Talbot County, Maryland Genealogy

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

Description
Talbot County was named for Lady Grace Talbot. The county is located in the east-central area of the state.

County Courthouse
Talbot County Courthouse 11 North Washington Street, Suite 16 Easton, MD 21601 Phone: 410-822-2611 Talbot County Website

Clerk of the Circuit Court has marriage records from 1799, divorce and land records from 1776, court records from 1818 and land records from 1662. Register of Wills has the probate 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

 * Named for Grace (Calvert), Lady Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot 2nd Baron of Carlton, Kildare, and daughter of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. She was the sister of Cecelius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, and 1st Proprietor Governor of Maryland.

Cemeteries
The Political Graveyard is a great resource for Politicians that were born, lived and died in Talbot County.

Published Transcriptions: For more information about Cemeteries in Maryland please refer to the Maryland Cemeteries page.
 * Tombstone inscriptions and map of graves at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland Tombstone inscriptions and map of graves at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland
 * Tombstones of Talbot County

Census Records
Federal Census reports available 1790-1930 including slave and veterans schedules.

Church Records
The following records, taken from its collection, have been digitized and made available to view for free online:
 * 1668-1995 at FamilySearch — index- How to Use this Collection
 * Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions is not intended to be a complete listing of all Religious institutions in Maryland. It was originally based upon the churches recorded by the Federal Works Progress Administration during a records survey conducted from 1935 to 1941. It has been expanded by later acquisitions from religious organizations to the Maryland State Archives.


 * Methodist, Bayside Charge Collection 1902-1967 (includes membership, church, and historical records for various congregations)
 * Protestant Episcopal (Church of England), Christ Church, St. Peter's Parish, Easton, Md. 1681-1956 (includes parish registers and other various records)

Church of England St. Michael's Parish


 * 1672-1704 Leach, M. Atherton. "Register of St. Michael's Parish, Talbot County, Maryland, 1672-1704," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29 (1905):427-438. For free online access, see WeRelate.
 * 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania ($), free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry ($). This database is incomplete for all counties.
 * Contains the church records of:
 * St. Michaels: St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Parish

St. Peter's Parish - records have been digitized, see above. St. Paul's Parish List of Churches and Church Parishes
 * FamilySearch Places

Emigration and Immigration
Oxford has been a port since colonial times. Unfortunately, no official passenger lists survive for the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.

The New Early Settlers of Maryland database is a great place to start searching for immigrants who had arrived in the colony by the 1680s. The database "comprises 34,326 entries from Gust Skordas' Early Settlers of Maryland and Carson Gibb's Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland." Available online, courtesy: Maryland State Archives.

Other Talbot County immigration resources include:


 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. "Correspondence with the American Colonies 1739-1782," The Genealogist, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1998):108-128; Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 1998):189-205. Overseas correspondence of a resident of Oxford [Talbot County] with the following surname: Crookshank. Available at.
 * Immigrant Servants Database at PriceGen - 20,000+ colonial immigrants, primary focus: Chesapeake Bay colonies (Virginia and Maryland)

Genealogies

 * Barnes, Robert W., F. Edward Wright, Vernon L. Skinner and Henry C. Peden. Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 23 vols. Westminster, Md.: Family Line, 1996-2003; Lewes, Del.: Delmarva Roots and Colonial Roots, 2007. ff. Talbot County families appear in Vols. 4-5, 7, 11, 13, and 21.


 * Banning - Armstrong, Zella. Notable Southern Families. Chattanooga, Tenn.: Lookout Publishing Company, 1918. Vol. 1. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library FamilySearch Digital Library.
 * Caulk - Russell, George Ely. "The Swedish Settlement in Maryland, 1654," The American Genealogist, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Oct. 1978):203-210.
 * Neale - Neall, Harry Levy and Rosalie S. Neall Cunningham. Genealogy of the American Family of Neall: It Being a Branch of the Bedfordshire, England Family of Neale, from Whose Members, Circa 1630, Came the Emigrants Who Founded the Early American Family of Neale Who Settled at Accomack, Virginia, and Salem, Massachusetts, Some of the Succeeding Generations Finding Their Permanent Location of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: This Family History Has Its More Intimate Relationship in the Descendants of Francis Neale, a Quaker, Whose Children Changed the Spelling of Their Surname to Neall. Haywood, Calif.: R.N. Cunningham, 1969. 929.273 N259n
 * Ungle - Pitman, H. Minot. "English Origin of Ungle Family of Maryland," The American Genealogist, Vol. 29 (1953):86. To locate digital pages use search form at American Ancestors ($); first select American Genealogist, The from the Database list. Then select Volume number.   973 D25aga v. 29.

Land and Property Records
Through a Joint eGovernment Service of the Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Archives, free images and indexes of the complete series of Talbot County Deed Books (1662-present) have been uploaded to their website: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Requires free registration.)

Local Histories

 * History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861. 1915. Comp. by Oswald Tilghman. Baltimore, Maryland : Williams & Walkins Co. Online at: Vol. 1 - FamilySearch Digital Library, Vol. 2 - FamilySearch Digital Library; Vols 1 & 2 - Hathitrust, Ancestry ($); . Vol. 1 contains biographies, vol. 2 contains history.
 * Brief Talbot County History

Maps and Gazetteers

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

Revolutionary War
Talbot County men served in the 3rd Maryland Regiment.


 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). 1967 reprint:  973 X2pc 1840. See Maryland, Talbot County on pages 127-128.

War of 1812

 * List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Internet Archive, Ancestry ($). See Vol. 5, Maryland, Talbot County, pp. 155-156. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.

Civil War

 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch — index- How to Use this Collection


 * - 1st Regiment, Maryland Eastern Shore Infantry, Company H

World War II

 * 1940-1945 at FamilySearch — index and images - How to Use this Collection

Newspapers

 * Talbot County newspapers are identified in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.
 * 1800-1804 Herald and Eastern Shore Intelligencer (Easton, Md.) at Google News.
 * 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records


 * Maryland, Wills and Probate Records at findmypast - index
 * 1634-1777 Maryland, Index To Colonial Probate Records, 1634-1777 at findmypast - index
 * 1634-1777 Probate Records, Colonial Index, 1634-1777, Maryland State Archives
 * 1635-1743 Maryland Calendar of Wills 1635-1743 at Ancestry — index and images ($)
 * 1635-1777 Maryland Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777 at Ancestry — index and images ($)
 * 1796-1940 at FamilySearch images - How to Use this Collection

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 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Tax Records

 * 1678, 1681 1678 and 1681 Talbot County tax list, available online, courtesy: MDGenWeb.
 * 1721 1721 Tuckahoe Hundred Tax List at Maryland Genealogical Society, transcription
 * 1724 1724 Island Hundred Tax List at Maryland Genealogical Society, transcription
 * 1783 Talbot County Tax List of 1783: This is an alphabetical index to names to all property owners assessed. The index cards at the Maryland State Archives include county, hundred, names of tracts of land and whether individuals were paupers or single males as provided in the law.

Marriage

 * 1658-1940 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * 1666-1970 at FamilySearch — index - How to Use this Collection
 * Maryland Marriage References by Robert Barnes - free.
 * Marriage Records - Maryland State Archives

Death

 * 1898-1944 Maryland Death Index 1898-1944

FamilySearch Centers

 * Annapolis Maryland FamilySearch Center
 * Salisbury Maryland FamilySearch Center
 * Cecil County Public Library - Cecilton Branch - an affiliate library (multiple locations).
 * Winterthur Library - Delaware - an affiliate library.

Libraries
Talbot County Free Library 100 W. Dover Street Easton, MD 21601 Phone: 410-822-1626 Fax: 410-820-8217 Website

Societies
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland P.O. Box 275 Easton, MD 21601 Email: [mailto:USGSMD@yahoo.com USGSMD@yahoo.com] Website

Websites

 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Talbot County.
 * "Talbot Co.," in Genealogical Sources in Periodicals at The Maryland State Archives.
 * - The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records