Place:Ludlow, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

Ludlow is located on south side of the Southwest Miramichi River, 1.28 km east of Porter Cove, on the road to New Bandon in Ludlow Parish, Northumberland County. It had a post office from 1845. In 1866 Ludlow was a farming and lumbering community with 51 families, including 9 Hovey and 8 Price families. in 1871 it had a population of 100. In 1898 Ludlow was a flag station (whistle stop) on the Canada Eastern Railway and a settlement with 1 post office, 1 church and a population of 75. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Ludlow is now a community within the rural community of Upper Miramichi in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. Upper Miramichi became a rural community on 17 March 2008, having formerly been a local service district with the same name. The rural community includes sixteen neighbourhoods in the county of Northumberland and in the northeastern corner of Stanley Parish, York County stretching between McGivney and the village of Doaktown including Astle, Big Hole Brook, Bloomfield Ridge, Boiestown, Carrolls Crossing, Hayesville, Holtville, Ludlow, McGivney, McNamee, Nelson Hollow, New Bandon, Parker Ridge, Porter Cove, Priceville, and Taxis River. The municipal offices are located in Boiestown. (Source:Wikipedia)

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".