Talbot County, Maryland

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United States > Maryland > Talbot County
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Contents

County Courthouse

Talbot County Courthouse
11 North Washington Street
Easton, Maryland 21601
410-770-8010

History

Parent County

  • Created 19 February 1661 from Kent County.

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Towns
Communities

Neighboring Counties

Anne Arundel | Calvert | Caroline | Dorchester | Queen Anne's

Resources

Cemeteries

  • All Saints Cemetery
  • Chapel Cemetery
  • DeShields Cemetery
  • Doverbrook Cemetery
  • Fairview Cemetery
  • Graham Cemetery
  • Hole-in-the-Wall Cemetery
  • John Wesley Cemetery
  • Kemp Cemetery
  • Kings Creek Cemetery
  • Landing Neck Cemetery
  • Merrick Cemetery
  • Old John Wesley Cem.
  • Old Paradise Cemetery
  • Old St Joseph Cemetery
  • Oxford Cemetery
  • Paradise Cemetery
  • Piney Hill Cemetery
  • Queen Esther Cemetery
  • Rattlesnake Point Cemetery
  • Readly Cemetery
  • Richland Memorial Park
  • Roberts Cemetery
  • Round Top Graveyard
  • Royal Oak Cemetery
  • St James Cemetery
  • Saint Johns Cemetery
  • Saint Lukes Cemetery
  • Saint Pauls Cemetery
  • Saint Pauls Cemetery
  • Saint Stephens Graveyard
  • Spring Hill Cemetery
  • Third Haven Meeting Burial Ground
  • Tilghman Island Cemetery
  • Upper Bambury Cemetery
  • Walnut Grove Cemetery
  • Windy Hill Cemetery
  • Woodlawn Memorial Park
  • Wrights Cemetery
  • Wye Mills Cemetery

Transcriptions of various cemeteries in Talbot County can be found at the following websites:

Findagrave
Interment
Tombstone Transcription Project

The Political Graveyard is a great resource for Politicians that were born, lived and died in Talbot County.

Published Transcriptions:

  • Tombstone inscriptions and map of graves at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland [1] Tombstone inscriptions and map of graves at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland
  • Tombstones of Talbot County [2]

For more information about Cemeteries in Maryland please refer to the Maryland Cemeteries page.

Census

Federal Census reports available 1790-1930 including slave and veterans schedules.

Church

Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions identifies all churches known to have existed in Talbot County, Maryland. It covers all denominations and includes record descriptions.

Court

Family Histories

It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:

  • Locate publications about direct ancestors
  • Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
  • Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]

Bibliography

Gazetteers

Immigration

  • Coldham, Peter Wilson. "Correspondence with the American Colonies 1739-1782," The Genealogist, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1998):108-128; Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 1998):189-205. [Overseas correspondence of a resident of Oxford [Talbot County] with the following surname: Crookshank.] Available at FHL.
  • List of imported servants and convicts from Europe who served labor terms in Colonial Talbot County, Maryland (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database.

Land

Through a Joint eGovernment Service of the Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Archives, free images and indexes of the complete series of Talbot County Deed Books (1662-present) have been uploaded to their website: MDLandRec.Net: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Requires free registration.)

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

Death

Societies and Libraries

Web Sites

References

  1. ↑ Tombstone inscriptions and map of graves at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland; Bushey, Marjorie Lloyd Merrick, 1897- index of the Maryland Genealogical Records Committee Reports, (GRC), NSDAR Library, Series 1, vol. 144. - Family History Library FHL US/CAN Film 859279 Item 2
  2. ↑ Tombstones of Talbot County. 4 vols. 1989-1993. Available from the Upper Shore Genealogical Society. LIB 2-4-2 4 vols. 1989-1993. Available from the Upper Shore (Maryland) Genealogical Society. LIB 2-4-2
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