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 This website is intended for the serious researcher. It contains tax records for the 18th century for what is now Delaware County as well as United States Census records for that time. Delaware County town directories from the 19th and 20th century along with cemetery records are also on this site. Numerous maps from the 19th and early 20th century are here along with a multitude of photos of the Delaware County region, streets, buildings, industries and modes of transportation. Visit the Genealogy Page first where they are numerous books on Delaware County history and genealogy. On the Genealogy page is information on tax records, cemeteries, directories etc. This website will be an ongoing endeavor with additions being added to it for years to come. Records are added on a weekly basis so please check back often. Most of what you see here and what will be added comes from the thirty-year accumulation of Delaware County Historical memorabilia amassed by Keith Lockhart.This website has been made possible through the combined efforts of Delaware County State Representative Ron Raymond, who obtained funding for the website, and historian Keith Lockhart. Keith is a lifelong Ridley Township resident and a graduate of Penn State University. He has written numerous booklets on the history of the area and for many years penned a history column for Towntalk. He has also shared his vast knowledge of local history through articles for both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily Times Newspapers.
Through the dedication and hard work on numerous typists the transcription of the tax and census records took over two years of work to complete. My sincere gratitude goes out to these people. A special thanks to my wife Mary Lockhart, Donna Greenbarg of Hatboro, Janice Daleandro of Morton, Ethel Dougherty of Norwood, Dawn Beck of Springfield .
Keith Lockhart's collection contains many rare books and booklets on Delaware County Pa. history that are not available anywhere else. These booklets run the gamut from the Delaware County Society to Detect Horse Thieves in 1850 to Prospectus's for Delaware County Businesses . Contact Keith Lockhart today.
March 8, 2008- BIG UPDATE! Nine Chester City Directories have been added from the late 19th century along with a Media Directory from 1915. The two Volume set by Gilbert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead, " Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties" published by the Lewis Co. of New York in 1904 is now on the site. If you are doing family research and have never consulted this book it is well worth looking at. More tax records from 1793 and maps of Ridley, Radnor, Haverford, Springfield etc. from the 1902 Baist Atlas have been added. March 12, 2008- More tax records from 1793 and 1794 have been added along with some new cemeteries. March 16, 2008- All of the 1793 and 1794 tax records are now on the site. More cemetery records have been added, each under it's own township. The cemetery records are from the W. P. A. Survey done in 1936. March 22, 2008- BIG UPDATE! Three more Chester City Directories have been added from1870 and the mid 1890's along with a book on Chester and it's Industries. John W. Jordan's History of Delaware County from 1914 in three volumes is now on the Genealogy page. A Directory of Lansdowne, East Lansdowne and Vicinity from 1910 is on their web pages. Also several cemeteries and tax records have been added. March 26, 2008- the 1914 book, The Farm and Business Directory of Delaware County for 1914 is now on the genealogy page. The book has hundreds of names, addresses and occupations for people throughout the county. Lansdowne Pa. Past and Present 1888 to 1908 has also been added. The booklet is a combination directory and history book for the first twenty years of Lansdowne. Visit the genealogy page for other Delaware County books in PDF format. Other Delaware County business directories will be added shortly. April 1, 2008- more tax and cemetery records have been added to the site. April 10, 2008- early 19th century tax records have been added to the site along with more cemetery records. April 21, 2008- 18th and 19th tax records have been added with more cemetery lists. April 29, 2008- the Horne Cemetery of Darby Twp., Haverford Friends, and St Thomas Cemetery have all been added to the site along with more tax records. May 6, 2008- Caroline "carpal tunnel" Fairfield has completed the large Cumberland Cemetery in Middletown and it is now on that web page. Several other tax records have been added also.
The link below is new. It is to let everyone know what new books and booklets that are out dealing with Delaware County history. If you would like to make people aware of any new books please let me know.
The above link is new. The page as it states is to announce upcoming meetings, lectures and historical events throughout Delaware County. If your group is planning something special, or just a meeting, please pass the information on to me and it will be posted on this new page. E-mail keith106@rcn.com
If you are a Delaware County resident please check my Pictures page at the bottom for unidentified photographs. I have a number in my collection and put some on the site in hopes some people would be able to identify them.
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