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Dumbarton is a parish in the north of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. The parish was created from Saint Patrick Parish in 1856 and named for the town of Dumbarton, Scotland.
The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Dumbarton, established in 1969 to assess for community services. Fire protection was added to the assessment in 1970. There are no incorporated municipalities in the parish, but it includes the settlement of Rollingdam.
The area of the parish is 375.08 km2 (144.82 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 368, a decrease of 3.4% from 2006. There were 404 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 1.0/km2 (3/sq mi) or 10 times that of Clarendon parish to the east.
The Charlotte County Archives in St. Andrews is a collection of thousands of original documents reflecting various individuals, groups, and businesses who have contributed to the social, cultural, economic and political life of Charlotte County, 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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