EXPLANATIONS
1. When places other than Wakefield and Massachusetts are named in the original records, they are given in the printed copy.
2. In all records the original spelling is followed.
3. The various spellings of a name should be examined, as items about the same family or individual might be found under different spellings.
4. Marriages and intentions of marriages are printed under the name of both parties. When a marriages has its intention recorded it is designated with an asterisk.
5. Additional information which does not appear in the original text of an item, i.e., any explanation, query, inference, or difference shown in other entries of the record, is bracketed.
ABBREVIATIONS
| a
| age; aged
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| jr
| junior
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| abt
| about
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| m
| month
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| b
| born
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| Md
| married
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| bp
| baptized
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| prob
| probably
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| bur
| buried
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| s
| son
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| ch
| child
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| sr
| senior
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| d
| daughter; day; died
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| TC
| from Town copy
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| Dea
| deacon
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| unm
| unmarried
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| dec
| deceased
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| w
| wife
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| dup
| duplicate entry
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| wid
| widow
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| h
| husband; hours
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| widr
| widower
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| inf
| infant
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| y
| year
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| int
| publishment of intention of marriage
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CHURCH RECORDS
| CR
| Congregational Church
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CEMETERY RECORDS
| GR1
| Old Cemetery, formerly Town Burying Ground
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| GR2
| Lakeside Cemetery
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| GR3
| Jewish Cemetery
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