Welcome to the
Beverly, Massachusetts
GenWeb Project

Serving genealogy and family history research
in the City of Beverly, County of Essex,
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
in the United States of America.

Essex County MA US GenWeb Project

Settled 1626 - Town 1668 - City 1894.

Local Resources

The following local resources may be useful in your searches:

• City of Beverly--its official website, with the City Government's Clerk, Cemetery, and Veterans' departments.
• Beverly Historical Society--local history research library, collections, museum, and research.
• Beverly Public Library--with local histories, genealogies, and more in their research department.
• Maps and documents--provided by Robert Raymond, from his Raymond family page.
• Phillips Library for New England history, in nearby Salem, is part of the Peabody Essex Museum.

Public Records

• Essex County GenWeb details public records access for Beverly, Essex County, and Massachusetts.
• Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 were transcribed there, as well, but are now on their own site.
• Jane Devlin's Dunham-Wilcox-Trott-Kirk family web page has transcriptions of Augustus A. Galloupe's 1903 "Register of Baptisms of the First Church in Beverly" and 1907 "Early Records of the Town of Beverly, Essex Co., Mass." in the Reference Data section for Essex County Massachusetts (half-way down the page).
• You may also purchase official birth, marriage, and death certificates, for Beverly only, within the past one hundred years, from the City Clerk.
• Cemetery records may be researched at the Cemetery Department, also at City Hall.

Cemetery Records

• Ancient Burying Ground, Abbott & Hale, Downtown. Lookups available from the book "The Genealogical History of the Abbott Street Cemetery" by William C. Carlson. Email the County Coordinator with subject Ancient Burial Ground Lookup.
• Hale Street Cemetery.
• Greene Family Burying Ground, transcribed, Herlihy Park, Carver & Livingstone, Ryal Side.
• Leach Cemetery, transcribed, Folly Hill Farm, Elliott Street, East Danvers.
• North Beverly Ancient Cemetery, transcribed, Conant Street, between Cabot & Dodge.
• North Beverly Cemetery (Municipal), Conant & Cabot, (old section: North Beverly Meeting House Cemetery).
• Dodge's Row Burying Ground (Municipal), Dodge, at end of shared right-of-way and driveway, opposite and between Norwood's & Beaver Ponds Roads, North Beverly. Lookups available from the transcriptions included in the Essex Antiquarian. Email the County Coordinator with subject Dodge Cemetery Lookup.
• Beverly Farms Burying Ground (Municipal), Haskell & Hart, Beverly Farms.
• Central Cemetery (Municipal), Dane & Butman. Look ups available for the Dane Street Cemetery prior to 1800 from transcriptions included in the Essex Antiquarian. Email the County Coordinator with subject Dane Street Cemetery.

Help locating and transcribing the last of these cemeteries is welcome. Email the "Town" Coordinator, for more details.

Query Resources

Vital Records Lookup

Dan Driscoll volunteers to do vital records lookups at City Hall.   "I will do my best to help you."   Dan is a treasure, for anyone researching vital records in Beverly; we are fortunate to have him helping us.

Roll Call

Click here for a list, by surname, of descendants researching their Beverly Ancestors.

Lookup Volunteers

Click here for a list of volunteers who own books on Beverly history and genealogy and are willing to do brief lookups for you.

Queries & Mailing Lists

If your concern does not relate to Beverly, or Essex County, Massachusetts, then please, do not enter your information here.   Otherwise, Beverly or Essex County, Massachusetts queries and lookups can be posted as directed on the Essex County Query Page.

Family Resources

The following families were originally, and were long, established in Beverly.

• Balch House Associates--in conjuction with the Beverly Historical Society.
• Dodge Family Association--a clearing house for Dodge genealogy.
• Hale Family Association--association for the family of Beverly's first minister.
• Woodbury/Ober Web Site--Larry Wert's web site for these two Beverly families.
• Royal Descents of Elizabeth Stratton Thorndike--a Haskell family newsletter article.

Nearby Towns

The following towns border Beverly: Danvers, Wenham & Manchester (by land), Peabody (across the Danvers River), Salem (by bridge), and Marblehead (across Salem Sound). There are other nearby towns in Essex County, as well. You are encouraged to visit their GenWeb Project web pages, to help you further in your searches.

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