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Barryville is located 7.51 km southwest of the community of New Jersey in Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County. Edward Barry was an early settler here. There was a post office 1904-1965 with James Barry as the first postmaster. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
New Jersey is located 3.13 km southwest of Village Saint Laurent, on the road to Barryville. It had its own post office 1904-1970. New Jersey became part of Burnt Church. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
Since 1996 Barryville-New Jersey is an area with enhanced services within the Canadian local service district of the parish of Alnwick in Northumberland County, New Brunswick; it is sometimes erroneously cited as being an LSD (local service district) in its own right. (Source: Wikipedia)
Research Tips
- New Brunswick Provincial Archives. This is the introductory page. The tabs will lead you to more precise material.
- The FamilySearch wiki. This lists the availability of vital statistics indexes for New Brunswick.
- New Brunswick GenWeb. A round-up of a lot of genealogical information at the province, county and parish level. Lists of cemeteries and monumental inscriptions can be found here.
- The Provincial Archives website titled The Placenames of New Brunswick has maps of all of its parishes and descriptions of some communities within them. This site contains "cadastral" maps for each parish illustrating the grantee’s name for land granted by the province. These maps are cumulative, showing all grants regardless of date.
- Microfilm images of all Canadian censuses 1851-1911 are online at Library and Archives Canada, as well as at FamilySearch and Ancestry. The 1921 census appears to be available only at Ancestry.
- The CanGenealogy page for New Brunswick. An overview of available online sources with links written by Dave Obee.
- More possibilities can be found by googling "New Brunswick province family history" and investigating the results.
- The word "rencensement", found in Sources, is French for "census".
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