Place:Newbridge, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameNewbridge
Alt namesEast Newbridgesource: nearby settlement
Lower Northamptonsource: nearby settlement
Newburgsource: nearby settlement
South Newbridgesource: nearby settlement
TypeCommunity
Coordinates46.167°N 67.5°W
Located inCarleton, New Brunswick, Canada
See alsoNorthampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadaparish in which it was located

Newbridge is located 5.46 km ENE of Grafton, on the road to East Newbridge in Northampton Parish, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. It was settled about 1855 and called South Newburgh: From 1889-1912 the post office name was South Newbridge. In 1898 Newbridge was a settlement with 1 post office and a population of 100.

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".