Lansingburgh entries from Oakwood Cemetery interment books 1851-1900

“Oakwood Cemetery Troy, New York 1851-1872 Interments” at Rootsweb has transcriptions of the first 4420 interments at Oakwood Cemetery, some of which were reinterments of people who’d died prior to May 5, 1851. 1897-1903 can also be found at Rootsweb’s Troy Cemeteries page.

For the spreadsheet here, partially derived from Rootsweb’s tables, only those entries where the place of birth (Nativity) or residence had been given as Lansingburgh, North Lansingburgh, Speigletown, or Grant’s Hollow (i.e. anyplace that was within the Village or Town of Lansingburgh) are given. Entries for Van Schaick Island AKA Adams Island, Centre Brunswick, and Melrose will be added later as there only proved to be a few interments naming those specific places, all of which are geographically and otherwise closely related to Lansingburgh.

For the Oakwood Cemetery Troy, New York 1851-1872 Interments” from Rootsweb, in order to make the information more sortable in spreadsheet form, the MM/DD/YEAR date of death column has been supplemented with a column of years alone. Likewise, the age column which had a #y #m #d format has been supplemented by a column with just the age in years. A new column “Estimated Year of Birth” has been added which uses a formula subtracting the age in years (ignoring months and days) from the year of death. As time allows, the month and day information will be broken into two separate new fields, and the same for the age in months and days.

In a number of cases, Oakwood’s records left some fields blank. It might be possible to fill in some of those blanks by consulting other records – the headstones, newspaper obituaries, etc. In a few cases, Oakwood had entered more than one person under a single burial number, so for those (until a better solution occurs) “.5” was added to the burial number for the second person in order that each person would have a separate row of information (and the total number of interments would be more accurately reflected). (In retrospect, “.2” may have made more sense to use…)

The spreadsheet contains a first draft – items need to be rechecked as to whether they were correctly transcribed. At present, information regarding parents, cause of death, lot, and some notes also remain to be added; that will be done during the process of checking the data already entered.

As of January 8, 2019 there are 3,258 entries in the spreadsheet; of those, 206 are known to be people who died prior to 1851 (and are thus reinterments from other, older cemeteries). Thirty-four entries lack a year of death, probably all reinterments for which the information was not available to the cemetery at the time of recording for whatever reason. Forty-three people were born prior to 1776.

Thirty-eight people were noted to have been born in Scotland; thirty-nine people in Denmark; sixty-eight in Germany; 116 in England; 148 in Ireland. A few other countries appear.

The more important the accuracy of the information is to you, the more important it will be for you to check the original sources yourself – microfilms of the interment records are available in the Troy Room at the Troy Public Library and at the NYS Library in Albany (possibly also the Family History Center in Loudonville?). Digital scans of the microfilms are online at https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/145354?availability=Family%20History%20Library where they can be paged through, but they are not transcribed nor searchable electronically. The original books are still in the possession of Oakwood Cemetery.