Niagara District Vital Records Vol 1, Part 3: 1816-1866

By Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai

 The Niagara District included the present counties of Lincoln & Haldimand. Boundaries changed as the population grew. See the Background section below for details.

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This Volume Includes:

• St. Mark's Anglican Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake 1816-1839 - Baptism, marriage and Burial records
• Affidavits of Bastardy/Affiliation 1834-1866
• St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake 1840-1845 - Baptism, Marriage and Burial records

Background: This volume of the District Vital Records Series  provides a variety of hard to locate parish records and other vital documents.  The original Niagara District Marriage Register does not survive. In an attempt to capture some of this lost early information for the district, Dan Walker and Fawne Stratford-Devai, with the help of Marilyn Jackson and Brenda Young have begun to assemble and publish all existing vital records (early birth, baptism, death and burial records as well as similar yet unknown vital records) for the Niagara District to include in this volume of the District Vital Records Series .

An example of some of the towns and townships where events occurred and were reported in the Niagara District Vital Records transcriptions include: Niagara township, St. Catharines, Chippawa, Thorold township, Caistor township, Stamford, Moulton township, Grimsby, Louth township, the Falls, Crowland township, Gainsborough, Grantham, Humberstone, Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), the town of Niagara, Queenston, Pelham township, Rainham township, Stamford township, Wainfleet township, the town of Dundas, Walpole township, Trafalgar, Saltfleet, the Grand River, Nelson township, Glanford township, Clinton township, Ancaster and many more areas not noted in the records.

Details: 

242  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 978-1-894571-57-9 (coil-bound edition)