Marlborough Township Papers

The Marlborough Township Papers have been indexed from copies of documents obtained in microfilmed form from the Ontario Archives.

The Ontario Archives website describes 'Township Papers' in this manner:

The series RG1, C-IV consists of a miscellaneous collection of Crown Land documents.
• They include: copies of Orders-in-Council, location certificates and tickets, assignments, certificates of settlement duties, copies of receipts, some correspondence (mostly inquiries), copies of Surveyor-General's descriptions, and a few patents. The records are arranged by township, town or village.
• Within each township, records are arranged by concession and within each concession by lot number. Towns and villages are identified as such and documents within these sections are arranged alphabetically by name of locatee.

The file of Marlborough Township Papers consists of 1353 documents, generally from the period 1800 - 1850; a few documents were created both before and after that period. The index, which has been created from a database, may be searched from the link below. Prior to microfilming, every item in the file of 1353 documents was serially numbered, no matter how insignificant it's nature. Many documents are not useful for family history purposes and have been excluded from the index. Among the exclusions are, for example,

• many single sheets inserted to identify the lot number and concession number of the immediately following documents,
• documents which are covers for letters, in the manner of an envelope, and
• duplicate items.

Frequently two or more records in the database were created for a single document. This occurred when, for example, the related document contained the names of two or more persons. Creating multiple records for a single document ensures that researchers may locate family names which would otherwise be hidden in a document which is indexed on a single name. With each document which has been indexed there is a brief summary of it's substance. These summaries are seldom transcriptions of the text of the document but should be sufficient to enable researchers to decide whether or not the microfilm should be obtained in order to view the entire document.

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Family names are listed in the index in alphabetic order. For each record, i.e. for each family name listed in the index, there is displayed:

• the serial number of the document,
• the date of the document,
• the lot number and the concession number in Marlborough township to which the document relates,
• the family name and the forename of the particular person, and
• a brief summary of the document content

CAUTION:

This index was created for my personal use and has not been verified. Accordingly there is a definite but unknown error level. I am glad to share it but, in every case, it must be used only as an index and reference must be made to a copy of the original document for content.

Follow this link to the Index to the Marlborough Township Papers.


The index is in Portable Document Format (PDF) which denies editing, selecting, copying and printing. Acrobat Reader (for viewing PDF files) is available at no cost for most platforms from http://www.adobe.com.

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