Place:Beresford, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameBeresford
TypeParish, Town
Coordinates47.683°N 65.717°W
Located inGloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
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Beresford is a town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.

It is situated on the shore of Chaleur Bay immediately north of the city of Bathurst. 81% of the town's residents are francophone.

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Beresford is a civil parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.

For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Beresford; the villages of Belledune, Nigadoo, Petit-Rocher, and Pointe-Verte; and the local service districts of Dunlop, Laplante, Madran, Petit-Rocher-Nord (Devereaux), Petit-Rocher-Sud, Robertville, Tremblay, and the parish of Beresford (which in turn includes the special service areas of Alcida and Dauversière; Nicholas-Denys, Free Grant and Sainte-Rosette; Petit Rocher West; Saint-Laurent Nord; Sainte-Louise; Sainte-Thérèse Sud; and Sormany), all of which are members of the Chaleur Regional Service Commission (CRSC).

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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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