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Rockland Cemeteries

     Special thanks to Pamela Whiting, Reference Librarian at the Dyer Memorial Library, and to Sharon Orcutt Peters, Chair of the Abington Historical Commission, for providing information on the Rockland cemeteries.   Special thanks also go to Liza Levin, who provided additional information about some of the cemeteries.

     In places you will see references to the "Totman Manuscript."   This is The Cemeteries of Abington by Ida R. Totman of Rockland.   She prepared her manuscript for the 1912 bicentennial of Abington, and it describes the cemeteries of that town and of the daughter towns of Whitman and Rockland.   The manuscript is at the Dyer Memorial Library in Abington.

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Rockland is an ongoing effort, and this page will be revised as needed.   If you have cemetery information or gravestone transcriptions that you would like to share please send me email.

     Where I have been able to determine it, the records repository for a cemetery is indicated.   In the entries for the individual cemeteries, if one has its own web site or a portion of a web site the cemetery name provides a link to that site.   When the location of a cemetery is known there are links to street and topographic maps to help you find it, as well as a brief description of the location.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town showing the cemetery locations.

     When a cemetery has had more than one name during its history the first name listed is the one by which it is usually known today, and alternative names are listed in square brackets.   In some cases a cemetery has been abandoned, its burials have been removed to another cemetery, or its location has been lost.   In those cases the name indicates that it is a cemetery site, meaning that no gravestones are to be found there.   The year in parenthesis next to a cemetery name is my best estimate of the year in which that cemetery was established.   In some cases the year is mentioned in town records, a town history or some other source.   In other cases it is the year of the oldest gravestone for which I have found a record.

 

Beal Cemetery (18th Century)
Webster St., Rockland, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Abington as G.R.8.

Street Map
Topographic map from Microsoft Research Maps

Location:   South side of Webster St., near No. 417, east of E. Water St.

Location:   South side of Summer St., opposite No. 354 - exact location yet to be determined.

For records contact:   Holy Family Rectory, 403 Union St., Rockland, MA, (781) 878-2306.

Location:   116 Centre Ave., south side, west of Spring St.

Location:   North side of Summer St., at the intersection of Concord St. - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   Intersection of Liberty and East Water Sts. - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   South side of Webster St., along the west side of Beal Ct.

Location:   Between Liberty St. and Pleasant St.

Location:   North side of Webster St., near No. 354 - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   West side of Pleasant St., north of Pleasant St.

For records contact:   St. Bridget's Rectory, 455 Plymouth St., Rockland, MA, (617) 878-0900.

Location:   Between Central and W. Water Sts. - main entrance between Nos. 131 and 145 Central St.

Location:   Northeast slope of Beech Hill.   This was a mass grave, and the land may have been developed.

Location:   Prospect St., on the north shore of Studley's Pond.

Location:   Cemetery Ave., off of Spring St.

Location:   North side of Market St., west of the Hanover town line - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   West side of Spring St., near No. 133 - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   North side of Market St., east of Liberty St.   The new police station behind Tedeschi's was built on this location.

Location:   South side of Summer St., east Robin La.   The only grave, that of John Wilkes, was about 100-200 feet from Robin La., and the land may have been developed.