Description from the Maryland State Archives' web site:
County Circuit Court Death Records 1865-1884
The next attempt by the Maryland General Assembly to make the registration of deaths a civil matter occurred in 1865 with the passage of An Act to provide for the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths (Chapter 130, Acts of 1865). This law required that all deaths be registered at the county circuit court. According to the law, the court clerks were to record "the date of the death, the name of the deceased, the sex, the color, the condition, (whether single, widowed or married,) the age, the residence, the occupation, the place of death, the place of birth, the names and place of residence of the parents, the disease or cause of death, the place of burial and the date of record." (Chapter 130, Acts of 1865). The records were arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the surname and then chronologically.
A number of death registers were begun by the court clerks, but compliance with the law was poor. Very few Marylanders bothered to register burials with the circuit court, so present day researchers must still rely on church records for this time period. The Archives holds the following death record registers for the counties listed below, although many of them contain only scattered entries.
* NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION:
The death register book is filled out very sparsely; only the pages listed below have any writing on them whatsoever. The entries below comprise all of the deaths registered in Prince George's County under this law.
Page | Date | Name | Sex | Color | Condition | Age | Residence | Occupation | Place of Death | Place of Birth | Male Parent | Female Parent | Res. Of Parents | Cause | Place of Burial | Date of Record |
9 | 16 Nov 1865 | Brooke, Roger | M | W | Single | 6 yr 5 mo | Pr Geo Co | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | R. Walter Brooke | Sarah Jane Brooke | Pr Geo Co. | Typhoid Fever | 20 Dec 1865 | ||
26 | 23 Jul 1865 | Calvert, William | M | B | Single | 6 mo | J. B. Magruder's pltn. | none | J. B. Magruder's pltn. | J. B. Magruder's pltn. | William Calvert | Sophy Calvert | W. H. Hilleary's pltn. (father), J. B. Magruder's pltn. (mother) | W. H. Hilleary pltn. | 14 Aug 1865 | |
26 | 16 Aug 1865 | Chase, Betty | F | B | Single | 106 yr | Alms House | none | Alms House, Pr Geo | Extreme old age | 8 Sep 1865 | |||||
26 | 12 Mar 1865 | Campbell, Walter | M | B | Single | 2 yr | Jno. W. Bowie pltn. | none | Jno. W. Bowies place | Jno. W. Bowie's place | Walter Campbell | Mary Campbell | Jno. W. Bowie's place | Infantile unknown | Jno. W. Bowie's place | 28 Mar 1865 |
26 | 15 Dec 1865 | Clark, Pierson | M | Single | 8 yr 6 mo | Aquasco Dist. | none | Aquasco Dist. | Aquasco Dist. | Jno. T. Clark | Angelina Clark | Aquasco Dist. | Typhoid Fever | 30 Mar 1866 | ||
26 | 7 Apr 1866 | Cornick, William | M | Single | 71 | Alms House | none | Alms House, Pr Geo | Pr Geo Co. | Heart Disease | 12 Apr 1866 | |||||
26 | 30 Jul 1865 | Compton, Eliza F. | F | W | Widow | 62 yr 7 mo | Woodville | none | Woodville | near Woodville | Jon T. Wood | Ann W. Wood | Chalk Point | Consumption | near Bryantown, Ch. Co. | 20 Mar 1866 |
26 | 8 Aug 1865 | Compton, Mary | F | W | Single | 1 yr 5 mo | Woodville | Woodville | Woodville | John W. Compton | Mary F. Compton | Woodville | Congestion of Brain | near Bryantown, Ch. Co. | 20 Mar 1866 | |
42 | 18 Jun 1866 | Douglas, Benj. C. | M | B | Single | 3 yr | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Jake Douglas | Jane Douglas | Pr Geo Co. | Typhoid Fever | Pr Geo Co. | 25 Sep 1866 | |
42 | 22 Oct 1866 | Diebritsch, Henry Herman | M | W | Single | |||||||||||
62 | 24 Oct 1865 | Farr, John Bladen | M | W | Married | 64 yr | Pr Geo Co. | Miller | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Joshua Farr | [--?--] Farr | Pr Geo Co. | Affection of Brain | P. E. Ch. Yard, Upper Marlboro | 4 Jan 1866 |
72 | 2 Jul 1865 | Gooch, James | M | W | Married | 77 yr | Alms House | Alms House, Pr Geo | London, England | Appoplexy | 29 Sep 1865 | |||||
72 | 21 Sep 1865 | Gross, Sarah | F | Colored | Unmarried | 16 yr | Horsehead | unknown | near Horsehead | near Horsehead | unknown | Rachael Gross | near Horsehead | Typhoid Fever | unknown | 11 Apr 1866 |
83 | 24 Oct 1865 | Hardy, Mary Jane | F | W | Single | 7 y 6 m 10 d | Pr Geo Co. | none | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | William W. Hardy | Rebecca Ann Hardy | Pr Geo Co. | 16 Nov 1865 | ||
83 | 29 Oct 1865 | Hardy, Susan Matilda Ann | F | W | Single | 28 mo | Pr Geo Co. | none | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | William W. Hardy | Rebecca Ann Hardy | Pr Geo Co. | 16 Nov 1865 | ||
83 | 29 May 1866 | Hodgkin, Mrs. Henrietta | F | W | Widow | 73 yr | Pr Geo Co. | J. E. S. Hollyday | 7 Jun 1866 | |||||||
99 | 25 Oct 1865 | Jackson, Rachael | F | B | Married | 25 | Bladensburg | Laborer | Bladensburg | Bladensburg | James Lewis | Sophia Lewis | Bladensburg | Cholera Marbus | near Bladensburg | 8 Nov 1865 |
99 | 30 Dec 1865 | Jones, Erasmus Warren | M | W | Single | 2 mo | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Charles Jones | Mary E. Jones | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | 2 May 1866 | ||
110 | 6 Sep 1865 | Kerby, Maria L. | F | W | Married | 42 y 2 m | Hart Park, Pr Geo Co. | Lady | Hart Park | Dropsy | Broad Creek | 20 Sep 1865 | ||||
110 | 5 Dec 1865 | Kerby, Julia Ann | F | W | Married | 40 | Hart Park, Pr Geo Co. | Lady | Hart Park | both dead | Paralysis | St. Ignatius Ch. | 19 Apr 1866 | |||
121 | 22 Jul 1865 | Lanham, William | M | B | Single | 18 yr | Upper Marlboro | Labourer | Upper Marlboro, Md. | Upper Marlboro | William Lanham | Betsy Lanham | Upper Marlboro | 24 Jul 1865 | ||
121 | 11 Jul 1865 | Lewis, Sophia | F | B | Widow | 50 yr | Bladensburg | Labourer | Bladensburg | Bladensburg | John Boone | Rose Boone | Bladensburg | Dropsy | near Bladensburg | 8 Nov 1865 |
132 | 20 Apr 1866 | Maynard, Charles | M | B | Married | 80 yr | J. W. Bowie's place | none | J. W. Bowie's place | J. W. Bowie's place | unknown | unknown | unknown | Paralysis | J. W. Bowie's place | 28 May 1866 |
132 | 18 Nov 1865 | Mackubin, Richd. C. | M | W | Married | 51 yr | A. A. Co. | Physician & Farmer | Warington, P. G. Co. | Annapolis, Md. | MacKubin, George | MacKubin, Eleanor | Annapolis, Md. | Gont[?] in Stomach | Annapolis, Md. | 12 Jan 1867 |
168 | 31 Jul 1865 | Pinkney, Emily | F | Colored | 22 yr | 1 Mar 1866 | ||||||||||
168 | 18 Nov 1866 | Page, Townshend Warren | W | Single | 1 y 4 mo 24 d | near Collington | none | near Collington | near Collington | R. Virgil Page | Addie Page | near Collington | Bronchitis | Holy Trinity Ch. | 24 Nov 1866 | |
178 | 20 Jul 1865 | Quander, Aaron | M | B | Single | William Quander | Juliana Quander | 10 May 1866 | ||||||||
189 | 13 Jul 1865 | Simpson, Emma Ann Virg'a. | F | W | Single | 11 mo 23 da | Bladensburg Dist. | none | Bladensburg Dist. | Bladensburg Dist. | Simpson, Henry T. | Simpson, Elizabeth Ann | Bladensburg Dist. | Diarrhea &c. | Bladensburg Chapel | 16 Aug 1865 |
189 | 5 Aug 1865 | Smith, Catherine | F | W | Single | 73 yr | Pr Geo Co. | none | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Smith, Dr. Clement | Smith Ellen | both dead | Congestion of Brain | Washington, DC | 22 Aug 1865 |
189 | Stark, Col. Henry | M | W | Pr Geo Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Inflammation of the stomach, Erysipelas & chronic infn. Of the liver | 29 Oct 1865 | |||||||||
189 | 4 May 1866 | Slayman, Martha E. H. | F | W | Single | 1 m 27 d | Up. Marlboro | none | Upper Marlboro, Md. | Upper Marlboro | Slayman, Michael I. | Slayman, Sallie A. | Upper Marlboro | Up. Marlboro | 5 May 1866 | |
206 | 23 Jul 1865 | Tresy | F | B | 65 yr | Alms House | Alms House, Pr Geo | Disease of Bowels | 29 Dec 1865 | |||||||
230 | 9 Dec 1865 | Walker, John W. | M | B | North Carolina | Pr Geo Co. | Accident | 20 Dec 1865 | ||||||||
230 | 28 Dec 1866 | Waring, James | M | W | Single | 4 yr | Warrington, Pr Geo Co. |
| Warington, P. G. Co. | Pr Geo Co. | Waring, Marsham | Violetta L. Waring | Warrington, Pr Geo Co. | Disease of the Heart | Warrington, Md. | 12 Jan 1867 |
230 | 29 Oct 1866 | Watson, Priscilla | F | W | 6 y 11 m 14 d | Aquasco Dist. | none | Pr Geo Co. | James Watson | Catherine Watson | Aquasco Dist. | Inflammatory Rheumatism | Aquasco Dist. | 1 Jan 1866[sic] | ||
247 | 20 Jul 1865 | Young, John F. | M | W | Single | 23 yr | Upper Marlboro | Wheelwright | Upper Marlboro, Md. | Upper Marlboro | Levi Young | Ann Young | both dead | Consumption | P. E. Ch. Yard, Upper Marlboro | 24 Jul 1865 |
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