Fairfield County, Connecticut Genealogy

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


 * This article is about a county in Connecticut. For other uses, see Fairfield (disambiguation).

Description

 * The county was named referring to the beauty of its fields.
 * The County is located in the southwest area of the state.
 * Named for the hundreds of acres of salt marsh that bordered the coast.

County Courthouse

 * There is no county government.
 * The government is at the town level.

Fairfield County, Connecticut
Towns Organized Before 1800: Brookfield 1788 Danbury 1685 Fairfield 1639 Greenwich 1640 Huntington (Shelton) 1789 New Fairfield 1740 Newtown 1711 Norwalk 1651 Redding 1767 Ridgefield 1708 Stamford 1641 Trumbull 1798 Weston 1787

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

Boundary Changes

 * Parent County: Created 10 May 1666 from the Colonial lands, one of four original counties.
 * County Seat has none since 1960 and the county was created 1666.
 * North part was taken to form Litchfield County 14 October 1751.

For animated maps illustrating Connecticut county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Connecticut County Boundary Maps" (1643-1960) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

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:

Biographies

 * William Willard Roberts, Pioneers and patriots of Pequannock, 1639-1799 , (Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983). Includes sections of old Fairfield, Stratford, and Stratfield.  "This historical synopsis...makes no pretense of being complete." Pequannock now known as Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Available at the Family History Library, 
 * J.H. Beers &amp; Company, Commemorative biographical record of Fairfield County, Connecticut containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, (Chicago, Illinois : J.H. Beers, 1899). Includes fullname index.  Available at the Family History Library,  or FHL US/CAN Book 974.69 D3c pt.2.

Local Histories

 * History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Compiled under supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd. 1881. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : J.W. Lewis. Online at:  - Part 1,   - Part 2; Hathitrust; Internet Archive;.
 * History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1639-1928. By Lynn Winfield Wilson. 1929. Chicago, Illinois : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Online at: - Vol. 1,   - Vol. 2; Hathitrust;.

Civil War
African American Civil War Memorial in Danbury, CT

World War I

 * 1917 - at FamilySearch — index

World War II

 * at FamilySearch — index and images

Vital Records

 * To 1850 - at FamilySearch — index

Family History Centers

 * Newtown Connecticut Family History Center

Societies, Libraries and Museums
Bridgeport Public Library – History Center 925 Broad Street(3rd floor) Bridgeport, CT 06604 203 576-7400, ext. #7 203 576-8255 fax E-Mail: [mailto:hclibrarian@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org hclibrarian@bridgeportpubliclibrary.org] Website

Brookfield Museum and Historical Society 165 Whisconier Road P.O. Box 5231 Brookfield, CT 06804 203 740-8140 E-Mail: [mailto:brookfieldhistsoc@snet.net brookfieldhistsoc@snet.net] Website

Danbury Museum &amp; Historical Society 43 Main Street Danbury, CT 06810 203 743-5200 E-Mail: [mailto:info@danburymuseum.org info@danburymuseum.org] Website

Darien Historical Society 45 Old Kings Highway North Darien, CT 06820 203 655-9233 E-Mail:[mailto:ukremer@darienhistorical.org ukremer@darienhistorical.org] Website

Fairfield Museum and History Center 370 Beach Road Fairfield, CT 06824 203 259‑1598 Website Facebook

Gaelic American Club, Inc. 74 Beach Rd, Fairfield CT 06824 Website

Genealogy Club of Newtown, Connecticut 25 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 203 426-4533 E-Mail:[mailto:newtowngenealogy@yahoo.com newtowngenealogy@yahoo.com] Facebook

Greenwich Library 101 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, CT 06830-5387 203 622-7948 Website

Middlesex Genealogical Society P. O. Box 1111 Darien, CT 06820 203-964-4727 E-Mail: [mailto:stevenaanderson@gmail.com stevenaanderson@gmail.com] Website

New Canaan Historical Society 13 Oenoke Ridge Road New Canaan, CT 06840 203 966-1776 203 972-5917 fax E-Mail:[mailto:info@nchistory.org info@nchistory.org] Website

Ridgefield Historical Society 4 Sunset Lane Ridgefield CT 06877 203 438-5821 Email:[mailto:ridgefieldhistory@sbcglobal.net :ridgefieldhistory@sbcglobal.net] Website

Websites

 * Fairfield County, CT History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Connecticut Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Connecticut Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * ancestry.com$, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Available databases for Fairfield County.
 * Connecticut Genealogy, Fairfield County Genealogy
 * Cyndi's List, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County General Resource Sites
 * epodunk, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County, Connecticut Ancestry and Family History
 * The Fairfield County CTGenWeb Project, an member of The CTGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium, (accessed 28 Feb 2011). Fairfield County Genealogy and Famiy History
 * MyGenealogist.com, (accessed 8 Aug 2017); Fairfield County Genealogy Resources.
 * USGennet, (accessed 28 Feb 2011), provides genealogical research links for the county of Fairfield, Connecticut.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * [hhttps://web.archive.org/web/20151023093545/http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/CT/Fairfield/ Websites at RootsWeb for Fairfield County], (accessed 4 Mar 2011).
 * FamilySearch Catalog for Fairfield County