery - Whitinsville

24. Upton First Cemetery - Upton

25. Town Farm Cemetery - Sutton

26. Rural Cemetery, 180 Grove Street, Worcester, MA 01605 - phone, 508-754-1313 - Contact person, Lucy E. Simoneau - les.rc@juno.com - - MAP

27. Town of Upton cemetery info [plot maps, some burial info, etc.]

28. Worcester State Hospital - Hillside Cemetery - Shrewsbury

29. Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury

30. St. John's Cemetery, 260 Cambridge Street, Worcester, MA 01603 - telephone: (508) 757-7415

31. Warfield Cememtery, Hopdale - gravestone photos.

32. Saint Anne’s (church yard) Cemetery - Rt.9, Shrewsbury

33. Torrey Cemetery, Sutton,MA, Sutton

34. Pigeon Hill Cemetery, Sutton, Sutton

35. Old Cemetery, Mendon Massachusetts

36. Brookfield Cemetery

37. West Ridge Cemetery, Charlton

Census


1. 1910 Census

2. Irish Only - 1855 State Census

3. Irish Only - 1855 State Census for Marlboro[note - Marlboro is in Middlesex county, but is also very much a part of Worcester history]

4. 1800 Worcester County Census

5. 1790 Grafton

6. 1790 Royalston

7. 1790 Worcester [city]

8. 1850 Sutton

9. 1855 State Census for Shrewsbury

10. Worcester Census in the MA Archives



Vital Records/ Wills


WORCESTER COUNTY VITAL RECORD INFORMATION

1. BMD from the Lancaster Early Records Book

2.Leominster to 1850

3. Boylston to 1850

4. Sterling to 1850

5. Leominster - after 1850

6. Deaths of Finnish People in Lunenburg, Massachusetts 1896-1968

7. Shrewsbury to 1850

8. Sampubco - Worcester county wills

9. Aldrich Wills

10. Will of Barzillai Banister

11. Lancaster Death records [ scroll down to Worcester ] from The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Henry S. Nourse, 1890

12. Prouty Deaths after 1850 in Spencer

13. Various town BMDs

14. Worcester County, Marriage Records To 1800 - 12 towns - Barre, Berlin, Fitchburg, Leominister, Milford, Northborough,Northbridge, Paxton, Princeton, Royalton, Templeton and Winchendon)

15. Vital Records of Phillipston, MA - To the end of the year 1849

16. Petersham, MA Vital Records to 1850

17. Hubbardston, MA vital records to 1850

18. Worcester Vitals in the MA Archives

19. Joslyn Wills - M. Joslyn, A. Joslyn, P. Joslyn

20. Larkin Wills - John Larkin, Peter Larkin, <

21. Knight Wills - M. Knight, Amos Knight, Charles E. Knight



Military


1. From Nathan Burpee's Revolutionary War Pension File

2. Royalston Revolutionary War Soldiers

3. Roster of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery

4. Soldiers and Sailors in the Civil War

5. Grafton Soldiers



Newspapers


1. Excerpts from Telegram & Gazzette, 1944-1953 - BMD's and more

2. Boston Weekly Journal(late 1800's) - Loads of GREAT reading here even if you don't find your family!



Documents,Pamphlets, etc.


1. Historical Sketch of the First Congregational Church, Paxton, Massachusetts



2. A History of the Cleghorn District of the City of Fitchburg, MA
By Louis-Napoleon Miville-Deschenes

Ephemera


1. Intolerance

2. Famous Firsts of Worcester, Mass



I'd like to RETURN this....


1.Bible - possibly Fitchburg resident



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