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My name is Kim Torp and I've been the host for this Kane County Illinois Genealogy Trails website for the last seven years. Our hosts have recently expanded to try and provide data for all the states, not just Illinois. Visit our new NATIONAL SITE at
http://genealogytrails.com



I have no genealogical connections in Kane County and all the information I have on Kane is presented here. I am not a native of Kane County and my knowledge of this county is limited to the information you find on these pages. If you have any information you would like to contribute to this website,
email me.


***I regret that I do not have time to conduct personal research for you. I wish I could, but I can't. Really. ***


To obtain copies of birth and death records in Kane County:

(Printed recently in a local newspaper)

"Certified copies of birth and death records of people who were born or died in Kane county may be obtained from the office of the
Kane County Clerk.
Kane County Government Center,
719 S. Batavia Ave.,
Geneva, IL 60134

Requests for copies should include the person's name at birth or death, the date of the birth or death and the place the event occurred. Copies of birth records may be obtained only by that person, a parent or other legal representative. Copies of death records may be obtained by a person having a personal or property right interest in the record or by a duly authorized agent.

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NEW FEES: The base fee of getting a copy of a marriage license was increased from $4 to $9, as was the cost of copies of birth and death certificates. People getting those copies also pay $2 into the county's automation fund, which collects money to pay for future technology updates, so the actual cost of a getting a copy of a marriage license, birth and death certificate will be $11."
For more information, call (630) 232-5950.

Many thanks to Mary for reminding us that the IRAD has many records for much less $ than the city offices. The IRAD at NIU services Kane County. Search their Kane County holdings
here

Illinois Regional Archives Depository
c/o Regional History Center
Founders Memorial Library
Room 400
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Telephone: (815) 753-1807

Address for the Kane County Circuit Clerk:
Kane County Judicial Center
37W777 Route 38
St. Charles, IL 60175
Telephone: (630) 232-3413


Kane County's Government Website is at http://www.co.kane.il.us/
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*Lookup Offer*
Jean Brusca has offered to do some obituary look ups and general research for folks, as well as taking photos at cemeteries. Contact her at radd1994@sbcglobal.net
She may charge a small fee to cover her expenses for copies, gas, pictures etc.

Any negotiations are between you and her, I'm just passing along the offer :-)
We would appreciate it if you would submit any data that comes your way through this lookup offer to our site to help others as well.
Thanks!

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Information Available on this Website


Census & City Directories

1840 Census Index (Some Surnames starting with H)

1850 Census of Social Statistics - "Products of Industry" - Individuals or companies listed on the 1850 Social Statistics census as doing business in Kane County

1850 Mortality Schedule

1860 Mortality Schedule

1855 Census of Deaf & Dumb, Blind & Insane in Kane

1859-1860 Kane County City Directory (Complete!):

 

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[Brief Sketch of Kane County]

AURORA TOWNSHIP

BATAVIA TOWNSHIP

BIG ROCK TOWNSHIP

Big Rock Twp Residents

BLACKBERRY TOWNSHIP

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP

Burlington Twp Residents

CAMPTON TOWNSHIP

DUNDEE TOWNSHIP

ELGIN TOWNSHIP

GENEVA TOWNSHIP

HAMPSHIRE TOWNSHIP

Hampshire Twp Residents

KANESVILLE TOWNSHIP

Kanesville Twp Residents

PLATO TOWNSHIP

Plato Twp Residents

RUTLAND TOWNSHIP

Rutland Twp Residents

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP

SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP

VIRGIL TOWNSHIP


1864 Elgin "Special War Tax" List

1871 Business Directory for Kane County - This is a list of the businesses, their proprietors and their addresses in 1871 for all of Kane.

1880 Census of Patients at the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane (Big files!)

1880 Census - Supplemental Schedules for the Defective, Dependent and Delinquent Classes (Enumerations of the Insane, Blind, "Idiots", Deaf-Mutes and Prison)

1880 Census of the Kane County Poor House and the Rutland Poor House (Alms House)

1918 Prairie Farmers Directory - This directory includes the farmer's name, wife's maiden name, children's names, location of farm and the year the farmer became a Kane County resident. Click on the letters below to view the names starting with that letter:

Surnames: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
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Vital Records

Marriages - Groom Surnames Starting With:

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [ I ] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [Y] [Z]

Wedding and Anniversary Newspaper Stories

  • Binnie-Crichton Wedding Announcement
  • DUFF-BINNIE Wedding Announcement
  • LEVY Golden Wedding Celebration
  • GOLDEN WEDDING - Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Thompson
  • The Thompson Golden Wedding - Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Thompson

Kane County Deaths - Miscellaneous Surnames

Kane County Births (Phelan, Holze surnames)

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Newspaper Stories/Obituaries

Obituaries - Clicking this will take you to the Index of names of obituaries available on this website.

Newspaper Stories

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Cemeteries

List of Kane County Cemeteries and their locations
Cemetery Map

CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS:

Elgin State Mental Hospital Cemetery Burials

East Aurora/Root Street Cemetery:

Prairie (aka Foley) Cemetery

Cemeteries in the Vicinity of Elgin

German Evangelical or Aurand Cemetery

Plato Center Cemetery


Record of Burial Places of Soldiers & Sailors (aka: The Military Roll of Honor)

Click the link to start browsing through the lists or click on the cemeteries below to go straight to that page. Remember that these are the burial places of
only the military personnel who served before WWII. They are NOT complete cemetery transcriptions by any stretch of the imagination.
Aurora Cemeteries:

Aurora, Big Woods, Calvary, French Catholic, German Catholic , Irish Catholic, Jerico, Maple Park, Mt. Olivet, Riverside, Root Street (aka East Aurora), St. Joseph, St. Michael's, St.Nicholas, St. Paul Lutheran, Spring Lake, West Aurora

Batavia Cemeteries:

Batavia, East Batavia, East Side, West Batavia

Big Rock:

South Big Rock, Welsh, West Big Rock

Burlington:

Burlington, South Burlington

Campton Twp: Wasco Dundee: Dundee

Elburn:

Blackberry, Elburn, Round-A-Tree, St. Gall

Elgin Twp:

Bluff City, Bluff City Soldier's Reserve, Elgin, Gilberts, Jones Lournell, Mt. Hope , North Plato, Oak Woods, Plato Center, Udina, Village, Washington, Wayne

Geneva:

East Side Oak Hill, Geneva, Mt. Home, Oak Hill, West Geneva, West Side

Hampshire Twp:

Doty, German Evangelical, Hampshire Center, St. Charles Catholic, Starks

Hinsdale: Bronswood, Fullerburg Kaneville: Kaneville
Montgomery:

Lincoln, Riverside Mausoleum
St. Charles:

Lilly Lake, New, North, Private, St. Charles, South, Union
Sugar Grove: Sugar Creek Unknown Cemeteries:

Mt. Carmel, Ridgewood, Smith, Towerville, Walnut, Washington Grove, Whitney, Zion City
Virgil Township: Gardner, Van Vlack Kane Soldiers listed in the roll buried in unknown cemeteries

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Religion/Churches

A History of St. Mary's Parish in Elgin, IL on the occasion of their Golden Jubilee.

Part II of the History of St. Mary's - This includes biographies of the priests and the names of the sisters of St. Mary's.

Part III of the History of St. Mary's - This includes lists of names from everything to the graduates of St. Mary's Academy to the list of officers for all the societies and organizations of St. Mary's

List of Pioneers of St. Mary's Parish in Elgin

List of Elgin folks in St. Mary's Choir

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Military Information

Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Kane County

Kane County Officers who served in the Civil War - This is a list of the Kane County folks who served in the Civil War and were commissioned as officers.

127th Infantry, Company E Personnel - Civil War

Soldiers from St. Mary's Parish in Elgin who served in the Civil War

Soldiers from St. Mary's Parish in Elgin who served in the Spanish- American War in 1898 and a very brief history of the 1832 wars.

Illinois Pension Lists (Link to our main Illinois Genealogy Trails page) - A list of pensions granted for all Illinois folks in 1887-1888 as listed in the Jasper County, IL Newton Press newspaper. Includes folks from Kane County as well as all over the state.

Spanish-American War Veterans from Kane County

Mexican War Veterans from Kane County

Kane Residents of the IL Soldiers & Sailors Home & Soldiers' Widow Home

Obituary for the State's oldest Civil War Veteran

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Politics

Politics in Kane County - Men who served in public office from the 1830's until 1903.

Batavia City Officers as of July 13, 1893

Voters Lists:

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Education

1903 Autograph Book of Eva Usilton, from Jennings Seminary in Aurora.

"
Fire at High School" tells of the fire which occurred Feb. 5, 1913. This particular story was published in the "Batavia School and Home Bulletin". Also contains a nice history of Batavia's High School

"
The Batavia Home and School Bulletin" from 1912-1913. School news, gossip, sick lists, etc....

1912 Batavia High School Senior Class List and Individual Pictures

1912 Batavia High School Junior Class List and group picture
1912 Batavia High School Sophomore Class List and group picture
1912 Batavia High School Freshmen Class List and group picture

1915-1916 Batavia High School Enrollment (Freshmen, Juniors, Seniors)

Class of 1921- 50th Reunion Picture (no names)

Class of 1930 Reunion - picture and names

1931 Graduating Class of East High School in Aurora, IL (names, no pictures)

1932 Graduating Class of East High School in Aurora, IL (names, no pictures)

Class of 1933 40th Reunion (no picture)

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Court Records & Government-related information


Joliet Prison Convict Register - Kane County prisoners. Excellent resource! The latter years contain physical descriptions, birthplace of prisoner and his parents, education levels, etc. This is a link to our main Illinois Genealogy Trails Website. Hit "Back" to return to this page

Kane County Prisoners listed on the Illinois Genealogy Trails Joliet Prison Convict Index

Index to 1881-1884 Kane County Circuit Court Cases

Population Growth of Kane County - Broken down by Townships, Cities and Villages, as shown by United States Decennial Census Reports (1850-1900)

Early Kane County Post Offices and their Postmasters

Probate information for Jeremiah Phelan, Thomas Phelan, Amanda Holze, Mamie Brady Switzer Dopke, Caroline Dopke, Richard Phelan, Philo Howard

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Land

View the Land Plats from 1871 for: Hampshire, Kaneville, LaFox, Burlington

Kane County places no longer in existance

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History

These township histories are from the "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois" - published in 1904. They contain the names of the first settlers, first born/died/married in each township and descriptions of the areas they settled. They were all transcribed by the host of this Illinois Genealogy Trails site.

Hampshire

Rutland

Dundee

Burlington

Plato

Elgin

Virgil

Campton

St. Charles

Kaneville

Blackberry

Geneva

Batavia

Big Rock

Sugar Grove

Aurora

   

View a 2000 Kane County Township Map

1880 Aerial View of Elgin

Phillips Park History - upon the death of Parks Commissioner E.W. Thompson

History of Hampshire, written in 1893 by Gertrude Hawley

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Biographies

Index to Biographies found in the 1898 Kane County Biographical Record (Updated with transcribed biographies!)

Transcribed biographies 1904 Kane Co. Biographical Record

Biography of James Clayton Herrington, Founder of Geneva.

Biography of JOHN GILBERT SUTPHEN

Autobiography of Alison Templeton Binnie
Biography of Hon. Thomas Cincinnatus Moore
Biography of Elijah Gammon
WEBSTER Family Data
John Millard Rinedollar Family data (this is on our Carroll County website)

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View the Archived Queries from 2002-2003

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