Norfolk Genealogy | Births Marriages Deaths Etc.

Source Documents
Last updated: 11 Mar 2010

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Primary Sources for data in this section:

	Norfolk Reformer newspaper [NR] which was renamed circa 1900 Simcoe Reformer newspaper [SR] and sometimes called (circa 1936) Norfolk Observer, was originally the Erie News [EN]	Feb-May 1860 [surviving issues only] Apr-Dec 1861 [surviving issue only] Mar-Oct 1862 [partial issues only] Apr 1863 [partial issues only] Apr 1864 [part]; May 1865 [part] Jul 1867 and 8 Aug 1867 Jan 1869 to Dec 1871; May to Jan 1880 Sep 1880 [part]; Jan 1881 to Jan 1884 Oct 1884 to May 1887 5 Jan 1888; Aug-Sep 1888; Apr 1889 [part] Nov 1888 [part]; Jun 1891 to Feb 1910 19 May 1910 [part]; 27 Jul 1910 Dec 1910 to Nov 1916; Dec 1916 [part] Feb 1917 [part]; Nov 1917 [part] 25 Jul 1918 [part]; 19 Jan 1919 [part] Aug 1920 [part]; Nov 1921 [part] Jan, Jun, Aug 1924 [part] 20 Oct 1927 [part]; 14 Mar 1929 [part] Apr 1932 [part]; Jan 1932 [part]; 20 Oct 1932 [part]; Jan-Mar 1936 [part] Jul 1936 [part]; Aug 1936 [part] May 1938 [part]; 9 Jan 1939 [part] Oct 1942 [part]; 23 Apr 1945 [part] Sep 1946 [part]; Jan 1947 [part] Nov 1947 [part]; Nov 1954 [part] Mar 1959 [part]; Feb 1966 [part]
	British Canadian newspaper [BC] published in Simcoe, covered the entire county	21 Apr 1869 issue; 7 Oct 1874 issue Jan 1877 to Apr 1879 issues Jan 1880 to Feb 1881 Nov 1881 to Aug 1882; Oct 1883 to Feb 1885, Mar 1887 to Dec 1891, and selected issues Dec 1885, 1904 to 1907* Jul 1908 to Sep 1908 Jan 1910 to Dec 1910
	1919 Norfolk County Voters' List	Town of Simcoe Village of Delhi Village of Port Dover Village of Port Rowan Village of Waterford Township of Charlotteville Township of Houghton Township of Middleton Township of North Walsingham Township of South Walsingham Township of Townsend Township of Windham Township of Woodhouse
	Photos and videos of cemetery stones	Over a thousand stones from dozens of cemeteries, identified individually, various years
	Ontario Vital Statistics	1869-70 Births: A to Z 1869-79 Marriages Index: A to Z 1870-72 Deaths Index: A to Z 1875 Deaths Index: A to Z 1880 Marriages: A to Z 1881 Births Index: A to Z 1881 Deaths Index: A to Z 1882 Marriages Index: A to Z 1883-1884 Norfolk Births: 394 1883 Deaths Index: A to Z 1903 Norfolk Marriages [incomplete] 1907 Norfolk Marriages: 11 a few others between 1885-1908
	Waterford Star newspaper [WS]	Apr 1883 to Jan 1885 issues; Dec 1886; Jan 1897 to Dec 1899; Jan 1900 [part] Mar 1900 [part]; Feb 1902 [part] Jan to May 1909; Sep 1910 [part] May 1912 [part]; Aug to Dec 1913 May-Oct 1915; Apr 1923 [part] Jun 1924 [part]; Jan 1934 [part]
	Norfolk Observer [NO]	Oct 1840; Jan 1842 {part]; Jan 1873
	Port Rowan News newspaper [PRN]	a few surviving turn-of-century issues
	Port Dover Maple Leaf newspaper [ML]	21 Sep 1894 to 22 Feb 1895
	G. J. Ryerse's Marriage Register	16 Apr 1831 to 22 Nov 1857
	Divisional Register for Charlotteville	1887-1889
	Lynedoch Cemetery Caretaker's Log	1897-1904 burials
	Charlotteville Births 1876-1900	Child's surname A to Z (subset)
	Old Woodhouse Church book	A-Z cemetery transcription, 1895-1910 subset
	Simcoe & Norfolk County, 1924	A to Z
	1907 Simcoe Voters List	A to Z
	Maylin's Tillsonburg Observer Index [TO]	1866 to 1899 (Norfolk County births subset only)
	British Canadian newspaper Index	1906: Surnames A to Z 1907: Surnames A to E
	Tillsonburg Observer newspaper	Jan 1873
	1877 Illustrated Atlas of Norfolk County	Selected articles
	Other Sources / Details about the above

Births Marriages Deaths Etc. indexed here are from birth, marriage and death columns found in microfilmed copies of local newspapers, augmented with articles from the same newspaper and data from other sources -- such as cemetery stones, and birth, marriage and death registers, including Ontario Vital Stats.

This Index is not a transcription. It is only a summary of information found. Always check source documents yourself. This index omits information useful to extend family records.

Each entry ends with a source code in [square brackets]. For example, an entry from the 29 Jan 1907 Simcoe Reformer newspaper ends with [SR19070129]. Photocopies of all Simcoe Reformer, Waterford Star and British Canadian newspaper source documents are available from the Norfolk Historical Society (see Photocopies).

It is always best to list the original document as your information source -- once you have checked it out. Citing web pages is problematic at best, as these dynamic online partial transcriptions are subject to change as proof-reading and subsequent research warrant. Further, web sites themselves are not stable. They close, move, etc., and may not be accessible later.

But it may be best to list these web pages as your source temporarily, until you can confirm the data in source documents. To do so, we suggest using the following format:

Norfolk Genealogy web site (www.nornet.on.ca/~jcardiff),
B-M-D Etc. Index by John Cardiff. Data retrieved [today's date].