By Anne Côté

Located near the waterfall, the Grand Falls Museum has many pioneer and early Victorian artefacts as well as a considerable archival collection referring to the Sons of Temperance and genealogies of the Victoria County region.

Grand Falls Museum
68 Madawaska Road
E3Y 1C6

Contact person: Anne Côté
Phone: (506) 473-5265
Fax : (506) 475-7755
Out-of-Season, by appointment, phone: (506) 473-4881 or (506) 473-5940

Hours of Operation:

The Museum is open from the 3rd week in June to the last week of August from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 5PM. To access it, take exit 75 from the Trans Canada Highway.

The museum contains several references of genealogical interest:

Jean-Guy Poitras, “Répertoire des marriages au Nord-Ouest du Noveau-Brunswick, Canada pour les comtés de Madawaska, Restigouche (partiellement) et Victoria”. This compilation of marriages for northwestern NB is from 1792-2001 and includes mostly Catholic marriages.

Early marriages and baptisms of Van Buren, Maine (most early marriages for this region were recorded in the Van Buren register)

A collection of obituary and mortuary cards

Several local histories

Genealogical anthologies and family trees – not well-documented but still of interest. If anyone wants a copy made of this material, they should contact the compiler. Visitors are welcome to write out by hand information from these resources.

The following families are included:
Albert, Armour, Baker, Barriault, Blunden, Boucher, Boyer, Briggs, Brown, Budrow, Burgess, Butterfield, Caldwell, Carroll, Chase, Costigan, Côte, Cowett, Curless, Curran, Currier, Currier-Duston, Davis, DeMerchant, Desjardins, Dixon, Everett, Fraser, Gagnon, Gamble, Gaunce, Gauvin, Gillespie, Godbout, Goguen, Grant, Green, Gueret dit Dumont, Hallett, Hartsgrove, Hartt, Hathaway, Hianvew, Hillman, Hitchcock, Holmes, Horseman, Hudson, Jean, Jenson, Jovin, Kinney, Koven, Labrie, Lagacé, Lebel, Leclerc, Levesque, Long, Lynch, McCann, McCluskey, McCooey, McCormack, Mclaughlin and Allingham, McLaughlin and Campbell, McLaughlin and Delahenty, McLeod, McManus, McMillan, McQuade, Michaud, Mockler, Mulherin, Murphy, Newcomb, O’Neill, O’Regan, Ouellet, Ouellette, Page, Pelletier, Pine, Poitras, Powers, Price, Quigley, Rasmussen, Reed, Rideout, Rossignol, Rouleau, Roy, Sisson, Slye, St-Laurent, St-Pierre, Stroupe, Tompkins, Toner, Turcotte, VanderBilt, Vandine, Warnock, Watson, Wharton, White, Williams, Wiswall, Woodward and Woolsey.

There are also materials of interest at the local Grand Falls Public Library:

Transcriptions of Census Records for Victoria and Madawaska Counties – 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901

Transcriptions of baptisms and deaths for several Madawaska parishes

The Pierre-Albénie Collection (for south-eastern Québec and north-western NB (with a few Irish entries)

Donations are welcome.

 

1 Market Square

Saint John, New Brunswick

E2L 4Z6

 

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Phone: 506-643-7224

 
To find us:

 

Eastbound

 

Westbound

Hours of Operation:

We are closed on Sundays.During Winter/Fall/Spring the Saint John Free Public Library is open:
Monday 9am – 5pm,
Tuesday & Wednesday 10am – 5pm,
Thursday & Friday 10am – 9pm,
Saturday 9am – 5pm.
We are closed on Sundays.

 

During the summer we are open:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9am – 5pm
Thursday & Friday 9am – 9pm
We are closed on weekends.

The library is publicly funded by the New Brunswick government and the municipality. Donations are welcome.

We have 17 full/part-time staff and several volunteers and student assistants. The City librarian is Joann Hamilton-Barry.

Photocopying and microfilm printouts are available on site.
Fees are:

Photocopying:

Microfilm printouts .50 cents per sheet.

There are restaurants nearby as well as the New Brunswick Museum.

Paid parking is available but we are also conveniently located on the bus route.

The Saint John Free Public Library has the following available that would be of interest to anyone studying their Irish New Brunswick history or genealogy:

 

Alms House Records (Saint John)

Burial Permits: 1889 – 1919

Census (New Brunswick): 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901

Churches: Typescripts (F44 – F45c)

Custom House Port Returns: 1816, 1833 – 1834, 1837, 1838

Death Registers and Certificates

 

Douglas Avenue Christian Church Fonds

Fitzpatrick’s Funeral Home Records: 1889 – 1980

Freeman Certificates

Graeme Somerville Collection: 1843 – 1884

Land Petitions: 1783 – 1857

Marriage Records (Dates vary by county)

Newspapers By Place

Newspapers By Title

Parish Registers (Dates vary by parish)

Passenger Manifests for Ships, 1900 – 1908

Poll Books

Sunbury County, 1830 – 1857

York County, 1856 – 1865

Sunbury County Marriage Certificates, 1824 – 1828

Probate Records (Dates vary by county)

Saint John City Directories: 1857, 1863 – 1982

(1982 to date in book form)

Saint John Register of Voters

Shipping Records (Port of Saint John) 1878 -1949

Teachers’ Petitions and Licenses (RS 655)

Telephone Directories, New Brunswick: 1889 to date

Vestry Minutes – Trinity Anglican Church (catalogued material)

Births, Late Registration Of: 1810 – 1887

Census: 1901

Cholera Deaths

 

Annals of the See of New Brunswick: A diary in the handwriting of Bishop Medley

Dutch Valley & Hammond Mission

 

Lorneville: South Bay United

 

Saint John:
Calvin Presbyterian

Carleton United

Centenary-Queen Square United

First Free Presbyterian

Germain St. Baptist

St. Andrew’s Kirk

St. Andrew’s & St. David United

St. David’s Kirk

St. George’s Anglican

St. John Presbyterian

St. John’s (STONE) Anglican

St. Jude’s Anglican

St. Luke’s Anglican

St. Mary’s Anglican

St. Stephen Presbyterian

Trinity Anglican

Simonds Anglican

West Side Kirk

Methodist, United and Presbyterian

Records for St. Martins, Black River,

Gardner’s Creek, Bains Corner

St. Martins Anglican

 

Anglican circuit

 

Upham Anglican

 

St. Paul Parish

 

(Saint John County)

(Kings County)

 

 

All items located in the Reference Archives must be requested at the Reference Desk and must be handled with gloves. No photocopying or scanning of Reference Archives material is allowed. Digital photographs without a flash are allowed. Internet access must be reserved at the Reference Desk.

Also please check the Vision catalogue, www.gnb.ca/publiclibraries for a list of books available in the New Brunswick Public Library System.

By Faye Pearson

 

Address: 
27 Centennial Road, 
P.O. Box 1813

Hampton, New Brunswick

E5N6N3

Telephone: (506) 832-6009

Fax: (506) 832-6409

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Established in 1967 and operated by the Kings County Historical and Archival Society, Inc. the museum is located at Hampton Station on Centennial Road, directly behind the courthouse, in the Hampton Town office building. Housed in two buildings, two-thirds of the collection is exhibited in the old Kings County Gaol next door and consists of early Kings County life. The cells are intact and set in themes: bedrooms, kitchen, creamery, school room, early tools and the cell of The Mysterious Stranger – Henry More Smith. The Main Museum exhibits Deichmann pottery, early quilts, including the “Confederation Quilt”, glassware, a doll collection, a brass bell collection and changing displays for each season.

 

Hours of Operation:
Mid-June to September 30 – 8:30 – 4:30 Monday – Friday

Off-Season: Two days per week by chance or appointment

 

Admission:
Adults – $2.00
Seniors and Students – $1.00
School Tours – Free

Research Fee:
Members – Free
Non-Members – $10.00 for half-day

 

The Archives and Research Room has two microfilm readers, computer and photocopier available for researchers as well as on-site assistance.

Many genealogies, census, marriage, cemetery and related research books are available for the general public. The photograph collection has been recently documented and sorted.

Material that might be helpful in your search of your Irish roots in New

Brunswick and available at Kings County Museum are:
 

Census returns:
Kings County
1851, 1861, 1891 index
Several parishes of 1871, 1881 and 1901

Queens County 1861

Albert County 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881

Westmorland County 1851, 1891

Charlotte County 1851

Saint John County 1851, 1871

Simonds Parish 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901

St. Martins Parish 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901

Sunbury County 1851

Victoria County 1851

Carleton County 1851

York County 1851

 

Death Records

Kings County Cemetery transcriptions:

Gone But Not Forgotten, volumes 1-4

Many files of other cemetery transcriptions

1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1909

Cemeteries of Albert County

Heather Long, Good Green Hope – Irish Settlers of Albert County

Marriage Registers

Kings County Marriage Registers:
Register A, 1812-1844
Register B, 1844 – 1867
Registers C and D, 1867 – 1887

Rev. James Gray Records, 1857-1898

Queens County Marriages 1812-1887

Saint John County Marriage Registers:
Register C, 1839 – 1847
Register D, 1847 – 1853
Registers for 1853 – 1887

Albert County Marriages, 1846 – 1887

Westmorland County Marriages, 1790 – 1888

Sunbury County Marriages, 1766 – 1888

Carleton County Marriages, 1832 – 1884

York County Marriages, 1812 – 1837

Cumulative Provincial Marriages, 1882 – 1925

Many files of place histories

Daniel Johnson’s Vital Statistics

Index of Probate Records 1786 – 1931

Generations – complete set

Many reels of microfilm:
Census
Church records
Newspapers
Probates, 1787 – 1896
Death Certificates

1862 Walling map of Kings / Saint John Counties

Land Grant Maps