Place:Northampton (village), Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Northampton is a community in Northampton parish of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. Located on the eastern shore of the Saint John River, 10 km SSE of Woodstock, Northampton is a rural community lying along Route 105. Its population in the the Canadian census of 2011 was 1,825.

It had a post office 1853-1914. In 1866 Northampton was a farming community with about 68 resident families; in 1871 it had a population of 250; in 1898 Northampton had 1 post office, 1 sawmill, 1 church and a population of 200. It included the community of Ferryville, which was named for the ferry operated by Aaron Putnam in 1809. There was a post office in Ferryville 1865-1910. In 1898 Ferryville was a settlement with 1 post office, 1 church and a population of 150. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

Google Earth shows a large industrial site south of where the ferry terminal would have been, but there is no information as to what this site is for.

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".