Edward Hall (abt. 1765)

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Died [date unknown] in New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Edward Hall was born on an unknown date. Edward Hall and Elizabeth Tapley were married 24 May 1792. ^[1] Together they had 2 known children:

1. Catherine Hall and # Francis Hall .

He died on an unknown date.

Research Note About Early Sunbury Marriage Records

Sunbury County was one of the original eight counties established in 1786 as administrative units to oversee local affairs in New Brunswick. Prior to the creation of New Brunswick in 1784 there had been no hard and fast boundaries established for the hinterlands of old Acadia and the British government at Halifax generally spoke of the western areas encompassing the St. John River valley as Sunbury County and the area to the east as Cumberland County. Thus at the time of the creation of the new Sunbury County it was but a shadow of what it had been. There had been little need for such administrative units while the population remained small and distributed, but the influx of ‘Loyalist’ settlers and disbanded military personnel meant a tangible Government presence would be required.

Eventually one of the Government administrative controls implemented was the registration of marriages. Beginning in 1812 marriages had to be registered with the civil authorities (the county councils). Prior to that, the only records of marriage were those filed with clergy, church clerks, or, in the pre-Loyalist period, within township records. For most counties these registers, the originals are actual bound ledgers, still exist and are preserved by the Provincial Archives. Unfortunately this is not the case for all counties and as early as the 1920s it was noted that the location and fate of the Sunbury registers was unknown.

In 1987, in an effort to compensate for this gap and to facilitate research on the history of Sunbury County, Elizabeth S. Sewell compiled a listing of marriages drawn from a variety of sources to publish Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Marriages: 1766-1888, Volume 1 wherein was listed and indexed marriages located at the time. The Sewell book contained marriages from five sources: A) Records of the Town of Sheffield, 1766-1824, 58 marriages; B) William Hubbard marriages, 1788-1824, 63 marriages; C) Sunbury County Council marriage certificates, 1812-1887, 969 marriages; D) Maugerville Christ Church (Anglican) marriages, 1787-1803 and 1867-1877, 187 marriages; and E) Sheffield Methodist (later United) Church marriages, 1815-1893, 47 marriages.

The Sunbury County marriage certificates are small pieces of paper used to capture the information prior to the information being transcribed into the registers. Since 1987, an additional 300 certificates of marriage for Sunbury County were located, bringing the total from this source to nearly 1300 marriages for the period 1812-1887. When created the certificates were numbered by the Sunbury County clerk from 1 to 1303. Forty-one certificates are either missing or the number was inadvertently skipped.

The Provincial Archives has scanned and linked the certificates to the index as part of putting this information on line and is indebted to Betty Sewell for her ground breaking work and to Dale Cogswell for his efforts to bring this project to fruition. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Marriages, Vol. 1, 1766-1888" by Elizabeth S. Sewell, 1987, Ref. D0043, Page 13 and 32, source taken from Christ Church Records, Anglican, Maugerville, certificate number 43 [1]
2. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick [https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/CountyCouncilMarriageRecords/Introduction.aspx?culture=en-CA County Council Marriage Records, 1789-1887 ]

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