Camden County, New Jersey Genealogy

United States New Jersey  Camden County

Camden County, New Jersey genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Camden County Courthouse 520 Market Street Camden, NJ 08102 Phone: 856.225.5300 County Clerk has court and land records. County Surrgoate has pro records.

"Making It Better, Together" Board of Freeholders Camden County Courthouse 520 Market Street Camden, NJ 08102

History
1623: The Dutch of New Netherland intermittently occupied Fort Nassau (now Brooklawn, Camden, New Jersey) starting in 1623.

1664: As part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War New Netherland including West Jersey was surrendered to the English.

1673-1674: A new war broke out and the Dutch sent a large armada to retake New Netherland for a few months. But as the war ended the colony was ceeded to England for the last time.

Parent County

 * Created 13 March 1844 from Gloucester County.

Boundary Changes

 * 1871, Monroe twp. &amp; most of Washington twp. to Gloucester County
 * 1902, part of Waterford twp. to Burlington County
 * 1926, part of Washington twp., Gloucester County added to Gloucester twp. of Camden County
 * 1938, boundary with Atlantic County clarified
 * 1950, part from Gloucester County

Populated Places

 * Boroughs: Audubon . Audubon Park . Barrington . Bellmawr . Berlin . Brooklawn . Chesilhurst . Clementon . Collingswood . Gibbsboro . Haddon Heights . Haddonfield . Hi-Nella . Laurel Springs . Lawnside . Lindenwold . Magnolia . Merchantville . Mount Ephraim . Oaklyn . Pine Hill . Pine Valley . Runnemede . Somerdale . Stratford . Tavistock . Woodlynne
 * Cities: Camden . Gloucester
 * Townships: Berlin . Cherry Hill . Gloucester . Haddon . Pennsauken . Voorhees . Waterford . Winslow
 * Communities: Ashland . Barclay-Kingston . Blackwood . Cherry Hill Mall . Echelon . Erial . Erlton-Ellisburg . Glendora . Golden Triangle . Greentree . Kirkwood . Sicklerville . Springdale . West Berlin
 * Historical Townships: Centre . Clementon . Delaware . Newton . Stockton . Union

Neighboring Counties
Atlantic | Burlington | Gloucester | Philadelphia County, Philadelphia

Church

 * 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; 7,542,774 entries. This database is incomplete for all counties.


 * Contains the church records of:
 * Audubon: Logan Memorial Presbyterian Church
 * Camden: Bethany Methodist Episcopal Church; Epiphany Evangelist Lutheran Church; Filmore Methodist Episcopal Church; First Methodist Church; First Methodist Episcopal Church; Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; St. Paul's Episcopal Church; St. Wilfrid's Episcopal Church; Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church; Third Methodist Episcopal Church; Trinity Episcopal Church; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church; Union Methodist Episcopal Church; Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church
 * Chews Landing: St. John's Episcopal Church
 * Haddonfield: Grace Church; Haddonfield Baptist Church and Cemetery; United Methodist Church

Episcopal

 * 1787-1815 - Stevenson, J.R. "Records of St. Mary's Church, Colestown, (Old Gloucester Co.) New Jersey," Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jun. 1908):237-240. For free online access, see WeRelate; the Family History Library also has this series in its collection: . Baptisms 1787-1815, marriages 1795-1796, burials 1794-1795.

Gazetteers of Places/Localities

 * United States Geographic Survey Place Names - GNIS for Camden County (over 900 entries) (may not always be present in alphabetic order on first try.)

Obtaining Copies of County Probate Records
Copies of recorded probate records and the estate files can be obtained from the surrogate's offices for a fee. Addresses of surrogate's offices are found in:


 * Eichholz, Alice, Editor. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1992. (.) Explains state-by-state history, vital records, census, background sources, periodicals, archives, libraries, societies, maps, land, probate, court, tax, cemetery, church, and military records. Includes county boundary map and table which shows when each county was created and the parent counties.

In addition, copies of the original wills, administrations, inventories, and guardianships sent to Trenton since 1901 can be ordered from:


 * Clerk of the Superior Court
 * Records Information Center
 * P.O. Box 967
 * Trenton, NJ 08625-0967
 * Telephone: 609-292-4978
 * Fax: 609-777-0094
 * Internet: http://www.answers.com/topic/new-jersey-superior-court

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Cherry Hill New Jersey Family History Center

Web Sites

 * Family History Library catalog for Camden County
 * The Camden County NJGenWeb Project, an member of The NJGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.