Place:Rogersville, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameRogersville
TypeParish, Community
Coordinates46.776°N 65.48°W
Located inNorthumberland, New Brunswick, Canada     (1881 - )

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Rogersville is a parish on the southern border of Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada. It was formed in 1881 from Nelson Parish. It was named for James Rogers (1826-1903), the Roman Catholic Bishop of Chatham, New Brunswick, from 1860-1902. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

local service district incorporated municipalities The area of the parish is 326.42 km2 (126.03 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 1,213, a decrease of 3.7% from 2006. There were 524 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 3.7/km2 (10/sq mi). The population was 92.8% French-speaking, 5.6% English-speaking, and 0.8% other languages. The remainder of the population considered themselves French-English bilingual.

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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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