Place:Peel, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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NamePeel
Alt namesBuckwheat Brooksource: settlement in parish
Oaklandsource: settlement in parish
Riverbanksource: settlement in parish
South Gordonsvillesource: settlement in parish
TypeParish
Coordinates46.355°N 67.555°W
Located inCarleton, New Brunswick, Canada     (1859 - )
See alsoBrighton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadaparish of which it was part until 1859
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Peel is a parish in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. The parish was created in 1859 from part of Brighton Parish and named either for Jonathan Peel, Secretary for War in Great Britain, or for The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), an earlier English statesman and prime minister of Great Britain.

The area of the parish is 113.12 km2 (43.68 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 1,223, a decrease of 2.7% from 2006. There were 508 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 10.8/km2 (28/sq mi). The population was 100.0% English-speaking.

Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Peel parish. None of them are incorporated municipalities. Those in italics are small and redirected here. The others have their own pages in WeRelate. The main Gordonsville settlement is in Kent parish and the main Coldstream settlement is in Brighton parish. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.

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Buckwheat BrookPeel (village)
East ColdstreamRiverbank
LansdowneSouth Gordonsville
Mount PleasantStickney
Oakland
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  • 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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