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The village of Derby is located on north side of the Southwest Miramichi River, 3.14 km northeast of the hamlet of Bryenton in Derby Parish, Northumberland County. In 1866 Derby was a farming, fishing and lumbering settlement with approximately 100 families; in 1871 the community and surrounding district had a population of 400. It had a post office 1886-1964. in 1898 Derby was a community on the Indiantown branch of the Intercolonial Railway with 1 post office, 1 hotel, 1 church and a population of 200. Derby eventually became part of Millerton, several kilometres upstream from the city of Miramichi. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
Derby includes the subordinate communities of Derby Junction, Lower Derby and Upper Derby.
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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