Archive:Ware, Massachusetts, Vital Records

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Jay Mack Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital Records, Ware 1735-1893 (Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987).

Births

None.

Marriages

WHITNEY

Jacob, Mr., and Miss Sarah Pratt, b. of Ware, 24 Aug 1828. (2:275)

Reuben P., Mr., of Princeton, and Miss Mary L. Hamilton, of Douglas, 20 Aug 1831. (2:280)

[NOTE: Reuben Parmenter Whitney, of Princeton, married 2 Jun 1831, Ware, MA, Rachel Ann Pierce. It is hard to explain the above record in view of this, unless two records have become confused in transcription.--RLW]

S. Albert, of Ware, merchant, and Sarah Ellen Clark, 2 Sep 1845. (3:74)

Sidney A., a. 28, farmer, b. Holliston, s. of Honiorus and Debora, and Roxanna Tucker, a. 25, b. North Brookfield, both of North Brookfield, 15 Jun 1864. (4:72).

[NOTE: This was Sidney Albert⁸ Whiting, not Whitney, b. 12 Oct 1835, Holliston, MA, son of Harrison⁷ and Deborah Rockwood (Mellen) Whiting (Daniel⁶, David⁵, Samuel⁴, Josiah³, Samuel², Nathaniel¹).--RLW]

Sybil C., a. 36, b. Fitzwilliam, N.H., d. Samuel A. and Sarah, and Edwin W. Rice, both of Winchendon, 14 Jul 1885. (4:153)

Theodore, a. 22, b. Ashby, s. of Eugene and Millie, of Monson, and Sarah E. Smith of Ware, 31 May 1882. (4:140).

[NOTE: This was also a Whiting, not a Whitney. Eugene was b. in Canada, by 1870 and 1880 census, and his first wife was Emily (hence "Millie").--RLW]

Deaths

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WHITNEY

Mary Abby, d. 5 May 1856, a. 1y. 4m. 5d., of dropsey, b. Brimfield, d. of S. A. and Sarah. (4:12)

Samuel, d. 24 Apr 1848, a. 58y. 10m., of typhus fever, gentleman, married, b. Douglass, MA, s. of Samuel and Azubah. "Father died before he was born and his mother whilst he was very young." (3:92)

1841-1910

From "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910," from original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Births

None.

Marriages

Whitney, S. Albert, marriage, 1845, vol. 18, p. 182:

[number] 43; [marriage date and place] Sept. 2, 1845; [date of record] Sept. 5, 1845; [groom] S. Albert Whitney; [residence] ; [age] --; [occupation] Merchant; [birthplace] --; [parents] --; [number of marriage] Single; [bride] Sarah C. Clark; [residence] ; [age] --; [occupation] --; [birthplace] --; [parents] --; [number of marriage] Single; [officiant] Ansel Phelps, Esq., Ware.

Whitney, Sybil E., marriage, 1885, vol. 362, p. 36:

[number] 35; [marriage date and place] July 14, Ware; [date of record] July 21, /85; [groom] Edwin W. Rice; [residence] Winchendon; [age] 45; [occupation] Farmer; [birthplace] Winchendon; [parents] Lude & Chloe; [number of marriage] First; [bride] Sybil E. Whitney; [residence] Winchendon; [age] 36; [occupation] At home; [birthplace] Fitzwilliam, N.H.; [parents] Samuel A. & Sarah; [number of marriage] First; [officiant] Henry Matthews, Clergyman, Ware.

Deaths

Whitney, Harriet, death, 1904, vol. 1904/94 (death), p. 420:

[number] 47; [death date and place] Apr. 13, 1904; [date of record] 16 Apr 1904; [name] Harriet Whitney; [sex] Female; [marital status] Single; [age] 84 - -; [cause] Infirmities of age; [residence] --; [occupation] At home; [birthplace] Rindge, N.H.; [parents] Lowel Whitney, Rebecca Witt; [parents' birthplaces] Rindge, N.H., Woodstock, Vt.; [buried] Rindge, N.H.

Whitney, Mary Abby, death, 1856, vol. 103, p. 23:

[number] 18; [death date and place] May 5, Ware; [date of record] --; [name] Mary Abby Whitney; [sex] Female; [marital status] --; [age] 1 4 5; [cause] Dropsey on brain; [residence] --; [occupation] --; [birthplace] Brimfield; [parents] S. A. & Sarah Whitney; [parents' birthplaces] --; [buried] --.

Whitney, Samuel, death, 1848, vol. 40, p. 122:

[number] 64; [death date and place] June 19, 1848, Ware; [date of record] --; [name] Samuel Whitney; [sex] Male; [marital status] Married; [age] 58 10 -; [cause] Typhus fever; [residence] --; [occupation] Gentleman; [birthplace] Douglass; [parents] Samuel Whitney; [parents' birthplaces] --; [buried] --.

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