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Maine Knox County
Guide to Knox County Maine genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
| Knox County, Maine | |
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 Location in the state of Maine | |
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| Founded | April 1, 1860 |
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| County Seat | Rockland |
| Courthouse | |
| Address | Knox County Courthouse 62 Union Street PO Box 885 Rockland, ME 04841-0885 Phone: 207.594.9379 Knox County Website |
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County Courthouse
Town Clerks have birth, marriage, and death records.Clerk Superior Court has divorce and court records.
Probate Court has probate records from 1860.
Register of Deeds has land records from 1860.[1]
History
- Named for American Revolutionary war general and Secretary of War, Henry Knox, who lived in the county from 1795 until his death in 1806.
Parent County
Created 1 April 1860 from Lincoln and Waldo counties. [1]
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Places / Localities
Towns
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Plantation: Matinicus. For further details see Maine plantations.
Extinct Town:[2] Hurricane Isle[3]
Unorganized territory: Criehaven. For further details see Maine townships.
Communities
- Camden
- Thomaston
Villages
- Hibberts Corner
- Port Clyde
Neighboring Counties: Hancock | Lincoln | Waldo
Resources
Cemeteries
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Main, Knox County Cemetery Records, (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Church
Court
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Maine, Knox County Probate Estate Files (FanilySearch Histoarical Records)
Gazetteers
Land
Local Histories
Maps
Military
Newspapers
Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Knox County
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Knox County (backup site)
- FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Knox County
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Maine, Knox County Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 (FamilySearch Historical Records)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Knox County, Maine page 304, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ Before an extinct town was discontinued, it created official town records of interest to genealogists. For preservation these records were usually turned over to a nearby functioning town in the same county.
- ↑ Michael J. Leclerc, Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, 5th ed. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 103. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974 D27g 2012.
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