Cumberland County, New Jersey Genealogy

Guide to Cumberland County, New Jersey ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Description
Cumberland County is located in the Southwest region of the state. It was created in 1748. Bridgeton is the county seat. The county was named for

County Courthouse
Cumberland County Courthouse 60 West Broad Street Bridgeton, NJ 08302 Phone: 856-451-8000 Cumberland County Website

The County Clerk has land records from 1800’s and immigration records 1840-1989. County Surrogate has probate records. Dissolution Office has divorce records.

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 county:

History Timeline

 * 1763, boundary clarified with Salem County
 * 1822, Cape May County boundary clarified and water boundary defined
 * 1844, part of Maurice River twp. to Cape May County's Upper twp. and returned in 1845
 * 1846, water boundary further clarified
 * 1867, Pittsgrove twp. from Salem County and returned in 1868
 * 1878, part of Maurice twp. to Cape May County's Upper twp.
 * 1891, part of Maurice River twp. to Cape May County's Dennis twp.
 * 1892, part of Landis twp. to Gloucester County's Franklin twp. and returned in 1897.

Census Records

 * 1790 United States Census - All New Jersey Records Lost
 * 1800 United States Census - All New Jersey Records Lost
 * 1810 United States Census - All New Jersey Records Lost
 * 1820 United States Census - All New Jersey Records Lost
 * 1830 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1840 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1850 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1855 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1860 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1865 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1870 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1880 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection


 * 1885 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1890 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1890 United States Census - Entire national census destroyed by fire, excepting the Union Veterans and Widows
 * 1895 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1905 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1910 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1915 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1920 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1930 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1940 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

Church Records

 * 1675-1970 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Funeral Homes

 * Freitag Funeral Home (Bridgeton) Obituaries, 2002-current
 * Rocap-Shannon Memorial Funeral Home (Millville) Obituaries, May 2013-current
 * Christy Funeral Home (Millville) Obituaries, November 2012-current
 * Hoffman Funeral Homes (Leesburg, Port Norris), October 2014-current
 * Padgett Funeral Home (Bridgeton, Cedarville), September 2011-current
 * Edwards & Son Funeral Home (Bridgeton), October 2006-current
 * Sray Webster Funeral Home (Bridgeton), December 2005-current
 * Barr Funeral Home (Millville), February 2012-current
 * Pancoast Funeral Home (Vineland), November 2008-current
 * DeMarco-Luisi Funeral Home (Vineland), February 2012-current
 * Rone Funeral Service (Vineland), September 2005-current
 * May Funeral Home (Vineland), November 2010-current
 * Wainwright-Bernhardt Funeral Home (Vineland), September 2011-current

Land and Property Records
Online Land Indexes and Records
 * Dates Vary United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search at FamilySearch - incomplete index and images, counties and dates vary

Local Histories

 * New Jersey Indexes at EveryNameIndex.com — Select the county.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records
Revolutionary War Civil War
 * Revolutionary War Sites in Greenwich
 * Greenwich 1774 Tea Burning
 * National Archives - New Jersey Revolutionary War Pension Files
 * New Jersey State Archives - U.S. Civil War Service Records 1861-1865
 * New Jersey State Archives - U.S. Civil War Payment Vouchers 1861-1865

World War I
 * New Jersey State Archives - World War I Deaths
 * National Archives - New Jersey World War I Dead

''World War II
 * National Archives - New Jersey World War II U.S. Navy Casualties
 * National Archives - World War II U.S. Army Dead from Cumberland Co., New Jersey, Part 1 of 2
 * National Archives - World War II U.S. Army Dead from Cumberland Co., New Jersey, Part 2 of 2
 * National Archives - World War II New Jersey War Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard

Naturalization and Citizenship
Online Naturalization Indexes and Records
 * 1796-1991 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1905-1944 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Newspapers
Per the Library of Congress, Cumberland Co. has had at least 67 newspapers, and this list does not include papers which covered areas now in Cumberland Co., but formerly in other counties (such as Salem Co.). The LOC has a great deal of these papers prior to 1923, in varying degrees of completeness. List of Cumberland Co. Newspapers at the Library of Congress GenealogyBank, a paid subscription service, has: Newspapers.com, a paid subscription service, has: Both GenealogyBank and Newspapers.com have papers from the surrounding areas which frequently covered events in Cumberland Co.; notably, the Camden and Philadelphia newspapers, and occasionally Wilmington, DE. The Atlantic City Press, a paid subscription service, which has frequently covered (and continues to cover) Cumberland Co. events, has archives of: The South Jersey Times, a paid subscription, is a newspaper currently covering Southern New Jersey. It acquired and subsumed a number of newspapers, including The Bridgeton Evening News (later named The Cumberland News).
 * The West Jersey Pioneer (later renamed to The Bridgeton Pioneer), through 1922, fully searchable.
 * The Bridgeton Evening News, through 1922, fully searchable.
 * The Millville Daily (known before 1961 as The Millville Daily Republican) from 1923 through its final publishing date of 1988, fully searchable. The newspaper dates back to the Civil War, but all archives before 1923 have been lost.
 * The Vineland Daily Journal (originally The Evening Journal and The Vineland Times, which combined to form The Vineland Times-Journal, later to become The Vineland Daily Journal), fully searchable.
 * Press of Atlantic City (1895-current)
 * Atlantic City Weekly (2004-current)
 * Sunday Gazette (1911-1971)
 * Atlantic City Gazette-Review (1906-1925)

Obituaries

 * GenealogyBank (paid subscription service), Transcribed Newspaper Obituaries, 1980-current
 * Ancestry/Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current (requires subscriptions)

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1656-1999 New Jersey Wills and Probate Records 1656-1999 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1670-1760 Calendar of New Jersey Wills 1670-1760 at Ancestry.com — index & images ($)
 * 1670-1817 New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817 at Ancestry.com — index & images ($)
 * 1678-1980 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; images only; Use the Surrogate's Docket Index 1700-1972 to obtain the Docket Number for the name. Then, use the Docket Number to locate the correct Estate file.

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Birth

 * 1600-1990 New Jersey Vital Records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Findmypast — index & images ($)
 * 1660-1980 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; ''Also at: Ancestry Index ($)
 * 1746-1795 New Jersey Baptisms 1746-1795 at Findmypast — index ($)
 * 1901-1903 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1901-1929 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index

Marriage

 * 1600s-1900s US Marriages, New Jersey at Findmypast — index ($)
 * 1670-1965 New Jersey Marriage Records, 1670-1965 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1670-1980 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1678-1985 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1683-1802 New Jersey Marriage Records, 1683-1802 at Ancestry — index & images ($)
 * 1684-1895 New Jersey Compiled Marriage Records, 1684-1895 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1901-1914 New Jersey Marriage License Index, 1901-1914 at MyHeritage — index ($)
 * 1901-2016 New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016 at Ancestry — index ($);
 * 1901-2016 New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016 at Findmypast - Browse index ($)
 * 1915-2016 New Jersey Marriage License Index, 1915-2016 at MyHeritage — index ($)
 * For a complete list of all New Jersey Marriage databases

Death

 * 1600-1990 New Jersey Vital Records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania at Findmypast — index & images ($)
 * 1798-1971 New Jersey Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971 at Ancestry — index ($)
 * 1848-1878 Death Records, May 1848 - May 1878 at New Jersey State Archives - index, $ for photocopies
 * 1878-1900 Death Records, June 1878 - December 1900 at New Jersey Department of State — index, $ for photocopies
 * 1901-1929 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1901-2017 The New Jersey Death Index at New Jersey Death Index — index; Also at: Ancestry index ($)
 * 1920-2017 New Jersey Death Index, 1920-1929, 1949-2017 at MyHeritage — index ($)
 * For a complete list of all New Jersey Death databases

FamilySearch Centers

 * Linwood New Jersey FamilySearch Center
 * Vineland New Jersey FamilySearch Center
 * Cumberland County Library - an affiliate library

Libraries
The Bridgeton Free Public Library 150 East Commerce Street Bridgeton, NJ 08302 Telephone: 856-451-2620 Email: [mailto:bpl@bridgetonlibrary.org bpl@bridgetonlibrary.org] Website The Millville Public Library 210 Buck Street Millville, NJ 08332 Telephone: 856-825-7087 Website The Vineland Public Library 1058 East Landis Avenue Vineland, NJ 08360 Telephone: 856-794-4244 Email: [mailto:reference@vinelandlibrary.org reference@vinelandlibrary.org] Website The Warren and Reba Lummis Genealogical & Historical Research Library 981 Ye Greate Street Greenwich, NJ 08323 Telephone: 856-455-8580 Email: [mailto:cchistsoc@verizon.net cchistsoc@verizon.net] Website

Museums
The Alan Ewing Carman Museum of Prehistory in Cumberland County 1461 Bridgeton Road Greenwich, NJ 08323 Telephone: 856-455-8141 Email: [mailto:cchistsoc@verizon.net cchistsoc@verizon.net] Website The Gibbon House Greenwich, NJ 08323 Telephone: 856-455-8580 Email: [mailto:cchistsoc@verizon.net cchistsoc@verizon.net] Website

Societies
Cumberland County Historical Society 960 Ye Greate Street P.O. Box 16 Greenwich, NJ 08323 Telephone: 856-455-4055 Email: [mailto:cchistsoc@verizon.net cchistsoc@verizon.net] Website Lawrence Township Historical Society 177 North Main Street Cedarville, NJ 08311 Telephone: 609-381-0992 Email:[mailto:LawrenceTownshipHistory@gmail.com LawrenceTownshipHistory@gmail.com] Facebook Mauricetown Historical Society 1229 Front Street P.O. Box 1 Mauricetown, New Jersey 08329 Telephone: 856-785-0457 Email: [mailto:history@mauricetownhistoricalsociety.org history@mauricetownhistoricalsociety.org] Website Maurice River Township Heritage Society P.O. Box 195 Leesburg, NJ 08327 Telephone: 856-421-3539 Email: [mailto:mrtheritagesociety@yahoo.com mrtheritagesociety@yahoo.com] Website Millville Historical Society 200 East Main Street Millville, NJ 08332 Telephone: 856-293-1078 Email: [mailto:mlvhistsoc@comcast.net mlvhistsoc@comcast.net] Website Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society 108 South Seventh Street Post Office Box 35 Vineland, NJ 08362 Telephone: 856-691-1111 Email: [mailto:VinelandHistory@gmail.com VinelandHistory@gmail.com] Website {| style="float: right;" border="0"

Websites

 * Cumberland County NYGenWeb Project, a member of The NJGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * Cumberland County New Jersey Genealogy Research. Contains information for researching genealogy in Cumberland County, NJ, Census, bios, obituary, birth, death, marriage, maps, and other records
 * Cumberland County NJ Genealogy


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