The Missing Parish Registers of English Harbour English Harbour is a small Newfoundland outport on the northern shore of Trinity Bay. It was settled as early as the 1600's, and at its height in the 1800's may have had a population of up to 1000.
Today there are two churches in the community.
One is Anglican, the other United. Parish registers for both appear to be missing. I have been to the United Church archives in Toronto and have read letters by some of these early missionaries. From them, it is evident that baptisms and burials were being performed. But the earliest Methodist parish registers that I know can be found for English Harbour only go back to about 1850.