Maine State Library Maine State Documents Cumberland Books Cumberland, Maine 9-18-2014 Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine 1701-1892 Thomas C. Bennett Prince Memorial Library Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalmaine.com/cumberland_books Recommended Citation Bennett, Thomas C., "Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine 1701-1892" (2014). Cumberland Books. 1. http://digitalmaine.com/cumberland_books/1 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Cumberland, Maine at Maine State Documents. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cumberland Books by an authorized administrator of Maine State Documents. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine 1701-1892 Edited by Thomas C. Bennett Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine Table of Contents Introduction Page iii Births Page 1 Deaths Page 175 Marriages by Groom Page 227 Marriages by Bride Page 276 ii Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine Introduction The Town of Cumberland, Maine, located on Casco Bay in Cumberland County, was incorporated on March 19, 1821, after a successful secession effort by the residents of the northwestern section of the Town of North Yarmouth. North Yarmouth, first settled by the English as early as 1635, was originally known by the Indian name Westcustogo, and was incorporated in 1680 as the eighth town in Maine. In addition to North Yarmouth and Cumberland, North Yarmouth originally comprised the present day towns of Freeport, Harpswell, Pownal, Yarmouth and a small part of Brunswick. The Cumberland Town Archives contain nine volumes of vital records that predate the 1892 Maine law requiring the state’s municipalities to report vital statistics to the Secretary of State. These include volumes labeled Birth Deaths by Family 1732–1821; Birth Deaths 1800– 1864; Birth Deaths 1864–1880; Births 1854–1891 Deaths 1881–1891; and Marriages 1829– 1892. There are four volumes containing copied records. E. D. Loring, North Yarmouth Town Clerk from 1873–1922, provided Cumberland with a copy of the “record of marriages from 1720–1821 as recorded in the records of North Yarmouth.” In February 1904, Cumberland Town Clerk David L. Blanchard created a “true copy of all the Births and Deaths recorded in the Town of Cumberland records up to the year of January 1st 1892.” In 1959, Cumberland voters at Town Meeting appropriated $200 “for the purpose of preserving early records of the Town of Cumberland.” Antoinette W. Packard copied Cumberland’s vital records into a set of notebooks. Hazel McGoff took Mrs. Packard’s notebooks and typed the contents onto single–sided sheets. The Packard–McGoff copied data is presented in two volumes. Volume I contains Births 1802–1892, Deaths 1815–1891, Soldier’s Graves, and Marriages 1720–1891. Volume 2 is comprised of Births 1718–1815 and Deaths 1733–1821. Volume 1 Births (pages 1–87) corresponds to pages 2–72 of the Blanchard copy of births and deaths up to January 1, 1892. Volume 1 Deaths (pages 88–129) corresponds to pages 100–154 of the Blanchard copy. Volume 1 Marriages pages 136–189 corresponds to the Loring copy of the North Yarmouth marriage records (1720–1821). Volume 1 Marriages pages 190–227 is taken from the unpaged volume Marriages 1829–1892, which in fact should read Marriages 1821–1892. Volume 2 Births (pages 87a–87yyyy) corresponds to Births Deaths by Family iii Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine 1732–1821 pages 1–115, while Volume 2 Deaths (pages 129a–129y) corresponds to Births Deaths by Family 1732–1821 pages 180–198. During the 1990s, Cheryl Buxbaum, Cumberland’s Welfare Director, entered the data from the Packard–McGoff volumes into Microsoft Excel. Prince Memorial Library received copies of the spreadsheets in 2002, and the data was imported into Microsoft Access. Milli McGoldrick, Betty Robinson, Bill Earle, Chris Hayes and Stephen Hayes verified the Access data against the Packard–McGoff copy, and made corrections when needed. Each database entry was verified at least twice, and, when required, the original volumes were consulted. Cumberland Vital Records 1701–1892 includes listings for 6,211 births, 1,828 deaths and 2,083 marriages, and represents the culmination of many years of work on the part of numerous individuals. Many of the pre-1821 records, when Cumberland was still part of North Yarmouth, are included in Vital Records of North Yarmouth, Maine to the year 1850 (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 2nd edition, 1993). The data is presented as it appears in the Packard–McGoff volumes, however not all of the information contained in those volumes is included. For births, the names of parents are included when available, as are the names of parents and age of individual at death for decedents. Some data, such as status of individual (e.g., “widow,” “a pauper,” “relict of”), comments (e.g., “d. at Almshouse,” “drowned”) the residence of the individual being married, or the person performing the marriage, is available in the database but is not included in the published volumes due to space considerations. The number in the right–hand column of the page generally refers to the page number in the Packard–McGoff volumes, but there are some exceptions. Volume 1 of the Packard–McGoff volumes was paginated 1 through 226, and is recorded as such in the database and in published versions. With Volume 2, there was an attempt to insert the births after the births in Volume 1, and to insert the deaths after the deaths in Volume 1. This resulted in the Packard–McGoff pagination system in which Volume 1 Births were on pages 1–87 and Volume 2 Births were on pages 87a through 87yyyyy, with two additional pages, 87jj2 and 87jjj2. Volume 1 Deaths are on pages 88–129, with Volume 2 Deaths on pages 129a through 129y. This publication uses the following convention: for births and deaths, pages 1–128 refer to pages 1–128 in Volume 1; pages 129–150 refer to pages 129a through 129y in Volume 2; and pages 151–281 correspond to pages 87a–87jjj2 in Volume 2. For marriages, the original page numbers of Volume 1, pages 136–227, were retained. iv Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine To further confuse matters, pages 87jj2 and 87jjj2 were inserted after page 87yyyyy, the last page of Volume 2 Births, when they should have been inserted after 87jj and 87jjj, respectively. Page 87jj2 was renumbered as page 280 when it should have been renumbered as page 187, while page 87jjj2 was renumbered page 281, rather than as page 214. This, and all other issues concerning the numbering of pages, is only of consequence if one is trying to correlate this volume of vital records with the original volumes in the Cumberland Town Archives. The Packard–McGoff volume pages each contain fewer names than the volume pages from which they are copied, resulting in a greater than one–to–one correlation of pages (e.g., the Packard–McGoff Volume 1 Births section requires 87 pages to present the data transcribed from 71 pages in the Blanchard copy). Though time consuming, it is possible to correlate each page in the Packard–McGoff volumes with their source volume pages. In 2007, Brown’s River Records Preservation Services of Essex, Vermont, provided conservation treatment for the volumes Births Deaths by Family 1732–1821; Births Deaths 1800–1864; Births Deaths 1864–1880; Births 1854–1891 Deaths 1881–1891; and Marriages 1829–1892. All nine volumes providing the source data for Cumberland Vital Records 1701– 1892 are available for research purposes at Cumberland Town Hall. Thomas C. Bennett Prince Memorial Library Cumberland, Maine September 2014 v Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine Births 1 Vital Records of Cumberland, Maine: Births Abbott, Adelaide Mar 5, 1876 R. L. and Hannah E. Abbott 1 Abbott, Alfreda Aug 8, 1866 Royal L. and Elizabeth Abbott 1 Abbott, Harlan Sep 20, 1878 R. L. and Hannah E. Abbott 1 Abbott, Inez Mildred Sep 26, 1882 R. L. and Hannah E. Abbott 1 Adams, Charles Edward Dec 5, 1870 Benjamin and Sarah Adams 1 Adams, Frederic Russell Aug 8, 1855 Joshua and Maria Adams 1 Adams, Henry Gilbert Jan 8, 1874 Benjamin and Sarah Adams 1 Adams, Lillian G. Feb 24, 1876 George W. and Dorah H. Adams 1 Alexander, Hugh Mar 21, 1750 William and Jane Alexander 165 Alexander, Samuel Jul 18, 1754 William and Jane Alexander 165 Allen, Alford Richardson Sep 23, 1818 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, Clara Aug 2, 1825 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Daniel Reed Nov 4, 1815 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Edward Jun 12, 1805 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, Esther Apr 16, 1798 Ethan and Sally Allen 212 Allen, Experience May 26, 1796 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, George Oct 29, 1801 Ethan and Sally Allen 212 Allen, Hiram Means Apr 13, 1824 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Huldah Hill Aug 3, 1818 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Jeannette Ilsly Apr 13, 1824 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Margaret Jan 2, 1829 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Allen, Nicholas Hall Aug 18, 1813 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, Ruth Mar 13, 1799 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, Thomas Green Mar 26, 1811 Edward and Esther Allen 230 Allen, Walter B. Jul 2, 1847 Peter and Clarrisa Allen 1 Allen, William Henry Dec 20, 1821 Elijah and Olive Allen 1 Anderson, Alice Jul 3, 1889 Robert E. and Elva Anderson 1 Anderson, Anna Apr 15, 1751 Jacob and Agnis Anderson 169 Anderson, Clarence Herman Mar 20, 1867 Robert D. and Lavina Anderson 1 Anderson, Edith E. Mar 9, 1883 Robert E. and Elva Anderson 1 Anderson, Elizabeth J.