Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts Genealogy

Description

 * Lancaster, Massachusetts at Wikipedia
 * Abijah P. Marvin. History of the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts : from the first settlement to the present time, 1643-1879. Lancaster, Massachusetts : Town of Lancaster, 1879

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

Adjacent Towns
Worcester Co.:  Bolton | Clinton | Harvard | Leominster | Lunenburg | Sterling | Middlesex Co.:  Shirley

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

Lancaster Town Clerk
The town clerk is responsible for these records, and so most originals can be found at the town clerk's office

695 Main St, Suite 2 Lancaster, MA 01523 Phone: 978-365-3326 x 1013 Fax: 978-368-4011 Email: [mailto:townclerk@lancasterma.net townclerk@lancasterma.net] Website

Vital Records
Note: Regarding the Lancaster Town records on film #810,291 at the Salt Lake Family History Library. The film description says: Town records, vital records, 1653-1906. On the actual film, there are multiple parts and the date range covered by the different vital records vary as follows:

Item #1: Marriages 1737-1814; Births 1653-1816; Deaths 1654-1858. (These are in chronological order)

Item #2: Intentions of marriages 1856-1906.

Item #3: Births and Deaths 1743-1857 (These are in alphabetical order)

If you want records outside of these date ranges, this film will not provide them.

Film #2,259,293 has a bunch of other vital records for Lancaster, as follows, which all appear to be in chronological order with no index:

Item 2: B 1843-1905, M 1843-1853, D 1843-1857 Item 3: B 1906-1910

Item 4: M 1853-1905, D 1859-1905

Item 5: M 1906-1910

Item 6: D 1906-1910

Item 1 on this film is a published book: The Birth, marriage, and death register, church records and epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 by Henry S. Nourse, also available as a book with the call number 974.43/L3 V2b v. 1 and v. 2.

Resources
For more County and State resources see:

Cemeteries

 * Lancaster Cemeteries List at FindAGrave
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * Worcester County Cemeteries at FamilySearch Places

City Directories

 * 1880 U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, Lancaster at Ancestry - index & images, ($),some years may be missing
 * 1890-1929 Massachusetts, U.S., City Directories, Lancaster at Ancestry - index & images, ($),some years may be missing
 * Various Dates U.S. City Directories, 1860-1960 at MyHeritage - index & images, ($) some towns and years may be missing

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

Military
Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
For more Revolutionary War Military Records see:
 * Massachusetts 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:
 * Massachusetts 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:
 * Massachusetts 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:
 * Massachusetts Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945
 * United States Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945


 * Henry Stedman Nourse.The military annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1740-1865 : including lists of soldiers serving in the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars, for the Lancastrian towns: Berlin, Bolton, Harvard, Leominster, and Sterling. Lancaster, Massachusetts, s. n., 1889