Knox County, Maine Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Knox County Courthouse 62 Union Street PO Box 885 Rockland, ME 04841-0885 Phone: 207.594.9379 Town Clerks have birth, marriage, and death records; Clerk Superior Court has divorce and court records; Probate Court has probate records from 1860; Register of Deeds has land records from 1860

History



 * Named for American Revolutionary war general and Secretary of War, Henry Knox, who lived in the county from 1795 until his death in 1806.

Parent County
Created 1 April 1860 from Lincoln and Waldo counties.

City

 * Rockland

Plantation

 * Matinicus Isle

Unorganized territory

 * Criehaven

Neighboring Counties
Lincoln | Waldo

Cemeteries
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Main, Knox County Cemetery Records, (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Court
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Maine, Knox County Probate Estate Files (FanilySearch Histoarical Records)

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Rockland Maine Family History Center

Web Sites

 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Knox County
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Knox County (backup site)
 * Family History Library catalog for Knox County

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Maine, Knox County Cemetery Records, 1800-2007 (FamilySearch Historical Records)