Wallingford, Rutland County, Vermont Genealogy

Description
Wallingford, Vermont at Wikipedia

Wallingford was chartered on November 27, 1761. The first proprietors' meeting was held at Wallingford, Ct, from which place this town was named, on September 12, 1772. The town was organized on March 10, 1778.

Wallingford can boast of three noteworthy individuals; Lyman Batcheller who designed and manufactured light-weight pitch forks, Gilbert Hart who made his fortune with the emery wheel invention and provided money for Wallingford's Gilbert Hart Library, and Paul Harris, who received his education in Wallingford, and founded Rotary Internation.

The population of Wallingford was 2,079 at the 2010 census. Wallingford also contains the villages of East Wallingford and South Wallingford. The majority of the town's population is centered around the Wallingford village. .

Populated Places
Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities, Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Town Records
In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Wallingford Town Clerk
Wallingford Town Clerk 75 School Street Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-2336 Fax: (802) 446-3174 Email: townclerk@wallingfordvt.com Website: http://www.wallingfordvt.com/town_clerk.htm

Vital Records

 * FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online

Resources
For more County and State resources see:

Biographies

 * Biographical Encyclopædia of Vermont of the Nineteenth Century. By H Clay Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Publishing & Engraving Company, 1885. Salt Lake City, Utah : Family Search International, 2018. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Biographical Sketches of Vermonters. By Vermont Historical Society. Montpelier, Vermont : Vermont Historical Society, c1947. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Hiram Carleton. New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903. Online at:.
 * Some Vermont Ancestors: The Bicentennial Project of the Genealogical Society of Vermont. Compiled and ed. by Joann H. Nichols. [S.l.]: Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1976. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: a Magazine Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. By ed. by Abby Maria Hemenway. Burlington, Vermont: A.M. Hemenway, 1868-1923. Online at:.
 * The Vermont of Today: With its Historic Background, Attractions and People. By Arthur F. Stone. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1929. Online at:.
 * Vermonters. By Dorman B.E. Kent. Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox & Co., 1974. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Vermont Biography at FamilySearch Research Wiki

Cemeteries

 * Wallingford Cemeteries List at FindAGrave
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * Rutland County Cemeteries at FamilySearch Places

The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Wallingford. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Rutland County, website at this link.


 * Doty Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Green Hill Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Hager-Bourn Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Hawkins Cemetery - inscriptons at Find A Grave site.
 * Hill-Roberts Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Laurel Glen Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Maple Grove Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Pelsue Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Saint Patricks Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Stafford Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Sugar Hill Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * West Hill Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Church Records
Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page. To see the churches in Wallingford, visit. Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Wallingford:


 * 1700s-1800s (*) Daughters of the American Revolution at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images
 * Vermont Church Records


 * East Wallingford Baptist Church 6132 Route 140 East Wallingford, VT 05742 Phone: (802) 259-2831
 * First Baptist Church of Wallingford 39 School Street Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-2020
 * St. Patrick's Catholic Church 238 North Main Street Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-2161
 * South Wallingford Union Congregational Church 4210 U.S. Route 7 South Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-7888
 * Wallingford Congregational Church 189 South Main Street Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-2817

City Directories

 * 1911, 1930 Vermont, U.S., City Directories, Wallingford at Ancestry - index and images ($),some years may be missing
 * Various Dates U.S. City Directories, 1860-1960 at MyHeritage - index and images ($) some towns and years may be missing

Land Records

 * 1600s-1900s at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images; ''Also at: Ancestry ($),
 * Vermont Land and Property

Local Histories

 * History of Wallingford, VT, Walter Thorpe, Tuttle, Co., Rutland, VT, 1911. Book available online

Maps
This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps
 * Boundary Map of Wallingford at HomeTownLocator
 * McConnell's Historical Maps of the United States at Library of Congress
 * Old Maps of Vermont at Old-Maps.com
 * Town of Wallingford at Vermont.org
 * Wallingford at FamilySearch Places
 * Wallingford at Google Maps
 * Wallingford at Mapcarta
 * Vermont Maps State Page


 * 1854 Rutland County, Wallingford map

Military
Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
For more Revolutionary War Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
 * United States Military Records - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

Civil War, 1861-1865
For more Civil War Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - Civil War, 1861-1865
 * United States Military Records - Civil War, 1861-1865

World War I, 1917-1918
For more World War I Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - World War I, 1917-1918
 * United States Military Records - World War I, 1917-1918

World War II, 1941-1945
For more World War II Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945
 * United States Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945

Newspapers

 * Rutland Herald online at this link

Other Town Records
In Vermont, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following: The following are Wallingford town records available online:

Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1883-1995; indexes to births, marriages, deaths, 1772-1995
 * Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005, can be found on FamilySerach (browse only images) at this link
 * The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Wallingford Town Clerks Office. These include:Town miscellaneous records, v. 1-2, 1772-1890

Probate Records

 * The probate district for Wallingford is Rutland. Rutland Probate Court 83 Center Street Rutland, VT 05701 (802) 775-0114
 * 1749-1999 Vermont, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1749-1999 at Ancestry - index & images, ($)
 * 1800-1921 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Vermont Probate Records

Libraries

 * Gilbert Hart Library 14 South Main Street Telephone/Fax: 446-2685 Wendy Savery, Librarian Email: ghlib@comcast.net Website: http://www.wallingfordvt.com/gilbert_hart_library.htm

Family History Centers & Affiliate Libraries

 * Lebanon New Hampshire Family History Center
 * Rutland Vermont Family History Center
 * South Royalton Vermont Family History Center
 * Crandall Public Library - an affiliate library
 * The Rutland Historical Society - an affiliate library

Societies

 * Wallingford Historical Society c/o Joyce Barbieri 75 School Street Wallingford, VT 05773 Phone: (802) 446-2336 Website: http://wallingfordhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/