Middlesex Genealogy

Middlesex County was established in 1785 from Hartford, New London, and New Haven Counties.

D'Addezio.com Connecticut Vital Records Search

The Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants

Middlesex County Cemeteries This site has published burial records for several Middlesex County Cemeteries. They would like the public to contribute records of burials to the site.

Middlesex County SURNAMES (for non-town-specific queries only)

Jane Devlin has developed a new mailing list for Middlesex County and it is now available on RootsWeb. To subscribe in MAIL mode, send a message to CTMIDDLE-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe in the body of the message. For DIGEST mode, use the address CTMIDDLE-D-request@rootsweb.com.

Either version will work best if there is no subject, and nothing in the message portion other than the word "subscribe".

Middlesex County Resources and Lookup Volunteers:

If you have any reference books or CDs on this county and would like to volunteer to do lookups, please, let me know.

When requesting a lookup, please follow these guidelines:

Put Middlesex County Lookup in subject of message.
Put name of book or CD you are requesting in the first line of the message as many of these wonderful people have volunteered to look up several things.
Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names.

Don't forget to thank your volunteer for his or her time and effort!

LOOKUP VOLUNTEERS:

February 11, 2005: Jodi Brazal has volunteered to do lookups in East Hampton. Jodi is willing to do cemetery lookups and still photos, town records, etc. in East Hampton. Jodi Brazal

Dec 1,1996: Have copy of Vital Records of Saybrook Colony 1635-1860, will do look ups. Harry Walden

Dec 14, 1996: Have three (3) volume set entitled "The Genealogy of the Brainard-Brainerd Family of America, 1649-1908", by Lucy Abigail Brainard, and published in 1908 by the Hartford Press. The books include the descendants of Daniel Brainerd and his seven sons: Daniel, James, Joshua, William, Caleb, Elijah, and Hezekiah. Bud Hopkins

Dec 19, 2000: I have a copy of "Middletown Upper Houses" by Charles Collard Adams and will be happy to do look-ups. Susan Curelop

Middlesex County Links

If you would like to volunteer to coordinate the resources of any of the towns listed "Adopt Me" below, please e-mail me for info.

Middlesex County Town Selection List

Town	Date Formed	Parent Town	Contact
Chester	1836	Saybrook	Tom Bombaci, Jr.
Clinton	1838	Killingworth	Adopt Me
Cromwell	1851	Middletown	Adopt Me
Deep River	1635	Name Saybrook until 1947	Tom Bombaci, Jr.
Durham	1708	None	Tracy Camassar
East Haddam	1734	Haddam	Carol Sterling email address not valid as of 20110416; website still functional
East Hampton	1767	Middletown (name Chatham until 1915)	Adopt Me
Essex	1852	Saybrook (name Old Saybrook 1852-1854)	Tom Bombaci, Jr.
Haddam	1668	None	Bill Carr
Killingworth	1667	None	Adopt Me
Middlefield	1866	Middletown	Adopt Me
Middletown	1651	None	Adopt Me
Portland	1841	East Hampton	Adopt Me
Old Saybrook	1852	Old Saybrook/Essex	Tom Bombaci, Jr.
Westbrook	1840	Saybrook	Adopt Me

Middlesex County GenConnect Resources

DUNHAM - WILCOX - TROTT - KIRK: Jane Devlin has done an outstanding job of creating a site. This site has many records that pertain to Middlesex County. It is continually being updated, so check back often. Some of the information is the posting of the Barbour Collection, just to name some.

Mortimer Cemetery Coralynn Brown has recorded the inscriptions for the Mortimer Cemetery in Middletown, and it is posted at this location.

Tom Bombaci, Jr.'s page. Dated. Some Middlesex County surnames.

Chuck Arnold's page on Northeast ARNOLDs.

Godfrey Memorial Library in Middletown, CT. An excellent resource for Genealogical research in Connecticut.

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Last updated: 20130202. Maintained as of 20090906 by Tom Bombaci, Jr., Grants, NM