Gloucester County, New Brunswick Genealogy

Guide to Gloucester County, New Brunswick ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish register transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick have created a research guide available here. New Brunswick Online Genealogy Records Ask the Community

History
Gloucester County was set off from Northumberland County in 1826. It is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick.The parishes of Saumarez and Beresford were established in 1814 as parishes in Northumberland County. Bathurst was created from Beresford in 1826. New Bandon and Caraquet were created from Saumarez in 1831; Shippagan from Saumarez in 1851; and Inkerman from Saumarez in 1855. In 1881, Saint Isidore was created from Saumarez and Inkerman. Paquetville was erected from Inkerman and Caraquet in 1897, and Allardville was created from Bathurst in 1946.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * New Brunswick maps at the David Rumsey Map Collection
 * Post Office Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada - 1871 - Hathi Trust digitized book

Neighboring Counties
Restigouche County * Northumberland County

Archives and Associations

 * Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
 * New Brunswick Genealogical Society

Birth Records

 * Vital Statistics from Government Records, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index and images
 * Index includes births 1800-1925 as well as late birth registrations.
 * at FamilySearch — index
 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * New Brunswick, Canada, Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906 at Ancestry($) — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * New Brunswick, Select Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899 at Ancestry($) — index and images
 * New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899 at MyHeritage($) — index
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946 at Ancestry($) — index and images

County

 * Comté de Gloucester mariages = Marriages Gloucester County; six book volumes available at the Family History Library

Provincial

 * Vital Statistics from Government Records, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index and images
 * Index includes marriage records 1847-1970.
 * New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950 at Ancestry($) — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * Index to Marriage Bonds 1810-1932 Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946 at Ancestry($) — index and images

Death Records

 * Vital Statistics from Government Records, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index and images
 * Index includes death records 1815-1970.
 * at FamilySearch — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * New Brunswick, Canada, Deaths, 1888-1938 at Ancestry($) — index and images
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946 at Ancestry($) — index and images

Census
In Canada, census returns are closed for 92 years after the time of enumeration. Census returns prior to 1851 are rarely complete for any area. Due to boundary changes, census records may be found in Nova Scotia records.

Church Records
Many microfilms of church records can be found at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. A detailed list of the records organized by denomination and locality with accompanying microfilm numbers can be found in their Gloucester County Genealogical Guide.


 * Acadie - Caraquet - Népisiquit : 1768-1798; book available at the Family History Library
 * Miscou : index des naissances et baptêmes 1903-1945; index des mariages 1903-1922; index des décès 1903-1922; book available at the Family History Library
 * Registres paroissiaux, 1840-1920 at FamilySearch — images only

Directories

 * Hutchinson Directories - 1865-1868, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Lovell Directory - 1871, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * New Brunswick Telephone Directory - 1912, New Brunswick GenWeb — index

Immigration Records

 * Yorkshire Immigrants to New Brunswick, 1772-1775 — index
 * New Brunswick, Canada, Passenger Lists: 1834 at Ancestry($) — index
 * Irish Portal Passenger List Name Index, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Irish Portal Passenger List Vessel Index, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 to 1849 at Ancestry($) — index

County

 * Gloucester County Land record books, 1827-1886 at FamilySearch — images only
 * New Brunswick, Gloucester County, deed registry books, 1827-1930; index, 1827-1989 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Bathurst, N.-B. abstracts of register, Gloucester County, five volumes of books at the Family History Library

Provincial

 * New Brunswick Land grants, 1785-1831 at FamilySearch — images only
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * New Brunswick, Canada, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1993 at Ancestry($) — images only
 * Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784-1997, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * New Brunswick Bonds for Mid-1800s, New Brunswick RootsWeb — index
 * Colonel William Spray's Grant, New Brunswick RootsWeb — index

Military Records

 * Index to Death registration of soldiers, 1941-1947, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Records of Old Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Widows, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Canadian Forces Base Gagetown Cemeteries, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * Old Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Widows Pensions, New Brunswick RootsWeb — index

Newspapers and Obituaries

 * Obituaries photocopied from The northern light newspaper, Bathurst, NB; available as books or microfilms at the Family History Library
 * New Brunswick Newspaper Directory, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — directory
 * Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index
 * New Brunswick Great War Project, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index

Indexes

 * Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick — index


 * Probate court record indexes for counties in New Brunswick at FamilySearch — digitized index books

Images

 * Gloucester County Probate files, 1827-1931 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Gloucester County Probate papers 1806-1885, and index 1806-1949 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Gloucester County Probate record book, 1926-1942 at FamilySearch — images only