- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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Gagetown Parish was created in 1765 as Gage Township in the British colony of the British colony of Nova Scotia. In 1786 this township became Gagetown Parish as part of the new province of New Brunswick. It was named for General Thomas Gage (1721-1787), commander in chief of the British forces in North America from 1763-1772 and a local land grantee. Its area included part of Petersville Parish until 1838.
The area of the parish is 235.19 km2 (90.81 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 316 (excluding incorporated municipalities), an increase of 6.4% from 2006. There were 146 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 1.3/km2 (3/sq mi). In 2006 the population was almost 97% English-speaking.
'Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Gagetown parish. Only Gagetown is an incorporated municipality. Those in italics are small and redirected here. The others have their own pages in WeRelate. The Gagetowns have been grouped together. 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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