Orangeville, Ontario, Canada

Guide to Orangeville, Ontario ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.



History
Orangeville was named after Orange Lawrence, a businessman born in Connecticut in 1796 who owned several mills in the village. As a young man, he moved to Canada and settled in Halton County. During Mackenzie's rebellion in 1837, he was a captain in the militia. Lawrence purchased the land that became Orangeville from Robert Hughson. Orange Lawrence committed suicide December 15, 1861. In 1873, the Act of Incorporation was passed and Orangeville was given town status on January 1, 1874. The public library, located at Broadway and Mill Street, was completed in 1908.


 * Orangeville settlement period


 * An historical review of the town of Orangeville


 * The history of the parish of Orangeville

Cemeteries

 * CanadianHeadstones


 * Find A Grave Greenwood Cemetery


 * Cemetery Project Dufferin County


 * Forest Lawn Cemetery


 * Cemetery Dufferin


 * Ontario Genealogical Society Cemetery Transcriptions: Dufferin County


 * Orangeville, Ontario's Lost Bodies From the 1800s


 * OGS Cemeteries Collections


 * Ontario Cemeteries Resources


 * Gravestone inscriptions of Forest Lawn Cemetery, Orangeville, Ontario, revised and updated to May 1990


 * Gravestone inscriptions of Greenwood Cemetery, Orangeville, Ontario., to August, 1989

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Church Records

 * Sources Of Religious Records In Ontario




 * Westminster United Church, Orangeville : formerly First Avenue Methodist/United and St. Andrew's Presbyterian/United : baptisms 1849-1925, marriages 1859-1925, burials 1866-1925


 * Parish registers, 1885-1910

Family History Library Records











 * Assessment rolls, 1865-1899


 * Collector's rolls, 1869-1899


 * The Orangeville sun, an index


 * Abstract index books, ca. 1820-1959


 * Land records of Dufferin County, ca. 1821-1955


 * Collector's rolls, 1886-1898


 * District marriage registers, 1801-1872, 1896; county marriage registers, 1858-1934; marriage registers by clergy, 1896-1948; Roman Catholic marriage registers, 1828-1870; miscellaneous vital statistics registers, 1859-1931


 * Division registrar vital statistics records, 1858-1930


 * General registers, 1862-1881


 * Probate records, 1881-1931

Libraries and Museums

 * Orangeville Library Genealogy & Local History Collection


 * Orangeville Library Genealogy Pathfinder


 * Dufferin Heritage Societies


 * Dufferin County Museum & Archives

Military

 * British Regiments In Canada


 * Canadian Great War Project


 * Canadian War Museum


 * CWGC Find War Dead


 * The National Archives


 * SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION


 * Air Force Association of Canada WW1 & WW2


 * Royal Navy ratings' service records 1853-1923


 * Library and Archives Canada War Diaries of the First World War


 * Veterans Affairs Canada Afghanistan The Fallen


 * War Time Canada

Newspapers

 * Orangeville Citizen


 * Orangeville Banner


 * Orangeville Banner Obituaries

Records

 * Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds


 * Immigration and Citizenship


 * Military Records


 * County Atlases


 * All Counties in Ontario


 * Young Immigrants to Canada


 * Immigrants to Canada

Societies

 * Ontario GenWeb Project For Dufferin County


 * Canada GenWeb Project


 * Ontario Genealogical Society


 * Library and Archives Canada


 * Canadiana


 * Family History

Town Directories

 * Information Orangeville, Ontario


 * Orangeville Directory