Rockingham County, New Hampshire Genealogy Records

Selected record inventories for Rockingham County, their listed years, and where to ask for access.

Selected inventory review: 2026-11-02. Selected newspaper catalog metadata checked for state and county attribution. Publication dates do not establish complete issue holdings or online access. Library of Congress newspaper directory

Formed: 1769
County seat: Brentwood

Rockingham CountyToday's boundaries · U.S. Census Bureau

Listed record inventories

Selected holdings and indexes for Rockingham County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.

Record type

Newspapers

A New Hampshire Gazette (Exeter, N.H)1776-1776
Christian Herald (Exeter [N.H.])1840-1850
Christian Herald and Journal (Exeter, N.H.)1839-1840
Christian Journal (Exeter, N.H.)1835-1839
Chronicle & Phenix (Portsmouth, N.H.)1856-1857
Commercial Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1825-1829
Constitutionalist and Weekly Magazine (Exeter, N.H.)1812-1814
Daily New Hampshire Gazette and City Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1849-1850
Evangelical Magazine (Portsmouth, N.H.)1827-18??
Exeter Daily Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1878-18??
Exeter Daily News-Letter (Exeter, N.H.)1891-1891
Exeter Federal Miscellany (Exeter [N.H.])1799-1799
Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, N.H.)1831-1831
Exeter News-Letter and Rockingham Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1840-1867
Exeter News-Letter, and Rockingham County Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1833-1840
Exeter News-Letter, and Rockingham Probate Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1831-1833
Exeter Watchman (Exeter, N.H.)1816-1819
Exeter Watchman and Agricultural Repository (Exeter, N.H.)1819-1821
Factory Girl's Album and Operatives' Advocate (Exeter, N.H.)1846-1846
Factory Girls' Album and Mechanics' Offering (Exeter, N.H.)1846-1847
Federal Observer (Portsmouth [N.H.])1798-1800
Fowle's New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.])1784-1787
Frank W. Miller's New Hampshire Portsmouth Weekly (Portsmouth, N.H.)1877-1881
Granite Pillar and New-Hampshire Temperance Advocate (Exeter, N.H.)1841-18??
Hampton Beach News-Guide (Hampton Beach, N.H.)1922-1934
Hampton Union and Rockingham County Gazette (Hampton, N.H.)1930-1939
Haverhill Gazette (Haverhill, Mass.)1947-1978
Herald of Gospel Liberty ([Portsmouth, N.H.]; Portland, Me.; Philadelphia, Pa; Portsmouth, N.H.; Dayton, Ohio)1808-1930
Herald of Gospel Liberty (Portsmouth [N.H.])1808-1815
Herald of Gospel Liberty (Portsmouth, N.H.)1808-1930
Herald of Liberty, Or, Exeter Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1796-1796
Industrial Department Life Buoy (Portsmouth, N.H.)1918-1920
Lamson's Weekly Visitor (Exeter, N.H.)1795-1795
Mercantile Transcript (Portsmouth [N.H.])1847-18??
New England Advertiser (Dover, N.H.)1849-18??
New Hampshire Exeter Watchman (Exeter, N.H.)1816-18??
New Hampshire Gazette, Or, the Exeter Morning Chronicle ([Exeter, N.H.])1776-1776
New-Hampshire Gazette, Or, State Journal and General Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1778-1781
New-Hampshire Observer (Portsmouth, N.H.)1827-1838
New-Hampshire Repository and Observer (Portsmouth [N.H.])1827-1827
New-Hampshire Spy (Portsmouth, N.H.)1786-1789
Newcastle Observer (Fort Constitution [Newcastle], N.H.)1863-18??
News and Courier (Amesbury, Mass.)1837-1838
News and Courier (Portsmouth, N.H.)1837-18??
North Londonderry Times (Londonderry, N.H.)1879-18??
North Salem Advertiser (North Salem [Salem], N.H.)1873-18??
Northern Republican (Exeter, N.H.)1821-1821
Oracle Post (Portsmouth, N.H.)1803-1805
Osborne's New-Hampshire Spy ([Portsmouth, N.H.])1789-1793
Political Banquet and Farmer's Feast (Exeter [N.H.])1799-1800
Political Star (Portsmouth, N.H.)1804-1804
Portsmouth & Great-Falls Journal of Literature & Politics (Portsmouth, N.H.)1836-1838
Portsmouth Daily Chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.)1868-1921
Portsmouth Oracle (Portsmouth, N.H.)1803-1821
Portsmouth Republican (Portsmouth, N.H.)1898-1898
Portsmouth Times (Portsmouth, N.H.)1895-1925
Portsmouth Washingtonian (Portsmouth [N.H.])1841-1843
Portsmouth Weekly Magazine (Portsmouth, N.H.)1824-1825
Ranlet's Federal Miscellany (Exeter [N.H.])1798-1799
Republican Ledger, and Portsmouth Price Current (Portsmouth, N.H.)1801-1803
Rockingham County Gazette and Hamptons Union (Hampton, N.H.)1929-1930
Rockingham Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1824-1827
Rockingham Weekly Chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.)1857-1859
Rose & Thorn (Exeter, N.H.)1841-18??
Signs of the Times (Portsmouth, N.H.)1827-1828
State Herald, the Factory People's Advocate (Portsmouth, N.H.)1830-1831
State Herald, the Manufacturer's & Mechanic's Advocate (Portsmouth, N.H.)1831-1833
The Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1879-1???
The American Ballot, and Rockingham County Intelligencer (Exeter, N.H.)1858-1865
The American Herald of Liberty (Exeter, N.H.)1793-1796
The Atlantic (Exeter, N.H.)1881-1???
The Bird's Nest (Exeter, N.H.)1872-18??
The Boy's Gem (Exeter [N.H.])1871-18??
The Candia Banner (Candia, N.H.)1877-1881
The Candia Banner and State Chronicle (Candia, N.H.)1881-1???
The Christian Herald (Portsmouth, N.H.)1818-1835
The Christian Witness (Newmarket, N.H.)1880-18??
The Chronicle (Seabrook, N.H.)1929-1933
The Constitutionalist (Exeter, N.H.)1810-1811
The Crusader (Manchester, N.H.)1852-1852
The Daily Evening Times (Portsmouth, N.H.)1868-189?
The Daily Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1900-1900
The Derry Enterprise (West Derry [Derry], N.H.)1905-19??
The Derry News (Derry, N.H.)1880-1960
The Derry Times (Derry Depot [Derry], N.H.)1898-1908
The Encyclical (Exeter, N.H.)1881-18??
The Evening Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1896-1899
The Exeter Chronicle, Or, Weekly Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1784-1784
The Exeter Enterprise (Exeter, N.H.)1882-1???
The Exeter Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1876-1900
The Exeter Journal Or, the New-Hampshire Gazette, and Tuesday's General Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1778-1779
The Exeter Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette (Exeter, N.H.)1778-1778
The Exeter Journal, Or, the New-Hampshire Gazette and Tuesday's General Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1778-1779
The Exeter News-Letter (Portsmouth, NH)1867-Current
The Factory Girl (Newmarket, N.H.)1842-1846
The Freeman's Journal, Or, New-Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)1776-1778
The Freeman's Oracle ; Or, New-Hampshire Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1788-1789
The Freeman's Oracle, and New-Hampshire Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1786-1788
The Great Bay Pilot (Newmarket, N.H.)1946-1949
The Greenback Lever (Exeter, N.H.)1878-1878
The Greenland Advocate (Greenland, N.H.)1900-19??
The Hampton Record (Hampton, N.H.)1907-1908
The Hampton Union (Hampton, N.H.)1939-1953
The Hamptons Union (Hampton, N.H.)1898-1907
The Hamptons Union (Hampton, N.H.)1909-1929
The Herald of Liberty (Exeter, N.H.)1793-1793
The Hive (Exeter, N.H.)1829-18??
The Hornet (Exeter, N.H.)1842-1842
The Hornet (Portsmouth, N.H.)1837-1837
The Hornet and Sheep's Foot (Exeter, N.H.)1842-184?
The Intelligencer (Portsmouth [N.H.])1806-1817
The June Blossom (Exeter, N.H.)1860-18??
The Literary Mirror (Portsmouth, N.H.)1808-1809
The Monitor (Exeter, N.H.)1863-18??
The New Hampshire (Durham, N.H.)1911-Current
The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.])1793-1847
The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)1756-1763
The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)1852-1940
The New Hampshire Gazette and Republican Union (Portsmouth, N.H.)1847-1852
The New Hampshire Gazette Semi-Weekly (Portsmouth, N.H.)1841-18??
The New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.])1781-1784
The New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.])1787-1793
The New-Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.)1763-1776
The New-Hampshire Mercury and General Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1784-1788
The New-Hampshire State Gazette, Or, Exeter Circulating Morning Chronicle (Exeter [N.H.])1776-1777
The Newhampshire Gazetteer (Exeter, N.H.)1789-1793
The Newmarket Advertiser (Newmarket, N.H.)1880-1932
The News and Literary Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)1837-1837
The Olive Leaf (Exeter, N.H.)1853-18??
The Olive Leaf (Portsmouth, N.H.)1844-1845
The Oracle of New-Hampshire (Portsmouth, N.H.)1817-181?
The Oracle of the Day (Portsmouth, N.H.)1793-1799
The Penny Post (Portsmouth, N.H.)1884-1897
The People's Advocate (Portsmouth [N.H.])1816-1817
The Portsmouth Daily Republican (Portsmouth, N.H.)1898-1???
The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, N.H.)1898-1925
The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, N.H.)1939-Current
The Portsmouth Herald and Times (Portsmouth, N.H.)1925-1939
The Portsmouth Journal and Rockingham Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)1827-1833
The Portsmouth Journal of Literature & Politics (Portsmouth, N.H.)1836-1903
The Portsmouth Journal of Literature & Politics Rockingham Gazette & State Herald (Portsmouth, N.H.)1833-1836
The Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth, N.H.)1821-1827
The Portsmouth Mercury (Portsmouth, N.H.)1843-1846
The Portsmouth Weekly Magazine (Portsmouth, N.H.)1824-1825
The Portsmouth Weekly Magazine : A Repository of Miscellaneous Literary Matters in Prose and Verse (Portsmouth, N.H.)1824-1825
The Protest (Exeter, N.H.)1880-18??
The Republican Ledger (Portsmouth, N.H.)1799-1801
The Rockingham County Record (Exeter, N.H.)1900-19??
The Rockingham Messenger (Portsmouth, N.H.)1847-1855
The Rockingham Standard (Portsmouth, N.H.)1884-18??
The Rye Journal (Rye [N.H])1899-1900
The Sagamore Guardian (Exeter, N.H.)1875-18??
The Schoolmate (Exeter, N.H.)1884-18??
The Seabrook News (Seabrook [N.H.])1899-1900
The State Journal, Or, the New-Hampshire Gazette and Tuesday's Liberty Advertiser (Exeter, N.H.)1777-1777
The States and Union (Portsmouth, N.H.)1863-1919
The Summer Cloud (Portsmouth, N.H.)1901-19??
The Times (Portsmouth, N.H.)1828-1828
The United States Oracle of the Day (Portsmouth, N.H.)1800-1801
The Watchman (Exeter, N.H.)1816-1816
The Weekly Visitor, Or, Exeter Gazette (Exeter [N.H.])1795-1795
The White Mountain Torrent (Concord, N.H.)1843-1846
United States Oracle and Portsmouth Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)1801-1803
War Journal (Portsmouth, N.H.)1813-1813
Washingtonian and Philanthropist (Portsmouth [N.H.])1843-1844
Weekly Advertiser (Newmarket, N.H.)1873-1874
Weekly Chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.)1853-1856
Weekly Messenger and Literary Wreath (Exeter, N.H.)1846-18??
Weekly Messenger Literary Wreath & Factory Girl's Garland (Exeter, N.H.)1845-1846
West Rockingham Republican (Exeter, N.H.)1876-18??

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Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.

Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.

Where to find the records

Rockingham County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the town clerk, the county registry of deeds and the probate court, and any online record search the county offers.
The town clerk
Births, marriages and deaths, kept by each town.
The county registry of deeds
Deeds and other land records.
The probate court
Wills and estates, by county (now the Circuit Court's probate division).
The New Hampshire State Archives
In Concord: provincial, court and state records. Birth, marriage and death records are with the state's Division of Vital Records.
New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Managementfree
The state archives in Concord, with provincial, court and state government records.
FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "New Hampshire, Rockingham" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.

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Boundaries and parent counties

Formed from: Land not yet in any county

Later formed partly from Rockingham County: Merrimack County

Rockingham as created in 1769Where its land was the day beforeToday's boundaryBoundaries: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1769, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.

Research tip

In New Hampshire, births, marriages and deaths were kept by towns. Copies of many town records before 1901 were gathered by the state and are indexed at FamilySearch.