Place:Newcastle Centre, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

Newcastle Centre is located on the Northeast Arm of Grand Lake, 6.43 km east of Minto in Canning Parish in Queens County. It had a post office 1908-1965. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Newcastle Bridge

Newcastle Bridge is located 1.29 km east of Minto, on the road to Newcastle Centre in Canning Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.

It had a post office from 1862: in 1866 Newcastle Bridge was a farming community with approximately 30 resident families, including 6 Yeaman families; in 1871 it had a population of 200. In 1898 Newcastle Bridge had 1 post office, 1 store, 1 sawmill, 2 churches, coal mines nearby and a population of 150. Newcastle Bridge became part of Minto. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Newcastle Creek

Newcastle Creek is located at the head of Grand Lake, 4.28 km east-southeast of Minto: in Canning Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick.

The historian, William Francis Ganong, identified the Maliseet name for Newcastle Creek as Weesopah'gel. Newcastle Creek had a post office 1854-1969. In 1866 Newcastle Creek was a farming settlement with approximately 64 resident families, including 12 Bailey and 10 Flower families; in 1871 Newcastle Creek and surrounding district had a population of 300. By 1898 Newcastle Creek had 1 post office, 1 church and a population of only 75. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

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".