Dalhousie District Vital Records Vol 3, Part 1: 1825-1869

By Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai

Dalhousie District included present-day Carleton County and the City of Ottawa. See the Background section below for details.

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This Volume Includes:

• Carleton County Marriage Returns 1852-1869: We are grateful to the Archives of Ontario for allowing us to search through the pre-Confederation land records for Carleton County where we were able to locate many, but not all the returns of marriages. The original records have not been microfilmed and are not readily available in the reading room of Archives because they are stored offsite and more importantly, because of the fragile nature of the documents. As this is the first complete transcription of these records, all existing information in the original records were transcribed for this book.
• Notre Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral, Ottawa - Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1825-1831: The original registers of the Cathedral of Notre Dame contain baptisms, marriages and burials interspersed in chronological order.
• Records of the North Gower Pastoral Charge: Baptisms 1835-1869, Communions 1854-1869, Marriages 1859-1869 and Circuit Register 1860-1869: The United Church of Canada was formed June 10, 1925 by the union of the Methodist and Congregational churches and seventy percent of the Presbyterian churches. The North Gower Presbyterian Church covered Carleton County localities such as Wellington (now Kars) in North Gower Township, and Osgoode/Osgoode Station in Osgoode Township. The North Gower Methodist Circuit included localities such as Carsonby in North Gower Township and Malakoff in Marlborough Township.

Background: This volume of the District Vital Records Series  combines a variety of parish records and other vital documents to assist in replacing some of the records that should have existed had an original Dalhousie District Marriage register survived. We hope this new series will provide researchers with the tools to learn about the individuals and families of the Dalhousie District through the birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial and other vital records that survive today. As of January 1850 all Districts were abolished and the Dalhousie District became became the independent County of Carleton which remains to this day.

Townships in the Dalhousie District included Fitzroy, Gloucester, Goulbourne, North Gower, Huntley, March, Marlborough, Nepean, Osgoode, Torbolton and the town of Bytown (Ottawa). By 1850 when the District system of government was abolished, the Dalhousie District simply became Carleton County.

Details: 

238  Pages 
8.5" X 11" 
Maps
Index 
This revised and updated edition with new maps and introduction published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2005 ISBN  978-1-894571-68-5 (coil-bound edition)