Oxford County, Maine Genealogy

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

Description
The County was named for Lincoln, England. The County has Paris as its seat and the County was created 1805. The County is located in the west area of the state.

County Courthouse

 * Town Clerks have birth, marriage and death records.
 * Clerk Courts have marriage records 1877-1897, divorce and court records from 1930, probate and land records from 1805.

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

Boundary Changes

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

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

Places / Localities
==== Neighboring Counties ====

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

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this census area:

Plantations Lincoln Plantation | Magalloway Plantation

Extinct towns and plantations'''

Cemeteries

 * 1620-2014 - at FamilySearch — index
 * 1676-1918 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1780-1999 - at FamilySearch — index and images

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.

Court

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1837 - 1965 - at FamilySearch - images

Land

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Military

 * 1676 - 1918 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1718 - 1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Revolutionary War

 * 1835 - 1838 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Civil War

 * - 1st Regiment, Maine Infantry, Company G
 * - 1st Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company G
 * - 5th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Company I

Online Records
 * 1962 - 1865 - at FamilySearch — index and images

World War I

 * 1914-1950 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1917-1919 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Naturalization

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1918-1991 - at FamilySearch — index and images

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.

Probate
Online Probate Records


 * 1584 – 1999 - Maine Wills and Probate Records 1584-1999 at Ancestry.com — images and index $

Vital Records

 * 1589-1966 - Maine, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
 * 1670 - 1921 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Oxford Maine Family History Center

Websites

 * 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)
 * FamilySearch Catalog for Oxford County
 * Oxford County Genealogy Notebook