| Name | Waterville |
| Alt names | Central Waterville | source: neighbourhood in community | | Lower Waterville | source: neighbourhood in community | | Upper Waterville | source: neighbourhood in community | | Rockwell | source: neighbourhood in community | | Walton Settlement | source: neighbourhood in community |
| Type | Community |
| Coordinates | 46.267917°N 67.58125°W |
| Located in | Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| See also | Wakefield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada | parish in which it was located |
Waterville is a community in the parish of Wakefield in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is located on Route 590. There are three separate settlements of Central Waterville, Upper Waterville and Lower Waterville. There were also two further settlements nearby named Rockwell and Walton.
Located on the Little Presque Isle Stream, 12.98 km N of Woodstock, on the road to Hartland in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County. It had a post office 1859-1916.
In 1866 Waterville was a farming and lumbering settlement with 60 families: Joseph Burpee, Lewis Getchell and John McCready were mill owners. In 1871 Waterville and surrounding district had a population of about 500. In 1898 Waterville had 1 post office, 1 store, 1 grist mill, 1 sawmill, 3 churches and a population of 150 and included Rockwell Settlement and Walton Settlement. In 1866 Rockwell Settlement was a farming community with approximately 10 resident families, including the families of Alexander Rockwell and Lot Rockwell. In 1866 Walton Settlement was a farming community with approximately 10 resident families, including the families of Charles Walton, Samuel Walton and Thomas Walton. (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".
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