Oxford County, Maine Genealogy

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

Maine Online Genealogy Records

Description
Oxford County was named for Oxford, Massachusetts. Oxford County is located in the western area of the state.

County Courthouse

 * Town Clerks have birth, marriage and death records.
 * Clerk Courts have marriage records 1877-1897, divorce and court records from 1930, probate and land records from 1805.

Parent County
1805 - Created 4 March 1805 from Cumberland and York counties.

Boundary Changes

 * 2 counties were created over the years:
 * 1838 - Franklin County 20 March 1838.
 * 1854 - Androscoggin County 18 March 1854.

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

Places / Localities
==== Neighboring Counties ====

Franklin | Androscoggin | Cumberland | York | New Hampshire counties: Carroll and Coös | Quebec county: Compton |

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 census area:

Plantations Lincoln Plantation | Magalloway Plantation

Extinct towns and plantations'''

Biographies

 * Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Franklin and Oxford Counties, Maine at Ancestry.com $

Cemeteries

 * 1620-2014 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection
 * 1676-1918 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection
 * 1780-1999 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Census
Hatcher, Patricia Law. "My Ancestor Isn't In the Census: The 9,603 Missing Oxford County Residents In 1810," Maine Genealogist, May 1998, 65-68. Available at  Article includes a chart of the towns missing from the census.

Church
List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Court

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1837 - 1965 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places

Land

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Local Histories

 * Sketches of Oxford County. 1975. By Thomas T. Stone. [Rumford, Maine : Pennycook Press].  Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library,  Internet Archive, Ancestry ($).

Maps

 * FamilySearch Places:Cities and Towns- How to Use FS Places

Military

 * 1676 - 1918 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection
 * 1718 - 1957 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Revolutionary War

 * 1835 - 1838 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Civil War

 * - 1st Regiment, Maine Infantry, Company G
 * - 1st Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company G
 * - 5th Regiment, Maine Infantry, Company I

Online Records
 * 1962 - 1865 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

World War I

 * 1914-1950 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection
 * 1917-1919 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Naturalization

 * 1718-1957 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection
 * 1918-1991 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Newspapers
Maine Newspaper Archive. Indexes Free; Digital Page Images $ (GenealogyBank $) Twenty-two early Maine 18th and 19th century newspapers, 1785-1898 online. Indexes (free); digital images ($). These newspapers are from Augusta, Bangor, Belfast, Brunswick, Castine, Eastport, Falmouth, Hallowell, Kennebunk, Portland, Saco and Wiscasset.

Early Maine newspapers routinely reported on news, obituaries, births, marriages etc. from around the state. Be sure to search the indexes for all Maine newspapers to find your target ancestor.

Probate
Online Probate Records


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

Vital Records

 * 1589-1966 - Maine, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
 * 1670 - 1921 - at FamilySearch - How to Use This Collection

Family History Centers

 * Oxford Maine Family History Center

Websites

 * The Oxford County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Oxford County
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Oxford County (backup site)
 * FamilySearch Catalog for Oxford County
 * Oxford County Genealogy Notebook
 * Oxford County, Maine History and Genealogy (Genealogy Trails)