Knox County, Maine Marriage Returns 1859-1887, CD
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- ISBN: 0897257898
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Description:
Knox County, Maine was established 1 April 1860. It was formed from parts of two counties: Lincoln
County and Waldo County. From Lincoln County it took the city of Rockland and the towns of Cushing,
Friendship, Matinicus, St. George, South Thomaston, Thomaston, Union, Warren and Washington. From Waldo
County it took the towns Appleton, Camden, Hope, North Haven and Vinalhaven. The county was named for Gen.
Henry Knox, “the friend of Washington,” whose residence was at the town of Thomaston. There has been only
one change in county boundaries since its establishment – the annexation from Hancock County of the town of
Isle au Haut, on 12 March 1913. Knox County now consists of one city, 16 towns, one plantation and 27
unincorporated islands.
In 1828 Maine enacted a law requiring all ministers and Justices of the Peace to submit records of
the marriages they performed to the town clerk of the town in which the marriage occurred. The town clerk
then sent a certified copy of the marriages to the clerk of the Judicial Court of their respective county. A
change in the law in 1892 eliminated the necessity of the records going to the county. They were sent directly
the State. These county records are all that exist for some towns that lost their original records by fire,
destruction or disappearance.
Knox County marriage returns for the years 1859-1887 are contained in one volume and is located
in the Maine State Archives. In this CD-Rom series, Picton Press brings you the original images of all these
marriage returns with approximately 412 original pages.
