Saint Patrick Parish GenWeb
Census & Directories
Last Updated 23 Apr 2001
    The first census in New Brunswick to record the names of all people was in 1851 and there were similar censuses every ten years after that until 1956 when the frequency was changed to every five years. The 1851 and 1861 enumerations were provincial and were conducted by the New Brunswick government, while the 1871 and subsequent censuses were federal and were conducted by the government of Canada as part of the regular Canada-wide censuses. All records to 1901, inclusive, have been made public but the federal government is still deciding whether to (ever) release the post-1901 census records. See the Post 1901 Canadian Census Project Website from the Global Gazette for more information.

    Saint Patrick Parish has been used as a census sub-district in all of the enumerations from 1851 to the present. Transcriptions of available enumerations are given below. For before 1851, tax records are a good head-of-household census substitute.

Census Transcriptions
(Second row contains National Archives of Canada microfilm reel numbers.)
1851
1861
1871
1881
1891 New!
1901
C-995 C-1001 C-10375 C-13179 T-6299 T-6440
Published.(1) Published.(2)
Order Info		 Introduction Introduction Introduction. Introduction
Index
1: A - C
2: D - I
3: J - M
4: N - Z		  Index
1: A - D
2: E - J
3: K - N
4: O - Z		 Index
1: A - L
2: M - Z		 Index
1: A - J
2: K - Z
Transcription
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31-35		 36-40
41-45
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51-55
56-60
61-65
66-68
  • Deaths
  • Schools & Churches
  • Mills
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  • Schools & Churches
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    Directories & Miscellaneous

  • Tax Records: Saint Patrick Parish
  • Hutchinson's 1865-66 and 1867-68 Directories: Bocabec
  • Lovell's 1871 Directory: Bocabec, Digdeguash, St. Patrick
  • 1790 Census for Washington County, Maine:  You may find Charlotte County residents here. Look at the "PEM" - Plantations East of Machias.
    • Ocupayshun - Sensus Tayker
    "I am a sensus tayker for the sitee of Bufflow.  Our sitee has groan verry fast in resent years & now in 1865, it has bekum a hard & time konsuming job to kount all the peephill. There are not many that kan do this werk, as it is nesesseree to have an ejucashun, wich a lot of pursons still do not have.  Anuther atribyout needed for this job is gud spelling, for meny of the pephill to be kounted can hardlee speek inglish, let alon spel thair names!"

    Hopefully this explains why you see your "names" spelt differently in some places.
    For more laughs, see: http://genealogy.about.com/hobbies/genealogy/library/humor/blmiscellaneous.htm

    Population of Saint Patrick and Dumbarton Parishes, 1803 - 1961
    Year 1803 1824 1834 1840 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961
    Modern Saint Patrick          
    1461
    1355
    1123
    921
    755
    612
    649
    664
    652
    583
    489
    Dumbarton          
    938
    991
    1000
    807
    711
    718
    700
    640
    639
    634
    620
    Original Saint Patrick
    229
    762
    1507
    2013
    2263
    2399
    2346
    2123
    1728
    1466
    1330
    1349
    1304
    1291
    1217
    1109
    Dumbarton was separated from the original Saint Patrick in 1856.
    Sources:
    • 1803 - 1941: Appendix of Davis. 803 figure is from Donald McDonald's report, page 88.
    • 1951 - 1961: Appendix of Acheson.

    Click graph to enlarge in new window.
    Table originally prepared by Marilyn Strout. Updated and graph added by Craig Walsh.

    Notes

    1. The 1851 census for Charlotte County, New Brunswick was published by the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick in two volumes in 1974 and 1975. Robert F. Fellows was the editor. Saint Patrick Parish is in Volume II, pages 155 - 225.

    2. The 1861 census for Charlotte County, New Brunswick was recently published by the Charlotte County branch of the New Brunswick Genealogical Society and is available for sale. It does not include  Saint James, Saint David and Lepreau Parishes, but it does include all the other parishes including Saint Patrick. Order Info.

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