Lafayette County, Wisconsin Genealogy

County Courthouse
Lafayette County Courthouse 626 Main Street Darlington, WI 53530; Phone. 608.776.4850

Register of Deeds has birth records from 1860, marriage records from 1847, death records from 1877 and land records from 1840; Clerk Court has divorce and court records; Registrar in Probate has  probate records  &lt;ref name="Handybook"&gt;The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. page 757 Lafayette County, Wisconsin (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).&lt;/ref&gt;

United States &gt; Wisconsin &gt; Lafayette County

Parent County
1846--Lafayette County was created 31 January 1846 fromIowa County. County seat: Darlington

Neighboring Counties

 * Grant
 * Green
 * Iowa
 * Jo Daviess County, Illinois
 * Stephenson County, Illinois

Census
1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free searchable index to the 1855 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free searchable index to the 1855 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

Newspapers
Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has Freeport, Illinois newspapers from the late 1800's and early 1900's that covered local news on residents from Lafayette County. The Rock Island Public Library in Rock Island, Illinois provides free access to this database at its library.