N.B. county census books at UM library

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If you’ve been to the Maine State Library in Augusta, you may have noticed several books of census records for counties in New Brunswick.

You’ll be interested to know that the University of Maine’s Fogler Library in Orono also has several census books in the government documents room on the first floor, over in the corner by the maps. In particular, I found:

. Albert County, 1851.

. Alnwick, Northumberland County, 1851-1861-1871-1881.

. Carleton County, 1851.

. Charlotte County, 1851.

. Gloucester County, 1861, 1871, 1881.

. Kings County, 1851.

. Kingston, Kings County, 1851-1861-1871-1881.

. Northumberland County, 1851.

. Queens County, 1861.

. Restigouche, 1851, 1861, 1871.

. Saint John County, 1851.

. Saint Mary’s, York County, 1851-1861-1871-1881.

. Westmorland, 1851.

. York County, 1851, 1871.

Commas between years indicate separate volumes, whereas hyphens indicate four censuses in one volume.

If you look up census records on URSUS at http://130.111.64.3/, you will find listings of census on microform as well as in books. I use URSUS a lot because it tells me what’s in the University of Maine libraries around the state as well as Bangor Public and the Maine State Library.

When it comes to the year 1881, of course, we don’t have to go looking in books. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has names indexed for both the 1881 Canadian Census and the United States 1880 Census at www.familysearch.org. If you find a name indexed, you can pull up the whole household and look at it. What a project.

When visiting Fogler Library, you may find evenings and weekends the most convenient time to visit because parking is more available. For library hours, call the automated number, 581-1664.

There are Pembrokes in Maine and Massachusetts, of course, but there’s a Pembroke in New Hampshire, as well, a little bit south of Concord in Merrimack County.

In 1976, the Allenstown-Pembroke Bicentennial Committee reprinted the two-volume “History of Pembroke, N.H.: 1730-1895,” written by Nathan Franklin Carter.

The second volume contains an impressive 334 pages of family histories: Abbott, Adams, Ambrose, Ames, Appleton, Austin, Ayer, Baker, Bartlett, Batchelder, Bates, Blake, Brickett, Burnham, Carlton, Carr, Chamberlain, Charles, Cheney, Chickering, Cilley, Clement, Clifford, Cochran, Colby, Connor, Cotton, Cram, Crane, Culver, Cushing.

Davis, Dearborn, Dodge, Doe, Doyen, Drew, Dudley, Eastman, Elliott, Emery, Farnum, Favor, Fellows, Fife, Ford, Foster, Fowle, Fowler, French, Frye, Gale, Gault, German, Gilbert, Gile, Gilman, Glidden, Gordon, Haggett, Hall, Haseltine, Hayes, Hayward, Head, Hemphill, Hearin, Hobbs, Holt, Hutchinson, Hyatt.

Jenness, Kelley, Kimball, Kittredge, Knox, Ladd, Lake, Lakeman, Lancey, Lane, Leavitt, Lewis, Little, Locke, Lovejoy, Lucas, Mann, Marden, Martin, McConnell, McCutcheon, McDaniel, Merrill, Millard, Moore, Morgan, Morrison, Morse, Newell, Norris, Noyes, Osgood.

Paine, Parker, Payson, Peabody, Perkins, Pettengill, Phelps, Phillips, Pillsbury, Prescott, Richardson, Robertson, Ruggles, Sargent, Sawyer, Seavey, Severance, Shackford, Shattuck, Simpson, Smith, Snell, Spalding, Stanyan, Stevens, Stickney, Stone.

Swett, Thompson, Tyler, Walker, Wardwell, Warren, White, Whitehouse, Whittemore, Wilkins, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Ambrose, Dearborn, Hill, Knox, McFarland.

That is truly a list of good old New England names. The genealogy volume continues with Pembroke marriages for 1739-1895, and an index of names.

“The History of Pembroke, N.H.: 1830-1895” is available in the Bangor Room at Bangor Public Library and at Maine State Library.

An informal reunion for family and friends of Joe and Betsy Pinette and their children, Eddie, Nellie Gray, Percy, Bill, Essie Gonya, Diddy Hitt and Tutta Arnold, will be held noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at Fellowship Hall of the Church of the Nazarene, 134 Forest Ave., Millinocket. For information, call Nessa Burns Reifsnyder, 276-3365.

3292. STOCKER-SHORT. Seeking parents, ancestry for Sarah Stocker of Amesbury, Mass., who md. Nov. 19, 1799, Samuel Short, b. Jan. 3, 1771, West Newbury, Mass., son of Barnes Short and Mary (?). Also seeking ancestry of Barnes and Mary. Danny W. Howard, DECF 64 Base Road, Machiasport, ME 04655.

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.