Vital Records of Falmouth, MA to 1850

In 2007, The Society of Mayflower Descendents in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations granted permission to NEHGS to digitize and present this work. The original was originally published in 1975 and is now out-of-print.

From the introduction:

“Less than ten percent of the Vital Records of Falmouth to 1850 have previously appeared in print. These constitute about 23 pages in volumes 3 and 4 of The Genealogical Advertiser which were published in 1900 and 1901, and reprinted by GPC in 1974.

In this volume the Society proudly presents the work of Col. Oliver B. Brown USA (Ret.) Over the past seven years he has copied, alphabetically arranged and typed the Falmouth Town Records, as well as the Bible records, church records and cemetery inscriptions of Falmouth. A comparison of his typescript with the Vital Records in The Genealogical Advertiser and among the abstracts my husband and I made from the Town records for the Samson Five Generations Project convinced us of the accuracy of Colonel Brown's work.

Unlike the Marshfield and Yarmouth Vital Records published in 1969 and 1975, this book is patterned after the alphabetical Massachusetts Vital Records series. There are three listings: the first for births and baptisms, the next for marriages and intentions, and the last for deaths. Every item which does not come from the Town record books is keyed to a list of sources on pages viii and ix.”

This database contains 6,416 births, 3,823 marriages, and 1,896 deaths.

This volume is also available in our Boston research library, call number: F74 F3 B76 1976.

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