VITAL RECORDS

MARBLEHEAD

MASSACHUSETTS

To the end of the year 1849

Transcriptions of the "Tan Books"
Published by
The Essex Institute
Salem, MA
Births - 1903
Marriages & Deaths - 1904

Title page - Vol. I
Title page - Vol. II

MARBLEHEAD

As early as 1629, the first settlers, many of whom are said to have been natives of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, gave the name of "Marble-Harbor" to this tract of land which was originally a part of Salem, and "Great Neck" to tht portion which forms a peninsula jutting into the ocean. The name Marblehead is first mentioned in the Colonial records, July 2, 1633, and is thought to have been suggested by the variegatedx porphyry-colored stones found there and called "marble stones" by Higginson in 1629. Wood and Josselyn also mention the locality as "Marvil Head." On May 6, 1635, the Court ordered: "That there shalbe a plantacion at Marble Head, & that the inhabitants now there shall have liberty to plant and imp've such ground as they stand in neede of." The poplulation "was undoubtedly increased from time to time by people from Lincolnshire, which would account for many of the idiomatic peculiarities which for more than two centuries characterized the speech of their descendants." History of Marblehead — ROADS. Marblehead was established as a town May 2, 1649.

The population of Marblehead at different periods was as follows:

1765,	4,954.	1800,	5,211.	1840,	5,575.
1776,	4,386.	1810,	5,900.	1850,	6,167.
1790,	5,661.	1820,	5,630.	1900,	7,582.
		1830,	5,149.

EXPLANATIONS and ABBREVIATIONS

SURNAME INDEX

Births - Volume 1
Abbot - Ayers
Baal - Byrd
Cahill - Cutter
Daley - Dyer
Eaeds - Ewell
Fabens - Furniss
Gail - Guy
Hacker - Hyi
Ingals - Ives
Jackson - Juimy
Kannel - Kusick
Lackey - Lyons
Mabb - Murray
Nance - Nutting
Oakes - Owins
Page - Pymer
Quill - Quiner
Rackwood - Rye
St. Barbe - Syms
Taley - Twisden
Uncle - Upton
Valentine - Voranie
Waddell - Wyman
Yabseley - Youngman
Zeagar
Surname missing
Negroes

Marriages - Volume 2
Abbot - Ayers
Babbage - Byrne
Caen - Cuttle
Dae - Dyer
Eagles - Ewell
Fabens - Furniss
Gabbet - Gylyard
Hadley - Hyter
Ide - Ivimy
Jackson - Joyce
Kaiting - Kymbal
L'abbé - Lyons
MacCally - Muzzey
Nagels - Nutting
Oake - Ozier
Packer - Putnam
Quill - Quiner
Rackwood - Ryan
Saddley - Synot
Tainner - Twist
Ulmer - Uyer
Valentine - Vyoll
Wadden - Wyman
Yabsley - Young
Surname missing
Negroes

Deaths - Volume 2
Abbot - Avery
Bailey - Byrd
Cahill - Cushing
Dae - Dyer
Eastland - Everton
Fabens - Furnis
Gail - Gyles
Hadley - Hyter
Ingalls - Ives
Jackson - Joyce
Kane - Knowlton
Lackey - Lyon
McGee - Munroe
Nance - Nutting
Oakes - Owen
Page - Putnam
Quill - Quinoe
Ramsdell - Ryan
Saffers - Symonds
Tailor - Twist
Union - Uyer
Valenson - Vortee
Wadden - Wyman
Yaugh - Yeatton
Zeigler
Surname missing
Negroes