USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of
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Marion Massachusetts (Formerly the Fourth Precinct of Rochester) Plymouth County |
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Including the Villages of East Marion, Gifford's Corner, Great Neck,
Hamlin's Corner, Handy's Corner, North Marion and Sippican
See also the site for the parent town of Rochester
November 11, 2011 — Welcome to the brand new Marion USGenWeb page. I'll be posting notices here as new resources are added to the site.
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Professional genealogist and genealogical editor Scott Andrew Bartley hosts web pages about Massachusetts counties, cities and towns. Researchers will find historical and genealogical data and links of use to those working at any level. His Marion page contains essential information for anyone researching Marion and its families, and his Plymouth County page is equally valuable.
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Books and Records
You can find copies of books for sale by using the search engine at Bookfinder.com.
Books that are no longer in copyright can often be found online at Internet Archive Text Archive, Family History Books or Google Books. Additional books are available through two sites that many libraries offer access to - Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest Online.
Charles S. Hamlin, et. al., Mattapoisett and Old Rochester Massachusetts: Being a History of These Towns and Also In Part of Marion and a Portion of Wareham (New York: The Grafton Press, 1907).
Charles Milton Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Contains transcriptions from five Marion cemeteries made in the late 1880s. 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.
Jane Yolen, Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple and Roger Roth, The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History (New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999).
Judith Westlund Rosbe, Marion (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000).
Judith Westlund Rosbe, Maritime Marion, Massachusetts (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002).
Brian Hicks, Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004)
Kate Salley Palmer, Francis Marion and the Legend of the Swamp Fox (Central, SC: Warbranch Press, 2005).
Judith Westlund Rosbe, Marion Art Center (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007).
Pete Smith, A Picture Postcard History of Marion, Massachusetts (New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications, 2007).
Judith Westlund Rosbe, Marion in the Golden Age (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009).
Many books about Marion are available ftom The Sippican Historical Society
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Vital Records 1852 to present:
Town Clerk
Marion Town House
2 Spring St.
Marion, MA 02738
508-748-3502
Vital Records 1852-1920:
Massachusetts Archives
220 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
617-727-2816
Vital Records 1921 to present:
Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Floor
Dorchester, MA 02125-3105
617-740-2600
Or order online:
Births
Marriages
Divorces
Deaths
Massachusetts Vital Records Information from Ancestry.com
Deeds and Probate
Plymouth County Registry of Deeds
50 Obery Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
508-830-9200
Researchers can search grantor books or grantee books at no charge.
Plymouth County deeds can now be viewed online.
Plymouth Probate and Family Court
52 Obery Street
Plymouth, MA 02360
508-747-6204
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Elizabeth Taber Library
8 Spring St.
Marion, MA 02738
508-748-1252
The Sippican Historical Society
139 Front St.
PO Box 541
Marion, MA 02738
508-748-1116
The Society maintains the historic Walton Nye Ellis House at the corner of Main and Front Sts. in Marion, including a museum and gift shop.
Plymouth County Genealogists, Inc.
PCGI is a non-profit genealogical society whose monthly meetings are held the first Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 1:00 PM at the East Bridgewater Public Library. Meetings generally feature a guest speaker and the public is welcome.
Old Colony Historical Society
66 Church Green
Taunton, MA 02780
508-822-1622
South Shore Genealogical Society
PO Box 396
Norwell, MA 02061
Meetings: The second Saturday of each month (except July and August) at 1:30 p.m. at the John Curtis Free Library, Rte. 139, Hanover, MA.
For beginners, amateurs and professionals interested in genealogical research in Plymouth and Norfolk Counties.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215-3695
617-536-1608
New England Historic Genealogical Society
101 Newbury St.
Boston, MA 02116-3007
617-536-5740
NEHGS is nation's oldest genealogical society, founded in 1845. It offers unsurpassed resources for New England research including the Boston research library of over 200,000 volumes. Members not in the Boston area appreciate their extensive online resources including all issues of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the nation's oldest genealogical journal, published quarterly since 1847. Online resources also include member access to vital records through 1915, an ever-growing collection of online books, and databases derived from some of the Society's immense manuscript holdings.
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Marion was established May 14, 1852, from the Fourth Precinct of Rochester.
| 1855 | (State) | 969 | 1860 | (U.S.) | 918 | 1865 | (State) | 960 | 1870 | (U.S.) | 896 | |||
| 1875 | (State) | 862 | 1880 | (U.S.) | 958 | 1885 | (State) | 965 | 1890 | (U.S.) | 871 | |||
| 1895 | (State) | 759 | 1900 | (U.S.) | 902 | 1905 | (State) | 1,029 | 1910 | (U.S.) | 1,460 | |||
| 1915 | (State) | 1,487; | 1920 | (U.S.) | 1,288; | 1925 | (State) | 1,271 | 1930 | (U.S.) | 1,638 | |||
| 1935 | (State) | 1,867 | 1940 | (U.S.) | 2,030 | 1945 | (State) | 2,120 | 1950 | (U.S.) | 2,250 | |||
| 1955 | (State) | 2,776 | 1960 | (U.S.) | 2,881 | 1965 | (State) | 3,481 | 1970 | (U.S.) | 3,466 | |||
| 1975 | (State) | 3,764 | 1980 | (U.S.) | 3,932 | 1990 | (U.S.) | 4,496 | 2000 | (U.S.) | 5,123 | |||
| 2010 | (U.S.) | 4,907 |
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Commonwealth Communities page for Marion
Scott Andrew Bartley's Marion page.
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Plymouth County, MA - USGenWeb
Plymouth County Records Online - USGenWeb
Massachusetts Genealogy - USGenWeb
The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
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Please note that although I was born and raised about 30 miles from Marion
I now live hundreds of miles away and do not have easy access to the town.
Email comments to Dale H. Cook
Please visit the Plymouth Colony Pages
USGenWeb Marion, MA, commenced 11-Nov-2011.
Original site commenced 2007 by Wendy L. (Hawksley) Callahan.
Created and maintained by Dale H. Cook.
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Copyright © 2011-2013 by Dale H. Cook. All rights reserved.
