| Name | Hampstead (parish) |
| Alt names | Hampstead Parish | source: alternate name | | Quarries | source: settlement in parish |
| Type | Parish |
| Coordinates | 45.62°N 66.09°W |
| Located in | Queens, New Brunswick, Canada (1786 - ) |
| :the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Hampstead Parish was established in 1786 in Queens County in what was then the Colony of New Brunswick. It was named for Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Until 1838, Hampstead included part of Petersville Parish.
The area of the parish is 212.63 km2 (82.10 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 294 (excluding the population of incorporated municipalities), an increase of 5.8% from 2006. There were 173 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 1.4/km2 (4/sq mi). In 2006 the population was more than 93% English-speaking.
Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Hampstead parish. None of them are incorporated municipalities. Those in italics are small and redirected here. The others have their own pages in WeRelate. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.
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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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