Irish In 19th Century New Brunswick Newspapers

The newspaper database on the New Brunswick Irish portal is made up of a collection of articles from a range of 19th century newspapers from the province. A detailed breakdown of the years of publication is not provided for all papers, but some, such as the Saint John True Liberator was first published in 1847.[1]

New Brunswick Irish Portal Newspapers Database

It does not seem that all articles from all editions of the newspapers are included. Rather, a selection that are most relevant to the history and genealogy of the Irish in the province have been digitized. An unusual but interesting feature of this database is that the selected articles from the newspapers are divided into the following helpful sections:

"Information Wanted" Advertisements

"Reminiscences of New Brunswick"

Affairs and Conditions in Ireland

Agriculture

Assisted Emigration

Cards of Thanks and Commendations

Censuses

Cholera

Conditions in New Brunswick

Confederation and Union of the Colonies

Customs, Exports and Imports

Education

Emigrant Hospital, Almshouse and Lunatic Asylum

Emigrant Societies

Employment and Trades

Illness, Disease and Quarantine

Irish Culture

Juvenile Emigration

Legal Affairs

Miscellaneous

New Brunswick Emigration Office and Emigration Agents

New Brunswick Land Settlement and Colonization

Out-migration

Passage Conditions

Passage Notices and Other Advertisements

Passenger Act

Pauper, Orphan and Emigrant Relief

Physicians and Health Officers

Poetry

Politics

Religious Affairs

Riots

Ship Wrecks and Accidents

Small Pox

Speeches, Debates and Lectures

St. John Board of Health

St. Patrick's Society

The Famine and Irish Relief

The Fenians

Typhus/Ship Fever

Vessel and Emigrant Arrivals

Views on Emigration

Views on the Irish

A quick search of the famous (and unfortunately small number of) 'information wanted' adverts finds articles with priceless genealogical information that can be so hard to find for immigrants from the mid 19th century: year of immigration, names of family members, and exact place of origin in Ireland. Some articles in the "Assisted Emigration" section report on the arrival of the thousands of assisted emigrants from the Gore-Booth estate in Co. Sligo, while there are also articled about societies that operated in the province.

Articles in this database come from the following newspapers:

New Brunswick Courier

New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser

New Brunswick Standard

St. John Liberator Irish Advocate

The Freeman

The Gleaner and Northumberland, Kent, Gloucester and Restigouche Commercial and Agricultural Journal

The Herald

The Morning Freeman

The New Dominion and True Humorist

The New Freeman

The Saint John Gazette and the Weekly Advertiser

The St. John Daily Sun

The Standard or Frontier Agricultural and Commercial Gazette

The True Humorist

The True Liberator

Times

You can access the database by clicking here.

Note - I have previous written about other databases from the New Brunswick Irish Portal: Brenan Funeral Home records, Fitzwilliam Estate Emigration Books, Irish Immigrants in New Brunswick Census 1851 & 1861, and the Teachers Petition Database.

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[1] New Brunswick Provincial Archives. Introduction. Year unknown. http://archives.gnb.ca/Irish/Databases/Newspapers/?culture=en-CA: accessed 11 July 2014.