Vital Records of Burlington, Massachusetts to the Year
1850.
Compiled by Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B. Member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society.
Boston,
Mass., 1915.
Number of
Births printed
.....
1,417
Marriages
...............287 X 2 - 574
names
Deaths
.........................493
2,484 total
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing
Company, 32 Derne
Street.
Established February 28, 1799, from part of Woburn. January 20,
1800, part annexed to Lexington.
Population by Census: 1800 (U.S.),
534;
1810 (U.S.), 471; 1820 (U.S.),
508;
1830 (U.S.), 446; 1840 (U.S.),
510;
1850 (U.S.), 545; 1855 (State),
564;
1860 (U.S.), 606; 1865 (State),
594;
1870 (U.S.), 626; 1875 (State),
650;
1880 (U.S.), 711; 1885 (State),
604;
1890 (U.S.), 617; 1895 (State),
574;
1900 (U.S.), 593; 1905 (State),
588;
1910 (U.S.), 591.
EXPLANATIONS.
1. When places
other than Burlington or Massachusetts are named in the original records they
are given in the printed record.
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 may be found under different
spellings.
4. Marriages and intentions are printed under the
names of both parties. When a marriage appears without the intention
recorded it is designated by 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
abt.
- about
b. - born
bp. - baptized
bur. - buried
ch. - child
C.R. -
church record; Second Church of Christ in Woburn
d. - daughter: died:
day
Dea. - Deacon
dec. - deceased
dup. - duplicate entry
G.R.1. -
grave record, Precinct Burying Ground
G.R.2. - grave record, Chestnut Hill
Cemetery
h. - husband: hours
inf. - infant
int. - publishment of
intention of marriage
Jr. - junior
m. - month
md. - married
P.R.1. - from record
of deaths in Second Parish of Woburn kept by Rev. J. Marrett, now in
possession of Mrs. N. L. S. Bennett of Burlington
P.R.2. - from
records of J. P. Walker of Bangor, Maine
s. - son
Sr. - senior
unm.
- unmarried
w. - wife
wid. - widow
widr. - widower
y. - year