Canada, New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection includes marriage returns from 1887 to 1919. The returns of marriages are arranged alphabetically within each year by surname of the groom. New Brunswick introduced registration for all vital statistics in January of 1888. There are very few returns for 1887. Marriage Registers (registres de mariages). Civil officials recorded the marriages they performed in registers, usually preprinted forms bound in a book and kept in the civil office. If the marriage was performed by someone else, such as a minister or justice of the peace, that person was required to report the marriage information to the local official. The marriage returns have printed numbers and handwritten numbers which sometimes differ. The index refers to the handwritten numbers. The handwritten numbers also correspond to the numbers listed by each person in the county registers. Marriage dates are often out of chronological order in the county registers. The years listed are marriage years and not registration years.

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * compiled by Dorothy Wiggs for the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Cumulative index marriages : extracted from RS141--Vital Statistics Branch records Fredericton, New Brunswick : Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, 1991-1997
 * New Brunswick, Vital Statistics Branch, New Brunswick provincial returns of marriages, 1887-1919
 * Generations (New Brunswick Genealogical Society) Fredericton, New Brunswick : New Brunswick Genealogical Society. Southeastern Branch, 1983- FS Library 971.5 D25g
 * edited by Terrence M. Punch with George F. Sanborn, Jr., Genealogist's handbook for Atlantic Canada research 2nd ed. Boston, Massachusetts : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1997, c1989 FS Library 971.5 D27pt 1997

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