Canada, New Brunswick Marriage Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

Canada New Brunswick

What is in this Collection?
This collection includes marriage records from 1789 to 1889.

Marriage registers containing transcriptions from church records submitted by various denominations. Most volumes are indexed by county or year range. The records are written in English and French.

The dates listed are registration dates and not the dates of the marriages. The registers may contain marriages that took place much earlier than the registration date.

Registers include individual indexes to grooms (first letter of surname) except for the following counties: Gloucester, 1873-1887; Kent, 1844-1887; Westmorland, 1875-1885; York, 1832-1836.

For a list of records by localities and dates currently published in this collection, select the Browse link from the collection landing page.

What Can this Collection Tell Me?
Records usually contain the following information:


 * Date and place of marriage
 * Names of the bride and groom
 * Notes if the bride or groom were single or widowed
 * Name of person solemnizing the marriage
 * Names of witnesses

How Do I Search the Collection?
To begin your search it is helpful to know:
 * The name of your ancestor.
 * The approximate year of marriage
 * The place where the marriage occurred.
 * The names of family members and their relationships.
 * The name of the intended spouse.

View images in this collection by visiting the Browse Page: To search this collection you will need to follow this series of links: ⇒Select "Browse Images" on the initial search page ⇒Select the appropriate "County" ⇒Select the appropriate "Year Range" which will take you to the images.

Search the collection by image, comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine if the image relates to them. You may need to look at several images and compare the information about the individuals listed in those images to your ancestors to make this determination.

What Do I Do Next?
When you have located your ancestor’s marriage record, carefully evaluate each piece of information about them. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors.

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Use the information in the marriage record to locate other record types, like a birth record for one or both parties.

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

 * Try using name spelling variations or possible nicknames.

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

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