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Brockton Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Brockton is an ongoing effort, and this page will be revised as needed.   If you have cemetery information or gravestone transcriptions that you would like to share please send me email.

     Where I have been able to determine it, the records repository for a cemetery is indicated.   In the entries for the individual cemeteries, if one has its own web site or a portion of a web site the cemetery name provides a link to that site.   When the location of a cemetery is known there are links to street and topographic maps to help you find it, as well as a brief description of the location and, perhaps, direction for reaching it.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the city showing the cemetery locations.   Any gravestone transcriptions online also have links.   At the bottom of the page is a seperate section listing all online and published gravestone transcriptions that I have found for these cemeteries.

     When a cemetery has had more than one name during its history the first name listed is the one by which it is usually known today, and alternative names are listed in square brackets.   In some cases a cemetery has been abandoned, its burials have been removed to another cemetery, or its location has been lost.   In those cases the name indicates that it is a cemetery site, meaning that no gravestones are to be found there.   The year in parenthesis next to a cemetery name is my best estimate of the year in which that cemetery was established.   In some cases the year is mentioned in city records, a city history or some other source.   In other cases it is the year of the oldest gravestone for which I have found a record.

 

Ames Cemetery (1778)
Beacon Park St., Brockton, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Brockton as G.R.11.

Photograph Copyright © 2009-2012 by Gui Cavalcanti
A high-resolution version of this photo (153k) is available.

Street Map
Topographic Map from Microsoft Research Maps

Location:   Just north of the western portion of Beacon Park St., west of Melrose St.

Note:   The only stone remaining is that of Josiah Ames.   This was a family cemetery on what was originally the property of Daniel Ames.   Special thanks go to Gui Cavalcanti for locating this cemetery.

For records contact:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, Melrose Cemetery, 88 N. Pearl St., Brockton, MA 02401-1708   508-580-7833.

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of N. Main and E. Ashland Sts.

Note:   Maintained by the City of Brockton.   The sign at the cemetery reads "Ashland Cemetery 1748-1922."

For records contact:   Saint Patrick's Church, 335 Main St., Brockton, MA 02031-5396   508-586-4840   Fax: 508-941-0639.

Location:   East side of N. Cary St. between E. Ashland St. and Court St.

For records contact:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, Melrose Cemetery, 88 N. Pearl St., Brockton, MA 02401-1708   508-580-7833.

Location:   East side of S. Pearl St. between Mill St. and W. Chestnut St.

Note:   Maintained by the City of Brockton.

Location:   West side of Main St. between David St. and Sheppard St.

Location:   South side of Crescent St. east of Massasoit Blvd.

Note:   Now padlocked, but maintained.

For records contact:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, Melrose Cemetery, 88 N. Pearl St., Brockton, MA 02401-1708   508-580-7833.

Location:   West side of N. Pearl St. north of Pleasant St.

Note:   Owned by the City of Brockton.   The photograph is a view from the southeast of the oldest part of the cemetery, including the 1822 Lemuel Packard family tomb.

Originally located on the west side of Mulberry St., south of East Ashland St.   All burials were removed to Ashland and Melrose Cemeteries.

Note:   Brockton genealogist and cemetery researcher Wayne F. Nye has informed me that some burials were removed to make way for the railroad tracks, and the remainder were removed before the City built a playground.

For records contact:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, Melrose Cemetery, 88 N. Pearl St., Brockton, MA 02401-1708   508-580-7833.

Location:   South side of Mill St. across from Shields Ave.

Note:   Maintained by the City of Brockton.   I am still gathering information about this cemetery and will try to learn more and take a photograph when next I am in Brockton.

For records contact:   Our Lady of Sorrows Convent, 261 Thatcher St., Brockton, MA 02302   508-588-5070.

Location:   Behind Our Lady of Sorrows Convent.

For records contact:   Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, 1320 Centre St., Suite #306, Newton, MA 02459   617-244-6509 or 800-752-JCAM   Fax: 617-964-7055.

For Temple Beth Emunah records contact:   Temple Beth Emunah, 479 Torrey St., Brockton, MA    508-583-5810.

Location:   Northwest corner of S. Pearl St. and Lancaster St.

For records contact:   Saint Patrick's Church, 335 Main St., Brockton, MA 02031-5396   508-586-4840   Fax: 508-941-0639.

Location:   North side of Court St. west of N. Cary St.

Location:   Between West St., Forest Ave. and Belmont St.

Note:   Now padlocked, but maintained.

Location:   South side of Pleasant St. west of Troy St.

Directions:   From Rt. 24 take exit 18 (Rt. 27 east) towards Brockton. At the second set of traffic lights turn right onto Pleasant St. The cemetery is about 300 yards down on the left.

Location:   West side of Summer St. south of Coral St.

Note:   Now padlocked, but maintained.

For records contact:   Superintendent of Cemeteries, Melrose Cemetery, 88 N. Pearl St., Brockton, MA 02401-1708   508-580-7833.

Location:   Between Centre St. and Lyman St.

Note:   Maintained by the City of Brockton.

Leach Cemetery, transcribed by Gaytha Wallace in 1989.

Charles Milton Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 28 Plymouth and Bristol County towns. Although this is still a useful resource, many transcription errors have been discovered, so use Thatcher with care and check it against the actual gravestones or other transcriptions.