Place:Newcastle (parish), Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameNewcastle (parish)
Alt namesBellefondsource: settlement in parish
Beveridgesource: settlement in parish
Busbysource: settlement in parish
Elizabethtonsource: settlement in parish
Highbanksource: settlement in parish
McEwan Damsource: settlement in parish
Morrissysource: settlement in parish
Telly Road Crossingsource: settlement in parish
TypeParish
Coordinates47°N 65.57°W
Located inNorthumberland, New Brunswick, Canada     (1786 - )

Newcastle Parish is in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada. The parish was established in 1786. It was named for Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768) and the Prime Minister of England from 1754-1762. Newcastle Parish included Glenelg Parish, Nelson Parish and Northesk Parish until 1814. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Since the formation of the incorporated town of Miramichi in 1995, the size of Newcastle Parish has been much diminished. It now covers an area of 577.69 km2 (223.05 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 1,220, a decrease of 0.9% from 2006. There were 535 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 2.1/km2 (5/sq mi). The population was 31.5% French-speaking and 66.4% English-speaking. The remainder of the population considered themselves French-English bilingual. A list of the communities originally in Newcastle Parish that are now in Miramichi will be found under Miramichi.

'Wikipedia lists the following settlements now in Newcastle Parish. None of them are incorporated municipalities. Those in italics are small and redirected here. Most of them are way stations on the Intercolonial Railway line that goes through Beaver Brook Station. The Bartibogs, the Beaver Brooks and the Pattersons have been grouped together under Bartibog, Beaver Brook Station, and Patterson Station respectively. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.

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BartibogEast Beaver BrookMcEwan Dam
Beaver Brook StationElizabethtonMorrissy
BellefondHighbankPatterson Siding
BeveridgeLittle BartibogPatterson Station
BusbyLower Newcastle-RussellvilleTelly Road Crossing
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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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