Some of the treasures you will find on this site. Where is Restigouche Nearby places Looking for ? History and more Old Pictures Online Records Ships WW1 and 2 Other Helpful Sites List of Queries Search Resources What's New Books For Sale Sign the Guestbook Vote for this Site E-mail me Of course it is always under construction

A Word from the Author Irene Doyle This picture is as close to real life as you're gonna get Each 90 seconds, when I'm online, my web cam will take a picture and send it to this page So what you see is me NOW.. To see a new picture, hit the "reload" or "refresh" button on your browser. When I'm offline you will see the last picture that was taken. Now that the introductions are over Welcome to this webpage it will be devoted to genealogical and historical research for Restigouche County. It is a part of the New Brunswick GenWeb project which in turn is linked to the Worldwide GenWeb. Our goal is to provide on-line genealogical reference and data from all over the world Mine is to get as much information for Restigouche county, as possible so if you have any information related to Restigouche county, which you would be willing to share with us please contact me so that appropriate links can be set or information added to this page There are still a few counties which do not have a host so if you are interested in volunteering please contact Adopt a Site Todd Gilbert is the co-ordinator of the NB GenWeb project Let us work together so our trees can grow and flourish thank you

Where can you find Restigouche ?

Located in the northern part of New Brunswick
Restigouche County
as it stands today, is bordered on the north by Bonaventure county
the Province of Quebec, on the south by Madawaska and Victoria Counties
to the Southeast by Northumberland and Gloucester Counties

When doing research in Restigouche County, please keep in mind
that it was once called Gloucester County, between the years of 1827 to 1838
Between the years of 1786 and 1826 it was called Northumberland County
Please also do not confuse Restigouche County with Restigouche or Ristigouche
Province of Quebec which is a MicMac Indian Reserve just across the River
from Campbellton. This parish of "Ste Anne de Ristigouche" is very closely
related to Restigouche County and a very good place to look for your
ancestors as it is one of the oldest parishes in the area with records
dating back as far as 1759, and Campbellton use to be served by the capucins of Ristigouche

COUNTY DIVISION RECORDED

A NEW Restigouche is born

NEARBY AREAS

People, for one reason or an other, used to change their names and/or move around a lot back then
Dont' be surprised if you find who you thought was in Restigouche County in one of these instead

Also, once again, keep in mind the year you are looking for

Ron Bottomly Page Co-ordinator	Madawaska County
Ron Bottomly Page Co-ordinator	Victoria County
Irene Doyle Page Co-ordinator	Gloucester County
Richard Olsen Page Co-ordinator	Northumberland County
Hazel Shearer Page Co-ordinator	Bonaventure County Province of Quebec

Would you like to know a bit more about the land your ancestors came from ? What is Genealogy without a bit of history ? A little history of Restigouche County, its cities, towns, villages and parishes I've also added here a list of familiar names to each area if it can help The list is not a complete list but just to give you a general idea of what families were and are living here so please visit this

LOOKING FOR OLD PICTURES OF CAMPBELLTON AND AREA If you have any please e-mail me !!! Click here ---------> Irene Doyle

For those of you who visit regularly I would like to add a "What's New" section here so I can add new links or info to each time I add to the page, so you wont' have to go through the whole page all over again as it seems to be getting quite large. Under My WW1 site, I've added some names, pictures, and stories related to Our WW1 and WW2 Heroes Under Campbellton history, NBTel's phone directory for 1905, new and interesting newspaper articles depicting the fire of 1910, Under Dalhousie history the NBTel's phone directory 1905, a link to Dalhousie history site (not mine) A new link is added also under FACTS / TIDBITS / HELP Nov. 2000, Homicides of Restigouche Also same spot Last Hanging in New Brunswick (Update Dec. 2000)

HISTORY and THINGS

HISTORY If you have any stories, oral history of early NB please email them to me and it will be a pleasure to place them on this page History of the Restigouche Early history of New-Brunswick Very Important People of Restigouche The mayors of Campbellton Mr G.V.H. Farrer Grandpa tell me about the olden days ?? The Grand Jury Recommend The Wiggins Home of Saint John OLD PICTURES OF THE CAMPBELLTON AND RESTIGOUCHE AREA Campbellton and Restigouche area Graduates of 1926 Orphans, pictures, names Page on NB pictures which need to be identified See the Academy classes of 1939 RECORDS Some County Death Records Some County Marriage Records Registers of the Athol House Cemetery Families of Restigouche and area Newspapers of Restigouche County Online database, Grant book of the Provincial Archives Pictorial video of Campbellton by B. G. Gaudet for SALE! Genealogy books for SALE! Campbellton, A Walk Through Time BOOK for SALE!

FACTS - TIDBITS In all of these of course you will find names of some of the people you are looking for maybe ? Records of Land Sales Interesting facts Fires Homicides in Restigouche Last Hanging in New Brunswick Under "My side of the bed" My new WW1 site Militia and War stories and names SHIPS List of ships arriving and sailing from Restigouche and Gloucester ports 1830's and 1840's Mostly at Shippegan, Miramichi, Bathurst and Dalhousie Where ship landed or sailed from, date, type of ship, owner, where from and how many days it took to get here Ships built in Campbellton DOWN-HOME RECIPES Recipes particular to Restigouche or NB Wines, Meatpies, Poutines Fricot, Fiddleheads, Fish etc.... and more to come soon NEW FOLKLORE OF THE RESTIGOUCHE "DUNGARVON WHOOPER"! AND MORE RESTIGOUCHE PHRASES AND WORDS Phrases and words I've grown up with

Visit these OTHER SITES

Make sure you dont miss to visit all these OTHER SITES
I dont want to give you a lot of links but a few good helpful ones

OTHER SITES

Make sure to also visit the

Geographical NAME Search

The Dept of Natural Resources Canada has a site online where you can do a search for Canadian geographical names

QUERIES N.B. Visitor's Center OR Also if you go to this site, you will find A list of people looking for specific surnames This list is not a part of the GenWeb but my private list on my own personal web page On my own web site I also have a Web Board where you can leave a querie of any kind. Looking for a long lost Restigouche County relative or friend? or for an ancestor, post here on Irene's WebBoard Irene's Genealogy Site

GEDCOM FILES PLEASE We would like to have a page dedicated To GEDCOM files depending on YOUR participation So if you have any GEDCOM files you would like to share with us please send them to me by email to [email protected] NOT to the other email on this page please but if you just want to write to me send it to [email protected]

CENSUS INFORMATION

The following information is intended to help you find the Census Records you may need CENSUS INFORMATION FOR RESTIGOUCHE COUNTY I am also working on having some of the original census online

Family still missing?

GREAT RESOURCES FOR YOU

Irene's Genealogy Page This is my own Genealogy home page I place it here because it also contains some On-line registers of Restigouche and Bonaventure County My own Doyle, Godin, Arbour, Poirier, Lapointe, Bourque family trees
A BIT OF "HOW TO" DO YOUR FAMILY TREE Where to start, hopefully helpful hints which will keep you from making mistakes and going around in circles
The Maritime Genealogy Chat Room (provided by NB Chat)..
NB Mail List...
NB Family Reunions...
(1) Online registers in a searchable data base from the New Brunswick's Public Archives. New Brunswick County Birth Registers Index, 1801-1899 also some marriages now AND INFORMATION ON (2) Correspondence of the Provincial Secretary (3) New Brunswick Vital Statistics (4) Records of the Surveyor General of New Brunswick
LIST OF most CHURCHES For Restigouche County Their address, phone number and date established
LIST OF CEMETERIES WHICH THE "RGS"(below) HAS RECORDS FOR
Dalhousie is the seat for the RESTIGOUCHE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (RGS) Here is what they are about and most of what they hold in store to help you such as books, family trees and history, cemetery records, non catholic records church records, who to contact, their fees, services etc... If you feel you have a page or some information you can help with Please email me with it
Here you will find a list of VOLUNTEER HELPERS People who have volunteered to help with either Restigouche, Gloucester Or Bonaventure counties.
Click on MAPS to see maps of New Brunswick and how the counties were divided back then with history of Parishes for some counties
New Brunswick Provincial Archives Main page

AWARDS

I want to thank each and everyone of you who have voted for my site
and made it the
#1 Canada GenWeb Site for January 1998
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This page was designed by Irene Doyle for Restigouche GenWeb, December 1997

Last updated March 2001