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Library And Research Centre

UEL LIBRARY & RESEARCH CENTRE

Our Library and Research Centre encompasses all the resources a genealogist needs to research individuals and families in the Bay of Quinte region. At the core of the archives are our Family Files and Family Books. These resources have been developed over the years by independent researchers and by staff and Branch Genealogists who regularly update them as new information and links are discovered.

We have over 1500 publications in our library collection related to local histories, church records, family genealogies, censuses, birth, marriage, death and cemetery records and the United Empire Loyalists. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you in your search for your ancestors, and with some luck you will find what you are looking for.  In 2021 we received a collection of over 400 military related books covering the Seven Years War, American Revolution, and the War of 1812 now available for researchers of these important time periods.

We have also digitized many items in our collection including early documents, photographs, lineages, and other records to assist researchers.  Some items included are the Seymour Store account books, land petition applications, and some early school records from the area.

There are over 1200 different family files published genealogies and family histories in our collection.  Some range from a few pages to a large file or full book on a family.  If you plan a visit to research your family roots, please let us know in advance and our staff can have some of the materials ready for you when you arrive.  You can email us at 1784@uel.ca or phone 613-373-2632.

Happy researching!

GENEALOGIES, FAMILY HISTORIES AND FAMILY FILES AT THE UEL HERITAGE CENTRE & PARK (updated September, 2022)

Abbot, Abel, Abernathy, Abrahams, Ackerland, Ackerman, Acres, Adams, Aelick, Ahagey, Airhart, Akey, Algar/Alger, Alguire, Alkenbrack, Allen, Alley, Allison, Allum, Althouse, Alyea, Amberger, Amey, Anderson, Anglin, Ansley/Anslie, Appleby, Appleton, Apps, Armstrong, Arnold, Arnoldi, Ashley, Asselstine, Auburn, Augustine, Ault, Aurie, Austin, Aylesworth

Babbit, Babcock Backus, Badar, Badgely, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Ballard, Barber, Barker, Barkley, Barnardo, Barnhart, Barr, Barrick, Barrigar, Bartlett, Bartley, Bastedo, Bate(s), Bauder, Baxter, Beasley, Beaubien, Becker, Bedard, Bedell, Beebe, Beeckman, Beeman, Belanger, Belihouse, Bell, Bellamy, Bellyou/Belyea, Belnap, Bemsley, Benn, Bennett, Benoit, Benson, Berdan, Bergen, Berry, Bethune, Bettes/Bettys, Beverly, Bibby, Bidwell, Biggar, Bilow, Bininger, Bird, Birks, Bissell, Black, Blackburn, Blake, Blakely Bleecker, Bogart, Bonesteel/Bonisteel, Bongard, Bonter /Banta, Booth Borland, Botting, Boulton, Bowen, Bower(s), Bowerman, Bowser, Box, Boyce, Bradshaw, Bradt, Brand, Brandt, Brant, Breakenridge, Breault, Brennan, Brewer, Briant/Bryant, Brickman, Brinkeroff, Brisbin, Briscoe, Bristol, Bristow, Brock, Brokaw, Brookes, Brooks, Brosseau, Brouse, Brower, Brown, Brownell, Brownson, Buchanan, Buchner, Buck, Buell, Bull, Bullard, Bullied, Bunnell, Burdeck, Burdette, Burgess, Burk, Burleigh/Burley, Burnett, Burnham, Burnt, Burr, Burt, Burtch, Bush, Butland, Butler, Butterfield, Bygott

Cadman, Cahoon/Colquhoun, Calnan, Calver, Calvin, Cameron, Camp, Campbell, Campney, Campsall, Canavan, Canniff, Cannon, Card, Carl, Carleton, Carley, Carman, Carnahan, Carnian, Carpenter, Carr, Carroll, Carscalllen, Carson, Carter, Carther, Cartwright, Casavan, Casey, Cass, Casselman, Cassidy, Castle, Caton, Caverl(e)y, Cavin, Cecil, Chalmers, Chamberlain, Chambers, Chantler, Chapman, Charbonneau, Chase, Chester, Chevalier, Child, Childerhose, Chisholm, Choate, Chrysler, Church, Clancy, Clapp, Clark(e), Clayton, Cleave, Clement, Clench, Clendennen, Clifford, Cline, Clire, Close, Clothier, Clow, Clute, Coates, Cochran, Colborn, Cole, Coleman, Collins, Commadore, Condon, Conger, Conkey, Conklin, Conway, Cook, Cooney, Coons, Cooper, Copeland, Corbman, Corkey, Cornelius, Cornell, Corner, Cossit, Cotter/Cottier, Couch, Coulter, Countryman, Courvoisier, Covell, Coville, Cox, Cramer/Kreamer, Crandall, Crankshaw, Craven, Crawford, Cronk, Cronkhite, Crook, Cross, Crouse, Crowder, Crowell, Crowley, Crowther, Crysdale, Cryderman,  Crysler, Cummings, Cuncannon, Cunningham, Curlette, Curtis, Curtise, Curwen

Dafoe, Dainard, Dallenbach, Dame, Dancy, Daniel(s), Darling, Daverne, Davey/Davy, Davis, Dawson,  Day, Dayfoot, Deacon, Deane, De Bevoise, Decker, Dedler, Dedrick, DeForest, DeGroff, DeLacourt, DeLancey. Delong, DeLongueuil,  Deloughery, DeMille, Demorest, Dempsey, Denike, Denison Dennis, Denyesm Derbyshire, Deremo, DeRoybonm, Detlor, Dever, Dewar, Dewit, Diamond, Dibble, Dickson, Dillion, Diminie, Dingle, Dingman, Dingwall, Dixon, Dochstader, Doige, Donovan, Doran, Dorland, Dougall, Dougherty, Douglas, Dow, Downes, Doxsee, Drader, Draper, Dresser, Driskill, Drysdale, Duffett, Duke, Dulmage, Dulyea, Dumond, Duncan, Dune, Dunham, Dunmead, Dunn, Dupre, Dusenbury, Dyas, Dyer/Dyre

Eamer, Eamon, Eastman, Eckert, Edgar, Edison, Edmunds, Ellenor, Ellerbeck, Elliott, Elmslie, Elsworth, Embury, Emerson, Emery, Emichen, Empey, Ennis, Everson Evertse

Fairbairn, Fairbanks, Fairfield, Fairman, Falyard, Farquharson, Farr, Farrell, Farrington, Fauconnier. Faulkner, Feake, Fee, Fennell, Ferguson, Fetterly, Field, Fike/Fyke, File, Fillingham, Filson, Finch, Finkle, Finlay, Fish, Fisher, Fiske, Fitchett, Fitzgerald, Flagler, Fletcher, Flewelling, Flynn, Forge, Forneri, Forshee/Forshay, Forsyth(e), Foster, Fowler, Fox, Foxton, Fraleigh/Fralick, Franklin, Fraser, Frederick, Freel, Freeman, Frees, French, Fretz, Frey, Frink, Frizzell, Froom, Fulford, Fuller, Fulton, Furse/Furze

Gaffield, Gallagher, Gallinger, Galloway, Galt, Gardiner, Garner, Garrison, Garrow, Geddes, Geen, German, Gerolamy, Geroux/Gerow, Gibbard, Gilbert/Gillbert, Gilburt, Gilchrist, Gilcrist, Gillespie, Gilmour, Giroux, Gist, Glassford, Gleason, Gober, Goheen, Golding, Goldsbury, Goldsmith, Gooderham, Gordonier, Gould, Gourley, Graham, Grant, Grass, Green, Greenwood, Greer, Griffin, Griffith/Griffis, Grover, Gunn, Gunsolus, Gunter, Gurren

Hadley, Hagan, Hagedorn, Hagerman, Haggerty, Haight, Haines, Haldimand, Hale, Haley, Hall, Halliday, Ham, Hamilton, Hampton, Hand, Hankinson Hanlon, Hannah, Hannon, Harder, Hare, Haring, Harple, Harrier, Harrington, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Harten/Hartin, Hartman, Hartwick, Harwood, Hastings, Haven, Haviland, Hawes, Hawkins, Hawley, Hawn, Hayes, Hayword, Hazlitt, Hearns/Herns, Heck, Hegadorn, Helmer, Hemetty/Henratty, Henderson, Hendry, Henion, Hennessy, Henry, Herchmer/Herkimer, Hermance, Hess, Hicks, Hill, Hillier, Hitchins, Hodge, Hodgins, Hodgkinson, Hodgson,  Hoffnagle, Hogan, Hogeboom, Hogg, Hogle, Holden, Holditch, Holecomb, Holland, Hollinger, Holmes, Home, Hoolahan, Hooper, Hoover/Hover, Hopkins, Hoppe, Horsey, Horsley, Hough, Howard, Howe, Howell, Hubbard, Hubble, Hubbs, Hudgins, Huff, Huffman, Huffnail/Hoffnagle, Hughes, Hughson, Humphrey, Hunter, Hurlburt, Huston, Hutchins, Hutchinson, Huyck(e), Hymers

Ingersoll, Ingraham, Ireland, Irish, Irwin

James, Jameson, Jarvis, Jayne, Jenks/Jinks, Jenkins, Jenne, Jessup, Jewett, Johns, Johnson,  Johnston, Jones, Joyce/Joice, Jubb, Judd

Kaiser, Kalnan, Kast, Kavanauch, Kearney, Keck, Keech, Keegan, Keeler, Keffer, Keim, Keller, Kelly, Kelsey, Kemp, Kennedy, Kenny, Kerfoot, Kerns, Ketcheson, Ketching, Keyes, Kidd, Kilborn, Kilburn, Killingbeck, Killoran, Kimmerl(e)y, Kimmett, Kincaid, King, Kingston,  Kingsbury, Kipp, Kirkpatrick, Knapp, Knight, Knowles

Lacey, Laird, Lake, Lambey, Lamont, Lamson, Land, Landon, Lane, Langford, Lapp, Lar(r)away, LaRue, Lasher, Latta, Laughien, Laughlin/Laughlen Lawler, Lawrason, Lawrence, Lawson, Layton, Lazier, Leacy/Lacey, Leahy/Lehigh,  Leake, Leavens, Leavitt, Lee, Leeman, Legerwood, Lemoine, Lent, Leonard, LeRoy, Lever, Lewis, Lightheart, Lindsey, Link, Little, Livingston, Lloyd, Lobdell, Lockwood, Loft, London, Long, Longuil, Loring, Losse, Lossing, Loucks, Love, Lovett, Lowe, Lowry, Loyst, Lucas, Luffman, Lyman

Mabie, Macauly, MacDonald, Mace, MacIntosh/McIntosh, MacIntyre/McIntyre, Mack, Mackay, Mackee, MacKenna/McKenna, MacKenzie, Maclean, MacNutt, MacPherson, Madden, Madill Magee, Maguire, Mahoney, Mallory, Malone, Malott, Mandevell, Manery, Mangum, Mann, Manning, Manson, Markell, Markle, Marks, Marr, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mat(t)hews, Maybee, Mayhews, Mayne, McAdam, McAlpin, McBurney, McCabe, McCargar, McCarthy, McColl, McCombs, McConnell, McCormick, McCornock, McCowan, McCrae, McCready, McCrimmon, McCrudden, McCumber, McCutcheon, McDonald, McDonell, McDougall, McDowall, McFadyen, McGee, McGillivray, McGuigan, McGuin, McGuinness, McIlmoyle, McKay, McKee, McKenzie, McKim,  McKinnon, McKittrick, McLaughlin, McLean, McLeod, Mcllwaine, McMahon, McMaster(s), McMechan, McMillan, McMullin, McNab(b), McNairn, McNiff, McQuoid, McRae, McTaggart, McTeer, Meacham, Meagher, Medd, Meeks, Membury/Membery, Mercier, Merkley, Merriam,  Merrick, Merrit, Merwims, Meyers/Myers, Mikel, Miles, Miller, Milligan,  Mills, Minaker, Mink, Mitchell, Mitz/Mitts, Mix, Moffat, Monaghan, Monk, Montour, Moon, Moore, Morden, Morey, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Morton, Mosier, Mouck, Mowat, Mullett, Mullins, Mulvihill, Mumby, Munro, Munson, Murdoch, Murdoff, Murphy,

Nairne. Nash, Nealon/Neelon, Neff, Nellis, Nettleton, Newcombe, Nichol, Nicholson, Nightingale, Niles, Nobles, Noonan, Norton, Novil, Noxon, Nugent, Nuttall, Nutter

Oakley, Odell, Ogden, Ogilvie, Oliver, Oronhyatekha, Orser, Osbourne, Osterhout, Ostrander, Ostrum, Ott, Oulette, Outwaters, Owens

Page, Palmateer, Palmer, Papst, Parcels, Parjons, Parkenson, Parker, Parks, Parliament, Parnell, Parrot(t), Patterson, Paul, Pauling, Payton, Pearse, Pearsoll, Pearson, Peck/Peake, Peffley, Pells, Pennal, Percy, Perkins, Perry, Peters, Peterson, Petit, Petrie, Pettifer, Pettingill, Pettit, Philipps, Phinney, Phippen, Pickard, Pickle, Pickler, Pierpoint, Pillar, Pine, Pitman, Pixley, Plamondon, Platt, Pocahantas, Pomeroy, Post, Potter, Powell, Powers, Powley, Prear, Presley, Preston, Price, Priestman, Prindle, Pringle, Prout, Provins, Puffer, Pulver, Punchard, Purdy, Purvis

Quackenbush, Quaker, Quammadore, Quick

Rabb, Radford, Raines, Ramsey, Rankin, Ranney, Ransier/Rancier, Rapson, Rathbun, Rawlinson, Raynor, Redden, Redding, Redick, Redner/Rednor, Rees/Reece, Reid/Read/Reed, Remsen, Renaud, Rendalls, Rennie, Reppard, Reynolds, Richard, Richards, Richardson, Richmond, Rickey, Ridely, Ridout, Riedesel, Rightmeyer, Rikely, Rittwage, Rixon, Robbins, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Roblin, Rockwell, Rogers/Rodgers, Rombough, Rooney, Root, Rorabeck, Rose, Rosebush, Ross, Rourke, Rowe, Ruiter, Ruport, Rush/Rusk, Russell, Ruttan, Rutter, Ryckman, Ryerson

Sage, Sager, Sagriff, Salsbury, Samis, Sanderson, Sanford, Saul, Saunders, Sawyer, Saylor, Schermerhorn, Schneider, Schriver/Scriver, Schryver, Schuyler, Schwartz, Scott, Scout,  Scouten, Seaman, Sear, Secord, Sedore, See, Seeley, Semple Sero, Serviss, Sexsmith, Shales, Shannon, Sharbot, Sharp(e), Shaver, Shaw, Shelley, Sheperd, Sheridan, Sherwood, Shetlor, Shewell, Shewman, Shibley, Shipman, Shoemaker, Shoeman, Shorey, Shorts, Shouldice, Shurtliff, Sigsworth, Sills, Silverthorn, Silvy, Simcoe, Simmons, Simonds, Simpson, Simser/Silmeser, Sinclair, Sine, Sipes, Skelton, Slack, Slaven, Sloan, Slocum, Sloot/Slote, Smith/Smyth, Snetsinger, Snider, Snook, Soales, Soames, Somerton, Sommerville, Soules, Souter, Spafford, Spencer, Spooner, Sprague, Spring, Springer, Squire, Srigley, St.Cyr, St.John, Staats, Stafford, Stagg, Stalker, Stapley, Staples, Staring, Stata, Steel(e), Steenburgh, Steers, Stephens, Stevens, Stevenson, Stewart, Stickle, Stickney, Stief,  Stimers, Stinson,  Stitt, Stocks, Stone, Stoneburgh, Stonehouse, Stoness, Storms, Storring, Story, Sweet, Swerdfeger, Switzer, Symonds

Tanner, Taverner, Taylor, Teal, Teeple, TenBroeck, Tennant, Terhune, Terrill, Terry, Terwillager, Teskey, Thayer, Thomas, Thompson, Thoms, Thomson, Thorn, Thornton, Throop, Tibbutt, Tice, Ticknor, Tobey, Tofflemire, Tomlinson, Tompkins, Tovell, Townsend, Tripp, Trousdale/Truesdell, Truax, Trueman, Trumble, Trumpour/Trumper, Tryon, Tubbs, Tufts, Turcotte, Turncliff, Turner, Tuttle, Tyler

Ubdegrove, Underhill, Unger, Urquhart, Utter

Vail, Valentine, Vallance, VanAllen, VanAlstine, VanBlarcom, VanBuskirk, VanCamp, Vance, VanClief, Vandebogart, Vandeburgh, Vandecar, Vandervoort, Vandewater, Vandusen, VanDuyn, Vanevery/Vanavery, VanHorn, VanKleek, Vankoughnet, VanLuven, VanOrder, VanScott, VanSickler, VanSlyck, Vanslyke,  Vanvalkenburg/VanVolkingburg, VanWert, VanWinkle, Varney, Varty, Vaughan, Veenstra, Vent, Vincent, Vine, Vos, Vrooman

Wagar/ Wager, Wainman, Waldec, Waldron, Wales, Walker, Wall, Wallbridge, Wallis, Walmsley, Walt, Walter, Wannamaker, Ward, Waring, Warner, Wartman, Washburn, Waters, Watson, Wattam, Way, Weagant, Weager, Weaver, Webster, Weekes, Weese, Welbanks, Welsh, Wemp, Wert, Wessels, Westervelt, Wetzell/Witzell, Whaley, Whan, Whattam, Wheeler, White, Whitehead, Whitesell, Whitley, Whittier, Wiggins, Wilcox, Wilde, Wilder, Wiley, Wilkins, Williams, Wilmot, Wilson, Wiltsie, Windover, Wing, Winter, Wolfe, Wolfreys, Wood, Woodcock, Woodruff, Woolsey, Worden, Wright, Wyatt

Yagar, Yarker, Yateman, Yates, Yeoman/Youman, Yerex, York, Yott, Youart, Young

Zimmerman, Zufelt

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What’s New

  • PLEASE NOTE:   For camping inquiries, please email us at  camping@uel.ca. Contact us now for camping this season.  For museum or branch contact us at 1784@uel.ca 
  • NEW MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTRE HOURS:  As of September 1, the museum will only be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 9AM to 4PM.  Note we are closed during the week days.
  • GIFT SHOP:  New gift items, new and used research books, etc are now available in our gift shop in the museum along with candy and pop.  Ice Cream is for sale at the gatehouse office.
  • FOR RESEARCHERS:  More surnames added in 2023 to our list of genealogies and family histories in our library.  To view the surnames, go to our UEL Heritage Centre & Park menu and scroll down to Library & Research Centre.
  • For general inquiries or Bay of Quinte Branch UEL contact us at 1784@uel.ca 

 

  • UPCOMING DATES OF INTEREST:
  • Saturday September 9, 2023 1:30PM  Bay of Quinte UEL Branch meeting at the old Adolphustown Hall, speaker Cheryl Levy talking on Loyalist Women.  All welcome to attend.
  • Saturday September 9, 2023 2nd Annual Chili Fest Cookoff at the stage area at 3PM
  • Saturday September 23, 2023, starting at 10AM, 1812 Veteran Grave Marking Ceremony by Canadian Fencibles and Bay of Quinte UEL, United Church Cemetery in Centreville, ON followed by lunch at LOL Centreville, and grave marking at Moscow United Cemetery in Petworth at 1PM.
  • See our Campground Activities Calendar Page for details on other campground events coming up for 2023.
  • We would like to thank the following for their support:
    The Town of Greater Napanee
    Canadian Museums Association (Young Canada Works)
    Service Canada (Canada Summer Jobs)
    Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport
  • Atura Power, Napanee
  • RTO9 Regional Tourism Organizations
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