Digital resources
Vital & Burial Records
Massachusetts’ Vital Records. Birth, marriage, and death records compiled in the early 20th century from town, cemetery, and church records. Search “Marblehead Vital Records” on archive.org to find the three volumes. See also Ancestry.com and Familysearch.org.
Congregational Church Records. Thanks to the efforts of the Congregational Library and Archives, the Museum’s collection of records from the 2nd Congregational Church (1714-1850) have been digitized, as well as records of the 1st Congregational (Old North) Church (1684-1886) and 3rd Congregational Church (1858-1877).
Old Burial Hill Headstones Archive. The Old Burial Hill Cemetery Archive presents approximately 700 hundred images associated with 657 headstones and monuments.
A Guide to Old Burial Hill, Frank L. Bessom, 1914. A short booklet with many gravestone inscriptions and some detailed drawings.
Old Burying Hill Record of Inscriptions, 1937, by the Commodore Samuel Tucker Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Transcriptions and approximate locations of many gravestones, some no longer extant.
Inscriptions from the Burial-Grounds of Marblehead, Perley Derby, Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 12, 1874. A multi-part listing of burials in Marblehead cemeteries, 1874.
Land Acknowledgement
We recognize that this land was home to the Naumkeag band of the Massachusett/Pawtucket Tribes. The Marblehead Museum is committed to incorporating the study and dissemination of this land’s Native History into its mission.