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Fairfield County, Connecticut Genealogy United States Connecticut Fairfield County

Guide to Fairfield County, Connecticut ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Fairfield County, Connecticut Map Map of Connecticut highlighting Fairfield County Location in the state of Connecticut Facts Founded	May 10, 1666 County Seat Courthouse

Contents 1	County Courthouse 2	Quick Facts 2.1	Parent County 2.2	Description 2.3	Boundary Changes 2.4	Record Loss 3	Places / Localities 4	Resources 4.1	African American 4.2	Biography 4.3	Cemeteries 4.4	Local Histories 4.5	Maps and Gazetteers 4.6	Societies, Libraries and Museums 4.6.1	Family History Centers 4.7	Websites 4.8	References

Description
The county was named referring to the beauty of its fields. The county seat has none since 1960 and the county was created 1666. The County is located in the southwest area of the state.[2]

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Boundary Changes
North part was taken to form Litchfield County 14 October 1751. For animated maps illustrating Connecticut county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Connecticut County Boundary Maps" (1643-1960) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Church Records
2.7	Court Records 2.8	Directories 2.9	Emigration and Immigration 2.10	Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups 2.11	Funeral Homes 2.12	Genealogies 2.13	Guardianship 2.14	Land and Property Records 2.15	Local Histories 2.16	Maps and Gazetteers 2.17	Migration 2.18	Military Records 2.18.1	Civil War 2.19	Naturalization and Citizenship 2.20	Newspapers 2.21	Obituaries 2.22	Other Records 2.23	Periodicals 2.24	Probate Records 2.25	School Records 2.26	Tax Records 2.27	Vital Records 2.27.1	Birth 2.27.2	Marriage 2.27.3	Death 2.27.4	Divorce 3	Research Facilities 3.1	Archives 3.2	Family History Centers 3.3	Libraries 3.4	Museums 4	Societies 5	Websites 6	Research Guides 7	References County Information Description The county was named for the Confederate Colonel David C. Cross. The County Seat is Wynne

Towns Organized Before 1800: Brookfield 1788 Danbury 1685 Fairfield 1639 Greenwich 1640 Huntington (Shelton) 1789 New Fairfield 1740 Newtown 1711 Norwalk 1651 Redding 1767 Ridgefield 1708 Stamford 1641 Trumbull 1798 Weston 1787 There is no county government. The government is at the town level. Quick Facts Adopt-a-wiki page CTGenWeb Project.jpg	This page adopted by: USGenWeb CT Archives who welcome you to contribute. Adopt a page today

Wikipedia Wikipedia has more about this subject: Fairfield County, Connecticut Named for the hundreds of acres of salt marsh that bordered the coast. Parent County Created 10 May 1666 from the Colonial lands, one of four original counties.[1]

Places / Localities

Modern towns and cities in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Click map to go to each respective town page. Cities:

Bridgeport Danbury Norfolk Shelton Stamford Towns:

Bethel Brookfield Darien Easton Fairfield Greenwich Monroe New Canaan New Fairfield Newtown Redding Ridgefield Sherman Stratford Trumbull Weston Westport Wilton Extinct town:  • Huntington

Borough: Newtown

Unincorporated Communities: Auburn | Bourne | Cableville | Carroll | Carson | China Town | Clarksville | Encina | Jett | Rye Valley | Sanger | Sparta | Whitney

Aspetuck | Botsford | Black Rock | Branchville | Byram | Cannondale | Compo | Cos Cob | Cranbury | East Norwalk | Georgetown | Glenbrook | Glenville | Greenfield Hill | Greens Farms | Hattertown | Hawleyville | Huntington Center | Long Ridge | Lordship | Mianus | Nichols | Old Greenwich | Riverside | Round Hill | Rowayton | Sandy Hook | Silvermine | South Norwalk | Southport | Springdale | Unity

Neighboring Counties: Litchfield | New Haven | New York Counties:  Dutchess | Nassau | Putnam | Suffolk | Westchester

Resources African American African American Civil War Memorial in Danbury, CT

Biography William Willard Roberts, Pioneers and patriots of Pequannock, 1639-1799, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983). Includes sections of old Fairfield, Stratford, and Stratfield. "This historical synopsis...makes no pretense of being complete." Pequannock now known as Bridgeport, Connecticut. Available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Fiche 6019422. J.H. Beers & Company, Commemorative biographical record of Fairfield County, Connecticut containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, (Chicago, Illinois : J.H. Beers, 1899). Includes fullname index. Available at the Family History Library, FHL US/CAN Film 1421858 Items 4-5, or FHL US/CAN Book 974.69 D3c pt.2. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Fairfield County, Connecticut online and in print Tombstone Transcriptions Online Findagrave.com CTGenWeb CTGenWeb Archives Tombstone Project Billion Graves Index at FamilySearch CT Interment Tombstone Transcriptions in Print (Often more complete) Family History Library WorldCat List of Cemeteries in the County Findagrave.com Billion Graves Cemetery Records by Access Genealogy Charles R Hale Collection Cemeteries for Fairfield County by EPodunk Fairfield County CT Cemetery Records by GenealogyTrails See Connecticut Cemeteries for more information

Local Histories Online County Histories

History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Compiled under supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd. 1881. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : J.W. Lewis. Online at: FamilySearch Books Online - Part 1, FamilySearch Books Online - Part 2; Hathitrust; Internet Archive; At various libraries (WorldCat). History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1639-1928. By Lynn Winfield Wilson. 1929. Chicago, Illinois : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Online at: FamilySearch Books Online - Vol. 1, FamilySearch Books Online - Vol. 2; Hathitrust; At various libraries (WorldCat). Maps and Gazetteers CT FAIRFIELD.PNG About this image Click a neighboring county for more resources

Societies, Libraries and Museums Bridgeport Public Library – History Center 925 Broad Street(3rd floor) Bridgeport, CT 06604 203 576-7400, ext. #7 203 576-8255 fax E-Mail: hclibrarian@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org Website Brookfield Museum and Historical Society 165 Whisconier Road P.O. Box 5231 Brookfield, CT 06804 203 740-8140 E-Mail: brookfieldhistsoc@snet.net Website

Danbury Museum & Historical Society 43 Main Street Danbury, CT 06810 203 743-5200 E-Mail: info@danburymuseum.org Website Darien Historical Society 45 Old Kings Highway North Darien, CT 06820 203 655-9233 E-Mail:ukremer@darienhistorical.org Website Fairfield Museum and History Center 370 Beach Road Fairfield, CT 06824 203 259‑1598 Website Facebook

Gaelic American Club, Inc. 74 Beach Rd, Fairfield CT 06824 Website Genealogy Club of Newtown, Connecticut 25 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 203 426-4533 E-Mail:newtowngenealogy@yahoo.com Facebook

Greenwich Library 101 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, CT 06830-5387 203 622-7948 Website Middlesex Genealogical Society P. O. Box 1111 Darien, CT 06820 203-964-4727 E-Mail: stevenaanderson@gmail.com Website New Canaan Historical Society 13 Oenoke Ridge Road New Canaan, CT 06840 203 966-1776 203 972-5917 fax E-Mail:info@nchistory.org Website

Ridgefield Historical Society 4 Sunset Lane Ridgefield CT 06877 203 438-5821 Email::ridgefieldhistory@sbcglobal.net Website

Family History Centers Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.

Newtown Connecticut Family History Center Websites Fairfield County, CT History, Records, Facts and Genealogy Connecticut Genealogy Network Community on Google+ Connecticut Genealogy Network Group on Facebook ancestry.com$, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Available databases for Fairfield County. Connecticut Genealogy, Fairfield County Genealogy Cyndi's List, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County General Resource Sites epodunk, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County, Connecticut Ancestry and Family History The Fairfield County CTGenWeb Project, an member of The CTGenWeb Project Linkpendium, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County Genealogy and Famiy History MyGenealogist.com, (accessed 8 Aug 2017); Fairfield County Genealogy Resources. USGennet, (accessed 28 Feb 2011), provides genealogical research links for the county of Fairfield, Connecticut. The USGenWeb Archives Project [hhttps://web.archive.org/web/20151023093545/http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/CT/Fairfield/ Websites at RootsWeb for Fairfield County], (accessed 4 Mar 2011). FamilySearch.org FamilySearch Catalog for Fairfield County References Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 181. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002. Wikipedia contributors, "Fairfield County," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut 04/27/2017.