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Pembroke Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Pembroke 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.

 

Briggs Cemetery (1722)
[Barker Burial Ground]
Washington St., North Pembroke, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Pembroke as G.R.5.

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

1906 Gravestone Transcriptions from The Mayflower Descendant

Location:   East side of Washington St. (Rt. 53), about 3/4 mile north of the intersection with Barker St. (Rt. 14), and about 3/4 mile south of the intersection with Columbia Rd. and Schoosett St. (Rt. 139).

Location:   East side of High St. across from Mountain Ave. - exact location still to be determined.

Location:   Between Center St. (Rt. 14) and and Oldham St. across from the Pembroke Public Library.

Location:   Chapel St. near the Kingston town line - exact location still to be determined.

Location:   West side of Water St. between Packet Landing and Old Landing Rd., on top of the hill.

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of Washington St. and Schoosett St. (Rt. 139).

Location:   East side of Matakesett St., just south of Carol Lane.

Location:   East side of Elm St. south of Spring St.

Location:   North side of High St. between Forest St. and the Duxbury town line.

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of Church St. (Rt. 139) and Water St.

Location:   West side of Water St. south of Schoosett St. (Rt. 139).

Small Cemeteries - In 1906 and 1907 the pre-1851 gravestones in six small cemeteries were transcribed, and were published in The Mayflower Descendant in 1909 and 1910. Included are Briggs Cemetery, Friends Cemetery, Loring Cemetery, Pine Grove Cemetery, a private cemetery on Water St. and Two Mile Cemetery .

Alicia Crane Williams, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pembroke Centre, Mass.   Published in The Mayflower Descendant, 35 [1985]:65-68, 163-166; 36 [1986]:59-62; 37 [1987]:7-10, 171-172; 38 [1988]:61-62, 181-182; 39 [1989]:59-60, 167-168; 40 [1990]:185-186.

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.