Collecting information about the cemeteries of Marshfield 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.   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.

 

Baker Cemetery (1816)
Acorn St., Marshfield, MA

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

Location:   West side of Acorn St., between Bakers Lane and the golf course on private property.

Location:   North side of Ocean St. (Rt. 139), east of First Congregational Church and across from Moraine St. (Rt. 3A).

Location:   Southwest corner of the intersection of Ferry and Grove Sts.

Location:   South side of Ocean St. (Rt. 139), east of Moraine St. (Rt. 3A) and across from First Congregational Church.

Location:   West side of Union St., across from Oak St.

Location:   At the end of Rayfield Rd., to the right and up the hill.

Location:   North of South River St., southeast of the Fairgrounds race track.

Location:   South side of Summer St., west of Church St.

Location:   East side of Union St., at end of lane opposite 83 Union St. and at southern end of Magoun Pond.

Location:   East side of Old Main St., near the intersection with Forest St.

Location:   East side of Parish Path.

Location:   North side of Highland St., at the intersection with Oak St. and Valley Path, on private property.

Location:   West side of Union St., across from Arrow Head Rd.

Location:   West side of Winslow Cemetery Rd., north of Presidential Circle.

Cedar Grove Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Records from the Old Burial Ground at the Congregational Church Marshfield" (The Mayflower Descendant, 12 [1910]:54-56, 148-150, 251; 13 [1911]: 46-50, 109-111, 129-134).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Centre Marshfield Cemetery — Stanley W. Smith, "Gravestone Records in the Cemetery at Marshfield Centre, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 8 [1906]:196-200).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Centre Marshfield Cemetery — Transcribed by Charles C. Doble.   Contains abstracts from gravestone transcriptions.

Chapel Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Records from the Cemetery near the Congregational Chapel, Marshfield, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 13 [1911]:241-247).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Little Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Records from the "Little" Cemetery at Sea View, Marshfield, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 11 [1909]:70-73).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Marshfield Hills Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Gravestone Records from the Cemetery at Marshfield Hills, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 9 [1907]:92-96, 167-171, 203-206).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Plainville Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Records from the "Plainville Cemetery" Marshfield, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 14 [1912]:48-52).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Two Mile Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Gravestone Records from the "Two Mile" Cemetery, Union Street, North Marshfield, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 10 [1908]:246-249).   Contains abstracts of 1906 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.

Winslow Cemetery — John W. Willard, "Gravestone Records from the Winslow Cemetery at Marshfield, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 10 [1908]:47-51).   Contains abstracts of 1907 transcriptions from all gravestones prior to 1851, with a few of later date.   Corrects a number of errors and omissions in the earlier NEHGR transcription, next below.

Winslow Cemetery — Marcia A. Thomas, "Marshfield Inscriptions from the Burial-Ground on the Hill, Sometimes Called Winslow Burial-Ground" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 4 [1850]:315-318).   Contains literal transcriptions from all gravestones up to 1850.   A number of errors and omissions in these transcriptions are corrected in the MD transcriptions, next above.

Winslow Cemetery — Transcribed by Pam Ward.   Contains abstracts from gravestone transcriptions.

Marshfield Cemetery Records to 1950 — Christian Kimball, compiler, and Linda Ramsey Ashley, editor (Marshfield Hills: Meadow Geese Press, 2001).   Portions of this book were published in The Mayflower Quarterly, 66 [2000]:73-78, 123-130.

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.

Lysander Salmon Richards, History of Marshfield, 2 vols. (Plymouth, MA: The Memorial Press, 1901, 1905; reprinted Salem, MA: Higginson Books, 1996). Contains transcriptions from the Marshfield Hills Cemetery.