Canada, New Brunswick Marriage Registers - FamilySearch Historical Records

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.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
 * 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 This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * Name of the person
 * Approximate date of the event

How Do I Analyze the Results?
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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the information to find other records such as birth, christening, census, land and death records
 * Use the information to find additional family members
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family
 * Church Records often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This can help you find possible relatives
 * Search the records of nearby areas
 * Check for other names. An individual might appear under an unexpected name for a variety of reasons:
 * They might have been listed under a middle name, nickname, or abbreviation of their given name
 * A woman may have returned to her maiden name after the death of her husband

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 * New Brunswick Record Finder

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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 FS Library 971.5 V22w
 * marriage registers, 1792-1889
 * 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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