Worcester County, Massachusetts


Here are lookup guidelines :

  • Volunteers will do limited lookups.
  • Information given will be minimal, for example if it is a cemetery lookup, the information will be the name of the cemetery and the dates on the headstone. Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hardcopies to be mailed.
  • Please put WORCESTER LOOKUP in the subject area of your email AND indicate (in your message)what sources (name of book, cemetery, CD, etc.). Many of volunteers do lookups for other counties and states. If you DO NOT do this your request may be overlooked or trashed!!!!
  • The volunteers have families, jobs, etc. and will do your lookup when they have time.
  • Please remember to thank them!!!

If you would like to volunteer to do lookups or you have other Worcester County resources, please contact Betty Thomas -













Books We Own - Lookups for MA [this is not the GenWeb]


Elaine Merrell - lmerrell@ct1.nai.net
92 Grassy Hill Road
Woodbury CT 06798
Vital Records UP TO 1850 - Sturbridge to 1850, Southborough to 1850, Webster to 1850, Holbrook


Betty Thomas -bettyt@lycos.com

Book - " Lives Thus Spent" - Boylston Biographies
Boylston Vital Records- 1786 to 1930
For more Boylston info go to the Boylston Historical Society and Museum web site - archives page.
BOOK - NEHG's Register, volume 152 Jan. 1998, contents:
The English Ancestry of Joseph Clark of Dedham and Medfield, MA
The Identity of Deborah Cushing's First Husband
Johnathan Bates and His only wife, Lusanna Nichols
Untangling the Evidence for Two Early MA Robbins Families [George/ Robert]


Kirsten A. Person, 95 Christian Hill Rd., Upton, MA, 01568

The Blackstone Valley Towns - Blackstone, Douglas, Grafton, Hopedale, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Northbridge, Sutton, Upton, and Uxbridge


K. Sweetser - KSweetser@aol.com

Book - THE HISTORY OF PAXTON, MASSACHUSETTS, by Ledyard Bill, 1889.

Book -PAXTON MASSACHUSETTS, BIRTH, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS 1748-1850 edited by Marcia L. Membrino and Paul A. Russell, Heritage Books, 1996


Jerry Harrison - jroots@aol.com - Albuquerque, NM

My homepage is: http://members.aol.com/jroots

My LOCKE page is http://members.aol.com/jroots/locke.html

I will do lookups on two Worcester County families, LOCKE and JONES, and collateral lines. I have a database of about 17,000 descendants and collateral lines of William LOCKE, of Woburn, whose descendants dotted the towns of Worcester County. In addition, I have a similarly large database on the JONES family which settled in Lunenburg. They were descendants of Lewis and Ann JONES. My personal library is large, as well, on these families.


Dev Clifford

Book - History of Hardwick by Lucius R. Paige,published by Houghton, Mifflin in 1883. The book has an indexed 223 page Genealogical Register in addition to a general history.


Julie Bright - jbright@capecod.net

Book - Quaboag Plantation, Dr. Louis Roy,M.D. 1965
Genealogies of: WARREN, YOUNGLOVE,PRICHARD, WILSON, PARSONS,COY,AYRES,HOVEY,TRAVIS,TRUMBLE,KENT, MILLETT

Book - History of East Brookfield 1686-1970, Dr. Louis Roy,M.D. 1970
Genealogies of: ADAMS,BARNES,DRAKE,HAMILTON,HARRINGTON,HOBBS,JENNINGS,STEVENS, WOOLCOTT


Beverly Berry Hanner - BumbB@aol.com

Directory - 1932 Polk City Directory for Worcester, Mass.

VITAL RECORDS - all Mass Towns births Deaths and Marriages from the 1700's to 1850


Ed Cooper - MOKYD@aol.com

lookups for people in Clinton, MA


Bev Rainey

Vital Records Book - Charlton Vital Records to 1850
CEMETERY - Northside Cemetary - I have some good photos of Hammond and Wheelock stones.


Scott Colson - scottcolson@pol.net

YEARBOOKS - I have the 1937 and 1940 yearbooks "the Saxifrage" from State Teachers College in Fitchburg, AND 1937 Leominster High School yearbook.
DIRECTORY - 1936 Leominster Directory
I would be willing to do lookups and also scan and email any pages.


Jill Nick - jjsnick@ncweb.com

BOOK - "A Brief Genealogical History of Robert Starkweather of Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts" who was the Original American Ancestor of all Those Bearing the Name of Starkweather and of His Son John Starkweather of Ipswich, Mass. and Preston, Conn and of his descendants in various lines 1640-1898. By Carlton Lee Starkweather, M.D.
*** I need first name, last name, birthdate (if known), parents, and maiden if not Starkweather.


Maureen abc@alphabits.com

BOOK - EARLY MA. MARRIAGES


David Robinson - haruspex@coldcomfortfarm.com

VITAL RECORDS -
Vital Records of Barre, MA to the end of the year 1849
Vital Records of Brookfiled, MA to the end of the year 1849
BOOK -
Roy's History of East Brookfield, Massachusetts 1686-1970
The Great Migration Begins, Vols. I-III


Ann Pondaven - sheppond@yahoo.com

VITAL RECORD BOOK - "The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster Massachusetts. 1643-1850" Edited by Henry S Nourse, A. M.
BOOK - "Abijah P. Marvin's History of the Town of Lancaster... 1792-1856"


Jackie - JGill29371@aol.com

VITAL RECORD BOOK - Athol MA VR to the year 1849/50


Michelle former_hker@yahoo.com

Census - Shrewsbury 1855 State Census, Shrewsbury 1830 census

Vital Records - Vital records of Shrewsbury to 1850


Marilyn Labbe - mlabbe3@juno.com

CEMETERY - I have Dudley/Webster Cemetery records recorded by George Maynard in 1906/7. And a copy of the Dudley cemeteries done in 1982. Neither is indexed but I will do lookups.


Kate LeChasseur - k_madison@hotmail.com

BOOK - "Once Told Tales of Worcester County" -- a great little anecdotal history by Albert B. Southwick. Go HERE for a list of surnames.


Priscilla - ToyTown25@aol.com

CEMETERY - I am able to do cemetery lookups for the towns of Ashburnham, Westminster, Hubbardston, Phillipston,Winchendon, Templeton/Baldwinville

VITAL RECORDS - Vital records to 1850 for the following towns:
Abington, ACTON, Alford, Arlington, Amesbury, ANDOVER, ASHFIELD, ASHBURNHAM, ATHOL, Attleboro, Auburn, BARRE, BECKET, Bedford, BELLINGHAM, BILLERICA, Bolton, Boylston, BOXBORO, BOXFORD,Bradford,BRAINTREE, Brewster, BRIMFIELD, BROCKTON, BROOKFIELD, Brookline,Buckland, BURLINGTON, CANTON/STOUGHTON, CARLISE, Carver, Charlemont, Chester, CHARLTON,CHELMSFORD, Chelsea, CHILMARK, Cohasset, COLRAIN, Concord, Conway,DALTON, DANA, DARTMOUTH, Deerfield, DOVER, Douglas, Dracut, DUDLEY, DUNSTABLE, DUXBURY, East Bridgewater, EDGARTOWN, ESSEX, FITCHBURG, Foxboro, Framingham, GARDNER, GEORGETOWN, GILL, GLOCESTER, Grafton, Granville, GREAT BARRINGTON, GREENFIELD, Groton, Hailifax, Hamilton, Heath, HANSON, HARDWICK, HARVARD, Haverhill, HINSDALE, HOLDEN, Holliston, Hopkington, HUBBARDSTON, HULL, Kingston, LANCASTER, Lawrence, Lee, LEICESTER, LEOMINSTER, LEXINGTON, Lincoln, LYNNFIELD, Malden, Manchester, Mansfield, Medford, Methuen, Middlefield, Montague, MARLBORO, Marblehead, Medfield, Medway, Mendon, Middletown, Millbury, Milton, Milford, MONTOGOMERY, NANTUCKET, Natick, Northbridge, Norton, Newton, NEW ASHFORD, New Bedford,New Braintree, NEW SALEM, OAKHAM, Otis, Oxford, PALMER, PELHAM, Pembroke, PERU, PETERSHAM, PHILLIPSTON, PRINCETON, READING, REHOBOTH, RICHMOND, ROCHESTER, Rockport, ROWLEY, ROXBURY, ROYALSTON, RUTLAND, SALEM, SAGUS, Salisbury, Sandisfield, Sharon, Shelburne, SCITUATE, SHERBORN, SHIRLEY, SHREWSBURY, Southborough, SPENCER, STONEHAM, STOUGHTON/CANTON, STOW, STURBRIDGE, Sudbury, TEMPLETON, TISBURY, Topsfield, TRURO, Tewksburyrook


Larry S Saint Cyr - lsc@comcast.net

BOOK - "History of Ashburnham" by Ezra S. Stearns, published in 1887
BOOK - History of Ashburnham from 1885 to 1965
BOOK - "Focus on old houses of Ashburnham"
VITAL RECORDS - Ashburnham vital records to 1850
Also will do cemetery look ups with in the town of Ashburnham .


Marilyn McGuire - moomc@comcast.net

DIRECTORY - The Worcester [City] Directory for 1871, by Henry J. Howland, published Worcester: Luther H. Bigelow, 239 Main St.
The ususal information includes,Name, address, occupation. There is also a business directory and general information.


Daniel David Lewis Frommherz - daniel_lewis_frommherz@mckenzievalleymarket.com

BOOK - History of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, from 1704 to 1876; including Grafton until 1735; Millbury until 1813; and parts of Northbridge, Upton and Auburn , by Benedict William Addison, Sanford and Co.1878.



TommyD - TommyD@LeominsterHigh.com

BOOK - I have Leominster High School yearbooks from 1924, 1926 & 1927, 1930, 1943,1944,1945,1946, 1957, 1962,1963,1964,1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969, 1984 available for Look-Ups.