1963 New Jersey Death Certificates

Death certificates for the year 1963 are the latest addition to the collection at the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton.

(The Archives may not fulfill a remote request for this late a date. Their cut-off is in the 1940s. The State Department of Health will fulfill a request for death certificates from the 1940s through 1982 as of this writing- though the cause of death will be redacted.)

The certificates are white on the microfilm, enabling nicer snapshots with the camera on a phone.

They were filed by certificate number, not name. You can look up the number in a published index online at Ancestry or The New Jersey Death Index.

Microfilm rolls of death certificates

I looked up all my Duryeas for my ongoing surname project.

Ida Duryea and Albert Duryea both died in 1963. I have not found a record of marriage for them. They had a son named Kent in 1918 (died 1992) in Newark, New Jersey. In the 1920 census, they were living in Newark with Lucy Duryea (born Conklin), the mother of Albert.

Albert married Amelia Unitess in New York City on July 29, 1925. This was listed as the first marriage for both.

Marriage certificate of Albert Duryea and Amelia Unitess
July 29, 1925 in New York City.
His parents- Albert Duryea and Lucy Conklin.
Her parents- Felix Unitess and Barbara Wajulis.

Two weeks after marrying, Amelia gave birth to Shirley Duryea. This baby only lived a few hours. She was born and died August 14, 1925 and was buried at City Cemetery in Newark. This is a defunct cemetery with no public access and whose records have gone missing. We can view Shirley's death certificate from 1925, but not her birth certificate. The cause of death was premature birth.

Death certificate of Shirley Duryea,
born and died August 14, 1925
in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.

In 1927, Albert and Amelia had another daughter, Lola Grace Duryea (died 1984), who lived to adulthood, married and had children.

Ida's death certificate confused me at first. Her father was listed as Meyer Duryea. I could not locate her in my tree using this information. I knew that Kent Duryea's mother was Ida Meyer, so someone mixed up the information. (Death certificates are great sources of information, except when they are not.)

Ida was buried at Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

Death certificate of Ida Marie Duryea, died August 30, 1963
in Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey.
Father was George Meyer (not Meyer Duryea).
Mother was Louisa Koch (not Catherine Cannon).

Albert was buried at Hollywood Memorial Park in Union, Union County, New Jersey.

Death certificate of Albert Duryea, died September 10, 1963
at New Jersey State Hospital
in Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey.