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Duxbury Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Duxbury 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 town 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 town records, a town history or some other source.   In other cases it is the year of the oldest gravestone for which I have found a record.

 

Ashdod Cemetery (1811)
Keene St., Duxbury, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Duxbury as G.R.4.

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

1907 Gravestone Transcriptions published in The Mayflower Descendant

Transcriptions in Thatcher

Location:   East side of Keene St., north of Lyman St.

Location:   East side of West St., south of Franklin St..

Location:   West side of Washington St., south of Beaverbrook Lane, behind St. John The Evangelist Church, formerly the Orthodox Church.

For records contact:   Peter Buttkus, Manager of Building and Grounds, Duxbury Cemetery and Crematory, 774 Tremont St., Duxbury, MA 02332.   Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.   Phone: 781-934-5261   Fax: 781-934-6530   Email: Cemetery@Town.Duxbury.MA.US

Location:   West side of Tremont St., south of Town Hall.

Location:   North side of Chestnut St., east of Pilgrim By Way.

Location:   Intersection of Valley and Franklin Sts.   Exact location still to be determined.

Vital Records of Duxbury — F. Apthorp Foster, Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911).   Contains information abstracted from many gravestones in the Ashdod, Dingley, Episcopal Church, Mayflower and Old Cemeteries through 1850.

Ashdod Cemetery — Stanley W. Smith, "Gravestone Records in the Cemetery on Keene Street, Duxbury, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 11 [1909]:104-106).   Contains abstracts of 1907 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Dingley Cemetery — Mrs. Thomas W. Thacher, "Records from the Dingley Cemetery, North Duxbury, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 11 [1909]:55-58).   Contains abstracts of 1908 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Episcopal Church Cemetery — George Ernest Bowman, "The Gravestone Records in the Cemetery Back of the Episcopal Church at Duxbury, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 24 [1922]:115-122).   Contains literal transcriptions from all gravestones, made in 1907 and verified in 1922.   The extensive introductory essay points out the nature of the many errors and omissions in Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1911).

Old Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Gravestone Records from the Old Cemetery on Centre Street, South Duxbury, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 9 [1907]:159-162; 10 [1908]:169-172).   Contains abstracts of 1907 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851.

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Thanks to the Library this book is downloadable or viewable as a large (> 24 meg) PDF file. It contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 15 Plymouth and Bristol County towns.