USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of

Link to Hingham Town Web Site Hingham
 Massachusetts 
Link to USGenWeb

Return to USGenWeb Hingham

 

Hingham Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Much of the information posted here on Hingham Cemeteries comes from Richard Souther.

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Hingham 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.


 

Barnes and Stoddard Cemetery (1820)
Weir St., Hingham, MA

Location:   Weir St., near Rockland St.   Exact location still to be determined.


Fort Hill Cemetery (1751)
Fort Hill St., Hingham, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA


High Street Cemetery (1688)
23 High St., Hingham, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA


Hingham Cemetery (1657)
[Old Ship Cemetery]

Water St., Hingham, MA
Web Site: www.HinghamCemetery.org/

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

Directory of Burials (PDF Format)
Walking Map (PDF Format)
Fact Sheet (PDF Format)

For records contact:   Hingham Cemetery Corporation, 40 Water St. (P.O. Box 105), Hingham, MA 02043-0105
Phone:   781-749-1048
Hours:   8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Cemetery records housed on site, searches by appointment.

Location:   On a hill between Main Street, Water Street, and South Street in downtown Hingham behind the Old Ship Church.   Visitors may walk through the grounds and a map is available at the Chapel.


Hingham Centre Cemetery (1684)
School and Spring Sts., Hingham, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

For records contact:   Sexton Malcolm C. Newell, 43 Leavitt St., Hingham MA 02043.
Phone:   781-749-0765.


Liberty Plain Cemetery (1739)
Main St., Hingham, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

For records call 781-749-0638.


Saint Paul's Cemetery (1877)
Hersey St., Hingham, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

For records call 781-749-0587.





Cemetery Transcriptions


Hingham Cemetery — Directory of 3,953 burials in PDF format.

 

Return to USGenWeb Hingham


Email comments to Dale H. Cook

Please visit the Plymouth Colony Pages

USGenWeb Hingham, MA, commenced 08-Feb-1998.
Created by Cathy Joy Lasselle (CJ) McNew.
Revised and maintained since 26-Aug-2002 by Dale H. Cook.
.
Copyright © 2003-2010 by Dale H. Cook. All rights reserved.