USGenWeb Genealogical Site for the Town of
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Norwell Massachusetts (Formerly South Scituate) Plymouth County |
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Including the Villages of Accord, Assinippi, King's Landing, Norwell Center and West Scituate
See also the site for the parent town of Scituate
Bryant-Cushing House, Norwell
Constructed 1698
November 11, 2011 — Welcome to the brand new Norwell USGenWeb page. I'll be posting notices here as new resources are added to the site.
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If you have any Norwell material and would like to volunteer for lookups please send email to Dale H. Cook.
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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.
Lloyd Vernon Briggs, History of Shipbuilding on the North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of the Shipbuilders, and Accounts of the Industries Upon its Tributaries, 1640 to 1872 (Boston: The Author, 1889).
South Shore Genealogical Society, An Index to the First Parish Cemetery of Norwell, Massachusetts (Norwell, MA: South Shore Genealogical Society, 1988.
Historia, A Magazine of Local History, Norwell, Massachusetts, 6 issues (Norwell, MA: 1898-1899).
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Vital Records 1849 to present:
Town Clerk
Norwell Town Offices
345 Main St.
PO Box 295
Norwell, MA 02061
781-659-8072
Vital Records 1849-1920:
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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Norwell Public Library
64 South St.
Norwell, MA 02061
781-659-2015
Norwell Historical Society
PO Box 693
Norwell, MA 02061
781-659-1888
The Society maintains a library, archives, and the historic Jacobs Homestead, built in 1726.
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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Norwell was established as South Scituate February 14, 1849, from the town of Scituate. It was renamed Norwell February 27, 1888.
| 1850 | (U.S.) | 1,770 | 1855 | (State) | 1,786 | 1860 | (U.S.) | 1,774 | 1865 | (State) | 1,635 | |||
| 1870 | (U.S.) | 1,661 | 1875 | (State) | 1,818 | 1880 | (U.S.) | 1,820 | 1885 | (State) | 1,589 | |||
| 1890 | (U.S.) | 1,635 | 1895 | (State) | 1,540 | 1900 | (U.S.) | 1,560 | 1905 | (State) | 1,534 | |||
| 1910 | (U.S.) | 1,410 | 1915 | (State) | 1,563 | 1920 | (U.S.) | 1,348 | 1925 | (State) | 1,466 | |||
| 1930 | (U.S.) | 1,519 | 1935 | (State) | 1,666 | 1940 | (U.S.) | 1,871 | 1945 | (State) | 2,147 | |||
| 1950 | (U.S.) | 2,515 | 1955 | (State) | 4,127 | 1960 | (U.S.) | 5,207 | 1965 | (State) | 6,387 | |||
| 1970 | (U.S.) | 7,796 | 1975 | (State) | 8,999 | 1980 | (U.S.) | 9,182 | 1990 | (U.S.) | 9,279 | |||
| 2000 | (U.S.) | 9,765 | 2010 | (U.S.) | 10,506 |
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Commonwealth Communities page for Norwell
First Parish Norwell Unitarian Universalist Church
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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 12 miles from Norwell
I now live hundreds of miles away and do not have easy access to the town.
Email comments to Dale H. Cook
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USGenWeb Norwell, 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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