Early Kings County & Queens County, New York Death Database
These are records from towns and villages before they were incorporated into New York City in 1898.
These "certificates" are Register Entries in a journal, and the numbers are probably Line Numbers.
The NYC website indicates that these journals are on microfilm and you have to contact them to arrange for access onsite.
There is a request form here: https://a860-collectionguides.nyc.gov/contact
This database contains records for the following towns and years:
Kings County:
Flatbush 1847 - 1851, 1880 - 1896
Flatlands 1880 - 1897
Gravesend 1870 - 1899
New Lots 1881 - 1896
New Utrecht 1870 - 1899
Other Towns 1881 - 1896
Queens County:
Newtown 1881 - 1897
College Point 1890 - 1897
Long Island City 1871 - 1897
Town of Jamaica 1881 - 1897
Village of Jamaica 1890 - 1897
Rockaway Beach 1897 - 1898
Village of Far Rockaway 1890 - 1897
Town of Far Rockaway 1890 - 1897
Village of Flushing 1890 - 1897
Village of Whitestone 1890 - 1897
Town of Flushing 1881 - 1897
Richmond Hill 1896 - 1897
Richmond County:
Castleton 1881-1897
Edgewater 1884-1897
Middletown 1882-1897
Northfield 1847-1849, 1872-1873, 1881-1897
Port Richmond 1888-1897
Southfield 1848-1852, 1882-1897
Tottenville 1890-1897
Westfield 1849-1852, 1882-1897
Please visit the New York City Municipal Archives web site for information on how to request Death Certificates.
Records Search: Town Deaths
Please note that the Surname (e.g. Last Name) is a required entry field. But since exact spellings are not always known, to aid your search we offer three different ways to specify Surnames...
- Exact Match ("is exactly") - This is the default surname search method.
- Soundex ("sounds like") - This option enables you to specify a surname spelling it out as best you can, and it will return results that "sound" similar to what you spelled out.
- Wild Card - With this option you can replace part of the surname with a * to match any number of letters, or _ to match a single letter. So for example, Sch* will return all names starting with Sch. Similarly, Schl_tz might return results such as Schlitz or Schlotz.
NOTE: The wild card option applies ONLY to the surname. You can just enter the first few letters of a First Name; the search automatically adds a wild card to the end of the First Name.
For whichever of the above surname search options you would like to use, simply select the appropriate radio button option below the input field on the form. Although the additional form fields are optional, providing as much information as you can helps narrow your search when there are a large number of search results.
We wish to thank all the following volunteers their help and participation in the Death Index project:
Kings County:
Palma Bourgoin * John W Brook * Florence E Brook * Gloria DeMichiele Burton * Suzanne Carver * Dave Cazalet * Sheila-Anne Choukrane * Lorraine Conroy * Blanche Craton * Barbara Cummings * Paula Curran * Cathy D'Alisera * Karen Delmarco * Georgiana Dorr * John Driscoll * Mary L Duke * Michael Falabella * F E Fields * Linda Fine * John Fitzpatrick * Kathy Fletcher * Bill Forshay * Maria Giovine * Anne Green * Marilyn Grosbeck * Sandi Hamilton * Christopher Harmse * Jacqueline Healy * Clare L Herrick * Marcia G Hoffman * Marie B Inglee * John Jonaitis * Shari Kantrow * Alice Kasten * Jean King * Shelly Klink * Dottie Larsen * Carolyn Mitchell * Gayle Mooney Meredith Schade
Queens County:
Marie Arena * Joan Beck * Phil Belmont * Peggy Black * Evan Boccardi * Patricia Boen * Nancy Brower * Michele Chabot * Ann Chiappisi * Kathy Clune * Mary Colbert * Lisa Cole * Lorraine Conroy * Blanche Craton * Joanne Daniels * Fred Danner * Anthony Di Marino * Georgiana Dorr * Patrica Eckardt * Melanie Egan * Dolores Frank * Estelle Gordon * Christopher Harmse * Jacqueline Healy * Christine Hoff * Christine Hoffman * John Iazzetti * Cathy Johnson * Richard Kepko * Teresa Konoski * Dottie Larsen Mary Levant-Plant * Tara Lewczak * Stephen Lignowski * Cynthia Link * Richard Lituchy * A J Logan * Ronnie Lorentz * George Ludder * Elsie Lynch * Barbara Matassa Jennifer McBride * Rosemary McCloskey * Virginia Michaels * Judy Miller * Jo Mirabile * Kim Mohler * Fran Molnar * Joanne Moore * Mary Morabito * Marlene Mozgala * Peggy Nehmen * DiAnn Ohama * Viginia E Olsen * Barbara Ortiz * Debby Painter * Terry Pascel * Marie Mastore * Judy Petersen * Joan R Plantinga * Lisa Poole * David Priever Ellen Quinn * Elizabeth W Ratigan * Michael Reich * Tom Risenger * Barbara Russo * Barbara Schaffer * Janette Silverman * Nancy Spencer ** Phyllis Spillane * Larry Steinhauer * Nanci Vaeth * Helen Wolf
Richmond County:
Barbara Abrams * Carol Aivazian * Marie Arena * Gregory Arnold * Meg Assip * Dave Beer * Bernadette Bono * Warren Bosch * Ethel Buebendorf * Kristin Campbell * Rene Capitanio * Larry Carroll * Patricia Carter * Mary Anne Chiariello * Robert Clancy * Christine Clark * Carol Cook * Blanche Craton * Belinda Dapice * Michelle DeAmelio * Kim DeFalco * Dianne DeLitto * Nicole DiGennaro * Ellen Donohoe * Robin Ehlich * Eve Fowler * Brenda Hayward * Marie Inglee * Ken Kennedy
