Place:Lower Newcastle-Russellville, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

Lower Newcastle-Russellville is a local service district just east of Miramichi on the north side of the Miramichi River. Before the town of Newcastle was amalgamated into Miramichi in 1995, its easternmost neighbourhood was a local service district named Ferry Road-Russellville. This earlier local service district was separated at the amalgamation with the part remaining outside Miramichi being named Lower Newcastle-Russellville.

Russellville is located on the Bartibog River, 11.21 km northeast of Miramichi, on the road to Bartibog in Newcastle Parish, Northumberland County. There was a post office named Russell Settlement 1909-1910 with James Russell as postmaster. It became Russellville post office 1910-1970. Russellville became part of the city of Miramichi. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Ferry Road is located on north side of the Miramichi River opposite Chatham, 1.26 km east of Douglastown in Newcastle Parish, Northumberland County. It was named for the ferry which operated between Chatham and the north side of the Miramichi River. It was first called Elliott Landing. Ferry Road post office operated 1908-1959. Today Ferry Road is within the city of Miramichi. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Neither Wikipedia nor Place Names of New Brunswick were very helpful in tying Lower Newcastle-Russellville to the town of Newcastle. No further online historical documentation could be found. The co-ordinates given are those for Ferry Road; Russellville is 4km (2.5mi) to the north-northeast.

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".