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Victoria County GenWeb
The Victoria County Courthouse
is a 1876 Second Empire style building which has served as a jail and as the site of public hangings. In 1909 Green the Peddler was murdered by two Italians, who later were proved guilty and hanged at the Court House. The building is still a functioning courthouse for Victoria County and is now a "Designated Historic Site". Photo - courtesy of Alton Morrell.
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Victoria County, NB
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New Link !
December 17, 2006Tobique Valley Genealogy and Local History Group
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Message from the New Co-ordinator - September 5, 2005 My name is Lezlie Carson and I live in Woodstock, NB. I am looking forward to helping this site grow and to attain more info and links for fellow researchers! If anyone suggestions, please do not hesitate to email me.
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Welcome to the webpage devoted to genealogical research for Victoria County, New Brunswick. It is but a small part of the worldwide GenWeb project, whose ultimate goal is to provide on-line genealogical reference and data from all over the world. If you have any information related to Victoria County, please contact me so that I can set appropriate links to your information.
Good luck in your searches!
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If you have any stories, oral history, old letters, photos of early Victoria
County, New Brunswick, please
email
them to me and it will be a pleasure
to place them on this page .
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→ New to this Site ← Brickwalls - added February 18, 2006 Plaster Rock mill and Pond - added September 9, 2005 Help me add to this section .................
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History and Geography
Located in the western part of New Brunswick, Victoria County
is bordered on the north by Restigouche County, on the east by
Northumberland
and York Counties, on the south by Carleton County, and on the west by Aroostook
County (Maine) and Madawaska County. The genealogist researching records of the
land that is now Victoria County should understand the history of this area, and
the evolution of its borders.
In 1785 New Brunswick was first established and comprised eight counties; the land that is now Victoria county was originally part of York county. In 1831, the northern part of York County became Carleton County. The parishes (similar to US townships, and used as census sub-districts) of Perth, Madawaska, and Andover were established in 1833. In 1844, Victoria County was erected from the northern parts of Carleton County. The parishes of St Leonard and St Basil were established in 1850; Grand Falls, Gordon, Lorne, and Drummond were established in 1852, 1863, 1871, and 1872 (respectively). In 1873, the western half of Victoria County -- including the parishes of Madawaska, St Leonard, and St Basil -- split off to become Madawaska County. Present-day Victoria County comprises Andover, Drummond, Gordon, Grand Falls, Lorne, and Perth parishes.
Principal Towns in Victoria County
Click here for a list of all of the towns in Victoria county, and town-based links.
Principal Rivers in Victoria County
St. John, Little, Salmon, Tobique
Church Records in Victoria County
Click here for the Victoria Churches page, a list of all of the churches in Victoria county, including an indication of which have records (mostly birth and marriage records) that have been microfilmed.
Victoria County Genealogies, Family Histories, and Diaries
Please click here for the page on Victoria County genealogies. These sites point to collections of data that have been generously supplied. Readers are advised that the information could contain errors.
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Some Great Off Site - Links new September 2006
Victoria County Genealogical Guide - PANB
If you notice any broken links on any of these pages please email me!
this site was last updated February 24, 2007
