Oxford County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Oxford County

County Courthouse
Town Clerks have birth, marriage and death records. Clerk Courts has marriage records1877-1897, divorce and court records from 1930, probate and land records from 1805.

Parent County
Created 4 March 1805 from Cumberland and York counties.

Boundary Changes

 * 2 counties were created over the years:
 * Franklin County 20 March 1838.
 * Androscoggin County 18 March 1854.

Places / Localities
Towns

Plantations:  • Lincoln Plantation    • Magalloway Plantation. For further details see Maine plantations.

Unorganized territories. For further details see Maine townships.


 * Milton
 * North Oxford
 * TA R1 Riley Township
 * TA R2 Grafton Township
 * Andover North Surplus
 * Andover West Surplus
 * Township C
 * C Surplus
 * T4 R1 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Richardsontown Township)
 * T4 R2 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Adamstown Township)
 * T4 R3 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Lower Cupsuptic Township)
 * T5 R3 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Parkertown Township)
 * T4 R4 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Upper Cupsuptic Township)
 * T5 R4 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Lynchtown Township)
 * T4 R5 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Oxbow Township)
 * T5 R5 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Parmachenee Township)
 * T4 R6 West of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase (Bowmantown Township)
 * South Oxford
 * Batchelders Grant
 * Mason Township
 * Albany Township

Communities

Villages  • Dickvale          • North Waterford          • Waterford Flat

Extinct or unincorporated towns  • Albany   • Franklin Plantation   • Mason   • Milton

Neighboring Counties
Androscoggin | Cumberland | Franklin | York | New Hampshire counties: Carroll | Coös | Quebec county: Compton

Census
Hatcher, Patricia Law. "My Ancestor Isn't In the Census: The 9,603 Missing Oxford County Residents In 1810," Maine Genealogist, May 1998, 65-68. Available at  Article includes a chart of the towns missing from the census.

Newspapers
Maine Newspaper Archive. Indexes Free; Digital Page Images $ (GenealogyBank $) Twenty-two early Maine 18th and 19th century newspapers, 1785-1898 online. Indexes (free); digital images ($). These newspapers are from Augusta, Bangor, Belfast, Brunswick, Castine, Eastport, Falmouth, Hallowell, Kennebunk, Portland, Saco and Wiscasset.

Early Maine newspapers routinely reported on news, obituaries, births, marriages etc. from around the state. Be sure to search the indexes for all Maine newspapers to find your target ancestor.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Oxford Maine Family History Center

Web Sites

 * The Oxford County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Oxford County
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Oxford County (backup site)
 * Family History Library catalog for Oxford County
 * Oxford County Genealogy Notebook