La Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est is another important genealogical society that collects information about the marriages, baptisms and deaths of English language families of Lower Canada and Québec, whether found in binders, books, CDs or  online downloads.

Often these guides were compiled and researched by local genealogists or historians who visited the vaults of Protestant churches and English language Catholic churches.

As a long-time researcher in family lineage searches in Québec, I can attest to the accuracy of most of these various compilations, regardless of whether they cover the various Protestant denominations or of the Catholic faith.

Dedicated and persistent family lineage researchers in Québec working at various repositories of the Archives nationales du Québec (10 such archives exist) have referred to these precious indexes during the last ten or more years to identify the church where a child was baptized, in which church young couples were married or the burial place for a person or persons.

Some of the guides I particularly recommend from La Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est, http://www.sgce.qc.ca, sgce@libertel.org are:

Item #9 – Judicial District of St. Francis  – Indexes of Protestant births (1815-1879) – 16 Protestant Churches – 1,240 pages – 2 volumes –  Sherbrooke – Richmond – Stanstead – Wolfe – Compton Counties – Towns of Ascot – Ascot Corner – Ascot Township – Barford Township – Barston Township – Brompton – Brompton Township – Beebe – Beebe Plain – Bury – Bury Township – Bury & Lingwick Township – Charleston – Cleveland Township – Coaticook – Compton  – Compton Township – Cookshire – Danville – District of St. Francis – Dudswell – Dudswell Township – Eaton – Eaton Township – Fitch Bay – Georgeville – Gould – Hatley – Hatley Township – Hereford Township – Lennoxville – Lingwick Township – Magog – Marbleton – Melbourne – Melbourne Township – Melbourne & Cleveland Township – Richmond – Sawyerville – Sherbrooke – Shipton Township – Shipton & Melbourne Township – Stanstead – Stanstead Township – Stukely – Waterville – Westbury Township – Windsor Mills > Spiral binders $113. + taxes-shipping – CDs $45. + taxes-shipping

 Item #10 – Judicial District of St. Francis – Indexes of Protestant marriages (1815-1879) – 16 Protestant Churches – 774 pages – 2 volumes – Sherbrooke – Richmond – Stanstead – Wolfe – Compton Counties – Towns of: Ascot – Ascot Corner – Ascot Township – Barford Township – Barston Township – Brompton – Brompton Township – Beebe – Beebe Plain – Bury – Bury Township – Bury & Lingwick Township – Charleston – Cleveland Township – Coaticook – Compton – Compton Township – Cookshire – Danville – District of St. Francis – Dudswell – Eaton – Fitch Bay – Georgeville – Gould – Hatley – Hatley Township – Hereford Township – Lennoxville – Lingwick Township – Magog – Marbleton – Melbourne – Melbourne Township – Melbourne & Cleveland Township – Richmond – Sawyerville – Sherbrooke – Shipton Township – Shipton & Melbourne Township – Stanstead – Stanstead Township – Stukely – Waterville – Westbury Township – Windsor Mills > Spiral binders $75. + taxes-shipping – CDs $33. + taxes-shipping

 Item #11 – Judicial District of St. Francis – Indexes of Protestant deaths  (1815-1879) – 16 Protestant Churches – 791 pages – Sherbrooke – Richmond – Stanstead – Wolfe – Compton Counties – Towns of: Ascot – Ascot Corner – Ascot Township – Barford Township – Barston Township – Beebe – Beebe Plain – Brompton – Brompton Township – Bury – Bury Township – Bury & Lingwick Township – Charleston – Cleveland Township – Coaticook – Compton – Compton Township – Cookshire – Danville – District of St. Francis – Dudswell – Dudswell Township – Eaton – Eaton Township – Fitch Bay – Georgeville – Gould – Hatley – Hatley Township – Hereford Township – Lennoxville – Lingwick Township – Magog – Marbleton – Melbourne – Melbourne Township – Melbourne & Cleveland Township – Richmond – Sawyerville – Sherbrooke – Shipton Township – Shipton & Melbourne Township – Stanstead – Stanstead Township – Stukely – Waterville – Westbury Township – Windsor Mills  –  791 pages – 2 volumes > Spiral binders $82. + taxes-shipping – CDs $35. + taxes-shipping

Item #29 – Richmond & Drummond Counties Protestant Families – Indexes of church registers (1824-1925) – 250 pages – Towns of: Danville – Drummondville – Durham – Kingsey – Melbourne – Richmond – Shipton – Tingwick – Warwick – Windsor > Spiral binders $38. + taxes-shipping

Item #46 – Shefford County Protestant Families – (1797-1962) – Indexes of marriages, baptisms, deaths – 298 pages – 556 baptisms – 1,418 marriages – 488 deaths – Townships of: Ely – Granby –  Milton – Roxton – Shefford – Stukely > Spiral binders $34. + taxes-shipping – CDs $16. + taxes-shipping

Item #54 – Richmond County Protestant Families – (1820-1925) – Indexes of marriages, baptisms, deaths – 445 pages – 6,105 births – 1,818 marriages–  2,859 deaths – Towns of: Danville – Danville-Asbestos – Denison’s Mills – Durham (L’Avenir) – Kingsbury – Kingsey – Melbourne – Richmond – Shipton – Spooner Pond – Sydenham – Tingwick – Trenholm – Ulverton – Windsor > Spiral binders $46. + taxes-shipping – CDs $22. + taxes-shipping

 Item #56 – Compton County Protestant Families – (1815-1994) – Indexes of baptisms – 510 pages – 15,266 baptisms – Towns of: Agnes – Ascot – Ascot Corner – Auckland – Beebe Plain – Birchton – Bishopton – Bulwer – Bury – Canterbury – Clifton – Compton –  Cookshire  – Ditchfield – Dudswell – East Angus – East Clifton – Eaton – Eaton Corner – Gould – Hampden – Island Brook – Johnville – Lingwick – Marbleton – Marsboro – Marston – Megantic – Milan – Milby – Newport – Orford – Randboro – Sandhill – Sawyerville – Scotstown – Sherbrooke – Stanstead – Stoke – Stornoway – Ste. Cécile – Tree Lakes – Westbury – Whitton – Winslow > Spiral binders $52. + taxes-shipping – CDs $34. + taxes-shipping

Item #57 – Compton County Protestant Families – (1815-1994) – Indexes of marriages – 261 pages – 3,580 marriages – Towns of: Birchton – Bishopton – Bulwer – Bury – Cookshire – Dudswell – East Angus – Eaton – Hampden – Island Brook –  – Lingwick – Marsboro – Megantic – Milan – Sawyerville – Scotstown – Stornoway – Westbury – Whitton – Winslow > Spiral binders $33. + taxes-shipping

 Item #58 – Compton County Protestant Families – (1800-1994) – Indexes of deaths – 355 pages – 10,200 deaths – Towns of: Ascot – Aukland – Barnston – Beebe – Beebe Plain – Birchton – Bishop’s Crossing – Bishopton – Brookbury – Bulwer – Bury – Canterbury – Clifton – Compton – Cookshire – Dudswell – East Angus – East Clifton – East Dudswell – Eaton – Eaton Corner – Galson – Gould – Gould Station – Hampden – Island Brook – Johnville – Lake Megantic – Lawrence – Lennoxville – Lingwick – Magog – Marbleton – Marsboro – Marston – Megantic – Milan – Milby – Newport – North Hill – Randboro – Red Mountain – Sandhill – Sawyerville – Scotstown – Sherbrooke – Stanstead – Stornoway – Weedon – Westbury – Whitton – Winslow > Spiral binders $39. + taxes-shipping – CDs $19. + taxes-shipping

 Item #80 – St. Patrick Catholic Parish – Sherbrooke – Indexes of marriages, baptisms, deaths (1889-2007) – 4,967 baptisms – 1,957 marriages – 1,965 deaths – 1,454 annotations – 550 pages > Spiral binders $55. + taxes-shipping – CDs $26. + taxes-shipping

 Item #95 – St. Peter’s Anglican – Sherbrooke – Indexes of baptisms, marriages, deaths (1822-1999) – 4,794 baptisms – 1,673 marriages – 3,750 deaths – 468 pages  Spiral binders $43 + taxes-shipping – CDs $25. + taxes-shipping

Compiled and researched by Jacques Gagné

gagne.jacques@sympatico.ca

The indexes of people and places found on commercial online genealogy search engines are not always complete or precise. In some cases, indexes compiled by local genealogy societies can fill in these gaps.

This post is the first in a series that will tell you about the indexes of marriages, baptisms, deaths and burials of English-language families in Lower Canada and Quebec. They refer to both Protestant and Catholic church records. You can purchase these indexes as spiral binders, hard-cover books, CDs or, in some cases, as online downloads, from genealogy societies across Quebec.

Volunteer researchers (usually genealogists or historians) have compiled these indexes from two sources. Some come from records held at the 10 branches of the Archives nationales du Québec. In other cases, the researchers actually visited the vaults of Protestant and Catholic churches – something that can no longer be done since most of these records are now held in centralized archives.

Today, most residents of Quebec City are French-speaking, but at one time there was a large English-speaking population in the provincial capital. If you had ancestors in Quebec City, the Société de généalogie de Québec may be able to help you. If you have trouble understanding the French text on the society’s website, cut and paste the text into Google Translate.

The burial records of Mount Hermon Cemetery may be particularly useful for 19th-century ancestors. In the spring of 1847, a group of Protestant businessmen, shipbuilders, merchants and clergy called a public meeting to discuss the possibility of buying land for a rural cemetery. The old Protestant cemetery located near St. Matthew’s on rue Saint-Jean was full and the authorities requested that a new cemetery be established outside the city limits. With the help of lumber merchant John Gilmour, a member of the first municipal council of Sillery and the founder of the cemetery, The Quebec Protestant Cemetery Association was created on February 11^th 1848. The cemetery is located in the Sainte-Foy-Sillery borough of Quebec City and overlooks the Saint-Lawrence River.

Société de généalogie de Québec

Postal Box : C.P. 9066 Succ. Sainte-Foy

Québec QC G1V 4A8

Library : 1055 Avenue du Séminaire, local 3112 –

Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Cassault – Cité universitaire Laval, Québec

Contact us: http://www.sgq.qc.ca/nous-joindre

418-651-9127

General emails: sgq@uniserve.com

www.sgq.qc.ca

Boutique (Book Store) http://www.sgq.qc.ca/boutique-genealogie-repertoires-dvd-histoire

Click on: Répertoire paroissiaux

Item # 112 – Mount Hermon Cemetery – Cimetière de Mont-Hermon – Mount Hermon Cemetery burial register from 1848 to 1904 – English-language book of 380 pages in total, 60 pages of indexes of people – Between 1848 and 1863, 6,164 entries; half of the deceased were members of the Anglican Church (2,991), Presbyterian Church (1,117), Methodist Church (583)

Cost of book: $50. CDN + $20. CDN shipping – Purchase form:  http://www.sgq.qc.ca/images/_SGQ/Publication/formCommande2015.pdf

418-527-3513

Brian J. Treggett, Superintendent,

1802 Chemin Saint-Louis, Québec, QC,

G1S 1H6

mounthermon@qc.aibn.com

http://www.mounthermoncemetery.com/en/

Compiled by: Jacques Gagné

gagne.jacques@sympatico.ca

2016-03-13