Kings County, New Brunswick Genealogy

Guide to Kings 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
Kings County, located in central New Brunswick, was one of the original counties set up in 1785. The parishes of Westfield, Sussex, Springfield and Kingston were created in 1786. In 1795, Greenwich was apportioned from Kingston. Norton and Hampton were from Sussex and Kingston. Upham was separated from Hampton in 1835, Studholm from Sussex in 1840, Havelock from Studholm in 1858, Hammond from Upham in 1858, Kars from Kingston in 1859, Rothesay from Hampton in 1870, and Cardwell and Waterford from Sussex in 1874.

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
Queens County * Westmorland County * Albert County * Saint John County * Charlotte County

Archives and Associations

 * Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
 * New Brunswick Genealogical Society
 * Kings County Historical and Archival Society
 * Kings County Museum in Hampton, New Brusnwick

Birth Records

 * 1812-1919 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 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

 * Kings County Marriage certificates, 1812-1887 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Marriage bonds for St. John city and county, Kings county, Queens county and non-residents, 1830-1832 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Kings County marriages, register A book and microfilm available at the FamilySearch Library
 * Kings County marriages, register B book and microfilm available at the FamilySearch Library
 * Kings County, New Brunswick marriages, register C & D book and microfilm available at the FamilySearch Library
 * Kings County marriage register book available at the FamilySearch 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

Provincial

 * 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

 * Anglican Church records, 1784-1970 microfilm available at the FamilySearch Library
 * Catholic Parish registers, 1845-1919 at FamilySearch — images only
 * The records of the Reverend James Gray, Kings County, New Brunswick, 1857-1898 book available at the FamilySearch Library

Cemeteries

 * Creightonville Cemetery records, Kings Co., New Brunswick on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library

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

Land Records

 * New Brunswick, Kings County, deed registry books, 1785-1920; index, 1785-1992 at FamilySearch — images only
 * New Brunswick Land grants, 1785-1831 at FamilySearch — images only
 * at FamilySearch — images only
 * 1780-1930 New Brunswick: Land Records, 1780-1930 at American Ancestors — index & images ($)
 * New Brunswick, Canada, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1993 at Ancestry($) — 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

 * Index to the obituaries of the Kings County record, 1936-1946 book availabl4e at the FamilySearch 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

 * Kings County Probate files, 1787-1931 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Kings County Probate record books, 1787-1932 at FamilySearch — images only
 * Kings County List of wills and wills, 1788-1897 at FamilySearch — images only