CAMBRIDGE, MAINE

SOMERSET COUNTY

Inc. 1834

by Roland Rhoades, Member Cambridge Historical Society
10 Blackberry Lane - Gorham ME 04038  Email  
Updated  October 06, 2011

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As you can see from the signpost, we are not talking about Massachusetts here; we are talking about "the way life should be".

The population, as of the 2000 census, was 492. Town website

Some of my ancestors settled in Cambridge in the 1840s, Joseph Leavitt (and wife Mary Ann Walls and her mother Sally Carter Walls Wilkins), and Calvin Morgridge (and wife Elonia Paine Mason and her mother Mercy Paine Fish Mason Dunham). Their mothers had remarried in Cambridge.

I am turning this page into a complete "Everything about Cambridge" page. Send me your stuff, and/or links to other existing pages. Thanks.

CAMBRIDGE  175th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

PHOTO ESSAY OF THE DAY

CAMBRIDGE FLAT SCHOOL 1915-1916 school brochure, Carrie Holt teacher and a blog about who was there.

MORTALITY CENSUSES for Cambridge 1850-1880.

Cambridge Veterans List that the town uses for annual flag placement

CAMBRIDGE Vital Records - Feb 2009: I now have a copy of the Cambridge town records with family registers and births, deaths, marriages dating from 1765 to 1902. I have incorporated some of that info into my cemetery transcriptions. I offer FREE lookups. Oct 2009 I have the 74 pages of family registers transcribed and have begun uploading them as I type them up. 3/29/10 update - all 74 pages are now typed in including rechecks of the original records; the rest of the records will come later. Email me.

Obituary Index of Somerset County

Obituary Index of Piscataquis County

I will search my records for whatever you are looking for. Depends on my schedule; may be same day or may a couple weeks.  Here are the Somerset County records that I have:

CDs: Somerset County MOCA cemetery transcriptions (as of abt 1972 that are published); Somerset County Marriage Returns 1834-1890; VR of Ripley 1783-1892; Cambridge VR 1700s-1902. Piscataquis County MOCA cemetery transcriptions (as of abt 1972 that are published).

Books: VR of Norridgewock; VR of Canaan; History of Norridgewock & Canaan; VR of Mercer; VR of Cornville; VR of Smithfield; Images of America - Ripley, Cambridge, Harmony, and area.

Cambridge only has two cemeteries, unlike many towns which had one in nearly every back yard. See below for printouts of who is buried in these two cemeteries and many photos of the stones. 

Cambridge Cemetery #1 - Cambridge Memorial Garden: updated 12/2010. I have many more photos than shown here. I retyped the entire thing. Instead of having it alphabetical like the old original I got, I recorded them by row stone by stone so you can see who your ancestor's "neighbors" are and where empty spaces are, to help provide new clues for you.

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Cambridge Cemetery #2 - Mt Pleasant Cemetery updated 10/2009