Middlesex County
A Part of the NJGenWeb
Middlesex County is a county located in Central New Jersey in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 809,858, an increase of 59,696 (8.0%) from the 750,162 enumerated in the 2000 Census, making it the second-most populous county in the state.The county is part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, and its county seat is New Brunswick Middlesex County was established on March 7, 1683 and was divided into the townships of Piscataway, Perth Amboy, and Woodbridge. The first court met in 1683 alternating between the towns until settling permanently in New Brunswick. Thomas Edison set up his lab and lived in Menlo Park in Edison Township. He invented the phonograph and light bulb there. The Johnson and Johnson company established their world headquarters in Middlesex County in 1886.
Your County Coordinator is David Gochenour. Please email me with any questions or issues. I do not live in Middlesex County but I will hopefully steer you in the right direction.
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Cape May's neighbors are:
Union County
Monmouth County
Somerset County
Mercer County
Richmond County, New York
To submit information to the Middlesex County Genealogy project, contact the County Coordinator or the State Coordinator for instructions. Please do not submit anything that is under copyright unless, you are the copyright holder or have written permission for it to be displayed by the NJGenWeb on one of our county sites. Permission for copyrighted material must accompany the material at the time of submission or the material will not be displayed.
We welcome original material, cemetery transcriptions, photographs, documents and ephemera that is related to Cape May County's People and its history. If there is a group or organization wishing to help with the placement of material we are happy to work with them in getting the material online. We are always looking for people willing to transcribe documents, index records, photograph cemeteries or other places of interest in Cape May County or any of the other New Jersey Counties. Our goal is to keep as much New Jersey Genealogy and History in a free online atmosphere that the only requirement for access is a computer that has an internet connection.
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Coordinator: David Gochenour
State Coordinator: MaryAlice Schwanke
