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GENEALOGY
RESEARCH
in Manchester NH
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To learn about how to research your family tree in Manchester and
throughout the state of New Hampshire VISIT
this important section of my web site! Included is how to obtain
documents, such as birth, marriage, death, divorce, probate, land
deeds, military records, etc.
Also see "Family Trees" on this
web site, and also "Family
Trees/Biographies of Hillsborough County People"
Only MANCHESTER
NH-specific genealogy research information is listed
below..
OBTAINING
COPIES OF VITAL RECORDS IN MANCHESTER, N.H.
-- In addition to the NH
Bureau of Vital Statistics, the Manchester City Archives
(Town Clerk's Office) maintains copies of birth, marriage and
death certificates that occurred in Manchester. The Manchester
City Archives do NOT have vital records earlier than 1841.
***Searchable
NH Databases (Birth, Death, Marriage, Obituary and Probate (Wills)
at
FamilySearch***
For more
information
about vital statistics in New Hampshire, see this page.
- Abstracts
of some Marriage Records - a few notices of Manchester
NH marriages, occurring between 1757-1927 (published in a Claremont
NH newspaper)
- The
Union Leader - statewide newspaper
(please note that the Manchester City Library has records of
older copies of this newspaper if you are seeking obituaries)
Information
available if you visit the Manchester City Library
-
Manchester NH marriages: 1850 to 1947
- Manchester NH deaths: 1850 to 1947
- Manchester NH city directories 1840 to present (typically
only shows the name of the head of household, spouse, occupation
and residence)
- Manchester NH obituaries: 1863 to present
The marriages, deaths, city directories and church records
are all upstairs in the library, in the "New Hampshire
Room". The obituaries are on the first floor in the reading
room (on microfiche, from the newspaper. NOTE: If you are researching
in NH but NOT in Manchester, look at the "State" edition,
rather than the "City" edition).
- SEE
FREE SOURCE OF INFO: EARLY Manchester NH Histories and EARLY
TOWN RECORDS of Londonderry, Derryfield and Manchester NH - free
online
CEMETERIES
IN MANCHESTER, N.H.
Manchester has several city-owned cemeteries, along with several
private ones. I've created a unique list showing all of these
cemeteries, along with maps and directions. In November of 2004
I took photographs of most of the tombstones in three of the oldest
cemeteries -- Centre, Merrill and Hall Cemeteries. These
photographs, along with the accompanying tombstone inscriptions
are accessed at the link below.
According
to the Clerk of Cemeteries for the City of Manchester:
"The Pine Grove Cemetery maintains the records for all the
city run cemeteries, and also Valley Cemetery & Pine Grove
Cemetery. For the most part we have complete records for Pine
Grove, Amoskeag, Merrill, Piscataquog and Valley Cemeteries. For
the very small cemeteries, Stowell, Hall, Huse, & Moore, the
records are few. At one time a volunteer went to the smaller cemeteries
and wrote the names & dates from the monuments that he was
able to read and composed a book for the office. That book is
located at the Pine Grove Cemetery. If you were interested in
a certain person, you could email me their first and last name
and I could check our records for a burial. If you have a date
of death sometimes it helps if I should have more than one person
with the same name, but it isn't absolutely necessary."
Judith Aron
Senior Account Clerk of Cemeteries
Parks, Recreation & Cemetery Department
765 Brown Avenue
Manchester, NH 03103
603-624-6514
Jaron@manchesternh.gov
- VISIT
my Manchester NH Cemetery page (includes cemetery names,
and locations for all of the major cemeteries; also stone inscriptions
and photographs of both the Merrill and Centre Cemeteries, along
with general photographs of Valley Cemetery)
CENSUS
RECORDS/TAX LISTS
CITY DIRECTORIES,
TOWN HISTORIES & TOWN RECORDS
- The
City of Manchester (NH) Archival Records (city records,
civil war accounts, city farm, election records, police records,
1847 tax book, and much more)
- Proprietors'
records of Tyng Township, 1735-1741,
with notes and sketches (1901)
- Early Records
of the City of Manchester, from the Manchester Historic Association
collections (1896)
- Manchester
Historic Association Collections
- Early Records
of Derry, Windham and Londonderry NH, from the Manchester Historic
Assocation
- Report
of the Selectmen of the Town of Manchester (NH)
- various town reports between 1941 and 1974
- The City
of Manchester provides an online
copy of the 1869 Manchester City Directory in PDF format.
- Pocket
business directory
and industrial and social statistics of the city of Manchester,
N.H., 1879
- Pocket
business directory
and industrial and social statistics of the city of Manchester,
N.H., 1884
- 1908
Manchester City Directory Online (searchable) - GoogleBooks
- 1920
Manchester City Directory Online
(searchable) - Google Books
- Annotated
Every
Name Index (only) of the book, "Manchester, a brief record
of its past and a picture of its present; including an account
of its settlement and of its growth as town and city;a history
of its schools, churches, societies ... and sketches of its representative
citizens," collected and written by Maurice D. Clarke under
the supervision of his uncle, John B. Clarke and published in
1875
- The
New Hampshire Register, Farmer's Almanac and Business Directory,
1884
(including Manchester) - GoogleBooks
- **IMPORTANT**
Free Books Online
- History, Biography and Vital Records for EARLY Londonderry,
Derryfield and Manchester NH (on this site)
- BOOKS
Available through the University of New Hampshire relating
to MANCHESTER PEOPLE and Places
- Manchester
NH High School Yearbooks
Years: 1920
| 1923
- The Manchester
City Library maintains several old city directories (in their
"New Hampshire" Room). Their staff charge $5 for a lookup.
- Biographies,
Genealogies and Lists of Some Founders and Residents of Manchester
NH (this site)
- Manchester
and Some of Its Leading Men [N.H.] (1891)
- 1846
semi-centennial compendium of historical facts
: business and political index of Manchester, N.H. (1896)
- Papers
read by J. Trask Plumer,
before the Manchester Historic association (1904) includes info
on New Hampshire militia
- Willey's
semi-centennial book of Manchester, 1846-1896, and Manchester
ed. of the Book of Nutfield. Historic sketches of that part of
New Hampshire comprised within the limits of the old Tyng Township,
Nutfield, Harrytown, Derryfield, and Manchester, from the earliest
settlements to the present time (1896) by George Franklin Willey
- History
of Manchester, formerly Derryfield,
in New-Hampshire : including that of ancient Amoskeag, or the
middle Merrimack Valley, together with the address, poem, and
other proceedings of the centennial celebration of the incorporation
of Derryfield at Manchester, October 22, 1851 (1856), by C.E.
Potter
- "Manchester,
a brief record of its past and a picture of its present:including
an account of its settlement and of its growth as town and city;
a history of its schools, churches, societies ... and sketches
of its representative citizens collected and written by Maurice
D. Clarke under the supervision of his uncle, John B. Clarke and
published in 1875 [If you find your ancestor's name, you can borrow
this book (interlibrary loan) through your nearest public library.
- Manchester
up to date: story of the city, 1846-1896,
by David ... Perkins, David Lane (Hathi Trust, read online free)
- The
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. of Manchester,
New Hampshire: A History (1915)
- SERIES: Contributions
to the History of Derryfield New Hampshire, by the Manchester
Historic Association, 1897. Part
I, Topography and Landscape
- SERIES: Contributions
to the History of Derryfield New Hampshire, by the Manchester
Historic Association, 1897. Part
V, Occupation and Settlements
- Centennial
celebration of Manchester, N.H., June 13, 1810-1910 (1910),
Manchester Historic Association
DIVORCE
RECORDS
- Divorce records
are considered private and confidential, with access limited to
those individuals who have a "direct and tangible" interest
in the record. The only exception is divorce records more than
50 years old which are considered public and are open to the public.
- Copies of
divorce records USED to be obtained from the State office or from
the Clerk of the Superior Court in the county where the divorce
was granted. NOW records for individuals divorced in New Hampshire
are available from the City or Town Clerk in your community.
- In Manchester,
NH, you may complete an online application form 'Request for Divorce
Decree,' and send with proper payment to the Office of the City
Clerk, One City Hall Plaza, Manchester, NH 03101. A self-addressed
return envelope with the appropriate postage affixed is required
to process all mail requests. [SEE
LINK FOR DETAILS].
IMMIGRATION/NATURALIZATION
LAND
AND DEED RECORDS
MILITARY
SERVICE OF MANCHESTER NH RESIDENTS
- Manchester
NH participation in
the French & Indian War including muster rolls [this war
began c1746].
- Derryfield
(now Manchester) NH in the Revolution (American Revolution),
by George Waldo Brown, 1902
- Manchester
NH Casualties during
the Civil War
- List
of soldiers furnished by Manchester during the Civil War (War
of the Rebelltion) - TXT file (this
site)
- New
Hampshire's Veteran's Home - this home has existed in Tilton,
N.H. since the early 1900's. From Civil War veterans on, you may
be able to learn more about your ancestors if they stayed at this
home.
- Ceremonies
at the dedication of the monument erected by the city of Manchester,
N.H (1880)
- Dedication
of Stark Park by the city of Manchester, N.H. Oration, June
17, 1893 (1893)
- Military
Squares
- Squares, Parks and other Recognition of Manchester's Fallen
Heroes (new in 2014 on my blog: Cow Hampshire) from the American
Revolution to Today.
- New
Hampshire WWI Military: Heroes of Manchester -- World
War One military (army, navy, marine corps) from Manchester NH
who were killed, or who died while in service. Biographies, service
information and many photographs - on my blog, Cow Hampshire
- Veteran's
Resources in NH
- FOR OTHER
NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS AND how to RESEARCH
and obtain documents regarding all war SEE
THIS PAGE
PROBATE/WILLS
IN MANCHESTER NH
- Probate records
can usually be found in the court records of the county where
the deceased was last living. In some cases, early records have
been moved to other depositories such as state archives, to allow
for better security, temperature and humidity control, and more
space for newer records. As storage space and available facilities
change, so do the sites of probate records.
-
Hillsborough
County Register of Probate
30 Spring Street Nashua, NH 03060
603-882-1231
-
The
NH Records and Archives Center has the file of Probate Records
from 1623–1771. These have been published in NH Provincial
and State Papers vol. 31 – 39. There is a name index. The
NH Historical Society has microfilm copies. Each county
has Probate records with name indexes from 1772 to the present.
GENERAL
RESEARCH IN MANCHESTER NH
- NH Department
of Health & Human Services
Bureau of Vital Records & Health Statistics
6 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301-6527
TDD Access: Relay NH 1-800-735-2964
(603) 271-4650
- American-Canadian
Genealogical Society, Manchester NH -- AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE
for anyone of Canadian ancestry.
- Derry
Public Library has a collection of books and maps
of interest to early Manchester researchers
- Londonderry
NH - Leach
Library's Historical Collection (pdf listing of holdings only)
- Manchester
Historic Association | Search
their Library
- The
Millyard Museum - the museum offers 11,000 years of local
history
in a dynamic series of exhibits
- New
Hampshire Historical Society | Search
their Online Catalog
The Tuck Library
30 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301-6394
Telephone: 603/228-6688
Fax: 603/224-0463
email: library@nhhistory.org
- New
Hampshire State Library
20 Park Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-2392
(603) 271-6826 (fax)
email: zmoore@library.state.nh.us
- Diocese of
Manchester (NH) Museum - (which
include some baptism records and marriages, photographs/scrapbooks
of Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing, Notre Dame Hospital
School of Nursing, and CMC Hospital School of Nursing, and more
[Their weblink is dead, contact the Diocese of Manchester for
more info]
- State
of NH - Division of Records Management & Archives
- The following
information is available:
- Probate
Records (volumes & individual files)
- Deeds
(land transactions)
- Petitions
- Military
Indexes
-
Provincial (card index)
-
Revolutionary War Index
- Court
Records
-
Provincial (card index)
-
Censuses (1732, 1765, 1776, 1800 + 1850-1880 on microfilm)
- Town
records
- Miscellaneous
Records (Secretary of State); Legislative lists (House
and Senate Rosters); Index to Laws; Index to Executive
Council Minutes
- Name
Change Index
SURNAMES
& QUERIES:
- Rootsweb
Message Board for Hillsborough County: Board
#1 | Board
#2
- Rootsweb
Message board for New Hampshire, Unknow-n
County
My apologies, but surnames and queries will NO LONGER be hosted
at this web site. Please see the above rootsweb message boards
to post your genealogical questions.
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