Records of Vineyard People

The Vineyard Gazette

Vital Records and Gravestones

Censuses and Directories of Tisbury

Index to Marriage Notices 1850 - 1863   (All-island!)

Index to Death Notices
1850 - 1875 (All-island!)
(See Deaths in Tisbury 1850 - 1875) for full text.)

1862 Draft List:
Tisbury Men aged 18 to 45

Index to Deaths and Marriage Notices, 1884 - 1939: A - K Index and L - Z Index.

Microfilm of The Vineyard Gazette is available at the Edgartown Public Library, the Vineyard Haven Public Library, and the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library.

Index to Births in Tisbury 1844 - 1920

Marriages in Tisbury, 1850-1853

Marriages in Tisbury, 1853-1875

Index to Marriages in Tisbury 1844 - 1920 by bride and groom.

Index to Tisbury marriage records 1850-1875. This is an index to the names of brides, grooms, parents, and ministers recorded by the Tisbury town clerk.

Deaths in Tisbury before 1850
with hyperlinks to gravestones.

Deaths in Tisbury 1850 - 1875
Includes grave inscriptions, town records, Vineyard Gazette notices and other records. Cross-references to Charles Banks' History of Martha's Vineyard Vol. III and the 1850-1870 Federal censuses are provided.

Index to Deaths in Tisbury 1844 - 1920

Index to Deaths in Tisbury 1920 - 1960

Crossways Cemetery
(aka "Company Place Cemetery.")
Photos and transcripts of  gravestones.

West Chop Cemetery (in progress!)
Photos and transcripts of  gravestones.

Gravestones near Christiantown
Photos and transcripts of  stones at the Mingo Family graveyard and the Christiantown burying ground.

List of Persons whose Names have been Changed in Dukes County 1850-1892. Why did Rebecca West change her name to William Valentine Worth?

Original town vital records are kept at the Tisbury Town Hall. Copies of vital records to 1900 are kept at the Massachusetts State Archives and on microfilm at your local Family History Center.

Indexed or Unindexed transcript of the Tisbury 1771 Tax Valuation List.

Indexed or Unindexed transcript of the Tisbury 1790 Federal census.

Indexed or Unindexed transcript of the Tisbury 1800 Federal census.

1830 Tisbury census.
  (Index and page images.)

1850 Federal censuses of Tisbury , Chilmark , and Edgartown
with Name Index.

Index to the 1860 Federal census of Tisbury

Indexed or Unindexed transcript of the East Tisbury 1865 state census.

Index to the 1870 Federal census of Tisbury
(with histogram of ages)

Indexed or Unindexed transcript of the Tisbury 1880 Federal census.

1897 Directory of Tisbury

1907 Directory of Vineyard Haven

Extract of the 1910 Federal census of Tisbury

Index to the 1910 Federal census of Tisbury

1917-18 Student Registers of the Tisbury School. (With Index.)

See your local Family History Center for copies of the census.