Knox County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Knox County



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.

Places / Localities


City  ▪ Rockland 1848

Towns

Plantation  ▪ Matinicus Isle

Unorganized territory  ▪ Criehaven. For further details see Maine townships.

Communities  ▪ Camden          ▪ Thomaston

Villages  ▪ Hibberts Corner          ▪ Port Clyde

Extinct towns  • Hurricane Isle

Neighboring Counties
Hancock| 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)