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New Brunswick
Research Outline
   

Table of Contents
Records Of The Family History Library
Research Strategy
Archives And Libraries
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
Directories
Emigration And Immigration
Genealogy
History
Land And Property
Military Records
Naturalization And Citizenship
Newspapers
Periodicals
Probate Records
Societies
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions

CEMETERIESLook this term up in the glossary.

Cemetery records can be very helpful. Tombstone inscriptions from many cemeteries have been copied and indexed. The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Museum have a good collection of these epitaph transcriptions. A list of these holdings can be found in Robert F. Fellows’ Researching Your Ancestors in New Brunswick, pages 236–49 (see the “For Further Reading” section of this outline).


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CENSUS Look this term up in the glossary.

The early New Brunswick censuses which list names are basically Acadian French censuses. They provide relationships, ages, and names. They were taken in the years 1671, 1686, 1693, 1695, 1698, and 1701. The censuses of 1703 and 1707 provide the names of heads of households.

The rest of the censuses are as follows:

1714

Head of household (for Acadia and Des Mines)

1714

Names are listed (for the Parish of Beaubassin only)

1731,1733

Head of household in Acadia

1739

Head of household (all Acadia and part of the St. John River valley)

1762,1763,1767

Enumeration (counting) of inhabitants only

1783

Head of household (St. John River valley)

1803

Head of household (Prince William parish, Hopewell, Sackville, and Westmorland)

1820

Head of household (Botsford, Dorchester)

1821

Head of household and wife (Grand Manan)

1851

Names, ages, occupations, year entered colony are listed (whole province)

1861,1871,

Names, ages, occupations, religion, etc., are listed (whole province)

1881,1891,

Names, ages, occupations, religion, etc., are listed (whole province)

1901

Names, ages, occupations, religion, etc., are listed (whole province)

The censuses for 1851–1881 are not all complete. Returns for some parishes and sometimes whole counties have not survived. A list of the surviving census returns can be found in Robert F. Fellows' Researching Your Ancestors in New Brunswick pages 128–144 and Genealogist's Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research edited by Terrence M. Punch, pages 7–12. These censuses are available at the National Archives of Canada, the Family History Library, and local Family History Centers. Many of the earlier censuses have been compiled in various genealogical periodicals.

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