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UPDATED INFORMATION ADDED!The 1880 Census Mortality Schedule is now online for some Townships in the County with more added today. Click on the VITAL RECORDS link below to be taken to the Vital Records page, Census. Also new Cemetery listings have been added to Vital Records. Come in and see our new and updated pages

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Please view our Volunteer Information Page and contact the main host, Kim Torp, if you are interested in becoming a host for any of the FREE Genealogy Trails pages. Your page does not have to be in your own state, it can be anywhere in the USA.
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We also need contributors for this DELAWARE COUNTY page. Whatever electronic format you have the material in, I will code it and use it on these pages, for this you do not need to know HTML or any coding. The material can be historical or genealogical that has a DELAWARE COUNTY connection. This can be anything... from your own family information that you already have, ... an obituary page from a newspaper, ...a news article from the past, ...a historical document that you have, ...whatever you want to contribute. Our goal is to keep genealogy free, and you, as a contributor, can help keep that goal. Contact me with any contributions that I can put into these pages. If you are in doubt, email me and I will respond to your questions as quickly as I can.


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This is a new website and the links are not all complete*. Below is a preview of what is to come. You may click on the links in BOLD below to browse the data as soon as it is available.

County Origins* Townships* Communities* Cemeteries*
NEW INFORMATION ADDED WITH DATE OF ADDITIONVITAL RECORDS IMMIGRATION HISTORY NEWSPAPERS
Famous Delaware Countians* Churches* BIOGRAPHIES &
GENEALOGIES 		Military*
Resources* Miscellaneous* Queries* SURNAME LIST

Most of my family migrated to Delaware County, from Philadelphia, starting in the late 1800s. As a child, I loved hearing their family stories and visiting the places they spoke about. It is how I became interested in its History and my own Genealogy.

The surnames of my DELAWARE COUNTY families are:   BOUVIER, DANIELS, McCLOSKEY, McELVENNY(any spelling), THOMAS, DAVIS, YOUNG, TALLEY, LEABOURNE
See the surname, Vital Records, and Queries pages for links to further information about these families.


I have put together a SURNAME list of all people being researched in the DELAWARE COUNTY area (people that have let me know, that is).  If you would like to be put on that list so that you may be contacted, try to send the information in this format:   SURNAME; dates either 1800-1870 or use before symbol-(<) or after symbol-(>): ie <1800.   If that is not possible, please send it anyway that you can.   Enclose all the information that you want used to Send Delco Researchers to me

As with the QUERIES page, all email addresses will be coded and not available to little robots on the net.


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Delaware County was created on September 26, 1789 from part of Chester County and named for the Delaware River. Its county seat, since 1851, is Media. Chester City, prior to 1851, was the county seat of both Delaware County, and before that, of Chester County.

Delaware County(known colloquially as "Delco") is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2000, the population was 550,864, making it Pennsylvania's fifth most populous county, behind Philadelphia, Allegheny, Montgomery, and Bucks counties.

Socioeconomically, Delaware County runs the gamut from economically depressed and working class communities such as the City of Chester and the Borough of Darby to the posh suburban neighborhoods of Radnor Township and Villanova located along the wealthy Main Line to the north.

2,600 acres (11 km²) of Delaware County are occupied by the Ridley Creek State Park.

The counties adjacent to Delaware County are:

  • Montgomery County (north)
  • Philadelphia County (east)
  • Gloucester County, New Jersey (southeast)
  • New Castle County, Delaware (southwest)
  • Chester County (west)
  • Not quite adjacent to, but very close-by is Wilmington, DE to the south

MEDIA

The county itself is serviced by several newspapers, most notably the News of Delaware County, the Delaware County Daily Times, and The Suburban and Wayne Times. The Philadelphia Inquirer also has a significant presence, reflecting Delaware County's status as a suburb of Philadelphia.

Municipalities

Map of Delaware County, Pennsylvania with Municipal Labels showing Cities and Boroughs (red), Townships (white), and Census-designated places (blue).There are 49 municipalities in Delaware County. Under Pennsylvania law, there are four types of incorporated municipalities: cities, boroughs, townships, and, in at most two cases, towns. The following cities, boroughs and townships are located in Delaware County: (Source: Wikipedia)

CITIES

Chester        

BOROS/BOROUGHS

Aldan Brookhaven Chester Heights Clifton Heights Collingdale
Colwyn Darby Eddystone Folcroft Glenolden
Lansdowne East Lansdowne Marcus Hook Media Millbourne
Morton Norwood Parkside Prospect Park Ridley Park
Rose Valley Rutledge Sharon Hill Swarthmore Trainer
Upland Yeadon      

TOWNSHIPS

Aston Township Bethel Township Chadds Ford Township Chester Township UPDATED INFORMATION ADDED!Concord Township
Darby Township Edgmont Township Haverford Township Lower Chichester Township Marple Township
Middletown Township Nether Providence Township Newtown Township Radnor Township Ridley Township
Springfield Township Thornbury Township Tinicum Township Upper Chichester Township Upper Darby Township
Upper Providence Township        

Census-Designated Places

Ardmore Boothwyn Broomall Drexel Hill Folsom
Garrett Hill Lima Linwood Riddlewood Rosemont
Village Green-Green Ridge Villanova Wallingford Wawa Wayne
Woodlyn     

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