TABLE OF THE REGISTERS OF THE FORMER
PARISHES AND MISSIONS OF ACADIA

Locality: Port-Royal after 1710, Annapolis Royal
Parish name: St. John the Baptiste
Foundation date: 1636
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1702-1755
1702-1728 at Halifax
1727-1755 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Locality: Upper Port-Royal
Parish name: St. Lawrence
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Lost
The absence of certain records from the registers of St. John the Baptist suggests strongly that a separate register was maintained for St. Lawrence.

Locality: Chebogue/Cape Sable
Parish name: St. Anne
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Pubnico
Parish name: Our Lady
Foundation date: Probably 1651
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Beaubassin
Parish name: Our Lady of Good Help, later Our Lady of the Assumption
Foundation date: 1679
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1679-1686 at Québec
1712-1723, 1732-1735, 1740-1748 at La Rochelle

Locality: Pointe-de-Beauséjour
Parish name: St. Louis
Foundation date: about 1750
Condition of the Registers: Lost, having been buried and destroyed by the dampness.

Locality: Chipoudy
Parish name: Our Lady of the Visitation
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Tintamarre
Parish name? St. Anne
Foundation date: 1723
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Baie-Verte
Parish name: ?
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Petitcoudiac
Parish name: ?
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1753-1757 at Québec

Locality: Memramcook
Parish name: ?
Foundation date: ?
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Médoctec/Pays-Bas
Parish name: St. Anne
Foundation date: 1686
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Grand-Pré
Parish name: St. Charles of Les Mines
Foundation date: 1687
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1707-1748 at Baton-Rouge, Louisiana

Locality: Rivière-aux-Canards
Parish name: St. Joseph (sometimes St. Joseph of Les Mines
Foundation date: Possibly 1688
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Pisiguit (east)
Parish name: Holy Family
Foundation date: August 8, 1698
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Pisiguit (west)
Parish name: Our Lady of the Assumption
Foundation date: June 28, 1722
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Cobeguit
Parish name: SS. Peter and Paul
Foundation date: Before 1728
Condition of the Registers: Lost, possibly at sea along with t hose of Pointe-Prime

Locality: Pentagouët
Parish name: Holy Family
Foundaation date: 1689
Condition of the Registers: Lost
This parish is mentioned in the record of the marriage of Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Casting, October 31, 1707, in the register of Port-Royal.


NEWFOUNDLAND


Locality: Plaisance
Parish name: Our Lady of the Angels
Foundation date: 1663
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Ile St-Pierre
Parish name: St. Peter
Foundation date: 1687
Condition of the Registers: Lost


ÎLE ROYALE

Locality: Louisbourg
Parish name: Our Lady of the Angels
Foundation date: 1713
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1722-1745, 1749-1758 at Aix-la-Chapelle

Locality: Louisbourg
Parish name: Hospital
Foundation date: 1719
Condition of the Registers: Lost, but two alphabetical tables provide the names and dates of death of the soldiers for 1719-1742, with several notations from 1754, 1755, and 1758 at Aix-La-Chapelle

Locality: Port-Toulouse
Parish Name: St. Peter
Foundation date: 1715
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Petit-Dégrat
Parish name: St. Claire
Foundation date: About 1725
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Port-d'Orléans/Niganiche
Parish name: Our Lady of Good Help
Foundation date: about 1721
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Port-Dauphin
Parish name: St. Anne
Foundation date: abt 1721
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: La Baleine
Parish name: Our Lady of Good Help
Foundation date: 1714
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1714-1745, 1750-1757

There is only one set of registers for the two parishes of La Baleine and Lorembec.

Locality: St-Esprit
Parish name: St-Esprit
Foundation date: 1724
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1724, 1726-1737, 1741-1745, 1749

Locality: Port-aux-Basques (in Newfoundland, but visited by missionaries from Île Royale
Parish name: ?
Foundation date: mission in May 1740
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1740


ÎLE ST-JEAN

Locality: Port-Lajoie
Parish name: St. John the Evangelist
Foundation date: 1720
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1721-1744, 1749-1758 at Aix-la-Chapelle

Locality: St-Pierre-du-Nord
Parish name: St. Peter
Foundation date: about 1720
Condition of the Registers: Existing for 1724, 1728-1730, 1732-1747, 1749, 1751-1758 at Rennes

Locality: Malpèque
Parish name: Holy Family
Foundation date: before 1745
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Rivière-du-Nord-Est
Parish name: St. Louis
Foundation date: 1752
Condition of the Registers: Lost

Locality: Pointe-Prime
Parish name: St. Paul
Foundation date: 1752
Condition of the Registers: Lost at sea

This information is from the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes
by Stephen A. White, Genealogist, Centre d'études acadiennes,
Moncton University, Moncton, New Brunswick. [pp xxv-xxxii]




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