Resources

The following Newry resources may help in your research:

Civic records:

Maine State Archives the following are available on microfilm at the Maine State Archives in Augusta:

    Newry Town Records (tax rolls, town officials, civic improvements, etc.) from 1805-1894.

    Newry Vital Records (births, deaths, marriages, etc.) are available from 1810. 

Family History Centers (local branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.  This is a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)   

 

    Newry town records 1805-1846 include proceedings of town meetings, taxes, roads, family records listing births and deaths, ear markings, list of voters, boundaries, intentions of marriage 1808-1850, marriage records 1812-1837.        

   

    Family records listing births and deaths, deaths 1842-1864, intentions of marriage 1846-1891, marriage records 1845-1894. 

 

    Ask to borrow US/Canada films 11589 and 11590. Go here to find out location and hours of your nearest Family History Center.

 

Books:

 

Young, Erma Thurston.  Yesterday and today, Publisher Manchester, Me. a Dirigo edition, c 1953.  A girl's memories of growing up in Newry.  It has few place or person names but provides a fascinating word-picture of what it was like to live along the Bear River in the late 1800-early 1900's when finding a doctor was a major ordeal and a shiny dime in the Christmas stocking was a child's dream of heaven. Available at the Maine Historical Society library in Portland and may be found at other libraries or through your local library's interlibrary loan program.
 

Wilkins, Martha Fifield. Sunday River Sketches A New England Chronicle, Edited, with an Introduction by Randy L. Bennett, Androscoggin Publications, Rumford, Maine 1977.  May be available from your local library through Interlibrary Loan, check with the reference department.

 

Wight, Paula M. Newry Profiles 1805-1980, No publication information listed.  For sale by Bethel Historical Society gift shop.

 

Wight, Carrie, A History of Newry, No publication information listed. For sale by Bethel Historical Society gift shop.

 

The Old Maps of Oxford County, Maine in 1858, Saco Valley Printing, Freyburg, Maine.  For sale by Bethel Historical Society gift shop.

 

 

Obituaries, newspapers, photos, burial records:

 

Bethel Historical Society's museum and research library off the town square in Bethel has an extensive collection of records related to Newry and its settlement.  You may wish to write the museum with your research requests if you are unable to visit it in person.  But by all means, plan to spend a day or two in the Society's library if you are going to be near Newry.  Please consider joining the Society in order to help sponsor its activities and receive continuing information about area research.