Index
Vital Records Of Ashburnham, Massachusetts,
To The End Of The Year 1849.
Worcester, Massachusetts:
Published By Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund. 1909.

[Transcribed by Dave Swerdfeger]








Publisher's Note.
  • The list of Ashburnham Births, Marriages and Deaths comprised in this volume includes all that were found in the Town Books covering the period from the earliest date there recorded to the end of the year 1849. Some additions have been made from other sources, and these are indicated in each instance by proper reference.
  • All of the records are condensed in print as much as is consistent with intelligibility, accuracy, and completeness of information. Differences in duplicates, and explanatory or other matter which seemed necessary or desirable, appear in brackets.
  • Marriages and intentions of marriage are printed under the names of both parties, but the full information concerning each person is given only under his or her name.
  • When places other than Ashbumham and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.


ABBREVIATIONS.
  • a.----age.
  • b.----born
  • bap.----baptized.
  • ch.----child.
  • C.R.----church record.
  • d.----daughter; day; died.
  • Dea.----Deacon.
  • dup.----duplicate entry.
  • G.S.1.----gravestone, Old Cemetery
  • G.S.2.----gravestone, Fairbanks Cemetery.
  • G.S.3.----gravestone, Russell Cemetery.
  • G.S.4.----gravestone, New Cemetery.
  • h.----husband.
  • inf.----infant.
  • int.----publishment of intention of marriage.
  • jr.----junior.
  • m.----male; married; month.
  • P.R.----private record.
  • s.----son.
  • Sr.----senior.
  • w.----wife.
  • wid.----widow.
  • widr.----widower.


The age given in the Deaths is in years unless otherwise indicated.

Ashburnham, Worcester County.

 THIS town was established February 2, 1765, from the plantation of " Dorchester-Canada." A part was included in the new town of Ashby (Middlesex County) March 6, 1767, and another part was annexed to that town November 16, 1792. A part was included in the new town of Gardner June 27, 1785, and a part of Gardner was annexed to Ashburnham February 16, 1815. A part of Westminster was annexed January 28, 1824.

Population at different periods:
  • 1765, ---- 551
  • 1776, ---- 551
  • 1790, ---- 951
  • 1800, ---- 994
  • 1810, ---- 1,036
  • 1820, ---- 1,230
  • 1830, ---- 1,402
  • 1840, ---- 1,652
  • 1850, ---- 1,875
  • Population in 1905, ---- 1,851.

Number of Births printed ---- 3,123.
Marriages ---- 1083 = 2,166 names
Deaths ---- 1,284.
6,573 ---- total.



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