Knox County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Knox County

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

County Courthouse
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.

Boundary Changes
Maine: Individual County Chronologies

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

Places / Localities
Towns

Plantations
Matinicus. For further details see Maine Plantations.

====Extinct Towns and Plantations ====

Unorganized Territories
Criehaven Township | Muscle Ridge Shoals Township. For further details see Maine Townships.

Communities

 * Camden
 * Thomaston

Villages

 * Hibberts Corner
 * Port Clyde

Neighboring Counties
Hancock | Lincoln | Waldo

Cemeteries

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

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at: Maine, Knox County Cemetery Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Courts

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Maine, Knox County Probate Estate Files (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Land

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Military

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

Civil War

 * - 4th Regiment, Maine Infantry

Naturalization

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Probate
Online Probate Records


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

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)
 * FamilySearch Catalog for Knox County

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

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