Place:Hampstead, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

Hampstead is located on west side of the St. John River, 3.19 km southeast of Central Hampstead (see below) in Hampstead Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick. Hampstead had a post office from 1850. In 1866 Hampstead was a farming community with approximately 44 families, including 7 Palmer families; in 1871 the community and the surrounding district had a population of 250. In 1898 Hampstead was a farming settlement with 1 post office, 2 stores, 1 hotel and a population of 150. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Central Hampstead

Central Hampstead is located on west side of the St. John River, 3.19 km northwest of Hampstead. The Maliseet name for Central Hampstead was M'dna'ak. It was first called Little River. Little River had a post office 1856-1882. It was renamed Central Hampstead in 1882. Post Office Central Hampstead existed 1882-1933. In 1898 Central Hampstead was a farming settlement with 1 post office, 1 cheese factory, 1 church and a population of 75. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

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".