Place:Blissfield, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameBlissfield
Alt namesStoreytownsource: small settlement in parish
O'Donnelltownsource: small settlement in parish
Amostownsource: small settlement in parish
TypeParish
Coordinates46.59°N 66.06°W
Located inNorthumberland, New Brunswick, Canada     (1830 - )
source: Family History Library Catalog

Blissfield is a parish in the southwestern part of Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada. The parish was created from Ludlow Parish in 1830. It was named for John Murray Bliss (1771-1834), a Loyalist who served as administrator of the New Brunswick government in 1824. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

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The area of the parish is 1,240.26 km2 (478.87 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 501, a decrease of 10.5% from 2006. There were 259 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 0.4/km2 (1/sq mi). The population was 1.8% French-speaking and 98.2% English-speaking.

'Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Blissfield parish. Only Doaktown is an incorporated municipality. Those in italics are small and redirected here. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.

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AmostownO'Donnelltown
DoaktownStoreytown
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  • New Brunswick Provincial Archives. This is the introductory page. The tabs will lead you to more precise material.
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  • 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.
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