Place:Bartibog Bridge, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

source: Family History Library Catalog

Oak Point-Bartibog Bridge is a Local Service District in New Brunswick, Canada. The name is sometimes spelled Bartibogue Bridge.

Two noted landmarks are the MacDonald Farm Provincial Historic Site, an 18th-century stone farmhouse built by Colonel Alexander MacDonald, an early pioneer in the Miramichi area. It is now a Provincial Historic Site. A second is St Peter and St Paul's Church at Moody's Point, one of the earliest churches in the area, serving Scotch Catholics of the surrounding districts.

Located on N side of the Miramichi River, 4.22 km ENE of Lower Newcastle: Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: PO 1878-1970: in 1898 Bartibog Bridge was a farming and fishing settlement with 1 post office, 1 church and a population of 100. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Oak Point. See The Willows: Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County. Located on the Miramichi Bay, 12.53 km SE of Bartibog, on the road to Barryville: Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: included the settlement of Oak Point: PO 1853-1889: in 1866 Oak Point was a farming and fishing community with about 30 resident families, including 5 Morrison families: in 1871 it had a population of 100: in 1898 Oak Point had 1 post office and a population of 250: PO The Willows 1889-1960: in 1898 The Willows had 1 post office and a population of 250. (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".