Thomaston Historical Data

Features

Thomaston, with its antique shops and 19th century downtown, is one of New England's most historic seafaring towns It is situated on St. George River,on Highway #1 SW of Highway #131. Some of it's other waterways are Mill River and Branch, West & Meadow Brooks. The mansion of General Knox has been made a historic site.

Sources

For photocopies of local Birth, Marriage and Death records send to Thomaston Town Clerk's Office, Box 299, Knox St., Thomaston, Maine 04861. Request a photocopy if available.

There is a standard look-up fee of $2.00 for researching the first record for our time in researching the first record and a $1.00 for each additional record requested at the same time.


All non-certified copies of records 100 years or older are now $3.00 each and a Certified copy of these records are now $6.00 each. The total cost for a single record is now $5.00 for non-certified and $8.00 for a certified this reflects the look-up fees. Joan Linscott, Town Clerk, jlinsco@midcoast.com

This is the closest to the original source but old records, like gold, are very sparse and often, if they exists at all , they will be a secondary source in the form of an entry in a book. For further leads go to

The Camden Area History Center, renamed the Walsh History CenterHeather Bilodeau, Archives Director, and relocated to quarters at the Camden Public Library. It is located on the 2nd Floor, 55 Main Street, Camden, ME 04843 and is open Tue. through Sat., 12:00 to 4:00. The History Center e-mail is archives@librarycamden.org.   Phone: (207) 236-3440      Fax: (207) 236-6673

Go to Walsh History Center, see the column on the right hand side and click on the interactive searchable database. Type in any search word (for example "Directories") and it will pop up all items associated with that term.

For queries contact archives@librarycamden.org



For Maine State records go to
Cindy's Links to Maine State Records



For Probate Records request a photocopy of the 'Petition for Distribution or Administration' or 'Account of Administration' , (whichever is available), for the deceased individual. (Addresses below)

For Deeds of Land request a photocopy of the record for that individual.

For either of these use the following addresses:

            For 1636-1760 write York County Clerk's Office, Alfred, ME 04002

            For 1761-1827 write Lincoln County Clerk's Office, Wiscasset, ME 04578

            For 1827-1860 write Waldo County Clerk's Office, Belfast, ME 04915

            For 1860-present write Knox County Clerk's Office, Rockland, ME 04841
             Phone 207-594-0422, Fax 207-594-0446, Hours 8:-4: Eastern

            There is a standard look-up fee of $2.00 for our time in researching the first record
            fand a $1.00 or each additional record requested at the same time.

            All non-certified copies of records 100 years or older are now $3.00 each and
            a Certified copy of these records are now $6.00 each. The total cost for a single record
            is now $5.00 for non-certified and $8.00 for a certified copy. This reflects the look-up fees.

            Other town and county clerks are presumed similar. I will be researching this further.

For information about ships built in Thomaston, ship manifests, the houses and businesses, contact   Thomaston Historical Society.

We have added a huge climate controlled archival room to our building. And we now have the room to open a lot of records we had previously not had available to us. Therefore, we can now begin to do many more families. We now have the vital statistics for Thomaston from 1700 to 1900 available to us.

At an annual June town meeting in Thomaston, the sum of $5,000 was voted to cover the cost to preserve and restore eight volumes of town records of births, marriages and deaths between the years of 1841 and 1962.

The Thomaston Town Office has volumes prior to 1841. They are available to the public by coming to the town office.

The town office phone number is (207) 354-6107. I do not know if they would look something up in the records if they are asked but it certainly would not hurt to try. For someone writing to the office the address is: Thomaston Town Office, Thomaston, Maine 04861.

   Volunteers With Books   

To request a lookup from any of the references, click on the address of the owner and ask them politely.
Please make your requests as specific as possible.

• Eve Anderson, USGenWeb Coordinator for Thomaston

• Thomaston Queries

• Thomaston Public Library

  • Montpelier, General Knox Museum

    • Midcoast Maine Chamber of Commerce

      • Return to Knox County Genealogy Page

      
      

      

      
      

      Sena Spear Havasy
      KnoxGenWeb Co-ordinator

      Most recent revision August 2011

    
    

    

    
    

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