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St. Margarets is located near the intersection of NB Route 11 and NB Route 440, 7.53 km northwest of Laketon, on the road to Redmondville in Glenelg Parish, Northumberland County. It is named for the church located here and was settled about 1830. It included the community of Upper Bay du Vin and had a post office from 1853 until 1969. In 1866 Upper Bay du Vin was a farming, fishing and lumbering settlement with about 50 families; in 1871 it had a population of 100. In 1898 Upper Bay du Vin had 1 post office, 1 sawmill, 1 church and a population of 100. St. Margarets post office existed 1938-1969. (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".
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