Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Deaths - FamilySearch Historical Records

Canada New Brunswick

What is in this Collection?
This collection covers the deaths registered from 1815 to 1938.

Registration of deaths began in 1887 in order to keep a written record of the population for use by the government.

The death registrations are recorded on individual, printed forms and consist of completed statements regarding deaths in New Brunswick. These statements were submitted to district registrars and registered by the registrar or director of Vital Statistics.

New Brunswick is one of the four original provinces of Canada. The province entered into the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867. Following the passing of the Vital Statistics Act of 1887, registrations of death were collected and kept by the provincial government. In this collection, there are a number of records which date from before the passing of the act. The oldest of these dates is 1815.

Death registrations are the best source of death information in New Brunswick beginning in 1815.

The certificate numbers for the death returns are printed numbers, and some pages include handwritten numbers. Death dates are generally in chronological order in the county registers. The years listed are death years and not registration years.

New Brunswick, Death Certificates 1920-1934or New Brunswick, Death Certificates 1935-1938

Sample Images
Death records usually contain the following information:


 * 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

How Do I Search the Collection?
See Images, in the New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919 collection: by visiting the Browse Page. Once you've reached the browse page, follow these instructions to get to the images: ⇒Select the appropriate "Year" category ⇒Select the appropriate "Beginning Name - Ending Name" category, which takes you to the images.

See Images, in the New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1920-1934 collection: by visiting the Browse Page. Once you've reached the browse page, follow these instructions to get to the images: ⇒Select the appropriate "County/City" ⇒ Select the appropriate "Year Range" ⇒Select the appropriate "Parish/Town," which will take you to the images.

See Images, in the New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1935-1938 collection: by visiting the Browse Page. Once you've reached the browse page, follow these instructions to get to the images: ⇒Select the appropriate "Year" category ⇒Select the appropriate "Certificate Number Range" category, which takes you to the images.

See Images and Search by Name, in the New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938 collection: by visiting the Collection Page. This collection has an index and images. To search, fill in the requested information in the initial search page. This will return a list of possible matches. The images are listed by film number and identifying data is more difficult without using the index.

Whether you search by images or through the index, compare the records to the information you already know about your ancestors to determine if this is the correct family or person. You may need to compare the information about more than one person to find your ancestor.

I Found Who I was Looking for, Now What?

 * Use the age to calculate the year of birth, then search for a birth record of your ancestor.
 * Search for a birth record of the deceased's father as well as the mother
 * Search for a marriage date for the spouse of your ancestor if they were married at the time of their death.
 * Search for a marriage record of the father and mother.

I Can't Find Who I'm Looking for, Now What?

 * Try variations of the spelling of the name. This guide may be useful.

Citing This Collection
When you copy information from a record, you should list where you found the information; that is, cite your sources. This will help people find the record again and evaluate the reliability of the source. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records. Citations are available for the collection as a whole and each record or image individually.

Collection Citation:

New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919

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New Brunswick, Death Certificates 1920-1934

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New Brunswick, Death Certificates 1935-1938

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New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938

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