Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
PANB has recently posted loyalist pension affidavits on its web site-- searching there, I found a number of pension requests for my 5th g-grandmother Abigail Branch Hooper b. abt. 1762, wife of Loyalist William Hooper. Each indicates that they were married either in "Majorfield" or "Majorville"-- one of the documents adds "Sunbury County" after the town location. I cannot find either town on the maps. Does anyone know where the town might be or have been?? I would greatly appreciate any help that is out there. Thank you.
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Re: Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
Try looking for Maugerville, that's how it's been spelled for as long as I can remember and it's in Sunbury County.
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Re: Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
You'll find Maugerville about 3 kilometers (2 miles) south of Oromocto on the west side of the Saint John River. The Maugerville courthouse anchors one side of a bridge that crosses the river at that point.
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Re: Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
Hi, I know you did this Post back in 2002 and may have found your information by now but I just recently found this info and wanted to share it. The ancestor I have been researching was married at Majorville, Nova Scotia which turns out was in Sunbury County.
Sunbury County, Nova Scotia
Sunbury County was a county in Nova Scotia. The county ceased to exist when the province of New Brunswick was created in 1784. The county was created in 1765, and included the north and eastern portions of Cumberland County as well as the eastern portion of the District of Maine. The county's seat and its court of general sessions were established at Campobello. The Province of Massachusetts was jurisdictionally in control of the District of Maine, though in practice, neither Boston nor Halifax were interested in expending energy or money to administer the area so the geographic overlap was permitted to exist. In 1784, the western third of the county was returned to the District of Maine, which was then part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The remainder became the colony of New Brunswick, which was created in part due to the immigration to Nova Scotia of many thousands of Loyalists refugees following the American Revolutionary War. Today, there is a remnant of the original county which continues the name - Sunbury County is located in central New Brunswick.
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Re: Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
The settlememt is called Maugerville and it still exists today on the outskits of Fredericton NB It is located on the river road that runs from fredericton to Sussex
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Re: Town of Majorville or Majorfield??
Are you still looking for the location of the town of Majorville or Majorfield?
This is the town of Maugerville, which also is in the parish of Maugerville, Sunbury Co., New Brunswick. This name is pronounced majorville.
If you go to google and type in "Sunbury County, New Brunswick Wikipedia" it will list all the parishes and towns for Sunbury County and also has a map of the counties. You can do the same for other counties, though not all towns are listed by parish (ex. in Province of Nova Scotia). It is very helpful to go by the county, parish and towns at the Wikipedia site.
In the 1700s (to late 1800s censuses and many other documents, etc.) they are most likely referring to the Parish of Maugerville, rather than the town of Maugerville.
Since your msg is old, you have likely found what you are looking for by now.
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