Deaths in
Deane Merrill, January 2008
The following files are abstracts of death records at the
Several related data sets, all preliminary, are available:
death counts only, 5931 deaths, 1740-2002:
The peak in 1777 is real. Hardships of the
Revolution caused an epidemic that claimed 76 lives in one year - ten percent
of the population of Shelburne.
1913_2002/image001.gif
(graph of death by year of death)
death1.txt (tab-delimited)
death1.csv (comma-delimited)
abstracts and graphs: 4865 deaths 1836-2003:
These records include birth, death, residence and burial of the decedent;
name of spouse, and names and birthplaces of parents.
to2003/death3.htm (HTML)
abstracts and graphs: 2983 deaths 1913-2002:
These records do not include name of spouse, or names and birthplaces of parents.
1913_2002/death3.htm (HTML)
full abstracts and graphs from death certificates, 2975 deaths 1913-2002:
These records include birth, death, residence and burial of the decedent;
name of spouse, and names and birthplaces of parents.
death4.htm (HTML)
individuals in family trees, 3054 deaths 1911-2003:
to2003\18362003\records_sef.pdf
(Adobe Acrobat PDF)
This is a 72-page file, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. There are 3054 persons in the 1911-2003 Shelburne death records. Of these, 1735 are known to be related to at least one other person in the records; these are organized into 432 multi-surname family trees. The largest tree contains 68 deceased persons related either by birth or marriage.
The Shelburne death records are organized in family trees,
sorted alphabetically by surname. For example, the file contains 5
related Shelburne death records in a multi-surname
tree "5 Adams/Snow/Streeter,"
which has 2 Adams, 2 Snow, and 1 Streeter. (Women are counted by
their maiden name.) The multi-surname tree also includes Daniel Caswell,
a spouse who does not have a Shelburne death record.
The Shelburne death records appear alphabetically in the file, in 4 single-surname trees: Adams(1875), Caswell(1875), Snow(1873), and Streeter(1900). Each married couple appear twice in the file, under both the husband's surname and the wife's maiden name.
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Roy L
Adams 1875-1961 m. |
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Adams/Snow/Stree |
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,,,,,Clarice
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Caswell(1875) |
Daniel
Caswell m. Carrie ( Snow ) 1875-1968 |
5
Adams/Snow/Stree |
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Snow(1873) |
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5 Adams/Snow/Stree |
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Carrie ( Snow ) 1875-1968 m. Daniel Caswell |
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Streeter (1900) |
Frances E
Streeter 1900-1967 m. Clarice ( |
5 Adams/Snow/Stree |
The first column, for example "Adams(1875)," indicates the surname and birth
year of the earliest known
The second column indicates the name(s), birth year(s), and death year(s) of a single
person or a married couple. Parentheses indicate a woman's maiden name.
Indentation indicates a
child; for example, ".....Clarice (Adams)" is a daughter of Roy L
Adams and
Multiple entries indicate multiple marriages. The notations "h2" and "w2", where they appear, indicate a second (known) husband or a second (known) wife respectively.
Underscores, for example
"_____ Alston" are used for unknown names.
Birth and death dates are
omitted for persons not in the Shelburne death records. To preserve the confidentiality of
living persons, a spouse's name is included only if he/she is deceased, or
likely to be over 100 years old.
For example, Carrie (Snow) 1875-1968 married Daniel Caswell, who is not
in the Shelburne death records. Daniel's name is included because he is
most likely deceased or more than 100 years old. For the purpose of estimating birth
years, wives are assumed to be two years younger than their husbands.
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The third column is an abbreviation of multi-surname family tree. With minor exceptions, the 432 trees are the same as the 434 trees listed in the file below.
family trees, 3067 deaths 1910-2002:
Death records for closely related deceased family members (spouses,
siblings, parents and children) were grouped into 434 multi-surname family
trees. A few deaths from earlier
years are included.
death
records 1774-1866:
This file contains death records transcribed by Deane Merrill at the
Shelburne, MA Town Hall, 4/29/04 through 2/10/05. It includes a partial transcription of
deaths in the register "Shelburne Births-Marriages-Deaths Register
1843-1853," and a partial transcription (pages 68-185) of the earlier
register "No. 2 Births Marriages Deaths". Deaths before 1850, in a different
format, are available in publication and through ancestry.com. Deaths after 1850 which are not in this
file are in a different file, not available online.
genealogy report, deaths in 2000-2002:
This document is a partial genealogy of deaths registered in the town of
ftw/shelburne.doc (MS Word)
Notes regarding Shelburne and
back to: Shelburne Historical
Society
back to: Genealogy of Deane Merrill
death.htm 1/13/08 in:
dennie2:\\c:\dwmerrill\shs\vitalrecs\death.htm
http://merrill.olm.net/shs/vitalrecs/death.htm
