CROMWELL

Organized May 1851 from Middletown

(Prior to 1851 it was called Middletown Upper Houses)

Links that contain information pertaining to Cromwell.

Carolyn Brown has transcribed the family histories from Middletown Upper Houses (now Cromwell). There are a total of 28 families represented. They are the BULKELEY, BUTLER, CLARK, DOOLITTLE, EDWARDS, EELLS, GAYLORD, GRIDLEY, HALL, HUBBARD, HURLBURT, KEITH, KELSEY, KIRBY, L'HOMMEDIEU, PROUT, RILEY, SAGE, SAVAGE, SHEPARD, SMITH, STOCKING, STOW, TREAT, WARNER, WHITE, WILCOX, WILLIAMS families.   

CEMETERY RECORDS AND CEMETERIES

NAME	ADDRESS
Old Cemetery	2 Timber Hill Road
Kelsey Cemetery	North Road
Old Center (Or East) Cemetery	24 Hillside Road
New Center Cemetery	"Off Center"
Northwest Cemetery	U.S. 52
Quary Cemetery	Ranney Street
Riverside Cemetery	(Not Located)
West Cemetery	29 Hillside Road

CHURCH RECORDS

BAPTIST CHURCH (FORMERLY MIDDLETOWN SECOND), Minutes, 1802-1920

Vital Records, 1802-1877. (CSL, LDS)

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Vital Records, 1715-1875. (CSL, LDS)

Card Index, 1715-1875. (CSL)

SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Marriages, 1738-1800. Bailey

2:87-98, 3:169-170.

Hildreth, Homer Wesky. HISTORY OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN CROMWELL

1715-1915. Middletown: James D. Young Press, 1915. 65 p.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Cromwell Historical Society, Inc., 06416

LIBRARY

Belden Library Association, 346 Main Street, 06416 (860) 635-4433

PROBATE RECORDS

CROMWELL is in the Middletown Probate District

VITAL RECORDS

Town Clerk, 5 West Street, 06416. (860) 635-5454.

The Town Clerk's earliest birth record is 2 September 1850, marriage record 30 May 1852 and death record 5 August 1850.

PUBLISHED WORKS AND OTHER RECORDS

Adams, Charles Collard. Middletown Upper Houses; A History of the North Society of Middletown.. 1650 to 1800 with Genealogical and

Biographical Chapters on Early Families and a Full Genealogy of the Raney Family. N.Y.: Grafton Press, 1908. 847 p.

Dudley, Myron Samuel. HISTORY OF CROMWELL. Middletown: Constitution Office, 1880. 36 p.

The History and Architecture of Cromwell, Judith E. Johnson, William H. Tabor. The Greater Middletown Preservation Trust, Middletown, Connecticut. 1980.

Updated Oct. 16, 2001