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Vital Records

Online Records

The records of Ancestry.com, FindMyPast, and MyHeritage may be searched free-of-charge at a Family History Center near you. Restricted records at FamilySearch can also be searched at a Family History Center near you.

• Vital Statistics from Government Records Search Engine Coverage details Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Index to births, marriages and deaths, 1800-1959.
• Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers
• New Brunswick Genealogy Records Online Scroll down to county lists.

Births

FamilySearch

• 1679-1686, 1751-1757 - Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique

• 1801-1920 - Canada, New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1810-1899 - New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1810-1906 - New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906 Index and images.
• 1810-1905 - New Brunswick provincial returns of births, 1869-1905, 1906 (A-Be); late registrations, 1810-1905; indexes to late registrations, 1900-1904
• 1812-1919 - New Brunswick, County Registers of Births, ca. 1812-1919 Images, Index
• 1819-1899 - New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899 Index only.
• pre-1920 and indexz 1801-1999 - New Brunswick county registers of births : 1888 series; pre-1920 county book series; and index, 1801-1899
• 1888-1895 - Brunswick provincial registers of births, 1888-1895, and indexes, 1888-1895

New Brunswick Archives

• 1800-1913 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to County Birth Registers 1800-1913
• 1800-1913 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to Late Registration of Births 1810-1918
• 1898-1918 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to Provincial Registration of Births 1898-1918

Subscription Website Databases

• 1670-1946 - Roman Catholic baptismal records in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry ($), index and images. Available records vary by area.
• 1810-1906 - New Brunswick, Canada, Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906, index and images, ($).
• 1819-1899 - New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899, ($), index.

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• 1769-1899 - New Brunswick Birth and Baptism Index 1769-1899, ($)

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• 1819-1899 - New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899, ($), index

Marriages

FamilySearch

• 1679-1686, 1751-1757 - Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique
• 1763-1957 - Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957, index. Includes marriage bonds 1763, 1765, 1770-1780, 1782, when New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia.
• 1789-1950 - New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950, index and images, ($).
• 1789-1889 - New Brunswick, Marriage Registers, 1789-1889 Images only.
• 1789-1950 - New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950, index
• 1792-1889 - New Brunswick marriage registers, 1792-1889
• 1810-1932 - Marriage bonds, 1810-1932; index, 1810-1932
• 1887-1919 - New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1887-1919 Images only.
• 1887-1925 - Cumulative index marriages : extracted from RS141--Vital Statistics Branch records
• 1888-1895 - New Brunswick provincial registers of marriages, 1888-1895; county registers of marriages, 1888-1921; marriages returns, 1888, organized by county; and indexes, 1888-1895
• 1911-1919 - Cumulative index III, marriages 1911-1919 : extracted from RS141 New Brunswick vital statistics
• 1920-1950 - New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages and Late Registrations, 1920-1950 Images only.

New Brunswick Archives

• 1810-1932 - Index to Marriage Bonds 1810-1932
• 1847-1962 - Index to New Brunswick Marriages 1847-1962

Subscription Website Databases

• 1670-1946 - Roman Catholic marriage records in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry ($), index and images. Available records vary by area.
• 1789-1950 - New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950, index and images ($)

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• 1810-1932 - New Brunswick, Canada, Marriage Bonds Index, 1810–1932, index ($)

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Deaths

FamilySearch

• 1679-1686, 1751-1757 - Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique
• 1815-1938 - New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938 Index and images.
• 1815-1919 - New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919 Images only.
• 1888-1919 - New Brunswick provincial registers of deaths, 1888-1895; indexes, 1888-1895; county registers of deaths, 1888-1919 (1921 for Kent Co.); and returns of deaths, 1888, organized by county
• 1920-1934 - New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1920-1934 Images.
• 1920-1938 - New Brunswick certificates of registration of deaths, 1920-1938
• 1935-1938 - New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1935-1938 Images.

New Brunswick Archives

• 1815-1919 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to Provincial Returns of Deaths 1815-1919
• 1885-1921 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to County Death Registers 1885-1921
• 1889-1919 - Index to Saint John Burial Permits 1889-1919
• 1920-1964 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to Death Certificates 1920-1964
• 1941-1947 - Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Index to death registration of soldiers, 1941-1947

Subscription Website Databases

• 1670-1946 - Roman Catholic burial records in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry ($), index and images. Available records vary by area.
• 1888-1938 - New Brunswick, Canada, Deaths, 1888-1938, index and images, ($).

Divorces

• 1841-1968 - Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968, index

History

• Originally, civil registration records were created by collecting copies of baptism, marriage, and burial records that the government required churches to submit. These are online in the Drouin collection, with Ancestry.com links above.
• Marriage bonds, available starting in 1810, were required when banns were not read in the churches or when the clergyman did not know both of the parties. The bond was to protect the woman from a ‘breach of promise’ situation.
• Covering 1810 to 1887, there are some birth records, created after the beginning of government records (1888), a "Late Registration" compilation. These are very incomplete.
• Beginning in 1812, the original counties were required to register marriages. See Coverage Table of Provincial Marriage Records for the years available.
• The provincial government of New Brunswick began recording births, marriages, and deaths in 1888.

What Can These Records Tell You?

The following lists represent what the most recent records contain, the most detailed versions. Earlier records are much simpler.

Births

Name of the child Gender Names of the parents Birth date

Birthplace Christening date (if the source is a church record) Father's birthplace Mother's birthplace

Marriages

Date and place of marriage Groom's name Groom's age, marital status, occupation, and residence Groom's birth place Groom's religious denomination Groom's literacy Groom's parents' names

Bride's name Bride's age, marital status, occupation, and residence Bride's birth place Bride's religious denomination Bride's literacy Bride's parents' names

Deaths

Date and place of death Name and residence of deceased Age of deceased in years, months and days Gender, race, marital status and occupation of deceased Date and place of birth of deceased Name and birth place of father

Maiden name and birth place of mother Cause of death Spouse, if married Name of informant and their relationship to deceased Burial information

Availability

Online Collections

See Online Records. Records not restricted by privacy are all online in various collections

Recent, Privacy Restricted Records

If the years of interest to you have not yet been transferred to the Provincial Archives, you must request copies of records from Service New Brunswick: Vital Statistics.

Vital Statistics

P.O. Box 6000

Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1

CANADA

Telephone: 506-453-2385; Fax: 506-444-4139

Internet: Service New Brunswick: Vital Statistics.

Coverage Table of County Marriage Records

• Most of these records are available at the Family History Library. Find them by searching under Vital Records for each county. Click on "Places in Canada, New Brunswick", then the county. Scroll down to "Vital Records" and "Vital Record-Indexes". Some of these are available online, as indicated by the small camera icon. However, a key above the icon imeans that they can only be viewed at a Family History Center near you.

County Years Albert 1846-1888 §§ Carleton 1832-1888 Charlotte 1806-1887 Gloucester 1832-1887 Kent 1826-1887

County Years Kings 1812-1888 § Madawaska missing ** Northumberland 1792-1887 * Queens 1812-1887 Restigouche 1838-1878

County Years St. John 1819-1887 *** § Sunbury missing Victoria missing Westmorland 1790-1887 §§ York 1812-1888 §§

* Early Northumberland County marriages are listed among the Justices of the Peace records of their Courts of Quarter Session.

** Père Henri Langlois, O.F.M. (1901-1968) compiled an eight volume, typescript record of marriages in Madawaska and the region of the upper St. John River, from 1792 to about 1940. This is essentially the Diocese of Edmundston and includes parishes in Aroostook in Maine. It is available at both the PANB in Fredericton, and LAC in Ottawa. The latter’s bound photocopy of the original onion-skin sheets is titled Dictionnaire Généalogique de Madawaska. Entries are alphabetical by family name, i.e. Volume I is A-B, etc.

*** Early Marriage Records of New Brunswick: Saint John City and County from the British Conquest to 1839, Introductory Note and edited by Sociologist, B. Wood-Holt (Saint John: Holland House Inc., 1986), a somewhat curious compilation from many sources that probably includes almost all marriages in the Saint John region prior to 1840. Her notes are informative and the thorough indexing makes this a useful research tool.

§ Ruby M. Cusack has transcribed and published the Saint John County registers, C 1839-1847, and D 1847-1853; as well as Kings County Register A, 1812-1844 and Register B, 1844-1867. John R. Elliott has published Kings County Registers C and D (1867-1888). See their listing in Generations. As well, Ruby Cusack has a website.

§§ George H. Hayward has published York County Volume 1, 1812-1837 and some for Carleton County, Ken Kanner has published the early Marriages for Albert and Westmorland Counties, see listings in Generations “Information Sheets”.

Divorce Records

Divorce was once a matter for Parliament. Brian Gilchrist’s Index to Canadian Parliamentary Divorces, 1867-1930 (Toronto: privately published) indexes all names, both partners, children etc. Some individual’s petitions or records are held by the Library and Archives Canada, check the their website, Government of Canada Files database, key word “Divorce”—but after 1916 you must apply to the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Council, Senate of Canada.

As well, on the Internet, Hugh Armstrong’s Genealogy Site, contains material on “Canadian Parliamentary Divorces to 1946”. An Introduction gives an excellent summary of the history of divorce in Canada, and it is only one of a number of lists, indexes, and how-to-do offerings.