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Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 3:33PM GMT
Classification: Lookup
Surnames: Various names
Hello everyone.
My name is Nancy Rourke and I have been collecting information from various Microfilm reels, from the New Brunswick Archives, for about 3 - 4 years. If anyone is looking for a specific persons B, D. or M. email me and maybe I have this information for you.
Have yourself a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 6:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Sherman-Beck/Peck-Crandall
Hi Nancy,

Thanks for the offer. I am looking for the marriage date and place for Ring Sherman/Shearman b. 17 Dec 1749 in Massachusetts and migrated to Nova Scotia/New Brunswick circa 1764 with father Caleb and brother Young. He married Mary ? probably in Canada before 1785 and lived near Salisbury, NB after purchasing land from the original Gay grant.

If you have any information about the marriage and maiden name of spouse, Mary, or the burial place of Ring Sherman b. 1749, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you also.

Bill Bear
Email: beartrax at mtaonline dot net

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 8:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Bill Bear.
Sorry no names like that.
I don't have anything that far back.
Take care
Nancy

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 8:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks anyway for checking.

Bill

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 9:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
No problem : )

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 4:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
The SHERMAN family is listed in the the NB Genealogical Society's website on first families. They advise that you should do your own documenting as the data is donated and could have errors.
It's at http://www.nbgs.ca/firstfamilies.html

Good luck,
Suzanne Carter

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 2:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Suzanne,

I have seen those collections in the NB Archives before and yes, they are loaded with errors and contradictions to some of the original documents that I have been able to locate.

It is too bad that the NBGS does not allow a "comment" link so that researchers who find new and clarifying information can share the new evidence and appropriate source citations.

I am preparing a new edition of my booklet, 'In Search of Caleb' and I think I'll include a chapter specifically on corrections to existing data bases commonly found in places like the NBGS and others.

Since I began researching Sherman/Shearman/Sharman families in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, I have found information that contradicts some of the NBGS records. In one case, the person who transcribed some of the Sherman research by Humphreys apparently misread some of the material. Another example is the fact that there is no evidence that Ring Sherman b. 1749 is buried with his wife Mary (maiden name unknown) who died in 1823. I personally searched that burial ground near Salisbury and there is no headstone for Ring, nor do the transcribed church records list Ring as being buried there. There are other examples of errors in facts and conclusions.

I queried a source at Plymouth, Mr. Dale H. Cook, about this subject and he had these comments about the Sherman surname data provided by NBGS (I sent the Sherman PDF file from the NBGS to him for reference):

" There is no record of her [Rebecca Sherman] death at Plymouth, per Lee D. van Antwerp and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Editors, "Vital Records Of Plymouth, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850" (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), which was transcribed directly from the Plymouth town record books.

The information in that [NBGS] PDF file is from a contributor, not from contemporary records. The quality of that contribution is highly suspect, both for events not borne out by contemporary records such as Rebecca's death, and for events from those records which are not shown, but should be, such as the 29-Aug-1738 death at Plymouth of Caleb's first wife Deborah [Plymouth VR 138]. Any recently compiled genealogical information that does not cite contemporary records is, prima facie, of questionable value.

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net "

I do appreciate your interest, Suzanne, and thank you for forwarding the lead you had. I guess the only way to proceed beyond the current information is for someone to come forward with previously unknown original sources that we can use to collaborate and strengthen some of the information.

I hope you had a great Christmas Holiday and are looking forward to a prosperous New Year.

Bill
Sherman William Bear
Author, 'In Search of Caleb'
Email: beartrax at mtaonline dot net

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 3:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Crabbe; Chisholm; Enouck (also possibly Nichols)
Hi Nancy, My maternal line has roots in New Brunswick, especially the Carleton County area. Do you have any records for Crabb(e) or Chisholm; specifically, John Jacob Crabbe (abt 1780 to Sep 1861) married to Catherine Enouck(spelling?) and anything on her parents; and George Chisholm (born in Nova Scotia 29 Oct 1841 and meeting his wife, Louise Crabbe in Woodstock, NB? I do not have much information on their parents or grandparents if your items mention their names and any dates. Thank you so much!

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 4:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sorry but none of those names are familiar and I don't have anything on them.
Have a good day
Nancy

Re: Births, Deaths and Marriages

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 1:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Melvin
Hi Nancy - I'm in NL and trying to track down some relations in NB. I was wondering if you might have any records on a Gary Melvin. Birth would have been somewhere around 1949 give or take a year and married around 1971 give or take a year.
Thanks,
Joanne
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