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Al Beagan's "Genealogy Notes"© 1996 of Newfoundland
this page covers Up to 1829
Map of English settlement in Newfoundland
Excerpts from the diaries of Benjamin Lester
Index of names as spelled in the records
This index covers two sites and will have to suffice untill I get around to splitting it up. If the name you have interest in appears in the index below than enter the name, as spelled, in the search feature of your browser. If the name search does not bring up a citation than go to 1830 - 1900's and repeat the search.
Names in Red added to since last update March 6, 1999
Names in underline lead to other info, usually a chart
Adams, Aldridge, Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Angel, Angwin, Anley?, Annman, Anstey, Antoine, Appleton, Apthorp, Aram, Arnott, Ash, Ashe, Ashford, Astwick, Atchison, Atkinson, Attwood, Auley, Ayre, B--ny, Bagan, Baggan, Baggs, Bahan, Baine, Balin, Ball, Bamble, Bambury, Barbier, Barnes, Banks, Barnstead, Barr, Barry, Bartar, Bartlett, Bates, Bath, Bathurst, Batson, Batstone, Batstone, Batt, Battle, Battrick, Beachoner, Bearns, Beaucamp, Beehan, Began, Begens, Begg(ane), Beghin, Begin, Beginn, Beg(u)in, Bejan, Bell, Benest, Benjamin, Bennett, Benson, Berteau, Besston, Besstone, Besstones, Best, Bibbins, Bigan, Biggane, BIGGIN(S), Bird, Bishop, Bisson, Blaikie, Blake, Bland, Blenkinson, Blenkiron, Blewett, Bobbitt, Bonnell, Boone, Borwing, Botterell, Boucher, Bowdige, Bowers, Bowden, Bowring, Boyde, Brace, Brake, Brace, Brake, Branscomb, Brazill, Breen, Brett, Brewer, Bridges, Bridle, Brigg, Brine, Brogan, Brooking, Brooks, Broom, Brophy, Bror, Brown, Brumfield, Bryant, Buchan, Buddon, Bugden, Bull, Buller, Bulley, Burden, Burt, Burts, Burton, Butler, Butt, Butts, Cabot, Cahill, Caines, Cairns, Callaghan, Campbell, Carlilly, Careen, Carny, Carrington, Carson, Carter, Carteret, Cartwright, Cavanagh, Cave, Chalk, Chambers, Chancey, Chapman, Chapple, Chastray, Chevalier, Chevallier, Cheveilier, Childe, Church, Churchill, Clark, Clement, Clerk, Clift, Clinton, Cobbeduck, Cockbill, Cockran, Coghlan, Coleman, Colesworthy, Congdon, Connall, Connil, Cook, Coward, Clement, Colbourne, Colburn, Collins, Conors, Connors, Cook, Cooke, Cooley, Coombs, Cosh, Coster, Costin, Cottman, Court, Cowan, Coward, Cox, Coyell, Cramer, Cravitt, Cressy, Crew, Critch, Croker, Croluley, Cross, Crosscombe, Crowe, Crowly, Crummey, Cuddihy, Cullan, Cullen, Culliton, Cummins, Cunningham, Curnew, Curran, Curtis, d'Annaville, Dalley, Dalton, Daniel, Danson, Darby, Davis, Daw, Dawly, Dawson, Deacon, Dean, De Beauvoir, De Gresh, DeGrish, De-la-cour, Delaney, Dempster, Des Virge, Dennis, Denton, Dicks, Dixon, Dodd, Dogh, Dorey, Dormady, Dougherty, Downton, Dowton, Doyle, Driskol, Drover, Duchemin, Duder, Duggan, Duke, Dumaresq, Dumaresq(ue), Dumeresque, Dunn, Dunscomb, Durdle, Du Tot, Du Val, Du Verge, Dyet, E-----, Eales, ?ealin, Earle, Ebsary, Edmunds, Edward, Edwards, Ellidge, Elliett, Elliott, Ellis, Emberly, Eppes, Evans, Every, Eyres, Facy, Fall, Farrill, Ferges, Fifield, Fillier, Fisher, Fitsgerald, Fling, Flood, Follett, Ford, Forsey, Forsyth, Forsythe, Forward, Fox, Frampton, Franklin, Frasel, Freeman, French, Friend, Frost, Fudge, Furber, Furey, Fursey, Gabriel, Gaden, Gaffney, Gall, Galliott, Gallop, Garland, Gestican, Gilham, Gill, Gillingham, Gleason, Goddin, Goodrich, Gorman, Gosselin, Goswold, Gouchey, Grandy, Gready, Grealeys, Greatheed, Green, Greze, Griffith, Grimbsy, Grindale, Grouchy, Gruchy, Guest, Gushue, Guy, Guzwell, Gyde, Haight, Haire, Hale, Hall, Halliday, Hamilton, Hamlin, Hammond, Handcock, Hannam, Hardcastle, Harries, Harris, Hart, Harts, Harvey, Hawco, Hawkins, Hawood, Haynes, Haywood, Hearne, Heath, Heaven, Hefferen, Hellings, Hennasey, Hepburn, Hewson, Heyfield, Hickson, Higgins, Hillier, Hillyard, Hines, Hodder, Hoisington, Holdright, Hookey, Hooper, Hosier, House, Howlan, Howells, Howley, Hoyles, Hudson, Hue, Huie, Hulon, Hunt, Hunter, Hutchings, Hutton, Jacobs, Janvrin, Jennings, Job, Johnson, Johnston, Johnstone, Jones, Jost, Joyce, Keats, Keefe, Keife, Kember, Kemp, Kenedy, Kennady, Kennoway, Kent, King, Kirby, Kirke, Klatzy, Knight, Knot, Knott, Kydd, L--ry, Lacey, La Four, Lake, Lambert, Lancaster, Landen, Lang, Langdon, Langdown, Langley, Langlois, Langwill, Lawrence, Leahy, Leane, Le Bailly, LeBOUTILLIER, LeChene, Le Couteur, Ledgard, Le Drew, Le Feuvre, Le Fevre, Le Grow, Lemard, Le Marquand, Le Merchant, Le Messitrier, Le Messurier, Lemon, Lempriere, Lesbirel, LeShane, Lester, Le Vesconte, Lewis, Lilley, Lilly, Linfield, Linthorne, Linch, Linthorne, Little, Littles, Little(ton), Liven, Lott, Lowman, Lynch, Lyon, Ma-----, Macbraire, MacCarthy, Mackey, MacPhearson, Macurdy, Maddick, Mahar, M'Allaster, Mansfield, Mansfile, March, Marett, Marriault, Martell, Martin, Mathews, Maugier, M'Callum, McCarty, McCarthy, McCoubrey, McDaniel, McGraugh, McKillop?, Meagher, Meigs, Melledge, Meservey, Messervey, Messervy, Mifflen, Miles, Miller, Mills, Minor, Minty, Mitchell, M'Kie, Moore, Moors, Moran, Moreen, Morris, Mullin, Mullins, Murley, Murphy, Murray, Murrin, Murry, Nevins, Newhook, Newell, Newman, Neyle, Nicholas, Nicholle, Nicolle, Nichols, Noble, Noel, Noftal, Norman, Northcliffe, Noseworthy, Not, Nott, Normore, Norris, Nurse, Oake, (O)Biggane, O'Donnell, Olding, Olsen, Orange, O'Regan, Orengette, Osmond, Owen, Parker, Parsons, Partridge, Pasquire, Patten, Patterson, Patriarche, Paul, Payne, Pays, Payton, Pearce, Pearl, Peddle, Pelley, Perchard, Perden, Perkins, Perryman's, Pett, Peyton, Picco, Piccott, Pichavant, Pickering, Pickmore, Picot, Pike, Pinehorn, Pinsent, Pinson, Pitt, Pittman, Pitts, Pipon, Plowman, Poingdestre, Pollard, Poole, Poor, Pottle, Pound, Power, Pratt, Preston, Prichard, Puddester, Puddister, Pulling, Quinn, Randell, Reardon, Reby, Reid, Rennie, Renouf, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Rich, Richmond, Ricketts, Ridley, Roberts, Robins, Robinson, Roche, Rogers, Rogerson, Rondell, Rolls, Roope, Rose, Rosewell, Roswell, Rounsell, Rousal, Rousel, Rousell, Rousseau, Routh, Rowe, Rowland, Rowsaill, Rowsal, Rowsall, Rowsell, Russell, Ryall, Ryan, Ryne, Sacrey, Samways, Sanders, Sanderson ?, Scallon, Schofield, Scott, Scudder, Seale, Seward, Shalow, Shanahan, Shannahan, Shano, Shaw, Shea, Sheahan, Sheppard, Short, Simon, Simms, Simpson, Skanes, Skeard, Slade, Slate, Slater, Sleate, Smith, Smithies, Snellgrove, Snook, Snow, Snowdon, SOPER, Spaulding, Spracklin, quarey, Squary, Squarry, Squire, Squires, Stabb, Stafford, Stares, St. Croix, Stentford, Stephens, Sthephens, Stewart, Stick, Stirling, Stocks, Storey, Stover, Strickland, Strong, Storey, Sweeny, Sweet, Sweetland, Tasker, Taylor, Teage, Temple, Templeman, Tessier, Thomas, Thompson, Thorburn, Thornton, Tobin, Touzell, Townsend, Tozer, Tremlett, Trouck, Trousloe,Tuff, Tuffin, Turner, Tyler, Undrey, Valpy, Verge, Vey, Vincent, Vinsant, Vinsen, Virge, Virgee, Waggoner, Waldron, Walker, Wallis, Walsh, Walters, Ward, Warn, Warne, Warren, Waterman, Watson, Webber, Wells, Welsh, Whalan, Whalen, Wheeler, Whelan, White, Whitten, Williams, Winter, Winton, Wiseman, Woolfrey, Wright, Wylds, Young
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Some Knight place name in NFLD
Name Province/ Knight's Arm; Distance; (km) / Distance (mi)
Chamberlains Nfld. Unincorporated area 2 / 1
Codner Nfld. Unincorporated area 4 / 2
Conception Bay South Nfld. Town 4 / 3
Foxtrap Nfld. Unincorporated area 3 / 2
Greeleytown Nfld. Unincorporated area 3 / 2
Long Pond Nfld. Unincorporated area 1 / 1
Manuels Nfld. Unincorporated area 0 / 0
Peachytown Nfld. Unincorporated area 3 / 2
Talcville Nfld. Unincorporated area 1 / 1
Topsail Nfld. Unincorporated area 2 / 1
Topsail Beach Provincial Park Nfld. Conservation area 4 / 3
Woodstock Nfld. Unincorporated area 4 / 3
Here is the list of places within 20 km (12 m) of Knights Brook, Newfoundland: (km) Distance (mi)
Beaver Nfld. Unincorporated area 9 / 6
Benoit's Cove Nfld. Unincorporated area 17 / 10
Cooke Nfld. Unincorporated area 14 / 8
Country Road Industrial Park Nfld. Unincorporated area 19 / 12
Frenchman's Cove Nfld. Unincorporated area 19 / 12
Gallants Nfld. Village 20 / 12
Georges Lake Nfld. Unincorporated area 17 / 11
Georgetown Nfld. Unincorporated area 17 / 11
Gillams Nfld. Village 19 / 12
Halfway Point Nfld. Unincorporated area 15 / 9
Humber Arm South Nfld. Town 16 / 10
John's Beach Nfld. Unincorporated area 18 / 11
Meadows Nfld. Village 17 / 11
Mount Moriah Nfld. Town 17 / 11
Petries Nfld. Unincorporated area 18 / 11
Serpentine Nfld. Unincorporated area 11 / 7
Sopers Nfld. Unincorporated area 16 / 10
Spruce Brook Nfld. Unincorporated area 15 / 10
Voy's Beach Nfld. Unincorporated area 18 / 11
: Knights Island, Newfoundland; Here is the list of places within 10 km (6 m) of Knights Island, Newfoundland:
(km) Distance (mi)
Comfort Cove-Newstead Nfld. Village 5 / 3
Samson Island Nfld. Unincorporated area 9 / 6
Here is the list of places within 5 km (3 m) of Knights Point, Newfoundland: (km) Distance / (mi)
Hodderville Nfld. Unincorporated area 2 / 1
King's Cove Nfld. Village 3 / 2
Knights Cove Nfld. Unincorporated area 2 / 1
Stock Cove Nfld. Unincorporated area 4 / 3
Upper Amherst Cove Nfld. Unincorporated area 5 / 3
Knights Cove
(pop. 1986, 103). A community in Blackhead Bay, approximately 20 km southwest of Bonavista. Knights Cove was probably first settled in the 1790s or early 1800s by families from nearby King's Cove qv. At that time King's Cove was growing rapidly and several outlying coves were settled for shore space to prosecute the inshore fishery. A local tradition has it that Knights Cove was originally known as Night Cove, and that the inhabitants of King's Cove caroused there in the evenings in order to avoid ``dirtying their own nest.''
Settlement was also attracted to Knights Cove by the availability of land for gardens and livestock, as surplus produce found a ready market in King's Cove. Families that moved from King's Cove included the Aylwards, Ryans and Walshes. Family tradition has it that Vincent Ricketts arrived from England c.1825, establishing what remained the dominant family name in the community in 1990. Knights Cove had a population of 48 by the first Census in 1836. By 1857 the number of inhabitants had risen to 96 people, occupying nine fishing rooms, with two full-time farmers and four lumbermen. There was a Roman Catholic school/chapel between Knights Cove and Stock Cove qv.
By 1884, with King's Cove in its heyday as a commercial centre, the population of Knights Cove had risen to 157. Although the community earlier had a mix of Catholic and Protestant inhabitants, by 1884 it was almost exclusively Roman Catholic, as Church of England residents had either moved or (like the Ricketts family) converted to Catholicism.
In the twentieth century lumbering increased in importance as a source of employment and many Knights Cove residents began to work outside the community. By Confederation the local inshore fishery had all but died and the community's population began to decline.
VIN(N)ICOMBE
Surnames of England from the English place name Vin(n)icombe (Devon) (Spiegelhalter)
In Newfoundland: Early Instances: William Vinicomb, of St. John's, 1753 (DPHW 26C) ---- Vinnecombe, in possession of land at Quid Vidi, 1780 (D'Alberti 1) Mrs. Jean, renting a meadow near Maggoty Cove (St. John's) 1796 (D'Alberti 12) Richard Vinecum, of Maggoty Cove, 1813 (NFLD. Archives BRC) Jean Vinican, of Catalina, 1821 (NFLD. Archives KCRC) Mary Jane Vilicombe, of Pate Cove (Bonavista B.), 1866 (Nfld. Archives KCRC) Charles Vinecombe, of Cow Harbour (Bonne B.) 1871 (Lovell) Modern status Vin(n)icombe, at St. John's
1246 "Newfoundland and Jersey" In the English Channel is a group of islands, the chief of which is called Jersey. When the Romans invaded Britain these islands were called Caesarea, in honour of Claudius Caesar. This was shortened into Jersey. Their men were great sea rovers. As early as 1246 it is recorded that ships from Jersey were engaged in the Iceland fisheries. The Jersey settlers in Newfoundland always maintained that Cabot learned of this western island from Jersey sailors. On the north coast of the island of Jersey there are three places lying near each other in this order -- St. John's Bay, Petit Port and Bouley Bay. Can it be coincidence that in Newfoundland we have St. John's, Petty Harbour and Bay Bulls (formerly Bouley Bay) appearing in the same order as these Jersey harbours? Jersey is divided into twelve parishes. Many of these parish names are prominent in Newfoundland, such as St. Mary's, St. Lawrence and Trinity. In the Jersey islands there were in those days no safe winter harbours or mooring places, and Brehat, Conche and Croque on the Norman coast were used. All these are Newfoundland names. Gouffre is a name to be found both here and in Jersey. Our harbour known as Heliers was formerly called St. Helier, the name of the chief town in Jersey. Blanc Pignon and Cormorant are of Jersey origin. Carbonear is Charbonier -- that is, charcoal, pits for which are known to have been made there by Jersey men. Harbour Grace was Havre de Grace. Bay Roberts was Baie de Roberts, showing Jersey origin, as does Priaulx Hill in that town. Bauline is from Baleine, a village in the Jersey island, which it strongly resembles. Family names from Conception Bay tell the same story. Gushue, Puddister, Perchard, Hookey, Le Grow, Fillier, Hawco, Nicholle, Piccott, Furey, Norman, Noel, Le Drew, Gosselin, Grouchy, Murrin, Curnew are all names peculiar to Jersey, although many of these people have no knowledge from whence their forefathers came. St. Shotts and St. Shores were formerly named St. Jacques and St. George. The French pronunciation of these two names is responsible for the corruption. It is not likely that the French would have named a place after the patron saint of England, whereas the Channel Islanders would. Colinet is peculiar to Jersey, and Marquise is probably from La Marquise near by. Paradise, Croney Island, Corbin, Villeneuve Island (Burin), Fortune and Harbour Mille are all of Channel Island origin. Millers Passage is probably Mouilliers. Mose Ambrose is Mon Jambe. Pass Island is Passee Island. Hermitage also is a Jersey name. Channel Island names on the south coast include Messervy, Clement, Pays, Tessier, Le Messurier, Grandy, Lesbirel, Dumeresque, Le Feuvre, Hulon, Ayre, St. Croix, Cabot, De-la-cour, Renouf, Berteau, Du Tot, Le Marquand, Le Drew, Bonnell, Knight, Hue, Lambert, Sacrey, Bisson, Beaucamp, Chevalier and many, many more. Gaultois is old Norman for pinnacle. Ramea recalls the old Norman for vetches. St. Aubin and St. Helier, hills near Rencontre, are called after two towns in Jersey. "H. W. Le Messurier" (1848-1932) Barbara Pederson
[In Newfoundland], "Knight" was named as one of the "more temporally durable Poole families associated with the fishery as shipowners, captains, mariners, or fishermen". From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: Barbara Pederson
1504 Channel Islanders believed to be on the small Norman sailing vessels that were in the habit of visiting the coast of Newfoundland and adjacent waters from as early as 1504. (ENGLAND IN AMERICA, by Tyler, Vol. 4)
1593 Record 57 "The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins Knight, in his voyage into the south sea microform : Anno Domini 1593." CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ; no. 18326 http://www.unb.ca/UNB/ Barbara Pederson
1593 "Main Author: Jon Olafsson, Indiafari, 1593-1679 Title Details: The life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson, traveller to India / written by himself and completed about 1661 A.D. with a continuation, by another hand, up to his death in 1679 ; translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal by Bertha S. Phillpotts Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Second series ; no. 53, 68 Publisher: London : Hakluyt Society, 1923-1932 Physical Desc.: 2v. ; 23cm Notes: Contents: Vol. 1. Life and travels: Iceland, England, Denmark, White Sea, Faroes, Spitzbergen, Norway 1593-1622 / edited by the translator - v. 2. Life and travels: Denmark, England, the Cape, Madagascar, Comoro Is., Coromandel Coast, Tranquebar, St Helena, Ascension Is., Ireland, Iceland 1618-1679 / edited by ... Richard Temple ... and Lavinia Mary Anstey Subject(s): Jon Olafsson, Indiafari, 1593-1679 - Journeys India - Description and travel - Early works to 1800 Voyages and travels - Early works to 1800 Travelers - Iceland - Biography Document Type: Autobiography Language: English Holding Libraries: Cambridge - contact Cambridge University Library : 694:01.c.4.53, 68 Edinburgh - EUL, MAIN, GENERAL ; RP. // EUL, MAIN, SPEC COLL ; LL.106.1.4.
1600 "After the drowning of his half-brother [Sir Humphrey Gilbert] at the age of forty-eight, Sir Walter Raleigh obtained a grant of a large plantation in Newfoundland. According to the Jersey historian, A.C. Saunders, when Raleigh became governor of the Channel Island of Jersey in 1600 he induced the sailormen of Jersey to start fishing in and around St. John's, 'a territory over which he was Lord'." "The Oldest City", the story of St. John's by Paul O'Neill. Barbara Pederson
1602 "In spite of obstacles and drawbacks settlement in Newfoundland was ahead of New England. It was not until 15 May 1602 that Captain Bartholomew Goswold became the first white man on record to set foot in New England... By 1609 St. John's was already a place of trade and commerce. That year Henry Hudson, the ill-fated navigator and explorer, called in for supplies. He did the same in 1614." "The Oldest City", the story of St. John's by Paul O'Neill. Do you suppose he also called in to pick up a certain Mr. Knight? Regardless, even if James Knight was aboard at the time, and lived in England, he indirectly had a connection with Nfld. Maybe he was a rleative of John Knight at Salvage in 1675. Barbara Pederson
1605: John Cunningham, James Hall and John Knight, in three ships, explore the west coast of Greenland for Christian IV, of Denmark. A French trading post was established at Port Royal (Annapolis), Nova Scotia by Samuel de Champlain and the sieur de Poutrincourt. Weymouth explores the New England coast to find a place where English Catholics (unwanted in Protestant England) could found a settlement. Hudson may have used Weymouth's logs of this voyage and charts for his own 1609 voyage.. http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/hudson1.html
1606: John Knight, in the Hopewell, searches for the Northwest Passage along the coast of Labrador. James Hall, with five ships, is sent by Christian IV of Denmark to Greenland to Conduct mineralogical explorations. The first charter is granted to the Virginia Company, named after the 'Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I. Pero Fernandes de Queiros discovers the New Hebrides Islands. Willem Janzoon discovers Australia. Luis Van Torres explores the coastline of New Guinea. http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/hudson1.html
1606 Record 35 Title: The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies microform : with abstracts of journals of voyages to the East Indies during the seventeenth century, preserved in the India office, and the voyage of Captain John Knight (1606) to seek the North-West Passage / edited by Clements R. Markham. Publisher:London : Hakluyt Society, 1877 (London : T. Richards) The account of Lancaster's voyages are reprinted from: Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes, by Samuel Purchas. The account of Knight's voyage is reprinted from his own journal--Cf. Introd.Added title, p. 279: Journal of the voyage of John Knight to see the North-West Passage, 1606. http://www.unb.ca/UNB/ Barbara Pederson
1606 Knight, John ( ?-1606). Explorer. While exploring coastal Labrador as commander of the Hopewell in June 1606, Knight was forced to go ashore near Nain when his ship was damaged in a storm. The shore party -- consisting of Knight, his brother Gabriel and two other companions -- was never heard of again, as they were abandoned by the ship's crew, ostensibly because of threatening ice conditions and hostile Inuit. Nothing is known of Knight before 1605, when as an English navigator he was captain of the Marekatten or Katten for a Danish expedition to Greenland. Engaged by East Indies and Russian companies, he visited Labrador the next year in search of a northwest passage, with the intention of exploring throughout the summer and camping for the winter. Knight's journal of his final voyage was continued by a crewmember after his disappearance and was published in the 1877 edition of The voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies ... and the voyage of Captain John Knight (1606) to seek the North-West Passage (editor C.R. Markham). http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/53/5302.htm
April 19, 1606 : Hudson, his 16-year-old son John (possibly 14) and ten crew members prayed at St. Ethelburga's church, near London Bridge, now one of the oldest churches in London. The crew also included: William Collins (mate); James Young; John Colman (b o'sun); John Cooke; James Beuberry; James Skrutton; John Pleyce (Playse); Thomas Baxter; Richard Day; James Knight.
1607 Excerpt from Henry Hudson story: Anno 1607, Aprill the nineteenth, at Saint Ethelburge, in Bishops Gate street, did communicate with the rest of the Parishoners these persons, seamen, purposing to goe to sea four days after, for to discover a passage by the North Pole to Japan and China. First, Henry Hudson, master. Secondly, William Colines, his mate. Thirdly, James Young. Fourthly, John Colman. Fiftly, John Cooke. Sixtly, James Beubery. Seventhly, James Skrutton. Eightly, John Pleyce. Ninthly, Thomas Baxter. Tenthly, Richard Day. Eleventhly, James Knight. Twelfthly, John Hudson, a boy. http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/hudson1.html
April 19, 1607 Hudson, his 16-year-old son John (possibly 14) and ten crew members prayed at St. Ethelburga's church, near London Bridge, now one of the oldest churches in London. The crew also included: William Collins (mate); James Young; John Colman (b o'sun); John Cooke; James Beuberry; James Skrutton; John Pleyce (Playse); Thomas Baxter; Richard Day; James Knight. http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/hudson1.html
1608 'Thomas Le Merchant, agent in Spain of James De Beauvoir, . . - later traded on his own account with Newfoundland, for on June 6, 1608, the Royal Court of Guernsey granted him permission to transport out of the Island, as provision for his ship--aux parties de Terre Neuve--ten thousand biscuits, provided that, should during the following summer, the harvest prove poor and the necessity of the island require it, he should supply 80 quarters of wheat, local measure, of good quality, to be sold to the Islanders at the current prive of 12 sous sterling per quarter.' (OLD TIME NEWFOUNDLAND, papers of H. W. Le Messurier, edited by C. R. Pay, 1955)
Jan. 10, 1614 "Col. Sir Thomas Temple ,Gov. of Nova Scotia (including that part of Me. as far south and west as St. George's and Muscongus), bp. 10 Jan. 1614, s. of Sir John Temple of Stanton Bury, co. Bucks. On 20 Sept. 1656 Sir Charles St. Etienne made over to Temple and Wm. Crowne his interests in Nova Scotia, which gr. was confirmed by Cromwell and Temple app. gov. He came over in 1657, At the restoration of Charles II his claims were disputed, but, on his personal appearance in Eng., upheld. Created baronet 7 July and a new commission as gov. issued 10 July 1662. When by the Treaty of Breda Charles II ceded Nova Scotia to the French, Temple was commanded to transfer the territory, which order was not entirely fulfilled until 1670. He retired to Boston and became a benefactor of Harvard College. He [p.677] d. in London 27 Mar. 1674, s.p. For his two wills see Temple Gen., by Temple Prime, 1894, pp. 61-65. Lists 2, 3. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire page 677
Feb. 10, 1614 "John Temple
Before 10 Feb 1614 - Mary Temple, widow of Limehouse, to Trinity House.
John Temple, her late husband, was captured by pirates on several occasions during the last three years. In 1611, he lost goods worth L85 in the Goodwill of London on a voyage to Ireland and Calais. In 1612, Captain Easton and his consorts captured him in the Marye and John of Sandwich on a voyage to Faro, whereby he lost gods worth ‘50 and ____ pounds.’ Then in May 1613, when Master of a small ship, the Peter of London, he was captured off the coast of Barbary by 3 ships of war manned by Turks and Moors, and 4 christians. He was taken to Sallee in Barbary and so misused that he died within 8 days. One of the crew was murdered, the rest tortured, and the boy forced to be circumcised and turn Turk. Tenple lost L120 in the Peter and his widow and small children are in great poverty.
William Monsones, Richard March, John Busfield, Ralph Bradshawe, Edward Stevens, Michael Miryvall, Brian Tashe, Lewis Taites, James Benet, Jo. Graves, William Beck, Richard Harris, Robert Bence, Michael Johns [ _____ ], at the request of their neighbours, certify the truth of this which is known to most of the addresses who are asked to petition the lord chancellor for letters patent for a collection in the Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Westminster, Canterbury and Chicester. The THOMAS COLES COLLECTION http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8173/eastonsvics.html
1617 Birth year of "Treworgye John(1), Mr., merchant, Kittery, ag. 33 in Mar. 1650-1, appar. here 5 May 1636 when Thomas Bradbury, agent for Sir F. Gorges, deeded to Edw. Johnson for use of J. T. of Dartmouth 500 a. described in Y. D. 1: 11. In 1678 Mr. Johnson depos. that the land was puch. by J. T. as Mr. Alexander Shapleigh's agent and for A. S.'s sole use. Bondsman for Mr. Thomas Spencer at Saco ct. in Feb. 1636-7, and appar. here steadily until ±1651. In 1644 he held Nicholas Shapleigh's p/a while S. went to Eng. Cor.j. 1647; tr.j. 1647. Having failed in a contract to deliver fish, he pledged Kit. prop. to Major Sedgwick (Y. D. 1: 3: 9); in 1649 ack. a transaction done for his uncle in Newb.; depos. in Boston 25 Oct. 1650, and of Dartmouth, depos. 19 Mar. 1650-1 ab. the -Prosperous- coming to N. E. ±1640 when he had been here ±5 yrs. In Apr. 1651 named on a Newfoundland commission, not seen here again except in Lists 72, 73, 78, 80, and was of Dartmouth in Apr. 1654. See also all references under (1). He m. Penelope Spencer (see 3, 4) 15 Jan. 164-, in Newb., where a s. John was rec. 12 Aug. 1649. Only other known ch: James.
1618 Original issued in series: The Hakluyt Society no. 56.Includes index. Subjects: Lancaster, James,, Sir, , d. 1618., Knight, John,, d. 1606., Lancaster, James,, Sir, , m. 1618., Knight, John,, m. 1606., East India Company., East India Company., Northwest Passage., Voyages and travels., Nord-Ouest, Passage du., Voyages., Arctic regions, Discovery and exploration., Regions arctiques, Decouverte et exploration.. Source: Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916.Purchas, Samuel, 1575-1626. Haklytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes.Knight, John, d. 1606.Hakluyt Society.Journal of the voyage of John Knight to seek the North-West Passage.. http://www.unb.ca/UNB/ Barbara Pederson
1620 "My name is Patrick Payne and I am a Payn family researcher after having established that my family most likely originated from Jersey before coming to America beginning in the 16th century at Roanoke. At about the same time, I have found evidence suggesting they were at Newfoundland too (St. John's) by 1620, but I suspect I will find them in musters with HAWKINS, FROBISHER, and/or DRAKE if I ever locate records naming crews. The PAYN's are an ancient family of Jersey and have held offices of some form or another since its recorded history. They married into most of the noted families of the island including DUMARESQ, LEMPRIERE, de CARTERET, MESSERVY, and even CABOT. Later at the end of the 16th and then throughout the 17th, they can be found with the gentry of Devon and members of the various company's of London. At this point, I am convinced I have enough evidence (for me anyway) to connect my family of Maryland circa 1660, to several of the Virginia branches of PAYNE's, and even PAYNE's of Massachusetts through a network of families they were involved with. Many of those names you will recognize.
I am currently attempting to write a book on the subject and would welcome any input and thoughts. This is one tough nut to crack because while I feel I have a preponderance of evidence to support me, I have yet to find records that specifically name these PAYNE's as members of the same family. To date, all I have is that they maintained relationships with families of this network for hundreds of years in several cases. Please have a visit to my new web site at http://papayne.rootsweb.com for more details and lots of records that I am working on daily. I have taken this project up full time. Patrick Payne" papayne@mindspring.com
1628 /17/ 105. To the wise and learned S.B.K.Knight.
A poet rich, a Iudge, and a Iust man,
In few but you, are all these found in one. Quodlibets (1628) - by Robert Hayman http://www.mun.ca/rels/hrollmann/relsoc/texts/hayb1.html
1647 "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
page 447
Ludlow,George, gent., recd. John Hocking's goods from Wm. Hilton 2 Aug. 1632. Y. D. i. 60. He remov. to York Co., Va.; there, merchant and Esq., dealing in 1647 with Mr. Alex. Shapleigh of Dartmouth and John Treworgye of Newfoundland. Aspinw. 205, 242.
1632 "The policy of scuttle is supposed to be one of the products of modern English statesmanship, but a knowledge of the dealings of the Stuarts with the English dominions in America will convince us that they fairly rivalled the nineteenth century rulers of England in this line. Sir David Kirke and a few gallant adherents had won Nova Scotia for the Crown of England; British sovereigns claimed the country by right of discovery; James I. had made a grant of it to the eccentric Sir William Alexander; Englishmen had it in possession; the young colonies of New England clamoured for its retention as a barrier against their ruthless foes, the French; yet, at the peace of St. Germains, 1632, notwithstanding England was then in possession of the principal French territories in North America--Quebec, Port Royal, St. Croix, and Pentagoet--by the thirteenth article of the treaty, all these places were restored to France.
Cromwell felt the loss of Nova Scotia so keenly that, even though at peace with France, he re-occupied the Colony, and sent out a Governor, Sir Thomas Temple. In 1662 Charles II. intended to give it back to France, but New England sent such a spirited petition to the House of Commons, that the treacherous hand of the king was stayed for a time; by the treaty of Breda, however, Charles ceded Nova Scotia again to the French; the stout, old Governor Temple stood out; he and his adherents had spent large sums of money on the fortifications, and the country was not finally surrendered to our enemies until 1670. In the policy of scuttle, the Stuarts have a fair claim to pre-eminence. http://www.cuff.com/prowse/page/147.htm
1649 supposed birth year of James Knight, of Hudson Bay . Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
Lester Knight was a Pirate Captain out of the Jersey Isle, Sir Thomas Knight was a judge and Sir Edward Knight was an Admiral in the Royal Navy. Letter 11/96 from lester Knight..
1650 By this time there were a number of ships, manned by Channel Islanders that sailed between the Channel Islands, Newfoundland and New England. Marblehead, Mass. was their largest settlement in the American Colonies- Many of the Islanders by this time may have settled in small coves around southern and eastern Newfoundland.
1652 "John Knight born to Hy Knight and Jennett ? in Churston, Devon" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1654 "Jonathon Knight born to Christopher Knight and Mary ?, Poole, Dorset" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1654 "Jonothan Knight, son of Christopher Knight and Mary ? is baptized Anglican at Poole, Dorset" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1657 Jean Chevalier, born at La Rochelle 1657; married at La Rochelle 1680; resident at the Grande Greve since 1694; three shallops
: Francoise Greze, his wife
: two daughters (1698) one born 1686
: a son (1698), born 1691 Recencement Gerneral des habitans de Plaisance en I'Isle de Terre Neuve ve 1698, drawn up at Rochefort in France by one De Brisacier on December 2, 1698. Besides adding fresh detail to the profile of the planter families at Plaisance itself, this post d'Iberville census extended north to include Petit Plaisance with is own Grande and Petite Greves, and south to include the single barachois settlement at Pointe Verte. http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/more/placentia/camplant.htm
1656 / 57 "John Knight is born to Richard Knight and Elizabeth ? in Topsham, Devon" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
In 1662 Charles II. intended to give it back to France, but New England sent such a spirited petition to the House of Commons, that the treacherous hand of the king was stayed for a time; by the treaty of Breda, however, Charles ceded Nova Scotia again to the French; the stout, old Governor Temple stood out; he and his adherents had spent large sums of money on the fortifications, and the country was not finally surrendered to our enemies until 1670. In the policy of scuttle, the Stuarts have a fair claim to pre-eminence.
1665 "John Knight is buried in Withicombe, Devon" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1667 ;This year was formed the Hudson's Bay Company, in London, ;England. One of the founders and directors was Sir George Carteret of Jersey, "the guiding mind in the beginning of the enterprise. " (THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF THE HUDSON'S BY COMPANY, by George Bryce, London, 1-900)
1671 "John Knight is born to John Knight and Elizabeth ? in Withicombe, Devon" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1675 Family traditions: Some Butts moved from the North Shore of Conception Bay to Pouch Cove between 1820 and 1835...Early instances: Roger Butt, of Carbonear, 1675... Roger, of Freshwater (Carbonear), 1770...Seary / Barbara Pederson
The following is the census info on Roger Butt for the years 1675,1677, 1678 and 1681. By the way he was in Crocker's Cove not Freshwater, but Crockers Cove is only a few hundred yards south of Freshwater. These census were ordered by the Governor of Nfld to determine how many permanent settlers there were and to determine ways to evict them from Nfld as they were providing competition for the west country merchants and fishing enterprises.
1675 - Roger Butt; wife; 2 sons; 2 daughters; 4 servants; 1 stage; 1 boat.
1676 - Roger Butts; wife; 2 sons; 2 daughters; 10 servants.
1677 - Roger Butt; wife; 3 sons; 2 daughters; 8 servants; 1 dwelling house; 1 store room; 1 stage; a fat train room; 2 flakes; 2 hogs.
1681 - Roger Butt; wife; 6 children; 10 servants.
In these census the names of wives, children and servants are not given.davewells19@hotmail.com
In Gordon Handcock's book, "Soe longe as there comes noe women", pg 46, BUTT is listed as one of the defenders of Carbonear Island. Ruth (Pigott) Harper, U.E., rharper@eagle.ca
1675 Barbara Pederson wrote "You mentioned Knight's Cove is listed in the Distinct of Trinity. MacAlpine's Directory of St. John's. From my notes from a book on Newfoundland settlement by the English, says about the naming of some communities: "Some Bonavista Bay nomenclature which appears to be linked with seventeenth-century settlers include... Knight's Cove (John Knight- Bonavista 1675 ( see map )." I would say that Knight's Cove was settled previous to the arrival of James Knight.
1675 Salvadge
John Chambers 0 1 5
Richd Stocks & Wife 1 1 5
Jon. Prichard & Wife 1 1 5
Jon. Pett & Wife 2 2 11
Jon. Knight & Wife 4 2 11
John Warren 0 2 11
John Berry's Census of 1675
The Names of the English inhabitants with the number of their boats, men, wives, and children. "Decks Awash" March/April 1987:
1675 "Elizabeth Knight, of Carbonear (see map), 1755 property "in possession of the Family for upwards of 80 years", that is, before 1675;" From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson "Lot 914 Claimant: Elizabeth Knight Nature of Claim: By deed of gift from her father Occupier in 1805: John Warn and B. Linthorne Year Acquired: 1755 Size in Yards: 131x 185 Contents of Lot: 1 stage, 1 flake, 3 stores, 1 cookroom, 3 houses, 4 gardens, 1 meadow." Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
1675 ""Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary:
SQUIRE(S), surnames of England. Traced in Bedfordshire, Devon, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Nottinghamshire. In Newfoundland: Family traditions: George Squire, from Winterborne Zelstone (Dorset), settled at Catalina; he later moved to Salvage (Bonavista Bay). His son Joseph, from Salvage, was the first settler of Eastport in 1868. Apollus Squires, from England, settled at Greenspond. ---- Squires, from Ireland, settled in the St. John's area. Early instances:
Benjamin Squires, of Bay Roberts, 1765, property "in possession of the Family for more than 90 years", that is, before 1675;
Benjamin Squire, of Great Belle Isle, (now Bell Island), 1770;
John Squires, fisherman of Torbay, 1794-5, "24 years in Newfoundland", that is, 1770-1;
William, shoreman of St. John's, 1794-5, "20 years in Newfoundland", that is, 1774-5;
John, of Southside Broad Cove (now St. Phillips), 1790;
Sarah, of Freshwater (Carbonear), 1791;
James and George Squire, of Placentia, 1794;
John, servant, of Battle Harbour (Labrador), 1795;
Simon Squires, of Bonavista, 1798;
John Squire, of Fogo, 1803;
William Squires, of Harbour Grace Parish, 1828;
Maria, of Brine's (? for Bryants) Cove, 1839;
George, of Salvage, 1840;
Simon, planter of Herring Neck, 1850, of Canister Cove (Twillingate district), 1855, of Pike's Arm (Twillingate district), 1859;
Thomas, of Seldom-Come-By, 1852;
Henry Squire, from Dartmouth (Devon), married at St. John's, 1852;
John Squires, of Salt Harbour (Twillingate district), 1856;
Thomas, of Leading Tickles, 1856;
James, of Stone Harbour (Twillingate district), 1857;
scattered in Lovell 1871. Barbara Pederson
1676 John Knight, of Salvage ( see map) 1676; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
1676 ((3.) John Knight - arrived from England around 1676, settled in or near Salvage, Nfld ( see map)., brought with him 2 boats, 11 servants, and wife and 4 children. 2.) John Knight - led an expedition in search of a northwest passage in 1606. notes by Robert Knight
1676 John Knight, Salvage, planter, 11 servants, 2 boats wife and 5 children" Keith Mathew's files, Maritime History Archives, Memorial University, St. John's NFLD
1676 "James Knight 1640 - 1719 James Knight spent an eventful 40 years in the service of Hudson's Bay Company. Joining the Company in 1676 as a staff Carpenter, he proved himself so intelligent and capable that within six years he was named Chief Factor (commander of the post) at Fort Albany on the west shore of James Bay.
Through hard work and business savvy Knight continued to rise through the Company's ranks. In 1711, he became the only overseas man to be granted a seat on the London Committee. He also became wealthy enough to eventually purchase HBC stock in 1697.
The most intriguing story surrounding James Knight involves a Chipewyan woman named Thanadelthur. Captured by the Cree as a young girl, Thanadelthur escaped some time later and found her way into Knight's service as a translator. She befriended him and often told alluring tales of rich mineral deposits, promising to take him there someday. This promise however, would never be fulfilled.
Before her death, Thanadelthur told Knight about a broad strait of water in the north where tides ebbed and flowed. To Knight this description sounded like the elusive North West passage, the lure of every explorer. Knight was also curious about the tales of “yellow mettle” and “black pitch” which he took as references to gold and tar.
Because of Thanadelthur's stories, Knight (now in his seventies) rushed to England in 1718 full of excitement to organize an expedition to discover these treasures. There he was granted two vessels, the Albany and the Discovery and in 1719 set sail in search of the North West Passage and gold.
The expedition and James Knight never returned.
Forty-eight years later explorers Joseph Stephens and Samuel Hearne discovered the wreckage of Knight's two ships off the coast of Marble Island near Rankin Inlet on the northwest shore of Hudson Bay. Area natives confirmed that Knight and his men had been driven ashore and stranded by a winter storm.
After the second winter on this island, illness had reduced the survivors to only two men. The natives recorded that each day the two men would go down to the shore, look off in the distance and wait for rescue. At length, one of the men died and the second was so exhausted that he died while digging his friend's grave.
Knight's disappearance still remains one of the Arctic's enduring mysteries. Marble Island is well within sight of the mainland. Why then, did Knight and his men not try to reach the shore? Didn't Knight know that the HBC post at Churchill was only a four day's sail away? Why were no efforts made to rescue the men?
Whatever the reasons, Knight's disastrous expedition only served to reinforce HBC's decision to do nothing to expand its holdings around Hudson Bay. Found at: http://www.hbc.com/history/jknight.htm Ambassadress of Peace by Franklin Arbuckel. HBCA Barbara Pederson
Aug. 16, 1676 James Knight arrives in Rupert's Land as a carpenter and shipswright in his twenties to work for the Hudson Bay Company. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1677 Philippe Valpy dit Janvrin. Born in St. Brelade, Jersey, the third son of Jacques Valpy dit Janvrin and Marie Le Couteur. c.1700 Engaged in trading with Newfoundland and in New England where his brother, John Janvrin, was a settler of some prominence (1707) in Dover, New Hampshire. (John married Elizabeth Knight) 1710 (Sept). Married Elizabeth, the daughter of Philippe Orange of St. Brelade, Jersey. (Ship Owner and Gaspé trader) 1721. Returning to Jersey, as Master of the “Esther” in September of this year Philippe Janvrin was obliged to spend a quarantine period off-shore - the vessel had visited Bordeaux and Nantes in France where a virulent plague was endemic. He dropped anchor just off Belcroute in the west of St. Aubin’s bay where just a few days later he himself succumbed to the illness and, aged 44 years, died. The Jersey Authorities were unwilling to allow his body to be brought ashore but give instructions that a burial could take place on a little (uninhabited) islet in Portelet Bay, just around the Noirmont Point. Philippe’s body was lowered into a small boat and rowed around the headland by three of the crew to be interred in a shallow hollow scraped in the thin soil of the rocky islet. A signal was given to the shore where his wife and some members of the family had gathered. The Minister from St. Brelade had been called and he read the usual service for the burial of the dead and another signal then made to the islet. The crew men covered the body and then returned to the “Esther” by rowing again around the headland and awaited the end of the quarantine period. Philippe’s wife Elizabeth later had an inscribed memorial erected on the spot but there is no evidence now. It has been suggested that the remains were re-buried later in St. Brelade’s churchyard; there is no record in the registers. The entire top of this islet, the Ile au Guerdain as it was known, was cleared during the Napoleonic wars early in the nineteenth century to build a large Watch Tower. This watch tower remains there today and the islet is still known colloquially as “Janvrin’s Tomb”. Ray Le Pivert >Jersey. picus@itl.net
1679 Martin Chevalier, born at St. Jean de Lutz; resident at the Grande Greve since 1679, but not listed in 1693 or 1694; four shallops : Madeleine Lemard, his wife, "creole de Plaisance", daughter of Philippe Lemard : two daughters, born in 1678 and 1680, present ub 1699 wuth their father but family in St.Jean de Lutz 1698. Recencement Gerneral des habitans de Plaisance en I'Isle de Terre Neuve ve 1698, drawn up at Rochefort in France by one De Brisacier on December 2, 1698. Besides adding fresh detail to the profile of the planter families at Plaisance itself, this post d'Iberville census extended north to include Petit Plaisance with is own Grande and Petite Greves, and south to include the single barachois settlement at Pointe Verte. http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/more/placentia/camplant.htm
Autum 1681 James Knight returns to London to report to his employers "a good account of th' Estates of the Country both Indians & Factory's" Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1683 James Knight is appointed deputy Governor at Hudson Bay by the Hudson's Bay Company along with permission to have his younger brother Richard "to waight upon him". Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
April 27, 1683 "In a letter to James Knight dated 27 April 1683 specific reference is made to his "New England countrey men"." Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
Sept. 1685 James Knight returns to London to face charges of private trading by the Hudson Bay Company.Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1687 James Knight is discharged by Hudson Bay Company for private trading. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1686 "James Knight m. Buck Anne Gilpin" IGI
1687 "Gilpin Knight b. 1867 Buck" IGI
1689 Having lost all their outposts and factories to the French, Hudson Bay Company appoints James Knight, now a London Merchant of more than modest means, as governer of the Bottom of The Bay. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1690 "Such was the homely tale of the appearance and disappearance of the ketch, "Elinor." The sequel was soon found in the new stone gaol in Boston where William Coward, Peleg Heath, Thomas Storey and Christopher Knight were to be seen and confined in irons. What became of the boy does not appear. Thomas Pound, Thomas Hawkins, Thomas Johnston and other more valorous pirates were also confined there at the same time. Justice moved swiftly that year and notwithstanding the claim made by Coward, the leader of the party that boarded the ketch, that his crime and been committed upon the high seas without the jurisdiction of the court, he was found guilty of piracy and sentenced to be hanged on January 27, 1690. His companions also were found guilty and sentenced to death but afterwards reprieved and eventually allowed to go free." "The Pirates Of The New England Coast: 1630-1730" In Chapter II - "Dixey Bull and Some Other Pirates" (pages 33-34) Louisa Horton
1690 In those good old days sailors had to, face many dangers. Life had not then that glamour of romance which tradition, has since gathered around the lives of our forefathers , and in the year 1690 Captain Pierre Valpy dit Janvrin of the good ship " Elias and Anne " of Jersey, complained to the Privy Council that, when employed in the Newfoundland trade his vessel had been plundered by an Ostend Pirate. Things moved slowly in those days,:and it was not until August 1694 that the Privy Council applied to the Royal Court of Jersey for further particulars. Magistrates took some time to consider the matter and in June 1696 Valpy and one of his crew named Thomas Rondell appeared before the Lieut.-Bailly, Jean Durell and jurat Charles de Carteret to make the following statement,-That on a voyage from Newfoundland an Ostend Pirate boarded his vessel and took all sorts of stores and merchandise including "premiere une barrique d'eau de vie, plus une barrique de vin gaste, plus des habits, blanchets, camecons, &c., trois quintaux de pain, fishing and boat gear, personel belongings and many other things." Later on, some Spaniards robbed the ships of ropes and twelve quintaux of fish worth 1400 livres toumois We can imagine the gloom on that homeward voyage and the language used by the crew as they discussed their helplessness in defending their property. The crew of the "Elias and Anne" consisted of Maître Pierre Valpy dit Janvrin, le Contre-Maître Daniel Dorey, Daniel Balin, Jean Chevallier, François Cabot, Amice Barbier, Thomas Rondell." Jersey In The 18th And 19th Centuries, pages 160,161 Boston Public Lib. DA670 .J5S3
I am interested in the family names of VALPY and LeBOUTILLIER from the Channel Islands, Jersey/Guernsey. From my limited research on the subject, I suspect many of the gaps I have in these two families could be filled by looking into the Canadian emigrations from the Channel Islands. I would be very willing to share information with those who have a similar interest in the above mentioned families. Donald Valpy Weston. (Don). Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND. weston.d@es.co.nz
Late 1600's "Matthew Ward was the first settler in New Bay... Ward protected the salmon fishing rights for Squire Childe, who may have been a descendant of Sir Josiah Childe, who had trade interests in Newfoundland in the late 1600s..." "Henry Rowsell was a former servant of Squire Childe and was believed to be a father to George and Thomas Rowsell; all three Rowsells along with William Hooper worked these brooks for Matthew Ward." "...[Michael] Howley's story about the two brothers Rowsell does not tally with Pulling's report. According to Howley...'A man named Rousell, one of the first settlers in Hall's Bay (see map), was reputed as being a great Indian killer. Many stories are told of this old Rousell's treatment of the Indians. He is said never to have spared one of the natives. In the end, they killed him and carried off his head as was their usual custom... a brother of him with the name of Tom never molested the poor creatures and was treated well. They did him no injury.'" From "River Lords, Father and Son" (1987) by Amy Louise Peyton ISBN 0-920502-73-3 Barbara Pederson
Mrs. Violet Baggs of Point Leamington... "maintains there were two Rowsells, brothers Thomas and Joseph, who were early settlers at Point Leamington . (see map).. They dammed the river and caught salmon. Thomas became a lifelong friend of the Beothucks... His brother Joseph was a sworn enemy of the Beothucks and often unloaded his rifle in their direction to prove it... the Indians shot Rowsell full of arrows and later stuck his head on a pole..." From "Decks Awash" Oct. 1981: Barbara Pederson
June 1693 James Knight leading 213 men on 4 ships with 82 guns retakes Albany Fort. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
Sept. 30, 1696 "John Pelley of Winkton, Parish of Christchurch, South Hampton and NFLD Planter in his will Oct. 1737" "Author Mary Ann Gallop speculated his 1st wife was Mary Knight M. Sept. 30, 1696 at Christchurch. Children John, Thomas and Elizabeth who married A. Loather." NFLD Anc. P.17, Vol. 2-4
August 1697 James Knight returns to England. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
17th cent. The Patten Family and Newfoundland The Patten's are a West of England family, especially prominent in Devonshire, but also during the 17th and 18th centuries to be found in Dorset (on the border with Somerset) and Hampshire. Many Patten's were connected with the Newfoundland fishery in that era, mainly from Devonshire, but those who live in North Dorset also come out as " Planters " or worked as seamen in the migratory fishery. Settlers William of Kingskerswell, Devonshire, a boat keeper in ST. Johns, 1764 circa-1796, retired to Devonshire, but his son lived in St Johns. (Died 1854) William, resident of Fort de Grave, Conception Bay in 1816. Related to other Conception Bay Pattens. John of Dorset, a "Planter" at Silly Cove, Trinity Bay in 1681. John of Port de Grave, married 1782, Mary Bishop. John of Devonshire, a sailmaker in St Johns from 1788 to circa 1800. John of Islington, Devonshire, a planter at Petty Harbor in 1681 *John of Grand Bank , the son of Charles (whom see) born at Grand Bank in the late 18th century. Died as a merchant and "noted singer" in 1856. He and his father in 1825 owned a small schooner, the INDIANA, 23 tons, which he commanded. Thomas, born place unknown in 1780., but possibly connected to the Conception Bay family. Became a merchant first in St Johns, then at Bareneed Port de Grave and finally 1817 went back to reside in St. Johns. Died 1826. Samuel, born 1779, a planter at Grand Bank - worked on his own from about 1803 onwards, died in 1829. Probably came from North Dorset since he and all the Grand Bank Patten's of that period had strong connections with a merchant of Sturminster, Newton, Dorset, Joseph Bird. George, son of Edward and Mary, baptized at St. Johns in 1780, probably one of the Devonshire Patten's. **Charles of Grand Bank, first appeared in the records in 1802 - connected with Bird of Sturminster but as a planter, dealt with the Firm of Robert Newman and Co at St. Lawrence and at Little Bay (Fortune Bay) 1811. Built and registered his own schooner, the Mary, of 46 tons, which he owned and commanded until 1817. A prominent resident in the Fortune Bay. He was Foreman of the Grand Jury there in 1811. In the records he is noted mainly for apparently having a long running an quite ferocious feud with Samuel Rose of Grand Bank. ***Edward of Grand Bank, contemporary and brother of Charles and nephew John. First appeared in records in 1801 as a planter supplied by Newman and Co, but like the others was strongly connected to Mr. Bird. Had at least one son, Edward, and was still alive in 1826. Owned a Fishing room in Grand Bank. Edward of St. Johns, a resident fisherman who had been born in Newfoundland. Had a son, George in 1780, but the latter apparently died young. Edward probably of Dorset. A planter (unmarried) at New Perlican, Trinity Bay 1681. Had come out to Newfoundland since 1677. 1706-08 Edward, probably the same man of his son was a planter at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland 1706-08. Married and had a child. Edward, a decedent of the above, a planter in Conception Bay in 1750. Edward, son of the above? In 1782, Edward and Frances of H. H. Had a daughter Mary, baptized in Harbor Grace and in 1784 had a son, Edward. Nicholas, a planter at Port de Grave in 1816. Joseph of Wollborough, Devonshire. Born 1769, an agent in St. Johns 1792-1795 for the Dartmouth Devonshire Firm of R. H. Roope. Died back in Devonshire 1813. Francis, born place unknown 1771, became a coasting and fishing schooner captain from 1820 onwards. Employed for many years by a Portugal Cove Planter, John Picot. Died age 80. *John is my ggg grandfather **Charles is John's father, my gggg grandfather ***Edward is Charles's brother so my gggg granduncle. I believe I got this from the Toronto Genealogy Research Library on Adilaide St. Anne Patten Oliver annieo@sprintmail.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8632/ Researching Patten, Rice, Coffin, Bendle, Tibbo, Nicholle, Hollett, and Forsey in Grand Bank, Twillingate & Haystack, Newfoundland, Canada, England, Wales, The Channel Islands and the World.
1698 "Richard BURT was in the Newfoundland trade out of Christchurch since at least 1698. Family connections:
Richard BURT married 1710 to Flower PERKINS.
Jane BURT married 1736 to John HARDYMAN.
John BURT married 1745 to Elizabeth KNIGHT.
Mary BURT married 1762 to Benjamin PELLEY.
Thomas R Cole tommy@pathcom.com
1700 Greetings from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada I am descended from a Verge family from Twillingate, Newfoundland. I have located some of the early Verge names which came from England, but there are some who I just can't seem to locate. I also know that there were good numbers of fishermen who came from the Channel Islands and many settled permanenly there. Can anyone tell me if there were some fishermen named Verge, Virg, Virge, Vierge, Vergo, Vargo, Vyrge who may have lived in the Channel Islands. The name is French originally as are many other family names and I know there were a few Verges in England as early as the 1400s. I have some Verge names in Newfoundland which I can't trace back to England. It appears there were some Verges in Newfoundland before 1700 and several more soon after that date. I would love to find out if there were Verges in the Channel Islands at that time and if so, how I can access some names and dates of these families. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I may be able to help someone researching some Newfoundland names. Jack Verge Montgomery jvmont@jumppoint.com
1702 Still in England, James Knight, now listed as "of London, gentleman" is elected to a seat on the powerful Hudson Bay company. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1703 John Knight , of Quidi Vidi ( see map), 1703; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
1704 "Seek information on Squarey / Squarry family of NF and West Teighmouth, Devon. Earliest Squareys in NF possibly Thomas 1704, William 1706, John 1708, & Robert 1708. 1774 William Squarey married Elizabeth Tozer, West Teignmouth. Children were John, R.N., William, master mariner (married Mary Ann Coster), Elizabeth, Charles R. N. (married Harriet Lott), Henry , and Robert b. 1778 - d. 1828, who married Sarah Parsons in 1810 in NF (Sarah was 2nd daughter of Robert Parsons) Offspring of Robert and Sarah Squarey were Sarah Ann Tozer Squarey (married Henry Knight) Robert and William who married Mary Ann Ryall in 1845.. sons of William and Mary Ann were William R. Squarey (married Ann Woolfrey, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Woolfrey of Harbour Grace) in 1873, and Robert Thomas Squarey (married Caroline Higgins, daughter of Thomas and Anne Caroline Higgins of Harbour Grace in 1870) Sons of Robert Thomas and Caroline Higgins are; Thomas Higgins Squarey, Frederick Charles Squarey, Arthur Squarey, Bertram Squarey, William Squarey, Edward Monroe Squarey (married Lucretia Alice Poole, daughter of John Poole and Hannah Buffett Poole, 1904 in channel) Any additional info on these or other family members would be appreciated. Have additional info on family in NF and Devon to share. Elizabeth Squarey Bakenhus 26880 Elena Road Los Altos Hills , CA 94022 USA BBAKENHUS@worldnet.att.net
1708 William Knight, of Bonavista( see map) , 1708-09; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
July 5, 1708 "Wm Knight at St. John's p.13" William Pickering account books 1695-1718 of goods sold in NFLD. Essex Instute of Salem Ma, NFLD Ancestor Vol. 5
Sept. 1, 1708 "Benj. Knight & Joseph Hawood at Trinity, p.46" William Pickering account books 1695-1718 of goods sold in NFLD. Essex Instute of Salem Ma, NFLD Ancestor Vol. 5
1708 John Knight, of St. John's ( see map), 1708; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
Sept. 1709 "Wm Knight at Trinity, p. 50" William Pickering account books 1695-1718 of goods sold in NFLD. Essex Instute of Salem Ma, NFLD Ancestor Vol. 5
1710 Early instances: Giles Vinsant or Vincent, planter of Connaigre, 1710-15, VINCENT, a baptismal name and surname of England, Ireland, France and Jersey (Channel Islands)... Traced by Guppy in Cornwall, Devon, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk and Wiltshire, and by MacLysaght in Cos. Limerick and Dublin since the mid-seventeenth century, and in Co. Derry. In Newfoundland: Family traditions: ----, from Scotland, settled at Cape Freels (see map) (MUN Folklore). From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
Feb. 1710 James Knight is elected to travel to Holland to solicit the Hudson Bay Company's business at the treaty of peace. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1711"At St. John's: "Captain's Crowe's Laws": 1711. The tenements, store-houses, and stages which are now in possession of persons undermentioned... Richard Colesworthy, upper stage-house and room at fort at Bursthart Hill; Captain Stafford, in behalf of Henry Perden, one store-house on vice-admiral's room; Thomas and John Squary, one store-house..." From "A History if Newfoundland" by D.W. Prowse: Barbara Pederson
March 31, 1713 Awaiting the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, James Knight returns to England. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1713-1718 List of inhabitants in Quidi Vidi does not record any Knights. Ruck Collection, NFLD Anc., Vol 5
1714 Early instances: Giles Vinsant or Vincent, planter of Isle Grole (see map), 1714; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
April 19, 1714 Now in his mid 60's, James Knight accepts an appointment as governor of Hudson's Bay and returns shortly after. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
June 3, 1714 James Knight writes his will and says he is from "Bisham als Bulsham in the County of Berks." Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1716 VERGE, DU VERGE, VIRGEE, DES VIRGE. Name in Grouville J 1716, poss Huguenot? Joseph VERGE and Mary BLEWETT mar in Boston 1755, removed to Liverpool, NS. "The Quiet Adventurers in Canada". Guy Le Blancq leblancq@ns.sympatico.ca
1717 These Channel Islanders, in this year, were involved with the Newfoundland trade and fishiness, Seale, Patriarche, Chevallier (alias Knight), Chastray, Denton, Orengette, Janvrin, Carteret, Dean, Pipon, Lempriere, Auley (or Anley?), Le Bailly, Nicolle, Messervy, Marett, Maugier, Brown, Touzell, Martell, Seward and others." (A. c. sounders, co. Jers. Bull)
Summer 1718 James Knight's term as Governor of Hudson Bay comes to a end and he returns to England. Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1719 James Knight, with the ships Albany and Discovery (Hudson's former ship), attempts to take refuge on Marble Island in Hudson Bay when the ships are damaged. After two winters, there are no survivors. Presumably, they all starved. http://www.georgian.net/rally/hudson/hudson6.html
June 5, 1719 "Once more at peace, the quest for the north-west passage was revived, and the spell which Sebastion Cabot, that arch schemer among navigators had laid upon the English people, began again to work. Somewhere hidden in the bay was the opening of the Strait of Anian of the old maps, opening into the Mar del Z?? and in 1719 James Knight, who had been governor of the bay, set out with two ships to find that mythical passage. The whole expedition utterly disappeared, nor could its fate be conjectured, untill in 1759, forty years later, remains were found on Marble Island, which proved that the whole party-- two ships crews-- had miserably perished of cold and famine during two terrible years of struggle and agony." Accompanied by a picture of the monument on Marble Island. North America by Samuel Edward Dawson 2389,35 Boston Public Library
Researcher: David Gallagher dgfambus@interlog.com Address: Tel: Area of research: Harbour Grace, Corner Brooke Description: My great grandfather emigrated from Harbour Grace in 1870 & came to Toronto. He left a brother, who became a magistrate & moved to the Cornerbrook area. Squarey family still live there, I believe. Do you have any info on Squarey? [03/98]
1719 "Robert Squarey born 1719 West Teignmouth, Devon, not sure at this point who he married, Amy Tozer turns out to be his brother's wife. Robert's son was William born 1744, married Elizabeth Tozer in West Teignmouth. William & Elizabeth Tozer Squareys' son was Robert Squarey born 1778, West Teignmouth. Robert married Sarah Parsons either Aug. 13 1810 or 1816 in NF (she was second daughter of Robert Parsons) he was listed as a widower when he married her. Robert was a sailmaker and died Xmas 1828. Sarah died June 13, 1859 Robert and Sarahs' daughter was Sarah Amy Tozer (wonder if the Amy part is correct, something for me to look into) Sarah Amy Tozer Squarey married Henry Knight, their children were, Leah, Emma, Lemuel Robert and Sarah Parsons Squareys' son was William born 1824 (sarah Amy Tozer Squareys brother) William Squarey married Mary Ann Rydall 1845, their sons were Robert Thomas Squarey born 1845 Harbour Grace William Rydall Squarey born 1849 Harbour Grace Robert Thomas married Caroline Higgins 1870, St. Paul's, Harbour Grace (second daughter of Thomas and Ann Caroline, or Caroline Ann Higgins) Caroline's brothers were probably Thomas P. Higgins of whom I have a photo in a constable type uniform taken in Boston 1897, he was apparently in something called the Joseph Warren Commandery (perhaps Allen will know what this is all about) other brother was W>F>Higgins, I have a photo he sent to the family from Cleveland, Ohio 1899. Beth Bakenhus
1721 In 1721, Captain James Knight and his crew were marooned on Marble Island, about 32 km from Rankin Inlet. Knight was exploring, searching for valuable minerals and the Northwest Passage. His two ships were wrecked in the shallows, and he and his crew of 50 were stranded on the island. They mysteriously disappeared, waiting for rescue, and refusing the assistance of Inuit hunters who passed the island. http://www.learnnet.nt.ca/LeoUssak/Rankin_Inlet.html Barbara Peterson
Late Summer, 1721 "In a state of starvation, the five survivors eagerly devoured the raw seal meat and whale blubber offered but " this disordered them so much that three of them died in a few days, and the other two though very weak, made a shift to bury them", Hearne recorded. Then came the most disturbing story of all, one seems to etch for ever the bounds of fellowship and suffering; [they] survied many days after the rest, and frequently went to the top of an adjacent rock, and ernestly looked to the South and East, as if in expectation of some vessels coming to their relief. After continuing there a considerable time together, and nothing appearing in sight, they sat down close together, and wept bitterly. At length one of the two died, and the others strength was so far exhausted, that he fell down and died also, in attempting to dig a grave for his companion." Dead Silence. Geiger, J. & Beattie. O. 1994. Viking Press, Penguin Books Canada, Toronto, ON. Studies on the mysterious fate of the James Knight Expedition, stranded on Marble Island in Hudson Bay, 1719-1721.
Their graves can still be seen on dead man's island and their ships can be seen underwater in the which sits about 30 km from Rankin Inlet in Hudson Bay.
James Knight came from The Jersey Islands and settled in St. John’s. He was the father of Johnathan, James and Josia. Josia was the father of Henry. Henry was the father of Sarah Ann, Samuel, Welsely, Thomas, Warrick, Wallace, Kenneth and Dorman. Letter 11/96 from lester Knight..
1722 Creator:Knight, William, 1722-1799. Title:William and Benjamin Knight Account Books [microform] 1767-1833. Extent:1 reel of microfilm. Adm His/Biog Sketch:William Knight (1722-1799) and his son Benjamin Knight (1767-1843) were shoremen from Marblehead, Massachusetts, who were involved in the deep sea cod fishery. The family owned several schooners outfitted voyages from their waterfront chandlery, retailed provisions and dry goods to fishing families and kept a flakeyard in Marblehead where they employed retired mariners to dry the cod their vessels brought in. William conducted the business until his death in 1799, when it passed to his son Benjamin who operated it through to 1833. Scope and Content:Three volumes of account books containing the Knight dealings with the hundreds of fishermen they hired, the export merchants to whom they sold their cod once cured, and the dozens of maritime artisans and labourers who maintained their fleet of schooners. Location:Mic.1-5-1-9 MHA Finding Aids:MHA finding aid 20. Compiled by Daniel Vickers. .T590. Administrative history taken from the finding aid, written by Daniel Vickers. Abstract:Title taken from the finding aid. Subject:Merchants Massachusetts Marblehead. Subject:Cod fisheries Massachusetts. Subject: Business records. Barbara Pederson
Early 1700's ROWSELL, a surname of England, a variant of RUSSELL, or ? an anglicization of the surname of France and Guernsey (Channel Islands) Roussel (See ROUSSEAU). Traced in Dorset, and by Bardsley in Somerset. In Newfoundland: Family tradition: Three Rowsell brothers of Huguenot ancenstry (the surname was originsally Rouselle), came to Newfoudnland from Poole or Bristol in the early 1700s; they settled in Bonavista Bay, Notre Dame Bay and Pushthrough (Fortune Bay and Hermitage district). ROUSSEAU, a surname of France and the Channel Islands - red-haired. In Newfoundland: Modern status: Rare, at Corner Brook. "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
Fortress of Louisbourg
Parish Baptism Record - 1723
NAMES:
Chevalier, Charlotte Elisabeth
Chevalier, François
De La Chevrotière, Isabelle
De La Grange, M.
Gaultier, Marie Charlotte
Sanquer, Claude Fre
Despres, Anne
Delort
Cassaignilles, B.
DATE:
1723, 03 September
REFERENCE:
G1, Vol. 406, f. 4v
Fortress of Louisbourg
Parish Baptism Record - 1723
NAMES:
Carretrot, [ ? ]
Carrerot, Philippe
Gaultier, Therese
Carrerot, Pierre
De Lort, Charlotte
Sanquet, Claude Fre
Chevalier LaGrange, La varve
De La Brellort, Charls
Delort
DATE:
1723, 07 November
REFERENCE:
G1, Vol. 406, f. 5
Sept. 1724 James Knight's will is executed and his "loving wife Elizabeth" received the bulk of his estate and his son Gilpin just one shilling, "he having been already advanced by me in the world considerably more than my circumstances". Dead Silence ISBN 0-14-016701-3
1727 "Bonovier indebted to: Mary Sleate (Slate), ----- Blake, Cyprus White, William Knight." From: Colonial Secretary's Office, Outgoing Correspondence, from Bonavista PANL G.N.2/1/a: Vol 3, pg 62, 63, 64 - Thomas R. Cole tommy@pathcom.com
AN EARLY NEWFOUNDLAND PELLEY Submitted by Mary Ann Gallup (#157), Swampscott, Ma. 01907. U.S.A. From records taken at the Hampshire County Record Office, Winchester, Hampshire. England.
INDENTURE - Lease dated the 21st day of February 1734, wherein James PERKINS granted to John PELLEY the Younger, of Winkton,Parish of Christchurch, County of Southampton, and Newfoundland, Planter, a parcel of land (ETC.) on the Queen's Highway leading from Christchurch, being part Of the Manor of Winkton.
WILL of John PELLEY of Winkton, Parish of Christchurch, Twineham in the County of Southampton, Newfoundland Planter, and now in Fogo. Made the 17th day of October 1737. Proved March 5, 1738.
Leaves to his two eldest sons John and Thomas PELLEY, his boats, rooms, or plantation lying in Pelley's Cove in the Harbour of Fogo, with the oldest son John to have first choice.
Leaves to his wife, Mary, and his two joung children Mary and James the profits from both boats he has "sent out and sent abroad on ? sawing and boatbuilding voyages this Winter Season ensuing." Also to his wife Mary he leaves his holdings in Winkton as long as she remains a Widow, but in the event she remarries, then these possessions are to go to his daughter Mary, with 20 pounds being paid to his son James.
ARTICLES of AGREEMENT dated the 16th day of April 1756: Evidently a dispute has arisen over the property in Winkton. Widow Mary PELLEY has remarried a Mr. Fuller. Daughter Mary has married Robert NEWTON.
Mary PELLEY NEWTON and her husband Robert NEWTON were to share the Winkton home with Mary PELLEY FULLER and upon the latter's decease, would have first choice to purchase the interest of the other children. The Widow Mary PELLEY has taken care of and educated the two younger children during their minorities, and was not to be responsible for anything but what was then in her possession.
James PELLEY was permanently in Newfoundland and had empowered his uncle Thomas BRENTON, Miller, of Winkton, to accept his share of 20 pounds.
MARRIAGES: John PELLEY married Mary BRENTON, both of Christchurch, December 22 1725 at Ringwood (Parish Register).
(It wood seem to me this John Pelley must have been married) more than once, this marriage to Mary BRENTON being his second, and their children being Mary and James).
Perhaps his first marriage was to Mary KNIGHT, September 30 1696 at Christchurch (Bishop's Transcripts) and these were the parents of John and Thomas, and an Elizabeth who married a LOATHER.
Mary PELLEY NEWTON and her son john PELLEY NEWTON both died in t765 and the latter had turned the estate over to Joshua STARKE (a cousin?). Fall 1986 Vol.217 #4 page 17
1735 "Best known of the children of Campbell [1851-1908] and Emma [daughter of Henry John Duder, farmer of St. John's, and Jane Sophia Pitts, granddaughter of Joseph Pitts of Bell Island] Macpherson were Dr. Cluny and Hon. Harold. (They had sisters Violette and Eva.) Their maternal ancestry can be traced back farther than most Newfoundland familes as their great-grandfather was Mr. Joseph Pitts (born circa 1735) from Exeter of Lance Cove, Bell Island. He was in Newfoundland by around 1751 and was involved in the fishery and in the building of ships and boats at Bell Island. In 1810 Mr. Pitts was in England selling Newfoundland salted codfish and purchased three grandfather clocks for his sons from Benjamin Bowring's shop in Exeter with the result that Mr. Bowring decided Newfoundland would be a good place for a watchmaker. .. Mr. Pitts' son John was the father of James; Mrs. Coyell; Mrs. Cowan; Mary (Mrs. Thomas Ebsary); Mrs. Knight and Jane Sophia (Mrs. Henry J. Duder). ======== There' more in this family, saying that Henry came from Devon to Newfoundland in 1833 and was a farmer and a large landowner, and that his descendants were very prominent in government, mining... etc."And They Stayed" by Margaret Mullins A Selection of St. John's Family Histories MACPHERSON Note that [square brackets are my inserts/comments]. Barbara Pederson
1736 "I do apoligise for my failure to reply earlier to your letter dated March 3, 1991 following my letter to you dated 27 April 1991 (something wrong there!) concerning Stephen Knight. His father was James bapt. 1736 Shaftsbury, died 1782 also Shaftsbury, carpenter. James's father was George, born about 1713 (to judge by his age given at death) but where I do not know, died 1779 Shaftsbury, millwright. Stephen had an older brother, James (also a carpenter) and younger brothers Thomas (plumber), Joseph (tallow chandler/grocer) and Jeremiah ( tailor, my ancestor) all of whom died in London and all of them apparently Quakers. George evidently became a Quaker after the birth of his first three children but had fallen out with the Quakers at the time of his death, probably has a result of his remarriage. I have found no sign of any connection between the family and Newfoundland other than Stephen. However he did have an uncle, William and perhaps a "step-uncle", John, who are not properly accounted for. Since I wrote to you last year I have found in the Library of the Society of Genealogists in London some mentions of Stephen and his firm and family in the Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser 1810-1862. These included the deaths of both Stephen and his father - in - law, Stephen March, and the marriage of what seems likely to be Stephen's daughter Ann, to John Higgins in 1817. There are also references to various Knights who were unconnected with my family so far as I know. Thank you very much for your letter; despite the delay I am most grateful to you. I had no idea that Parker & Bulley were from the Newton Abbott area. Yours sincerely, Howard M. Knight 925 Bayly St. #51 Pickering, On. Canada, L1W-1L4 May 19, 1992
Oct. 1737 "John Pelley of Winkton, Parish of Christchurch, South Hampton and NFLD Planter in his will Oct. 1737" "Author Mary Ann Gallop speculated his 1st wife was Mary Knight M. Sept. 30, 1696 at Christchurch. Children John, Thomas and Elizabeth who married A. Loather." NFLD Anc. P.17, Vol. 2-4
1739 John Vincent, fisherman of St. John's or Petty Harbour (see map), about 1739-43; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
1739 Birth year of ...Henry Batson of Wimbourn Minister, aged seventy-one years in 1810, was nine years old when his father first took him to Newfoundland, and George Short, born in Hooke, Dorset, but examined at Wimbourn in 1762, testified he went to sea first in service to 'Bernard Batson', planter then resident in Newfoundland'." From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "Barbara Pederson.
From 1744- 1747 there was no navel governor appointed to Placentia.Tthis meant that the Lieutenant Governor was the highest executive in the land, and this part was filled by Colonel Otto Hamilton. He reported that there was great difficulty in enforcing the law, and even to get men to act as justice of the peace. In 1747 there was only one justice of the peace at Placentia and he refused to perform his job. Governor Rodney in 1749 ordered Captain Knight, the Captain in the Placentia Station, to appoint new justices of the peace. http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/more/placentia/hamilton.htm
1746 Birth year of "Ancestor of the ROUSSEL DU GOULET is SIMON ROUSSEL, son of Didier ( died in Tracadie 16 Dec. 1812 at 66yrs.) and Madeleine Hache, who married the 21 feb 1814 to Barbe Thebeau,of Shippagan, daughtr of Mathurin and Catherine Duval. Shippagan is at the northern most part of New-Brunswick. it is in Gloucester co. it is also across from the small island of Ile Lameque. The author is Donat Robichaud Diane; Amos@grolen.com
1746 (year of arrival in Newfoundland) "Henry Batson of Wimbourn Minister, aged seventy-one years in 1810, was nine years old when his father first took him to Newfoundland, and George Short, born in Hooke, Dorset, but examined at Wimbourn in 1762, testified he went to sea first in service to 'Bernard Batson', planter then resident in Newfoundland'." From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "Barbara Pederson.
From: Colonial Secretary's Office, Outgoing Correspondence, PANL G.N.2/1/a:
1722 Rev. Henry Jones pilot pg 17.
1749 Vincent & Batt vol 1, pg 37.
1749 Jno Sheppard & Josiah Feed. vol 1, pg 70.
1755/6 Rev Robt Peasley, Jonah Newell. Trinity Records.
1758/9 Richard Abbott, Jos. Randall, Thos Storte [TC Note- Slate], Mary Lamb. vol 3 pg 29.
1759 Isaac Bonnvior vol 3 pg 61.
1762 Jno Johnson, served Jas Sanders vol 3 pg 149
1767 George Ryder vol 4 pg 61.
1765 Timothy Martin vol 4 pg 97.
1770 George Ryder vol 4 pg 286.
1774 George Ryder vol 5 pg 221.
1789 Disneys boats vol 12 pg 5.
1790 Jno Lander supposed murder of Chris Garrett vol 12 pg 59.
1790 Bland & Ford- charges against vol 12 pg 68.
1792 Jno Bland, G Ford, Wm Brown, Graham Moore vol 12 pg 146.
1813 Giles Hosier of Poole, planter deceased. admin Jos. Melledge.
1814 Mifflin & Brown etc Samson Mifflin. see Gazette Jul '14, pg 209.tommy@pathcom.com
1749 Re: Vincent - In about the year 1749 a Vincent and Joe Batt were due to be whipped or flogged in Bonavista for stealing shoe buckles but the townspeople tore up the stocks in protest. Vincent was said to have been a sailor off Capt. Cook's ship but whether this is "the" James Cook is debatable. Thomas R Cole tommy@pathcom.com
1750 "... to summon John Pike, who was charged with cruelly whipping David Careen and Michael Moreen... ordered to pay L100 [100 pounds] to Amos Vincent, (See map) whose fish he had seized illegally." From "A History of Newfoundland" by D.W. Prowse, Q.C. (1972): At Harbour Grace, about 1750 - [Don't have the book here now, so this is kind of vague or incomplete, but thought you'd like to know there was a VINCENT around Harbour Grace in 1750]: Barbara Pederson
The other letter is to the same Harbour Grace magistrates, about their neglect to summon John Pike, who was charged with cruelly whipping David Careen and Michael Moreen. Pike, after a sharp reprimand from Rodney to the magistrates, appeared before the court on the 25th of September. He was fined £ 25 sterling and costs in Careen and Moreen's cases, and ordered to pay £ 100 to Amos Vincent, whose fish he had seized illegally. http://www.cuff.com/prowse/page/292.htm
1750 ""The Newfoundland Quarterly", Spring 1992.
"Hon. James S. Pitts" by David G. Pitt:
[James'] roots in Newfoundland had been put down at Lance Cove, Bell Island in the 1750s by settlers from Devon... brothers John (1783-1825), James (1784-1870), and William (1787-1869). The families of John and James... moved to St. John's in the first quarter of the nineteenth century... Some of the daughters and granddaughters... united their fortunes in marriage with what may be called the commercial aristocracy of the city... [Family names included Duder, Knight and March.] To mention only one by name: Charlotte, daughter of John Pitts, by marrying Captain William Knight, became the grandmother of poet E.J. Pratt. James S. Pitts was a son of William Pitts (1818-1884), who was the only son among the eight childrern of James mentioned above. Born in St. John's, William... had joined his father in taking over the failing commission merchant firm of Matthew Stewart... In 1846 [William] married Anne Cocheran, a Devonshire woman, by whom he had ten children. The eldest, born November 14, 1847, was named James Stewart... In 1874 he married Mary, daughter of the Hon. Alexander Mackay, superintendent of the Angle-American Telegraph Company, and politician. He died in St. John's on January 27, 1914. ---------------
1751 John Knight, of Placentia, 1751; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
1751 "Creator:Newfoundland. Dept. of Agriculture and Mines. Title:Deed to Mrs. Martha Cottman [text] [19--]. Extent:1 page. Scope and Content:Copy of a deed granting land for Martha Cottman to carry on a salmon fishery at Salmon House and Crosnans Island, Signed by John Knight at Placentia, 1751. Location:MF-0099 MHA Abstract:Title based on description. Subject: Cottman, Martha, fl. 1751. Subject:Salmon fisheries. Subject:Land grants. Subject:Salmon House Island, Placentia Bay (Nfld.). Subject: Crosnan's Island, Placentia Bay, (Nfld.). http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/57/1/0 Barbara Pederson
http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/E/index.htm
Deed of Admiral Drake to Martha Cottman
By John Knight, Esq. 1751
"Whereas Mrs. Martha Cottman subject of Great Britain has applied to me for a Grant of the North East Arm and to carry on a Salmon Fishery, and the more effectively to complete the same that she desired the property of the ground from the west side of the two islands commonly called Salmon House Island and Crosous Island and for half a mile around the same both islands included as P Plan thereof hereunto annexed and having good information that it has never been occupied, or the property of any person or persons before, I do by virtue of the power and authority to me given by Admiral Francis W. Drake acting as Surrogate of Newfoundland by these presents grant unto the said Martha Cottman and her heirs forever the sole right and property of the said Salmon Fishery and the ground above described and the peaceable and quiet possession of the same without the least hindrance or molestation in the enjoyment thereof and all and every season are hereby decided for not to give any disturbance therein as they shall answer to the contrary. To prevent any dispute that may arise hereafter I have caused this to be registered in the records of Placentia. Given under my hand and seal this 8th day of September 1751 and in the 24th year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second" Signed. John Knight.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that this is a correct copy of a deed to Mrs. Martha Cottman as recorded in the Registry of Special Grants in the Department of Agriculture and Mines on page 87 of the said registry (Note-there is no opposition to the plan mentioned in the body of the deed attached to the register.) Sources: Newfoundland Provincial Archives
1751 "Lionel Chancey c. 1751-1822 was a school teacher who served for a time as Clerk of the Peace at Harbour Grace. The first Lionel and his wife Elizabeth had 4 sons and 4 daughters: Elizabeth Parsons bapt. 1782 married wealthy merchant Joseph Gill. Mary Dinah maried Robert Brown. Sarah Ann married Cornelius Winton, bookkeeper at Job's; (daughter Elizabeth Maria Winton married Richard Neyle) William Stafford went to the U.S.A. George (1793-1816) was a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. John Lloyd Lilly (1788-1831). Thomas Lilly bapt. 1789, remained at St. John's. Lionel (1782-1856) married in 1826 Elizabeth Knight (1809-1894) and they resided on Cochrane Street. {Footnote says: "Information comes from 'The Dissenting Church at St. John's 1775-1975.) Barbara Pederson
In reference to the above, this chapter also includes "the oldest son of Lionel, Junior, [who] was yet another Lionel, Lionel Thomas, (1828-1912) who married Margaret Parnell Wilkinson of Carbonear... Lionel T.R.'s [this is Lionel Thomas] brother John Wesley G. and wife Susannah (Stoneman) were the parents of Eldred George, a carpenter, who married Lydia Butler, daughter of Matilda Knight (died 1912) of Quidi Vidi and John Butler (died 1906) of St. John's".
Now, if you have all that straight:
"Eldred and Lydia's son Stanley Chancey, born 1887... was until his death on October 30, 1981, the oldest member of the Congregation. His brother Mr. Lloyd Knight Chancey (married Evelyn Mills) was department head at Bowring's Esquire Department for many years. His sisters the misses Blanche, Aimee and Elsie Chancey ... were for fifty years the custodians of the 'Quidi Vidi Bible' presented to Matilda Knight Butler*. Miss Elsie Chancey still lives on Campbell Avenue. She and a cousin Ethel are the oldest living members of the Chancey family. The Bible is now in the possession of Miss Elsie's nephew Mr. Fred Chancey and his wife Betty..." *Endnote here: "Members of the Congregational, Wesleyan and Church of England churches worshipped in the little church at Quidi Vidi (the facade of which has been preserved). When the Congregational Church was disbanded there, their Bible was presented to Matilda Knight (married John Butler) as she was the only one living connected with the church and her deceased brothers had been lay readers. Matilda was orphaned at eight and went to live with her oldest brother at Quidi Vidi..." history of St. John's familes by Margaret Mullins (1989), "And They Stayed",
1753 From :"Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "In the settlement of English Harbour... the 1753 census listed six planter families... by 1801 only three surnames (Batson, Jones, and Pottle) were retained... Bugden, Kember, Miller, and Sweetland had married Batson females..." Barbara Pederson
1753 I have been researching my maternal grandmother's family for the last few years and the earliest ancestor I have been able to produce is a Thomas DeGrish of Trinity West, Newfoundland, on the 1753 census. The DeGrish name apparently was originally DeGruchy or DeGruchey and the family came to Newfoundland from the Channel Islands. I discovered a Thomas Gruchy and a Thomas DeGruchy mentioned in your notes from Jersey and wondered if this was the connection for which I have been searching ? Any information on the DeGruchy family from Jersey would be appreciated. I intend to visit the Channel Islands sometime in the next few years and would like to do more research. Thank you, Lynne (Leard-Ritchie-Gillis-DeGrish) jellybean@bc.sympatico.ca
1753 Does anyone have a relative named Elizabeth born 1743 Island of Jersey. I'm having trouble finding Surname. She married James Townsend (the Pioneer) who was with the 45th Royal Foot. James was born in Greenwich and was sent to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia when the fort was taken, and they settled there. All their children were born in Louisbourg."In the Settlement of English Harbour." I'm sure you already know that English Harbour was (Louisbourg). There is a census mentioned also. Do you know how much info is included in this and where it might be accessed? Perhaps my Elizabeth came with her family as Planters and married James after he was discharged at Louisbourg. She would have been 10 yrs. old in 1753. Her family were staunch Anglicans from Jersey. What are the odds of them getting together over there...him from Greenwich and in the military, and she from Jersey? If someone knows of this lady, I would appreciate any info. Thanks Beatrice (Ontario) <susin@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca>
1755 Elizabeth Knight's father gave her plantation 332 in Carbonear. By 1807 it was occupied by Linthorne and Warne. "1755 co 199/18 Eliz father gave her plant 332 in carb. by 1807- occupied by Linthorne and warne" Keith Mathew's Collection
1755 "Lot 914 Claimant: Elizabeth Knight Nature of Claim: By deed of gift from her father Occupier in 1805: John Warn and B. Linthorne Year Acquired: 1755 Size in Yards: 131x 185 Contents of Lot: 1 stage, 1 flake, 3 stores, 1 cookroom, 3 houses, 4 gardens, 1 meadow." Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
1755 "Elizabeth Knight, of Carbonear, 1755 property "in possession of the Family for upwards of 80 years", that is, before 1675;" From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
Hello--Would like to know if anyone has come across any Noftal and Butt families while searching Channel Island records. These families were associated with Newfoundland. Peter Noftal is supposed to have been from the Channel Islands and settled in Newfoundland. An Elizabeth (Butt) Knight sailed from the Channel Islands in 1755 to Newfoundland to inherit property. Thanks MaryAnn MAnkiewicz@aol.com
1755 "We watched a 50-minute film that my brother in St. John's sent her, on library loan. It happened to be a documentary on Poole-Nfld. connections in the past 250 years. It briefly showed St. James' Church in Poole in which there are memorials to some of their 18th century captains. And who do you think I'm going to mention? None other than "Sir John Lester Knight"!! Is this new to you -- I'm almost afraid to get excited becuase you might come back and say you knew about him all the time... I got Mom to stop the tape a few times until I got it right. It showed the inscription in memory of: Sir John Lester Knight died the 12th day of January, 1805 age 50 years. Barbhara Pederson
1757 "The specific origins of many Trinity families are disclosed in parish records, wills and other documents." Two of the families mentioned here "from the Poole-Christchurch-Ringwood-Wareham areas..." are Batstone and Strong. During the period 1757-1801, at Trinity, Nfld., "...Besston (modern Batson and Batstone) took the marriage vows in 10 unions". From "The Story of Trinity" by Gordon Handcock: Barbara Pederson
1758 Mary Besstone (1758) and Martha Besstone (1762) were among the "females recorded in the first ten years (1757-1766) of the surviving Trinity marriage registers..." From "The Story of Trinity" by Gordon Handcock: Barbara Pederson
Jan ry 7th 1758 "Married Joseph Harts to Mary Besstones Daughter of Barnet & Martha Besstones. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
1759 birth year of "At Brigus, Conception Bay - Robert Knight; died 13 July 1811; age 52 years 4 months. "tombstone inscriptions David Wells davewells19@hotmail.com This date is disputed by Bonell
1760 "About the year 1760, one, Scott, with another shipmaster and a strong crew, went from St. John's to the Bay of Exploits, which was known to be much frequented by the Indians, during the summer season. Scott and his party having landed at the mouth of the bay, built there a place of residence, in the manner of a fort. Some days afterwards, a large party of Indians appeared in sight, and made a full stop, none of them showing the least inclination to approach nearer. Scott then proposed to the other shipmaster to go among them; the latter advised to go armed. Scott opposed it on the ground that it might create alarm. They proceeded towards the Indians with part of their crew without arms. Scott went up to them with every sign of amity, that he could imagine, aud mixed with them, taking several of them, one after another by the hands. An old man, in pretended friendship, put his arms around his neck; at the same instant, another stabbed Scott in the back. The war-whoop resounded, a shower of arrows fell upon the English which killed the other shipmaster and four of his companions. The rest of the party then hastened to their vessels and returned to St. John's, carrying one of those who had been killed with the arrows sticking in his body." (Anspach.)
According to Mr. Thos. Peyton, who had the story from one, Henry Rowsell, of Hall's Bay, -- "The first five men who attempted to make a settlement in that bay, were all killed by the Indians. A crew went up from Twillingate shortly afterwards, and found the bodies of those unfortunates, with their heads cut off and stuck on poles."
The above instances, if true, would seem to prove that the Indians were really of a very sanguinary disposition, but this is not borne out by other accounts, notably by Whitbourne's. There are some instances of individuals being killed by them, but it always appears to have been in retaliation for brutal murders committed upon them by the whites. On the other hand, there are numerous cases in which they could have wreaked vengeance upon their oppressors which they did not avail themselves of. Once an old Micmac remarked to me, "Red Injun not bad man, if he mind to he could kill every fisherman without letting himself be seen at all." There are no instances of their ever having attacked a white settlement, or of revenging themselves upon those who did not molest them. http://www.mun.ca/rels/native/beothuk/beo2gifs/texts/howley18.html#page27
1760 "my GGG Grandfather, George Vey b. 1760 ,and his nephew Thomas Vey b. 1760. They were from West Lulworth, Dorset. I believe they left from Poole and arrived somewhere in Conception Bay, Newfoundland in the year 1784. I am wondering whether they could have come out with Slade and Co. My GGG Grandfather, George Vey was a carpenter and his nephew was a shipbuilder or shipwright. My GGG Grandfather settled in Port-de-Grave." Liz Runacres Campbell River,B.C. runacres@online.bc.ca
1760 Fogo: "The first merchant was a member of a large Poole family -- John Slade. He arrived some time before 1760 and died in 1792. The Poole merchant house of Slade and Company became the major commercial force around N.D. Bay in the 1780s... While John Slade and Co. were the largest merchants, there were several other merchants in Fogo at the same time. Thomas Perkins and Jeremiah Coghlan of Bristol set up Perkins and Coghlan some time before 1764 and were listed for Fogo in 1771. Coghlan... was in competition with the Slades before going bankrupt in 1782... The Slade business split in 1792, when Thomas Slade went into partnership with William Cox of Poole -- a cousin. The Slades carried on a fair amount of business with Hart and Eppes in St. John's in the late 1700s, but were in competition with St. John's and Harbour Grace merchants in the early 1800s and gradually sold their companies to other merchants. Charles Edmunds took over Thomas Slade's role in 1848 and eventually sold out to William Cox and Company which continued until 1860 when it was taken over by William Waterman. The John Slade branch was bought out by John Owen, and Owen and Earle started a business in the late 1860s..." From "Decks Awash" July/Aug. 1987 Barbara Pederson
1762 "From "The Nfld. Ancestor", an article submitted by Margaret Mullins: "In Volume 2 of the 'Book of Newfoundland' historian Le Messitrier stated in 1936 that Bonnell and Knight are Channel Island names. The first Captain John Bonnell of Cupids married Mary Knight (born circa 1762)." Barbara Pederson
1762 "Henry Batson of Wimbourn Minister, aged seventy-one years in 1810, was nine years old when his father first took him to Newfoundland, and George Short, born in Hooke, Dorset, but examined at Wimbourn in 1762, testified he went to sea first in service to 'Bernard Batson', planter then resident in Newfoundland'." From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "Barbara Pederson.
Feb ry 16th 1762 Married William Sweet & Martha Besstone Senior. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
Sept. 6, 1762 "Below is a document I found in doing related research at the New England Genealogy and Historical Society in Boston . There is no attempt to expain the status of the passengers but it came from a collection of documents assumed to have been saved by the author while he worked at Boston Customs House. "Timy Hefferen, Jams Driskol, Jno Rich, Edmd Culliton, Thos Power, Richd Power, Jas Trousloe, Morrs Kenedy, Jno Brogan, Morr Leane, Wm Joyce, Jas Croluley, Jno Mansfile, D'o Keife, Jno Sweeny, Morr Kennady, ? Shanahan, Jas Burts, Jno Gorman, Rd ?ealin, ? Shalow, Jno Strong, Rob Ryne, David Connil, Js Connall, Jms Carny, Charles McCarthy, D? Dawly, Mors Dawly, Jno Gready, Jas White, Ptr Power, Mors Landen, ? Murry, Darby Leahy, Wm Power, Wm Sheahan, Pat. Cullan, Sz Colburn, Jms Barry, Mcl Quinn, Js Crowly, Jno Gall, Jno Sheahan, Rd Shannahan, Morrz Dalton, Frs Cramer, Wm ?, Andw Williams, Thos Fitsgerald, Jno Power, Morrz Joyce, Office Boston Sep. 6 1762 Cornelius MacCarthy The above passengers all belong to the fishery at New Fd Land" NEHGS, Colburn Collection II, C5, 4, Town of Boston, folder 11
1764 "Birth year of " La Four, Francois, of J ?, mar Mary Chevalier, who d. 1842, age 78, res Sandy Beach, Gaspe. Unveriified." The Quiet Adventures in Canada, CS 89 A2 T6, NEHGS
Chevalier of this period removed from Gaspe to Labrador The Quiet Adventures in Canada, CS 89 A2 T6, NEHGS
1765 "A note on the ships" "The schooner 'Hope' was bought at Portsmouth by Lord Colville in 1765. She was a small vessel of 105 tons and carried a complement of 30 men. The length of her keel was 45 feet 5 inches, her breadth 20 feet 2 inches, her depth 8 feet 4 inches. It is possible that she was the small trading vessel of the same name in which the Moravian missionaries sailed to Labrador in 1752. In 1779 she surrendered to an American privateer." "Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador" by A.M. Lysaght: Barbara Pederson
Oct r 3d 1765 Married David Reid & Honora Virge Daughter of John & Honora Virge now widow Virge. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
Oct r 10 1766 Married Joseph Pinehorn & Martha Besstone Daughter of Mr & Mrs Sweet of English Harbour.
July 30th 1767 Married Martin Barnes Capt n of the Ship Poly belonging to Mr. John Lemon Merch t in Pool: And Elizabeth Dixon of the Kingdon of Irland.
Oct r 12th 1767 Married Christopher Dyet & Elizabeth Besstone Daughter of Mrs Martha Sweet in English Harbour.
Oct r 15th 1767 Married John Jones & Flower Guy Relict of William Guy.
January 12th 1768 Married William Pottle & Honora Besstone Daughter of Mrs Martha Sweet in English Harbour. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
1768 "Many years before the formation of English establishments at Labrador (such as Noble and Pinson's at Temple Bay about 1768, Nicholas Darby's at Cape Charles in 1767, and Cartwright's at the same place in 1770), the Newfoundland merchants sent fishing ships to Labrador. " Prowse's History of NFLD http://www.cuff.com/prowse/page/598.htm
1769 Philip Messervy, born Jersey married Suzanne Dennis, and removed to Newfoundland. I recently obtained a photocopy of a handwritten genealogy of a portion of the Messervey family of Jersey and Newfoundland. Reference was made to a 'Genealogy de la famille Messervy compiled 1889',while other references were made to a Messervy Genealogy by Judge Messervy (1900?) of Waterloo, Ont., and a Messervy Book by John A Messervy, ofCharlottetown, PEI. I'm looking for details concerning Phillipe Messervy, de St. Sauveur, who immigrated to St. George's Bay, Newfoundland in 1769 with his wife Suzanne Dennis, daughter of John Dennis. A number of children included Philip and it is he and his descendants I would appreciate hearing about, my wife's grandfather being William James Messervey, born Febryary 12, 1894 at Sandy Point, Nfld., who died in a mine disaster at Sidney Mines, NS on January 3, 1911. Bob Giles bobgiles@jetstream.net
March 2, 1758 "April 27, 1991 Dear Mr. Cole, I was interested to read in the February 1991 issue of The Greenwood Tree among your research interests the mention of `the Poole- Newfoundland- Quaker merchants'. I am afraid this was the first I had heard of the Quaker connection, although I had heard of the Poole- Newfoundland link. I say "afraid" because I am myself a Quaker and have been researching for years, none too assiduously, my Knight ancestors. Among them is a Stephen Knight who was born 2 March 1768 at Shaftsbury and died in 1813 (or thereabouts) in Newfoundland. >From his will (copy at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London) it seems he married an Ann March, probably in Newfoundland, and they had at least one child - a daughter also called Ann. At the time the will was made, `this twenty- fourth day of the second month called ffebruary' (still signs of his Quaker origins) 1812, the daughter appears to have been in England. There were legacies to his brothers, including my great- great- grandfather Jeremiah, of amounts which must have seemed large to them: Stephen seems to have been quite successful. I have traced Stephen's father and grandfather (but not where the latter came from) but I would dearly like to know more about Stephen and his family in Newfoundland (wife and children)- also about the Quaker connections with Newfoundland. I wonder if you can give me any information or tell me where I can find it? I should be most grateful for any help. Howard M. Knight 327 Nore Road, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 8EN, U. K.
1770 " I am a direct descendent of Henri Poingdestre who supposedly was the 2nd son of the seigneur d'Annaville (info. from late Keith Matthews). Henri settled in Northern Bay, NF around 1770. If anyone could point me to finding out about him or provide additional info on the Puddester family in Newfoundland, I would be thrilled. I'm willing to share my Puddester family info. Gillian Noonan gillian.noonan@nf.sympatico.ca
May 7th 1770 Married John Bugden Jrn r of Xt Church Hants: and Sarah Besston Daughter to Mrs Marth Sweet in English Harbour by her 1sth Husband Bernard Besstone. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
1770 "My ancestors are from Trinity Bay and the first (recorded) appearance was around 1770. This was a Stephen Hookey from Christchurch, Hants (Hampshire), England. I have since found many Hookey's who were in the New England States as early as the 1630's. I am trying to make a connection. I know there was a great deal of trade between Newfoundland and New England prior to the American Revolution. There is something strange about Stephen Hookey. He was about forty when he came to Newfoundland. He married a young Bonaventure girl and they had nine children but there is a period between 1777 and 1792 when they all seem to disappear. In 1792, they appear again in the church records when some of the children are being baptized. These children are old (i.e. sixteen and eighteen). From that time on, everything seems normal - usual marriages, births, deaths, etc. Anyway, I would appreciated any information which you may have regarding the surname Hookey. Thank you, Pat Morris glen.morris@sympatico.ca
1771 DAWSON, a surname of England, Ireland and Scotland - son of Dawe or David...Traced by Guppy mostly in Cumberland and Westmorland, Durham and Yorkshire, and in Stirlingshire; by McLysaght in Cos. Monaghan and Tipperary since the mid-17th century. Early instances: Thomas, merchant of Harbour Grace, 1771;"The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
1771 Endeavour THE CREW on the Endeavour
James Cook Lieutenant in command
Zachary Hicks Lieutenant
Isaac ParkerA.B.
Samuel DawsonA.B.
Thomas Knight A.B. http://www.slnsw.gov.au/Banks/series_03/crew_01.htm
Sept. 26th 1771 Married Joseph Trouck of Howness Hants and Elizabeth DeGresh Daughter to Eliza: Gestican by her Firsth Husband Thom s DeGresh. St. Paul's Anglican Parish Trinity, Trinity Bay, NF "The sender is Bonnie Hickey ("The Hickey's" <dhickey@nf.sympatico.ca>) Barbara Pederson
1772 "I have been researching the Rolls Family name a little over a year. Our history takes us back to a Richard Rolls b. 1772, married to a Mary Durdle b.1780, at Bonavista. I am having trouble finding Richards Family and link back to England. I have found a listing of a Samuel Rolls, who bought a Fishing Room from a White in Greenspond, with the Benj. Lester name included. I dont know if Samuel is related to my family. Original Rolls family was from Bonavista, my part moved to Newman's Cove sometime in the 1800's. Dad and Mom ( nee Keats ) came from Newman's Cove. Wifes family came from Red Cliff ( Quintons ), and Charleston ( Gould ). Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Bert Rolls Clinton, New Jersey music4b@webtv.net
1772 "Since my 3x grat grandfather settled in Ochre Pit Cove in 1772, and ALL my father's side of the family lived in that area, my research is concentrated there. In addition to Halfyard, other names that I am researching are : Bishop, Carnell, Jacobs, Garland, Youngs, in the direct line & of course, many other names come in when you add in the families of aunts & uncles including Penn(e)y; Parsons, Crummey, White, Dwyer. and many more. Some of the relatives went to the "Boston States" & the earliest that I can determine is 1892. Bob Halfyard rhalfyard@sympatico.ca
1774 Joanna Vinsen, of Bay de Verde, 1774;"Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
1775 Early instances: John ? Bejan, of St. John's, 1775; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary
Sep.12,1775 “ A terrific storm occurred on September 12th. The sea suddenly rose twenty feet, causing much damage to premises and shipping in Conception Bay. Over three hundred lives were lost at Northern Bay. Henry Knight carrying on the whale fishery, saved his vessel anchored right under Harbour Rock Hill, Carbonear." Noted here: Northern Bay is an outport on the western shore of Conception Bay about 30 km north northeast of Harbour Grace. " William Azuriach Munn notes the 1775 storm in his serialized history of Harbour Grace: from Barbara Pederson read in "The Newfoudland > Ancestor", Fall 1996:
1776 (6.) Michael Knight Sr., born 1776. notes by Robert Knight
1776 "In General Protestant Cemetery see Knight walled plot with monument to the above (Captain William) and headstone to Michael Knight Sr., his father born 1776. (Direct ancestors of William Clancy Knight.)" Bety Knight via Barbara Pederson
1776 "Searching the family name Murphy. What I have is a Great+++Grandfather John Murphy abt 1776-1857 .that I believe left Waterford, Ireland and went to Catalina,Newfoundland. First wife Mary Snellgrove. abt 1791 to April 22, 1829. I believe they had three son John Murphy 1820-September 11, 1891, James Murphy 1822-November 26, 1870 and Edward Murphy 1827-May 03, 1890 all I am told are buried in Catalinia. John (abt 1776-1857 .) had a second wife Ellen Walsh 1812-March 31, 1884 her children Michael born abt1833,Mary born abt1842 and Margaret 1846. I am assuming that these children are from the marriage of John (abt 1776-1857 .)and Ellen Walsh. Anybody with matching information or suggestions on the best way to prove my information would be appreciated I can be reached at rjmurphy@esinet.net Thank you Rob Murphy
Aug. 20,1777 "Major Richard Temple 20 aug. 1777 Regiment F. 15 Aug. 1775 in regiment. " The 18th Century, PR 1134.E34X Reel 5405 The Military Register Sept. 1, 1779
1778 Thirteen hundred men in this year left the Channel Islands for the summer to Fish on the Grand Banks, and to do other work in the Maritimes.
1780 Noble [i[v.]i] Kennoway.--The case of Noble et.al. [i[v]i]. Kennoway, an action on a policy of insurance, tried before Lord Mansfield in 1780, arose out of the capture of Noble and Pinson's vessels, [i[Hope]i] and [i[Anne]i], on a fishing voyage from Dartmouth and Water- ford to Temple Bay, Labrador; On the 13th of August the American privateer [i[Minerva]i] captured both vessels. Noble and Pinson's master, Astwick, said there were no settle- ments at Labrador but those belonging to the plaintiffs. This was not correct, as Cartwright and Darby had a fishing establishment at Cape Charles, begnning 1767. French, Newman, and Hunter were called to prove the practice of the Labrador trade. In his judgment, Lord Mansfield said, "Since the Treaty of Paris (1763) a new trade has been opened to Labrador." Prowse's History of NFLD http://www.cuff.com/prowse/page/598.htm
1780 "I am told I am a descendant of: LeChene, James & Philip, who escaped the French Revolution in St.Malo, France to Grand, Jersey Islands - I assume somewhere around 1780. >From there, on to Gaultois, Newfoundland, where they were employed by the Newman Hunt Company as fishermen. The name was gradually changed to LeShane (amongst other spellings) and ended up as SHANO. There are still, I believe, LeShane's about. If anyone has information, I would appreciate hearing from you. Dave Shano Combermere, Ontario, Canada micdav@mv.igs.net
1780 Early instances in Newfoundland; Patrick Dawson, of Petty Harbour, 1780; "The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
1780 In the year 1780: "At Petty Harbour, Patrick Dawson found out what it was like to have a suspicious master. He saw a dog running across a flake [platform for dryingcodfish] with a piece of beef in its mouth. He took the meat from the dog and was carrying it back to the cook room when his master, John Nagle, accused him of stealing it and dismissed him from his service without pay. Nagle was ordered to take Dawson back and pay him his wages.">From "The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
1780 The first recorded Picco in Newfoundland was Elias Picco in 1780, he reportly was born in 1755 in either Jersey or Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. Elias had a brother Roger Picco. We believe we are descendants of the Picot's (pronounced in typical french without the "T", the same way we Picco's pronounce it today. I am trying to find the link between Elias / Roger Picco and the Picot's of Trinity Parish. I am also researching the Picco family of Portugal Cove in Newfoundland. Any assistance would be appreciated. Kevin Picco kevin.picco@amd.con
1780 Birth year of Charles Batstone, 1780- June 7,1862, brother of Robert Batstone, both from Caemorvon, Whales, later to marry Maria ?. Mark Patterson tree. markp@istar.ca
1780 Birth year of "Knight Thomas, from his res Congregational Meeting House died age 69, May 12, 1849" (Patriot)" Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers 1825 - 1850 NEHGS CS 88 N6 C7 V.1
1780 "John Partridge b c1780 Eng & Sarah Cockbill. From England 1810 to St. John's as Master Carpenter for the 98th regiment. John (Royal Engineer Brit.) bur April 1822 Ang Cemetery St. John's. Children: George 1809 London ENG born St. John's NF: Sarah Hewson b c1811 Mary Ann b c1814 Horatio Joseph 1816; William Smallbones 1818; After John's death in 1822, Sarah and children returned to England, with the exception maybe of George and any unknown children. Mary Croft - Ottawa, ON Canada mcroft@igs.net http://www.ott.igs.net/~mcroft/surnames/index.htm
Sept. 21,1781 "Rear Admirals Super Annuated upon half pay 17s 6d a day. Rich. Knight; John Knight. The Captains and dates of Comm. from which they take their pay; John Knight Sept. 21,1781" The London Calander and city register for England Scotland, Ireland, & America 1784, 18th Century Manuscripts, Boston Public Lib.
JOHN CREETCH CASTLETOWN 1781
To the Revs Chas. Crebbin and Wm. Clucasvicars General of the Diocese of
Sodorand Mann.
The Humble Petition of Alice Creetch of Castletown -
Sheweth
That your Petr. had a son, a seaman, one John Creetch who was
impressedinto his Majesties Service on Board his Majesties ship the
(sic) Salisbury,Captain John Knight Commander.
That lately your Petr. has received a letter from a friend of hers on
Boardsaid ship of War, that her said son was killed in an Action with an
enemyto the British Flag in Chesepeake Bay as per said Letter dated 24th
December1781 appears at Large - Thus your Petr. in Order to receive his
wages and prize money is constrained to apply to your reverences for an
Administrationto be granted your Petr. in her said son John Creetch's
Effects and Estate
Therefore Most Humbly praying your Reverences willbe pleased to grant
your Petr. that she may beadmitted to an Administration in the goods
Chattles and Effects of her said son John Creetch and yourPetr. shall
for your reverences happiness everpray & c. -
Jan 13th 1782
At a Consistory Court holden at Douglas the 14thDay of Feb. 1782.
John Creetch formerly of Castletown, Batchelor, belonging to His
Majestie'sShip the Shrewsbury, having been lately killed on board the
said Ship inan Action with the Enemy as by advice received Intestate.
The Court uponintelligince thereof hath Decreed his Mother Alice Creetch
(Widow) soleAdministratrix of all his Goods, Chattels, Rights, Credits
and Effects ofwhat kind or nature soever. Whereupon she is sworn well
and truly to Administerthe same - and to pay all her Intestate's just
Debts so far forth as thesaid Goods, Chattels and Effects will extend
and the Law shall bind herto return a true and perfect Inventory to the
Registry when "hereunto required.And to these Ends hath given Pledges in
form of Law namely John Cubbon ofMalew and Henry Fargher of Douglas.
Decretum est.
Wm. Clucas
Sent in by Roslyn Selwood
Taken from
wills GL 721
JOHN CREETCH Castletown 1781
Letter to John Creetch's family who lived in Castletown.
Shrewsbury lying in Barbadoes. December 24th 1781
Master Creetch this come with my best respects to you hoping these few
lineswill find you in good health as I am at present thanks be to god
for itI am sorry to acquaint you of an Engagement we had of Chesapeak
bay in americabetween the English and trench fleet our English fleet but
consisting ofnineteen ships of battle and they trench fleet consisting
of twenty fourShips of battle we engaged each other for the space of two
hours till ourrigging was all shot away, and sixty four of our men
killed and wounded,out of them there was fourteen killed dead, and
several of the rest diedof their wounds, one of which was your son John
Creetch of a wound he receivedin his brest and his right arm shots off
died three days after the Engagementand at that time he had two years
pay due to him and some prize money whichwould be of great service to
you in your old days if you could get somegood friend to look after it
for you this Ships name is the Shrewsbury Mounting74 Guns at Present
Commanded by Captain John Knight but at that time itwas Captain Mark
Robinson where his leg was shot off and our first lieutenantkilled
Please to Remember me to your Daughters and to John Gordon an JohnKelley
living on the bowling Green So no more at Present from Robert Callywho
was servant at Mr. Tugmans and sailed with Wm. Lawson in the smack inMr.
Tummans Employ. Found at an Isle of Man site at:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/v12n4.htm
1782 Birth year of Rachel ?, Later to marry James Knight.
April 9, 1782 Barfleur Sir S. Hood, Bart 90 guns- 767 - K10 W-27 Captain Knight. Description of the battle the 9th and 12th of April 1782, fought between the British Squadron commanded by Sir. George Brydges Rodney Ant The French Squadron by Count De Grasse. Boston Public Lib., 18th Century Manuscripts. item 25 , .E34X, Reel 6478
Latter 18th centuury "Also, from "The Nfld. Ancestor", Fall, 1993: An article quotes E.J. Pratt: "My mother was the daughter of Captain Wm. Knight whose ancestry went back several generations of Newfoundland sailors to (I think) Devonshire. But as hazy origins smoke up nationalities I can only say or suggest Devonshire, certainly English not Welsh or Scotch or Assyrian." The writer of the article, David G. Pitt, says: "His surmise, I found, contains an element of truth: both the Knights and the Pittses (Captain Knight had married a Pitts) were of West Country stock. The former had come to St. John's in the latter half of the eighteenth century..." And, "...William Knight, Jr., now deceased though not long since, a grandson of Captain Knight..." Barbara Pederson
Thought the following one interesting -- a few years ago I found an old
notebook of my g-grandfather's, inside of which was part of a torn envelope
with the name and return address of a (Mrs.) Capt. Pitts, the address being
some city in New Zealand. (I still have it somewhere - just the envelope
corner.) There were no Pitt relatives in our family and this is the first
time I've seen the name since, and didn't know who they were. Wonder if
they have any connection to the Pitt(s)/Knight -- Charlotte was it? Maybe! I
BETCHA!
"Some of Grandma's sisters left Newfoundland, Jane and [an] Englishman named
Henry Rittman went to live in England, another Caroline went over to visit
her sister Jane, fell in love with the captain of the vessel, Captain John
Pitt, married him and went to live in New Zealand. Julia married John
Stephens and went to Michigan, U.S.A. I think she lived later in New Jersey
as Kit Batstone has a photograph of the wedding of one of her daughters and
has corresponded with some of the family in New Jersey." Barbara Pederson
1782 Birth year of "Richard Knight died age 47 July 7, 1829. (Gazette) Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers 1825 - 1850 NEHGS CS 88 N6 C7 V.1
1783 Birth year of "Knight, Richard, 46 years, Shipwright of this town. died Saterday, the 27th (July)" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
1783 "Interested in Hilliers of Newfoundland and connection to England - in particular a John Hillier b.1783 or ?possible younger brother Charles." Keith Hillier the.hilliers@nf.sympatico.ca
1783 "Over the period 1783-92... Others such as Forsythe, Guy, Peyton and Rowsell... delivered items such as furs, salmon, seal skins, or seal oil for bills of exchange and purchased supplies by bills." "...in some regions such as Notre Dame Bay, along the coast of Labrador, and the west coast of Newfoundland... some small groups of early settlers obtained their livelihood as salmoniers and furriers. These pioneers weired the spawning rivers in spring and ran fur traplines into the interior river basins during the fall and winter. Most of these are identified in various mercantile papers. Some of the prominent surnames of furriers-salmoniers in their respective regions include Brake (Bay of Islands); Gillingham, Hodder (Gander Bay); Peyton, Miller (Exploits River); and Rowsell (Hall's Bay)." From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock": Barbara Pederson
Aug. 1784 Elizabeth Knight is recorded as co-owner with Wm Cobbeduck of the Hannah, a 80 ton brig registered in Poole, built in Newfoundland. Harbor Grace port 1900 Qtl. "Knight 1784 aug munn bk Eliz/co own hannah bg 80 tom wm cobbeduck reg pool blt nfld hr grace-port 1900 qtl" Keith Mathew's Collection
1784 Birth year of "Knight; Ann Relict of late Thomas Knight aged 87 Funeral from 214 Water St. on 11th" June 12/71 Gazette, Births, Marriages, Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers CS88, N6, C7, V0l. 5, NEHGS
1784 Bithr year of " Elizabeth Pearce (1784- ) Poole, first married to Mr. Knight, then to George Kemp, Newfoundland merchant. Thomas R Cole tommy@pathcom.com
1784 Slade and Co. - Fogo, Newfoundland Ledger Alphabet
Ashford, James; Adams, John; Atchison, Thomas; Appleton, John; Atchison, James; Andrews, Rich; Alexander, Wm; Burden, Willm; Burton, John; Boyde, Nicholas; Boyde, William; Bridges, William; Blake, William; Brumfield, John; Battrick, Jonas; Bowdidge, Willm; Brett, Robert; Barnes, John; Bath, J Forred; Bramble, Wm; Burton, Wm; Ball, John; Belbin, Wm; Brake, Robt; Burt, John; Brooks Benj'm; Borink, M; Bath, Thomas; Bridle, Thomas; Brown, John; Blake, Will'm Jun; Bambury, Abraham; Bishop, Charles; Battle Harbour , Bell Bay (I don't know the significance of the towns being listed here); Beachover, John; Brigg, Tame; Bowden, John; Brown, William; Cook, Sampson; Connors, Andw; Cox, John; Cook, William; Churchill, Stevn; Croker, Robert; Cravitt, John; Clark, William; Chalk, William; Chapple, Joseph; Cummins, James; Clark J., Handcock; Curtis, Benjm; Cox, John; Court, Angell; Daw, Matthias; Deacon, Daniel; Dormady, Wll"; Dougherty, James; Dempster, George; Dog Bay; Emberly, Rich; Eyres, Chris; Edward, Liew; Every, Thomas; Emberly, Henry; Fling, Patrick; Fisher, Rich; Furber, John; Fudge, Selv; Fudge, Timothy; Fall, John; Frost, Rodgers; Frampton, John; Frampton, Robert; Fox Harbour; Ford, John; Facy, John; Friend, John; French, John; Frost, Thomas; Forsyth, Robt. Pro. Archives, St. John's, MG 460 - box 1.
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1784 |
Thomas Knight |
Debt |
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Jan.3 |
7 qt Brandy |
/4 |
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5th |
7 qt do |
1/4 |
1,,8,,0 |
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16th |
2 qt do |
4/ |
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18th |
2 qt do |
4/ |
0,,8,,0 |
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Feb. 1 |
2 qt do |
4/ |
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2nd |
1 gallon Brandy |
8 |
0,,12,,0 |
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13th |
3 qt do |
6/ |
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14th |
2 qt do |
4 |
0,,10,,0 |
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24th |
2 qt do |
4 |
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March 7th |
2 qt do |
/1/ |
0,,8,,0 |
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8th |
1 qt do |
2/ |
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10th |
1 gn do |
8/ |
0,,10,,0 |
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28th |
2 qt do |
4 |
0,,4,,0 |
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July 20th |
By a set of exchange on M. John Bird jun. Poole 10 |
Errors Excepted |
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Pro. Archives, St. John's, MG 460 - box 1.
1786 Birth year of "Knight, Ann Mrs. Relict of late G. Knight past 22 years superintendent of Factory died age 70." (Newfounder / Ledger) Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers 1825 - 1850 NEHGS CS 88 N6 C7 V.2
1786 Lot: 906 Claimant: Henry Knight Nature of Claim: By deed of gift from his mother Occupier in 1805: H. Knight Year Acquired: 1786 Size in Yards: 129x 195 Contents of Lot: 1 stage, 3 flakes, 2 houses, 2 gardens, 2 meadows Notes and Leases: Boundary in dispute settled by surrogate McKillop?" Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
Slade & Co Index of Debts
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Date |
Page # |
name |
? |
Payable at London or Poole |
Amt |
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Sept 6, 1786 |
2 |
Geo Rousell |
60 days sight |
Poole |
6,1,9 |
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Sept. 8, 1786 |
3 |
Ward Rousell |
do |
London or Poole |
60,0,0 |
Main Book Partial listing of goods bought
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Date |
page |
name |
Transaction |
cost |
Bal |
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May 3, 1786 |
91 |
John Vincent |
1 chest |
12/6 |
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do |
do |
do |
1 sett bedding |
15/ |
6,1,9 |
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do |
do |
do |
1 fmot jacket |
21/ |
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do |
do |
do |
1 swans waiscot |
16/ |
1,17,0 |
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do |
do |
do |
1 check shirt |
8/ |
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do |
do |
do |
1 stripe dowlas shirt |
10/ |
0,18.0 |
Ended July 25, 1786 with comment "by wages 2 summers, 1 winter end fall 1787 total debt 13,10,0" Slade & Co of Fogo and Twilingate MG 460 Box 2 PRO Archives at St. John
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Date |
Page |
Name |
Items purchased |
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Sept. 12 |
99 |
George Rowsell Sn. |
Brandy- bread- tu flour- Barr pork- firkin butter- 35 galln treale- 200 flints- 1 loaf sugar- 6 punk nails |
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June 13 |
do |
do |
2 quires paper- 12 ? salt- 2 ? bread- 2 bar'l pork- 1 tie flour- 6 gall molases- 1 firkin butter- brandy |
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Sept. 6, 1786 |
do |
do |
to J.V.I. on G.N. Allen & Co. settled up George Rowsell Sn (his X mark) at Fogo by 74 gall seal oil, by 40 tierees salmon, 1 cask of 70½ gall seal oil. Credit 15 shiffs nails of frampton not allowed. |
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Sept. 19 |
do |
Ward J. Rowsell |
to Sept 8 than Allen & Co. Debt 114/5/3. Settled up with 21 otters, 5 foxes, 16¾ pelt beaver, 39 tierces salmon. signed by (X) Thos. Rousell for self and partner 15 tierces |
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June 12, 1786 to Sept 4 |
do |
Geo'e Rowsell Sn. |
Debt 1,11 Settled Sept. 13 by your oft on John Aldridge (X) Church 1,11 |
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Slade & Co of Fogo and Twilingate MG 460 Box 2 PRO Archives at St. John |
In the begining he states "Slade's Mercantile Records, newfoundland
Archives, record that a John and Joseph Vincent were "servant" fishermen at
Twillingate-- John for the years 1786 to 1792 and Joseph, for the years
1792 and 1792. In both cases John and Joseph were summer fishermen.
However the reords show taht a John Vincent was a fisherman. "planter" at
Fogo, in 1808. This would seem to indicate that John had take up pemanent
residence on the Island. John and Joseph may not have come back and it is
very probable that Joseph may not have come back to Newfoundland after the
summer of 1792. It is certain that he did not go to Cape Island with John
since there are no references to him in any of the Bonavista Bay records.
It is interesting to note that later, at Cape Island, the name Joseph, was
given to one of the Vincent boys born in 1823.
I believe that the John and George Vincent of Cape Island were the sons of
the John Vincent of Twillingate and Fogo and that they came to Cape ISland
around 1810, by way of Greenspond. the english business firm of Slade and
Co. had branch operations in both Fogo and Greenspond and there would have
been frequent communications between the two communities." "Vincent Families of Cape Island" by Clifford Andrews, (I am in the book). Then he goes on to document the decendants of John of Cape Island and George of Coblars Island. If you would like more information on them let me know. Cyndi Beales-Alcock kckl@thezone.net Bonavista Bay names-- Vincent, Rid(e)out, Loveless/Lovelace, Kelloway (and various spellings), Hiscock, and House
1786 "The marriage of John Knight to Elizabeth Bully in 1786 is intriguing. Stephen seems to have had a step-brother John who must have been born in the early 1750s. I had thought that the marriage of a John Knight in Shaftesbury in 1778 was possibly his. Of course he might have remarried in 1786. If the Elizabeth Bully was a member of the family of the Samuel Bulley who was Stephen's partner it might be tempting to think that the two (or three) John Knights were the same person." Howard M. Knight marriage@one-name.org
Sept. 1787 The harbour Grace Minute Book records Eleanor Knight. Her servant Pat Cockran claimed she had not settled with him for last years voyage. He (judge ?) offered them but a few shillings ommited. He paid. ? "1787 sep hg minute bk eleanor. her svt pat cockran said has not settled with him for last year voyage. he offered them but a few shilling omitted. he paid." Keith Mathews collection
1787 William R. Vincent born in North Devon/Devonshire district of England married Mary Adams, born 1767, immilgrated to Prince Edward Island in 1774 from the USA. Their son Robert Vincent born 1807 and was still alive at the census on 1870 and living in the household of Alfred Moreshead of Lot 7, and who married Jennifer Haywood. Their son William Vincent, born 1839 in West Devon (Lot 9) died 1885 in a lumber mill accident and he married October 15, 1862 Elizabeth Moreshead, born May 30, 1845 in Newfoundland, died 1931. Anything of interest here? Anna MacDonald
1788 Ward & Rousell; Charles Hellings; 1788; They pay Hellings. Elliott in the Slade Registers http://www.iosphere.net/~jholwell/ndb/lists/elliott-in-slade.html
1788 "Knight's Cove: "Established as a Church of England and Roman Catholic community sometime before 1836, Knight's Cove may have inherited its name from that of the Reverend Richard Knight, D.D. (1788-1860), a much loved resident of Bonavista in the years before 1820. There is, however, a more colorful local tradition attributing the name to a corruption of 'Night's Cove'. According to a local story, merchants doing business in neighbouring Stock Cove found the attractions of Knight's Cove more welcome for a night's stopover." ("Deck's Awash", Mar./Apr. '84) Barbara Pederson
1788 "Rev. Richard Knight, DD (1788-1860) - another of the earliest Methodist ministers. Served NFLD, NS, NB. Don't know that he had siblings in Canada, but he had well-known descendants, including the poet Matthew Richey Knight, who was a grandson." From: wdandmeh@nbnet.nb.ca To: Jan Heiling <rheil@pacific.net>
1789 "As I mentioned, I have no lineage for any Knights other than that reputedly on a card written last century from the Isle of Jersey to Alfred Erling King (my NF relative as noted below), signed "your cousin C. Knight", in which card it is stated about my NF Kings: "The Kings were Jersey men". The same card refers to "Uncle John", "Aunt Fanny", and "Grandfather Knight". I need to get a copy of the card for both of us if possible -- there may be more to it to decipher. Uncle John and Aunt Fanny could be King, Squires, or Knight from what I know, though John Howard Stover (he is in the tree below & he relayed the above info to me -- he has the "card") has speculated that John and Fanny were siblings of my William King --William shows up in the tree below as married to Maria Squires. Stover believes William King to be the son or grandson of one of four brothers who bought a fish processing plant at Broad Cove in 1789 -- Broad Cove has been known as St. Phillips since 1905. They operating the plant until 1823, at which time all four were said to be alive according to records of the Harbor Grace Surrogate Court. I have nothing to confirm Stover's opinion on this however. All I can confirm on my King line is that William King married Maria Squires in 1840 in St. John's Methodist Church. Jim Gibbs JGibbs2540@aol.com
1789 " Norman's Cove, Trinity Bay: "James Newhook built six schooners and a brig from 1827 to 1832. Born at Trinity in 1789, [in another part it states born 1783], he had 21 children from two marriages. James and his brother Charles had a shipyard at New Harbour, but they fell out and James moved to Norman's Cove..." "The area's first settlers are said to have been James Newhook and George Temple..." It goes on to say "...sent from England to repair the boats at Trinity. He [James, or George??] is said to have been one of the first settlers in the early 1800s. He was listed as a planter in 1829, having pereviously been at Selby Cove, Bay de Verde, in 1824." "Decks Awash" Jan./Feb. 1990: (Am including the part about James Newhook because of the Newhook connection to JCove -- I've been told it's the same Newhooks but don't take it as gospel yet). Barbara Pederson
Templeman
A fishing community on the north side of Bonavista Bay, just south of Cape Freels, since 1992 Templeman has been a part of the expanded town of Wesleyville qv. The community (originally known as Fox Cove) was settled in the 1870s by families from two off-lying groups of islands: Bennett's Island (Greens and Tuffs) and the Cobbler Islands (Howells and Vincents). As was the case with nearby Newtown qv, the movement was probably related to increased involvement in the Labrador fishery. Templeman first appears in the Census in 1884, with a population of 75, growing to 225 people by 1901. As the Labrador fishery declined and finally collapsed in the 1920s and 1930s the community contracted: from 51 families in 1921 to 55 people by 1971. Since that time, however, Templeman has rebounded somewhat as a few families from Wesleyville and area have built homes there. http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/81/8151.htm
1789 Knight, Richard (1789-1860). Missionary. Born Devonshire, England. After several years as a Methodist local preacher, he was accepted as a candidate for missionary work, ordained, and posted to Newfoundland in 1816. Appointed to the Fortune Bay-Grand Bank mission, he subsequently served the Methodist Church at Bonavista, Port de Grave, Brigus-Cupids, and Blackhead. In the summer of 1825, as the Rev. Thomas Hickson qv had done in 1824, Knight spent several weeks on the coast of Labrador, ``preaching the gospel among the fishermen and natives and ... making investigation concerning the advisability of establishing a mission among the Eskimos of Hamilton Inlet'' (Young). Transferred to the Maritime Provinces in 1833, for the next 27 years Knight not only served, as his biographer phrased it, ``our most important stations, and always left his mark,'' but also ``filled with great credit ... the most important offices of our Church'' (Huestis). He died suddenly at Sheffield, New Brunswick, on May 23, 1860, in the forty-fourth year of his ministry. http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/53/5304.htm
April 20, 1789 Revd & Dear Sir I have to thank you for your kind favours of 7th & 24th. May one via Trinity & the other via Scotland both came to hand 4 days ago; I was realy glad to hear of your Health & that you were got into the N. School Room; but sorry you were so mush distressd on acct of the Debts wch. you had Incurd for the Building the Winter & what I advised you were unpaid in England Some time since my former Letter. I told you that I had the Pleasure to meet Mr. Greatheed in London, that He had paid off the outstanding Bill of £50 and some how or other Providence has made up the £40 due Welsh & Co. except 4.14.0 wch Mr. Brown paid & wch. together with the order you gave him for £36 odd is still to him & your order to pay me the amount of Stationary last year remains unpaid.
This is how the accs. stands at present - Mr Browns Vessel carried 11 Hhd. Lime & some hair wch. will be paid for, out of the Money to be reced. for ams. of Bricks we sent you last year but wch. went to Carolina - so that the whole Debt here will be about £41 - due to Capt. Brown - the Committee here have desired Mr. Welsh to give you leave to Draw for £100 at full on Mesrs. Welsh Rogers Olding & Co. bankers, London wch. will meet due honor - & at fall you must send Mr. Greatheed, Mr Geo Kemp, & Mr. Brown, a statement of all your Debts & a particular acct. of wch. is still left unfinishd. of the Building and what it will cost to compleat it (249) - and then say if there is any prospect of raising anything more at St Johns toward discharging the same; and also that there is any possibility of getting any Person at St. Johns to advance the Money on Credt of the Premises &c -For further particulars I must bg leave to refer you to Mr. Brown who has more time & leisure than me to write you a long Letter.
Please to accept of a Cheese wch. I have sent by Capt. Knight (250) as a token of my regard and Esteem in which Mrs. C - desires to unite who with our little one are very well & belive me Dr Sir
Your affectionate Friend
Thos. Crew Junr (Extract of a letter from Mr Cr. Mends) Plymouth 20th April 1789 Notes concerning the Dissenting Church of Christ at St. John's Newfoundland
June 26,1789 [103]
Dear Brother
This will inform you that thro risk & Grace I am yet in the Land of the living in Health of Body and I hope sume desire to the things of God, this I hope will find the my Dr Bror and all the Church of God under thy care in a flourishing Condition both as to your Body and above all as to Soul - and O that the God for Jesus Christ sake may increase you with Grace and Men as a Flock, and it is my poor Prayers daly that you may all live in Love, and that the sweet and powerful love of Jesus may rest among you.
Mr. Welsh has desired me to write to you, and to propose the followg things to you with your Thoughts on the same, and answer in the fall, and it is this. If you think a young Man to be an assistant to you of good learning to assist in the School - and to Preach occas[ionally] in case you other-wise than well,(262) as Life is uncertain and as you begin to be infirm but Mr. Welshs desire is to spread the & therefore if there is but one House in B. Bulls, Torbay or Petty Hr. or any place near St. Johns so that the young Man may attemp to spread the Name of Jesus(263) - Mr. Welsh desires that all the Land may know & Love the Lord so that it may be presarved. And as you have enough on your hands already to employ you at St. Johns the Young Man may assist you as you think proper - You may send him to some other Harbour at your Pleasure -Mr. Welshs view is that the Gospel may increase and that St. Johns may have a full supply of when ever the Lord may take you to himself - but that is uncertain, his desire and mine is that the Lord may spare you many years and still continue to bless you, and make you blessing to Saints & to Sinners - I told him your intentision in coming Home if you could get another to supply your Place, but, that he hopes you will never do, but that you will stay in Nfld & order & assist Guide & Direct the Cause of God in the Strength of Christ and by his Grace that God in all things may be glorifyd.
You will be so good as to give your Appinion what it will pr year cost for his board in some good House or with your self this good man is to be got now but should you want him or some one some years hence you may not have such an oppy. I wd. wish you to think of it but to be fully satisfyd in your own mind as I wd not wish you to do any thing contray to you or the Churchs inclination - the good Lord bless you & them - My Wife joins me in love to you & them and begs an Interest in your Prayers -
Since writing the above I have had the pleasure of receiving your two much esteemd Letters of May 9th & 25 and I am glad to hear that the Work of the Lord is prospering in your hands the good Lord increase it more and more. Capt James Knight will bring your Eleven Hhds Lime and Six Bags of Lime Hair wch I hope will come safe to hand [104] also for your self one Cheese & a small Cask of Butter - both of wch you will give me or for say Butter & Cheese at 4 pence pr 1b.
You say that you would be glad to see me at St. Johns but to all appearance I shall be more serviseable to you here if the Lord will permit in respect to your meeting House - I think if I had your Letter before, I should be enabled to get you a Letter of Credit by this conveyance, but I hope if not by this, some other soon. Plaister the Meeting House in the inside and I believe that the Money will be got, & if you cannot get that £12 no way else - you will draw on me for it - Your M House owes no body any money but me, - and I believe it is about £41 but my Dr Bror the Lord will provide. In the fall you will be so good as to send home to Mr. Kemp an acct. of what Money you will want to compleat it to a Shilling if you can and this £41 to be included of mine, and what it has cost already - and send me a copy of the same if you Please or to Friend Crew, and if you should have orders to draw, that Sum must be included of what will be needful to finish the Building - since I wrote the above I have got a Letter of Credt from Mr. Welsh by the hands of Mr. Kemp, and now my Dr Br. you will now go on and finish the House, and I doubt not but the Lord will Provide for you in the Winter through the hand of our Friend Mr. Greatheed
I hope you understand me in respect to your accs in the fall I mean that my £41 and Mr. Welsh £100 which you have liberty to Draw you will bring in as Difficiences, and not as Debts, that if Mr. Welsh of I or any of our Friends have accasion to beg, we may it as what you want, and not as money to pay our selves this acco. is for the Public and then you may send us what supparte accots yoou please that will put things in a clear light - among our Friends here.
At the next Meeting of our Committee I intend to speak about yr. M. House Writings and get them done, that you may have them this year or next Spring that you may everything may be secure on that Head. -
This will be handed you by Capt. James Knight - shall conclude - earnestly - begging an interest in the Prayers -
I remain your sincere Friend in the Gospel
Signd Jno Brown Poole 25th June 1789 Notes concerning the Dissenting Church of Christ at St. John's Newfoundland
June 30,1789 (Note 250. 0) Captain James Knight left Poole for Newfoundland on June 28 1789 on the Hope. He also carried the lime on board (page 104). MHA, Lloyd's List, No. 2103, 30 June 1789.
Poole 18th August 1789
Dear Brother,
I hope ere now the Ketch is arrived Safe, and that you have your Lime &c and at the time you receive this your M House will be Plaisterd and warm for the Winter - and O may the Lord warm your Souls - go on my Dr Br and Jesus smile on your Labours of Love my sincere regard and and affection to Bror. Parker & Lang - Brace & all the Church. May the good Lord be with you and all the Dear Souls that Love Christ. Mrs. B. joins me in love to you and all Church in St. Johns. Let me know as a Friend what you think of the Capt. of the Hope and if he will do for our Interest - and the Nfd. Trade.
I remain your sincere Friend & Bror. in the Gospel
Signd Jn0 Brown
http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/cong/texts/journ2.html?3496#mfs
Have a photocopy of a letter to Richard Brace (Harbour Grace) from E.M. Archibald (St. John's) regarding Richard's mortgage and his request to have certain arrangements done with "the House in Gower Street" with mention of the "Estate of Gushue", nothing of any meaning there to me anyway, but interesting, if you're interested sometime. BP
1790 William Simon, born in Guernsey, settled before this date near Shipshead, Gaspe, Indian Cove. The land where lie lived is now a Park.
1792 "Russell; George (Sr.); Fogo; 1792;"Fishermen of Fogo and Change Islands" from the Notre Dame Bay Project site. Barbara Pederson
Russell; Thomas; Bay of Exploits; fisher" Fishermen of Fogo and Change Islands" from the Notre Dame Bay Project site? Barbara Pederson
1792 Early instances: George Rowsell Sr. and Jr., planters of Fogo, 1792, 1808, From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
"According to the notebook of John Burge Wells (b. May 24, 1868), George [perhaps his name was William] and a Mr. Wells came to Newfoundland from Ringwood, Hampshire, England in 1793 and settled in Back Harbour, Twillingate. He was married three times. The Hampshire Record Office lists three George Strongs, one born in 1764, one in 1780, and one in 1783. The HRO has no records for William (between 1770 and 1810) in their Parrish Registers or names index. Lovell's 1871 Directory for Twillingate lists a George Strong, Fisherman." Also : "The Wells family, like the Strongs, are said to have come from Ringwood, Hampshire, England in 1793 (John Wells' notebook). The first Wells we have record of was John Burge Wells (b. Mar 18, 1811, d. Mar 23, 1897). He married Elizabeth Budgell (nee Strong) (b. April 22, 1818, d. Aug 19, 1906), a sister of Solomon, on September 2, 1838 at Twillingate. John Burge Wells was the brother of Jane Wells. She married Solomon, Elizabeth's brother. Lovell's 1871 Directory for Joe Batt's Arm lists a John Wells, fisherman." The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador at <http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/82/8217.htm> says: "In 1838 John and William Wells of Back Harbour, Twillingate built a fishing room on Three Arms Island for the summer fishery. Then, in 1841, John Wells moved his household to Three Arms. In short order others followed, including Solomon Strong (who subsequently married Wells' sister), the family of William Vincent of Twillingate and James Norris, an Irishman." I believe the father of (the senior) John Burge Wells was named William and was the person who came from Ringwood. The (junior) John Burge Wells kept the notebook was the grandson of the person who moved to Three Arms. This may be getting a little confusing so let me clarify the Wells' generations:
(1) William Wells came from Ringwood.
(2) John Burge Wells, married Elizabeth, moved from Twillingate to Three Arms.
(3) Henry Wallace Wells married Charlotte Langdo(w)n of Jackson's Cove.
(4) John Burge Wells kept the notebook. charles.Strong@yellowcorp.com
I am related to the Knights through my mother's family. My grandmother Blanche Allen Connolly was Margaret Allen Knight's sister. My mother, Mary Connolly Norris was first cousin to Herbert Knight. I am second cousin to Herb's children. Before I might give you any more information than that, I would have to check with my cousins to see how they feel about it. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you another question. You mention that you've traced the Knights to the Notre Dame Bay area. This is an area that is important in my own research, but let me preface that with an explanation: Just last month I began my first very tentative explorations into the genealogy of my father's family and hit paydirt at first strike, thanks to the efforts of the wonderful people involved with the Roots/Genweb projects. Then the strike played out and disappeared. The material I was able to collect left me with more questions than those with which I started. This is my question: Do you have any information on the Norris family which had its start in Three Arms, NDB ? I have been able to find out that my gg-grandfather James Norris emigrated from Waterford, Ire.,married Catherine Dollard and sired James Norris 2 and, at least one other son who left a widow Cecelia and a number of children at Three Arms. J. Norris2 married Mary Ann Dower from Conche and among others, she bore John J. Norris who married Marie (Moll(y) or Poll(y) Stapleton from Hr. Grace. They moved to Conche and had 9 children, my immediate aunts and uncles. When my grandfather, John J. died, the family moved from Conche to Leslie St. in St. John's. My father, James M., was the only one of his generation to move to the States. However, some of his uncles moved here, but I have little information to use to trace descendants. Do you have, or can you lead me to, any information tracing these ancestors? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Frances Norris Pettersen FMN129@worldnet.att.net
1793 "July 21 Married Stephen Knight of Shaftsbury in the County of Dorset in Great Britain & Ann March Dau(r) of Stephen & Ann March of Old Perlican in this District. NFGenWeb Marriage Data Bonavista Area - Trinity St. Paul's 1757-1820
1793 "[Sept. 21, 1865] John Batstone, native of Dawlish, Devon, died at Quidi Vidi (St. John's) age 72 yrs." Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Queen Milley as told to Barbara Pederson
1793 (4.) Stephen Knight - from Shaftesbury, Dorset, married Ann March of Old Perlican, Nfld. in 1793, part owner of brigantine "Swift". notes by Robert Knight
1794 "Hi all! I'm new to this particular genealogical site, but what I've seen is great. I am searching for information on RICHARD BRACE, who was born about 1810 and who married MARY STARES. They had seven children WILLIAM HENRY, FREDERICK RICHARD, ROBERT J., GEORGE ALEXANDER, SARAH WARD, ALFRED STARES and MARY ANNA. WILLIAM HENRY BRACE is my wife's 6th GGF. In searching this site I have references to a WM BRACE and AENEAS BRACE in Quidi Vidi. The 1794 census list several Braces from Quidi Vidi. WILLIAM HENRY BRACE came from St. Johns (according to local newspapers) and immigrated to New Jersey about 1852. He became the first principal of Trenton High School and received a doctorate from Princeton University. I'm at a deadend in trying to learn more about his ancestors. Can someone point me in the right direction. Stu Anderson, Trenton, NJ" THURE@aol.com
1794 Census of St. John's LOCATION; 4th DIV EH KBe, FAMILIES; OCCUPIER; 9 Phillip Knight,OWNER; Ral. Barnes,OCC_OCCPA; Carpenter, YRS_HERE; C9, MAR_STATUS; M, MALE_ADULT, FEMALE_ADT; 1, MALE_CHILD; 1, FEMALE_CHD; 0, MALESERVNT; 0, FEMALESERV; 0, DIETER_M; 0, DIETER; 0, PROTESTANT; 0, ROMAN_CATH; 2, TOTAL RELGN Brenda Young, Gander, NF, Canada
1794 Early instances in Newfoundland; ? Michael Dawson, fiddler of St. John's, 1794-5, "18 years in Newfoundland", that it, 1776-7 (Census 1794-5); "The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
1796 BOBBITT / COLEMAN / CONNORS / GALLIOTT / JACOBS / KIRBY / MARCH/MESERVEY / SHAW / VINCENT. Seek info on Robert Shaw b.c. 1796 at New Ross, Co. Wexford, Ireland and m. 1836.10.30 at St. John's to Mary Kirby. [Submitted by] William Vincent, P.O. Box 154, Stephenville, NF, Canada A2N 2Y9 From "The Newfoundland Ancestor" Summer 1996 "Research Interest" column
1796 Birth year of "[Oct. 5, 1878] "Margery Ann Batstone, wife of the late John Batstone died 2nd, age 82." Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Queen Milley as told to Barbara Pederson
1796 I am interested in Phillip Nicholle b abt 1775 Jersey, Channel Islands. M 1796 Elizabeth Forsey in Grand Bank, Nfld. Appreciate any info. Andy Pratt. andrew@ime.net
"Stephen Knight of Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, migrated to Newfoundland, married an Old Perlican girl (March), and became a leading early nineteenth-century merchant in St. John's in the firm of Parker, Knight, and Bulley." "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: Barbara Peterson
This must have been the Stephen who came over with Rutton Morris. Also stated "Knight indicates in his will that his chief heir and daughter, Ann, was then attending school in England." Barbara Peterson
1796 "Already mentioned elsewhere is Ann March Knight, b. Dec.25, 1799, dau of Stephen Knight, originally from Shaftsbury, Devon, England, and of Ann March of Old Perlican (which I assume is in Newfoundland). Ann March Knight married Cam Gyde Heaven, b. Sept.14, 1796 in England. Cam Gyde was from England, and they returned to England where he became a solicitor (lawyer) in the Bristol area. There follows a summary of two generations (up and down) of Cam’s relatives: Grandparents: Samuel Heaven a Maltster, of Gloucestershire, died Mar.10, 1796 and Mary Gyde, born 1728, died Mar.26, 1796. They married in 1742. Henry Halliday and Ann Lewis.
Parents: Thomas Heaven, born Sept.3, 1757, died Sept.31, 1838 and Maria Anne Halliday, born Oct. 1769, died Jan.7, 1839. Cam Gyde Heaven’s siblings: William Hudson Heaven, born Apr 29, 1799, died 1883; Henry Heaven, born Feb.27, 1801, died Oct 4, 1835; James Heaven, born Aug.23, 1803; Mary Ann Heaven, born Apr.29, 1805, died 1890; Thomas Heaven, born Feb.27, 1807, died 1847; Harriot Elizabeth Heaven, born Aug.17, 1808, died May 19, 1898. Four other siblings died as infants. Believed to have been offspring of Cam Gyde Heaven and Ann March Knight: John Gyde Heaven, born Dec.1820, died May 31, 1893; Harriett Hester Hudson Heaven, born 1824, died 1896 (who started a copious history of the family which has been passed down); Rev.William Henry Heaven, M.A., Rector of Netheravon, Wilts. born Aug.25, 1829(?), died Dec.3, 1881; James Charles Heaven, born Mar 4, 1828, died June 1, 1906; Thomas Hopper Heaven, born ?? (I have Sept.29, 1829 but this is not possible since William Henry was reported born Aug.25, 1829); Ann Mary Heaven born 1831, died 1918; Cecil Cookesley Hutchings Heaven, born 1832, died 1857; Arthur George Heaven, born Feb.9, 1835; died Jan 20, 1894; Edward Stephen Heaven, born 1834, died 1883. Possibly also later siblings, Robert Knight Heaven; Isabella Warne Heaven, born Feb. 11,1841. Of these, the following is recorded: --John Gyde Heaven married Amelia Gasgogne Chapman, offspring Nicholas Gyde Heaven, John Cookesley Heaven. --Harriett Hester Hudson Heaven married Bartholomew Blenkinson (or Blenkiron), offspring Gyde Blenkinson, Thomas Blenkinson, Anne Elizabeth Blenkinson. --William Henry Heaven (my g-grandfather) married Frances Susan (or Sarah) Patteson, offspring Frances Gyde Heaven, born Dec 2, 1857; Catherine Ann Heaven (my grandmother) born Aug.16, 1859; Mary Frances Heaven, born 1863 or 64, died 1940; William John “Jack” Heaven, born May 17, 1862(?); Emily Dorothy Heaven, born Oct.30, 1868; Eleanor Harriett “Nell” Heaven, born Oct.9, 1961. --James Charles Heaven married Lucey Elizabeth Hammond, offspring unknown. --Thomas Hopper drowned at age 16 trying to save a schoolfriend. --Arthur George Heaven married Jane Stephens, offspring Herbert Gyde Heaven, Guy Heaven, Robert Stephen Heaven, Claude Cookesley Heaven, Amy Harriet Heaven, Lilian Isabel Heaven, Cecil Arthur Heaven Muriel Barrow Heaven, Cam Gyde Heaven, b.1879. --Edward Stephen Heaven married Helen Maud Edwards, offspring Helen Heaven, Edward Gyde Heaven. CoachDiana@aol.com
1797 Michael Little is one of the 33 persons listed as being licensed to operate a public house in St. John's "from Michelmas 1797 to Michelmas 1798". From "The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
1797 Thomas Rowsell, fisherman of Bay of Exploits, ? 1797; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
1797 Plantation Book of Carbonear recorded Elizabeth Knight selling her land (garden) to Callaghan McCarthy for 8£. Keith Mathew's Collection
1797 "Plantation Book: Carbonear Lot 917 Claimant: Callaghan McCarthy Nature of Claim: Purchased from Eliz. Knight for £8 Occupier in 1805: No person Year Acquired: 1797 Size in Yards: 168x 90 Contents of Lot: 1 garden." Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
Jan. 17, 1797 "will of Isabella Froke, late Isabella Knight, wife of Thomas Knight and Dau of John Knight the elder (natural father of Thomas Knight, late of Poole who died a batchelor in NFLD) will dated 17 Jan. 1797" Dorset will records submitted by Michael Bromley, Nfld Anc.
1799 "307. 0 Stephen Knight of Shaftesbury, Dorset, had formed a mercantile partnership with Nathan Parker by 1799. The record of the birth of a daughter to Stephen and Ann Knight, daughter of Stephen and Ann March of Old Perlican, on December 25 1799 refers to Stephen Knight as a broker. An action for £1000 was brought by him against Robert Brine in July 1803 for defaming the character of his wife, but the jury found nothing proved to the prejudice of Mrs. Knight. By 1807 Samuel Bulley had entered the parnership. His friend, Samuel Bulley, was the executor of his estate after he died on July 8 1813. The niece of his wife, Ann March, to whom he left £200 on her wedding day, was probably the Ann March baptised by John Jones in 1785, and the apprentice, John March, to whom he left £200 also, was probably the John March baptised by John Jones in 1787. The property he bequeathed to his wife included the stores and wharves of Parker, Knight and Bulley. He expressed the wish that she would not withdraw her assistance from the charity school and that he should be interred in my own garden, next to the remains of Mr. March." Conf. Bldg., Misc. Deeds and Wills, Vol. 7, 53-56, Vol. 4, 293; PANL, GN 5/2/A/9, Records of the Probate Court, 1801-1806, 135, GN 5/2/A/1, Records of the Supreme Court, 1802-1805, 156. http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/cong/texts/journ2.html?7879#mfs
1799 "I, JOHN JONES, do hereby give, grant and Assign unto Nathan Parker and Lionel Chancey, the Executors named in, and appointed by my annexed Will, all the Right, Tide or Interest which I have in or to the Estate of the late Joseph Lowman as Executor of his last Will-- together with the Guardianship and Management of Thomas Lowman and Henrietta Lowman, his Son and Daughter, whom I hereby recommend to their Care and Attention; and that in placing out the said Henrietta a preference may be given to Mr. and Mrs. Guzwell. I wish her to be kept in School 'til She has some knowledge of Writing and Arithmetic. Mrs. Guzwell is to instruct her in Housewifery and such other knowledge as it might be in her power that might be advantageous. I wish her to be fully taught all manner of Needle-work that is commonly used. I have the terms on which she is to be taken by Mrs. Guzwell to be agreed on by my Executors, only noting, it is not to be considered as an Apprenticeship and if necessary to extend until she attains her Eighteenth Year. I do hereby appoint, that the Books which I gave or bequeathed unto the said Thomas Lowman by my beforementioned Will, be carefully kept for him until he is twenty four years old, and then given him, only he may be permitted an occasional perusal of them.
This Writing is to be considered as a Codicil to my aforesaid Will. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 23rd day of November in the Year 1799.
"John Jones"
Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of us
"Thomas Dunn"
"Sarah Knight"
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE REVEREND JOHN JONES (1799) (From: THE DISSENTING CHURCH OF CHRIST AT ST. JOHN'S 1775-1975: A HISTORY OF ST. DAVID'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND [St. John's: St. David's Presbyterian Church, 1975], 216-18)
1799 "However, in 1796, the year his wife died, Nathan Parker was styled Gentleman when he was appointed a Captain Lieutenant in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Within a short time his new career as a merchant had begun. Earlier, in 1794, he had leased Perryman's Plantation on the Lower Wharf. The partnership with Wallis Lang probably ended by 1795, when Wallis Lang surrendered his share in property they had bought jointly. By 1799 Nathan Parker had formed a partnership with Stephen Knight, merchant and broker, and by 1801 they had stores at Trinity and in 1802 bought Churchill's Plantation in the S. W. arm of Trinity harbour. By that year they also had property at Quidi Vidi for servants in their trade and fishery. Samuel Bulley Junior, who had married Nathan Parker's daughter, Anna, had joined the parnership by 1807, when Parker, Knight and Bulley advertised their six pounders, four pounders, gun powder and cannon shot in the first issue of the Gazette. Jenkin Jones, in a report to the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, described the firm of Parker and Knight, whose property was insured for £9,900 as our oldest customers and amongst the most respectable people in the Town. When both partners died in 1813, Nathan Parker formed a new partnership with Messrs. Bulley and Job of Liverpool, and used the stars and stripes as a house flag. Chief Justice Richard Routh could have been thinking of Nathan Parker when he wrote about one merchant who had expanded his property from a small shop in 1799 until he had become the owner of great fishing plantations in Quiddey Viddey, stores in St. John's and also concerned in trading ships. The Dissenting Church of Christ at St. John's Newfoundland Transcribed and annotated by Pamela Bruce, January 1997
19. Nov. 1799 John Jones
Codicil
I John Jones do hereby give grant and assign unto Nathan Parker and Lionel Chancey the Executors named in, and Appointed by my annexed Will. All the Right Title or Interest which I have in or to the Estate of the late Joseph Lowman as Executor to his last Will - together with the Guardianship and Management of Thomas Lowman and Heneretta Lowman his son and daughter, whom I hereby recommend to their care and Attention and that in placing out the said Heneretta a preference may be given to Mr. and Mrs. Guzwell(325) - I wish her to be kept at school till she has some knowledge of writing and arithmetic. Mrs. Guzwell is to instruct her in Houswifry and such other Knowledge as it might be in her power that might be advantageous I wish her to be fully taught all manner of Needle Work that is commonly used - I leave the terms on which she is to be taken by Mr Guzwell to be agreed on by my Executors only noting it is not be considered as an apprenticeship, and if necessary to extend until she attain her Eighteenth Year - I do hereby appoint, that the Books which I gave or bequeathed unto the said Thomas Lowman by my beforementioned Will, be carefully kept for him until he is twenty four years old and then given him - only he may be permitted an occasional perusal of them - This Writing is to be considered as a Codicel to my aforesaid Will - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 23d. day of November in the year 1799.
John Jones
Sealed and delivered in the presence of us Being prest. Thoms Dunn(326)
Sarah Knights Notes concerning the Dissenting Church of Christ at St. John's Newfoundland
"How Jackson’s cove got its name. There was a guy who lived here who had three jackets and it was so extrordinary for one to have more than one jacket that it was called three Jacket Cove for years, untill Johnathan Knight came here. Than it was referred to as Jack’s Son’s Cove and it stuck. (Jack’s Son’s eventually became Jackson’s) “Letter 11/96 from lester Knight..
"The other side of the cove were Jonathan, Jessie, and Temple. Jonathan’s children were Michael, Allan, Arthur, Sadie, and two or three other girls that I forget the names of. Allan’s children were Raymond, Effie, Belle, Nellie, and Blanche. Letter 11/96 from lester Knight..
"This place was called Cousin’s Cove because each one had to Marry his cousin." Letter 11/96 from lester Knight..
April 16,1799 John Temple Knight, later to marry Mary Ann Vincent, is born to James Knight and Rachel ?. Lester Knight Tree. Barbara Pederson
1799 Birth year of "[July 30, 1887] John Robert Knight died Jacksons Cove July 12th, age 88 years, left 90 descendants. Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Barbara Pederson
Aug. 1799 "In the Great Britan, High Court of Admiralty Records, John Knight in Aug 1799 was captain of the Dispatch, 65 tons, 40 men, 8 - 3 pounder guns, was carrying a Dutch letter of marque and the owners of the vessel were Pete Lihou and Sam Godwin. A "Letter of Marque" licensed the captain to capture Dutch vessels. Keith Mathews files
Dec. 1799 "Written in the italic style for handwriting used by court scrivners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the following entry appears on page 135 of the Newfoundland Probate Court records 1801-1806: Certification of birth at St. John's. Female child Ann. Born 12th., month 1799. Father Stephen Knight, Broker. Wife Ann. Certified: Ann Brazill Midwife, Mary Freeman, Eli Thomas; Certified as a true copy Thomas Cooke Surrogate 13 May 1803.
This single entry recording the birth of a little girl at the turn of the century, now three years old, was unusual for the records of a probate court. Probate courts concerned themselves with the legal disposal of the real and personal property of those who had died and not the certification of births. The court record which noted the birth of Ann did not contain any other information on Ann Knight or her family, so we are left to speculate why the entry was made.
A reason for the recording of this seemingly out of place information in a probate court record is offered in the careful way Thomas Cooke, the Surrogate in charge of the Newfoundland Probate Court, maintained a record of all matters that passed through the court. His records reflect all the official daily transactions of his court. It was important for Cooke to record that the midwife and two witnesses at the birth of Ann Knight three years ago had appeared before him to certify the birth of Ann during December 1799. It was a record of a service - the taking of oaths - performed within the jurisdiction of the court for a prominent citizen of St. John's. Thomas Cooke, as his court records indicate, was a very meticulous man.
The entry intrigued me and I began to seek out other information on the period and the people involved. Ann had been born during an interesting period in the history of St. John's; a period of growth as a centre for government administration and the import and export trade of the island. As representative government was not to come to Newfoundland until 1832, St. John's, the largest settlement on the island, while the centre of government administration and trade, could not be officially called the capitol.
Ann had come close to being born in the Nineteenth Century. We do not know how close, as the exact day of her birth in December 1799 is not recorded. Ann was born the daughter of Stephen Knight, a merchant partner in the firm of Parker & Knight of St. John's who owned property on or near the site of the present Fortis Trust building at the entrance of Harbour Drive. This property was one of two waterfront properties operated by the firm and was insured in 1809 for #5100 [pounds] Sterling. Ann was a Newfoundlander by birth and that is important as at this time St. John's and indeed Newfoundland was undergoing a change in population from settler to native born. The 1794-1795 census for St. John's records if the head of the family was born here and if not, the number of years of residence. Unfortunately, this information was not complete, leaving room for speculation.
Stephen Knight is not recorded in the 1794-1795 census as a resident of St. John's. A native of Shaftesbury, Dorset, he married Ann March at Old Perlican, Newfoundland in 1797. Ann was born December 1799, so somewhere between the two dates he had moved to St. John's, becoming a partner with N. Parker of Tighnmouth, Dorset in the firm of Parker and Knight. Parker is listed in the census as a landlord.
Stephen Knight held a twenty one year grant from the Crown for land located on the road to Quidi Vidi in 1806. It is difficult to determine where this grant of land was located but an examination of the road system for this area and the military reservation around the landward side of Signal Hill and the location of Fort William together with other factors, it was probably in the vicinity of Kings Bridge Road, Circular Road intersection with Empire Avenue. However, a later map of St. John's (circa 1840) shows Knight's grant of land from the Crown on Forest Road east of the Miller Centre.
The midwife Ann Brazill who brought Ann into the world in 1799, a widow, lived in the second division - R.H. Ropes Cove to Nobles Cove in the West End of St. John's. She rented her house from John Macurdy, probably the doctor residing in the 4th. Division. Ann Brazill was not born in Newfoundland and unfortunately the census does not record the number of years she resided in the colony. She had two servants, one male and one female; both of whom were unmarried. All are listed as Protestants. Unfortunately, the names of the servants are not given so we cannot determine if they were the people who signed the birth certificate after Ann Brazill.
In the 1794-1795 census we cannot find any other midwives listed. There is one nurse, Mary Whalen, living in 3rd Division. She is listed as a widow and was not born in Newfoundland. The census does not give the number of years she had lived in the colony. She had one son, no servants, and rented from L. Maddick.
We do not know if Ann's birth was registered in any church or parish record. St. John's in 1794-95 did have a parish clerk in keeping with the British tradition. The Parish Clerk was John Undrey who had resided in Newfoundland thirty-four years at the time the census was taken. He was married, with six sons and three daughters. The family employed one female servant. John Undrey lived with his family in his own home in the 2nd. Division of St. John's.
A chance encounter with a birth certificate, in a record where it would not normally be located, leads to many avenues of research. It helps us to build a little bit of the social history of the past and create an awareness of the world of our ancestors." From "The Newfoundland Ancestor" Summer 1994 "A Birth Certificate for Ann" by George Snelgrove Dorothy Peterson
1800 Descendants of Joseph VINCENT 1 Joseph VINCENT .. +Jane (Vincent) ... 2 William Vincent b: Abt 1800 in St. John's, NF I have noticed the surname VINCENT in the ROOTS messages and on your web pages. I am related to the MESSERVY / VINCENT / PARSONS / SHAW s of the Sandy Point, Bay St. George area. I would appreciate any connections to these families that you may have. David Shaw, Philadelphia, dbshaw@ix.netcom.com
Dec.25,1800 William Vincent is reputed to be b. on Christmas Day in 1800 at St. John's, poss. the s. of Joseph and Jane Vincent who was ba [bapt.] 1802.01.10 in St. John's, Joseph being a soldier with the Royal NF Regiment. [Submitted by] William Vincent, P.O. Box 154, Stephenville, NF, Canada A2N 2Y9 From "The Newfoundland Ancestor" Summer 1996 "Research Interest" column
1800's "VINCENT Researcher: Patricia Reid - Biggins@GRDA.AVC.Calgary.AB.CA Address: P.O. Box 47, Cow Head, NF, A0K 2A0 Tel: (709) 243-2436 Area of research: Great Northern Peninsula Description: Charles Vincent, Cow Head, 1800's. Who did he marry, where did he originate from? Would appreciate any information on him or his family. Extent of research: Limited [11/96] "
1800 Rowsell George jr; Edmund Elliott; CI; 1800; recs credit on John Payton. Elliott in the Slade Registers http://www.iosphere.net/~jholwell/ndb/lists/elliott-in-slade.html
The concrete building next to the Rose house is a somewhat recent addition to the Hiscock fish processing complex, which now occupies both sides of the road and much of the waterfront from here to the public wharf. The earliest of the Spracklins lived in a house whose front garden, once adorned with lilac and apple trees, is now occupied by this undoubtedly practical but rather unimaginative concrete structure.
The last occupants of the old Spracklin house were Mary Charlotte and her sister Louisa. Louisa ("Miss Lou") was a teacher at the old Methodist Academy in Brigus for almost fifty years. Their brother George Gushue Spratkiln, was a noted scholar, instructor of navigation, and traveller.
A most unique feature of the old Spracklin residence was the fact that the whole of the kitchen floor was paved with blue flag-stones which extended right into the old-fashioned open fireplace. The house itself, a two-and-one-half storey building with gables, occupied a commanding position overlooking, not only the roofs of many of the then Spracklin-owned waterfront buildings, but much of the busy harbour as well. Like so many other homes of distinction that once graced the area, this building too fell into disrepair and was taken down in the early 1930s.
Just a few feet farther down the incline here, and close by the roadside on our left, there existed until shortly after the year 1900, a long two-and-one-half storey duplex. This building was approximately seventy feet in length and consisted of two complete dwellings sharing a massive central chimney. This was the estate of Robert Knight. It included not only the land on which the duplex stood but an additional twenty yards towards the Plowman property on the east. Given to him by his mother in 1800, it was as W. A. Munn states, "fight in the Spracklin property," which prompts us to ask, "Was Robert Knight's mother a Spracklin?" It seems very likely!
Are there any Knights in Brigus today?
It appears that Robert Knight !eft Brigus shortly before 1811. It is also apparent that he intended to return, but died in the meantime. The following
inscription written 184 years ago on his headstone in the Methodist graveyard at a site close by the south side of the church tells the story:
When Brigus I left, I thought of
soon returning,
Alas! My hopes are fled, and now
you are mourning.
Therefore prepare; make no delay
For I in my prime was called away.
From these lines we can only assume that Robert Knight anticipated his death while away from home and penned the lament himself. He died in 1811 at the age of 32 and with his passing the surname Knight disappears from the Brigus scene.
For many years a winding lane ran from a point just past the Knight residence uphill towards Rattley Row. Our earliest map of Brigus designates this lane Forge Hill, probably the site of the ironworks of one James Guy, who is listed as blacksmith in "People and Occupations in Brigus in 1867." Access from the lower portion of this lane no longer exists, as all of the roadside property along here is now occupied by buildings of the Hiscock complex.
Let's go now to a spot directly opposite the public wharf. This was the site of the stately residence of Captain Azariah Munden. Nicholas Smith in his book Fifty-two Years at the Labrador Fishery described the house which stood here and the Norman house at the Battery as "homes like English castles." The Captain Azariah Munden who had his house built here about the year 1855 was one of the third generation of Mundens in Brigus." His father was Captain William Munden. His grandfather, Azariah Munden Sr., was a native of Bridport, England, and had first come to Newfoundland in 1756 as agent for ropes and twines for the firm of Messrs. Gundry of Bridport.
Captain William Munden was called "the most progressive of the Brigus captains," not only by virtue of his expressed dissatisfaction with his 40-ton western boat, a schooner-rigged fishing vessel, which he soon enlarged to over 70 tons, but also because of his having built the Four Brothers, the first vesseli of over 100 tons to prosecute the seal fishery.
There were those at the time who took a very dim view of Captain Munden's initiative in building such a boat, emphatically declaring it to be a! foolhardy venture and asserting that the captain would most certainly experience great difficulty in manipulating such a craft amid the ice-floessome going so far as to say that it would be impossible to "turn the bloody thing around" in heavy ice.
When Captain Azariah Munden built his house here at a point opposite the public wharf in the mid-1800s, it was on land which came to him through his mother Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Knight. Standing here on a high solidly constructed dry rock wall (part of which still exists today near the noah east comer of the most easterly of the stores of the Hiscock complex), it occupied a commanding position overlooking the wharf and the then crowded harbour. Stone steps led to a wide front deck which was supported by a row of arches held in place by a series of pillars. The centrally located front door was set into a recessed arched opening, and the drawing-room and parlour windows on either side of it were also arched and as tall as the door itself.
The house appeared very lofty in spite of its only two-and-a-half stories occasioned no doubt by the ten-foot ceilings inside and the high wall on which the structure stood. The steep hip roof, fitted on all four sides with donner windows - ten in total - added greatly to the building's stately appearance. Inside, scarlet and gold wallpaper adorned the drawing-room walls, and elegant life-size oil portraits of the captain, his wife, and other family members bespoke an air of gracious living. Such a refined and formal lifestyle was not surprising, especially in view of the fact that the family's Old Country ancestors included such personalities as Sir Richard Munden and Admiral Sir John Munden, both of whom were famous British naval heroes.
I wish I could have seen Captain Munden's house.
It may come as a surprise to you to know that you may still see it today- not in its original form, however, but nearly so. You see, the building was taken down and moved to Harbour Grace about 1910, where it became the property of the Munns. This came about because Captain Azariah Munden's daughter Elizabeth had married Robert S. Munn. The Munns of Harbour Grace, an influential family of Scottish descent were owners and operators of one of Newfoundland's largest mercantile establishments of the day. The dismantling of the house in Brigus and the rebuilding of it in Harbour Grace was carried out by the Horwood Lumber Company. This process, however, resulted in certain major alterations to the structure, due no doubt to the marked differences in site locations. At the Harbour Grace site, a high rock foundation wall was not a requirement. Consequently, the wide front deck together with its pillared arch supports, was unnecessary. However, a tower-like addition to the building's south west comer serves to enhance the structure considerably.
Purchased from Robert Munn in 1944, the house occupies a site today on Water Street in Harbour Grace where, until recently, it was home to the Arthur Godden thmily.
Is this same house which appears so predominantly in many of the old photos of this section of the Brigus waterfront, taken between 1875 and 19107
Yes, and it is mostly from these old photographs, as well as from the Brigus Plantation Records at the Provincial Archives, that much of our information regarding the Munden property has been derived. William Azariah Munn was a son of Elizabeth (Munden) and Robert S. Munn of Harbour Grace. He was a noted historian and painstaking researcher of the early 1900s. There was also a personal reason for my interest in pursuing the matter: Azariah Munden Sr. was an ancestor of mine - consequently, of yours as well. You see, Susannah, my great-great-grandmother Leamon, was a granddaughter of Azariah Munden Sr. · Thus; this Azariah Munden was my great-great-great-great-grandfather- and your ancestor of six greats.
Are there any records of other early buildings in this area?
Yes, and some old photographs too! The records tell us that the land now occupied by the various buildings comprising the J.W. Hiscock and Sons fish processing plant were originally part of the Spracklin holdings. You will remember that I told you earlier that the Spracklins, according to a
long-standing family tradition, once owned all the land from the Drawbridge to the Battery Brook. W. A. Munn, the historian who once declared that he had been "hunting up the Brigus families for years," states that this acquisition by the Spracklins of "all the land from the Drawbridge to the Battery Brook" meant that they owned what has been described as "half of the Brigus harbour. This confirms," says Munn, "John Guy's offer (about the year 1610) to sell 'halfa harbour' to intending settlers for one hundred pounds."3 The Spracklins are said to have purchased half of the Brigus harbour (c. 1612) from John Guy for the sum of one hundred pounds.4
Initially, the Spracklin stores, houses and wharves occupied the whole of the waterfront area here, even to the extent of including the tiny island a few yards from the shore which on our earliest Brigus map is aptly named "Spracklin's Island."
As was to be expected, most of the waterfront activity in those early days was centred on the old seal factory, a sprawling barnlike structure approximately 85 feet in length situated near the water's edge just west of the present public wharf on the site where the main building of the Hiscock complex is today.
Do the Spracklins own much of this land now?
No. Very little, if any. You see, as the years progressed, much of the Spracklin property came into the hands of others; sometimes because of their having married into the Spracklin family; sometimes because of their having purchased certain portions; and sometimes by deed of girl. Thus, for a period around the turn of the nineteenth century we find names like Knight, Keating, Munden, and Plowman, in addition to Spracklin, listed as landowners in the area; while mid-nineteenth century documents such as the 1861 "Plan of Properties and Premises at Brigus" show Leamon, Bartlett,:and Wilcox to be other property holders at that time. Whereas the major portion of the waterfront here is occupied by the Hiscock premises today, other names such as Rose and Tfickett have emerged as owners of certain hereditary or acquired properties in the immediate area. In the Grave Hill section, the Pomeroy name remains prominent because of that family's long-time possession of the quay near the Drawbridge.
When Captain Azariah Munden built his house here at a point opposite the public wharf in the mid-1800s, it was on land which came to him through his mother Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Knight. Standing here on a high solidly constructed dry rock wall (part of which still exists today near the noah east comer of the most easterly of the stores of the Hiscock complex), it occupied a commanding position overlooking the wharf and the then crowded harbour. Stone steps led to a wide front deck which was supported by a row of arches held in place by a series of pillars. The centrally located front door was set into a recessed arched opening, and the drawing-room and parlour windows on either side of it were also arched and as tall as the door itself.
The house appeared very lofty in spite of its only two-and-a-half stories occasioned no doubt by the ten-foot ceilings inside and the high wall on which the structure stood. The steep hip roof, fitted on all four sides with donner windows - ten in total - added greatly to the building's stately appearance. Inside, scarlet and gold wallpaper adorned the drawing-room walls, and elegant life-size oil portraits of the captain, his wife, and other family members bespoke an air of gracious living. Such a refined and formal lifestyle was not surprising, especially in view of the fact that the family's Old Country ancestors included such personalities as Sir Richard Munden and Admiral Sir John Munden, both of whom were famous British naval heroes.
I wish I could have seen Captain Munden's house.
It may come as a surprise to you to know that you may still see it today- not in its original form, however, but nearly so. You see, the building was taken down and moved to Harbour Grace about 1910, where it became the property of the Munns. This came about because Captain Azariah Munden's daughter Elizabeth had married Robert S. Munn. The Munns of Harbour Grace, an influential family of Scottish descent were owners and operators of one of Newfoundland's largest mercantile establishments of the day. The dismantling of the house in Brigus and the rebuilding of it in Harbour Grace was carried out by the Horwood Lumber Company. This process, however, resulted in certain major alterations to the structure, due no doubt to the marked differences in site locations. At the Harbour Grace site, a high rock foundation wall was not a requirement. Consequently, the wide front deck together with its pillared arch supports, was unnecessary. However, a tower-like addition to the building's south west comer serves to enhance the structure considerably.
Purchased from Robert Munn in 1944, the house occupies a site today on Water Street in Harbour Grace where, until recently, it was home to the Arthur Godden thmily.
Is this same house which appears so predominantly in many of the old photos of this section of the Brigus waterfront, taken between 1875 and 19107
Yes, and it is mostly from these old photographs, as well as from the Brigus Plantation Records at the Provincial Archives, that much of our information regarding the Munden property has been derived. William Azariah Munn was a son of Elizabeth (Munden) and Robert S. Munn of Harbour Grace. He was a noted historian and painstaking researcher of the early 1900s. There was also a personal reason for my interest in pursuing the matter: Azariah Munden Sr. was an ancestor of mine - consequently, of yours as well. You see, Susannah, my great-great-grandmother Leamon, was a granddaughter of Azariah Munden Sr. · Thus; this Azariah Munden was my great-great-great-great-grandfather- and your ancestor of six greats.
Are there any records of other early buildings in this area?
Yes, and some old photographs too! The records tell us that the land now occupied by the various buildings comprising the J.W. Hiscock and Sons fish processing plant were originally part of the Spracklin holdings. You will remember that I told you earlier that the Spracklins, according to a
long-standing family tradition, once owned all the land from the Drawbridge to the Battery Brook. W. A. Munn, the historian who once declared that he had been "hunting up the Brigus families for years," states that this acquisition by the Spracklins of "all the land from the Drawbridge to the Battery Brook" meant that they owned what has been described as "half of the Brigus harbour. This confirms," says Munn, "John Guy's offer (about the year 1610) to sell 'halfa harbour' to intending settlers for one hundred pounds."3 The Spracklins are said to have purchased half of the Brigus harbour (c. 1612) from John Guy for the sum of one hundred pounds.4
Initially, the Spracklin stores, houses and wharves occupied the whole of the waterfront area here, even to the extent of including the tiny island a few yards from the shore which on our earliest Brigus map is aptly named "Spracklin's Island."
As was to be expected, most of the waterfront activity in those early days was centred on the old seal factory, a sprawling barnlike structure approximately 85 feet in length situated near the water's edge just west of the present public wharf on the site where the main building of the Hiscock complex is today.
Do the Spracklins own much of this land now?
No. Very little, if any. You see, as the years progressed, much of the Spracklin property came into the hands of others; sometimes because of their having married into the Spracklin family; sometimes because of their having purchased certain portions; and sometimes by deed of girl. Thus, for a period around the turn of the nineteenth century we find names like Knight, Keating, Munden, and Plowman, in addition to Spracklin, listed as landowners in the area; while mid-nineteenth century documents such as the 1861 "Plan of Properties and Premises at Brigus" show Leamon, Bartlett,:and Wilcox to be other property holders at that time. Whereas the major portion of the waterfront here is occupied by the Hiscock premises today, other names such as Rose and Tfickett have emerged as owners of certain hereditary or acquired properties in the immediate area. In the Grave Hill section, the Pomeroy name remains prominent because of that family's long-time possession of the quay near the Drawbridge.
1800 Robert Knight, of Brigus, 1800; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
John Plowman 6 yards from S. to N. bounded on the S. by Robert Knight on the
N. By Azariah mondon 71 yards from HWM to the W. Bounded on the west by the
commons 1 stage , 1 Flank ,1 House, 1 Garden (Brigus)Bloomquist's <bloomer@3lefties.com>
1800 Robert Knight by gift of mother bounded by Plowman and Spacklin's land. Pro Archives, St. John's
ca 1800 'I am researching the names of Priscilla SPRACKLIN married I believe a SOPER. I think either a Jonas or Thomas SOPER. I believe she was born near the beginning of the 1800's. > >Also I and researching a Samuel Henry Spracklin SOPER, brn. April 20, 1844, d. abt. 1884, who married a Dianna Whitten b. abt. 1845 and d. 1917. Shirley
Hi Everyone: I am researching a Thomas Soper that went to Newfoundland and married a Priscilla Spracklin. His parents could be a William and Ann ( ?maiden name) SOPER. I have listed this before, but now we have a new e-mail address. If anyone, is interested in above, please make note of new address. Shirley Pedder
1800 "Mary Ann Knight would have been born close to 1800 and probably in Queen's Co. N.S. I am trying to find parents. There was a Methodist "circuit" preacher by the name of Knight in the 1840's who I thought might be a brother. Is this Richard? I don't know any more, only that very many people are attempting to find a Knight family in Nova Scotia, with no success. If you have anything which you believe to be relevant to this, I would appreciate knowing. Thanks, Carol tag@windsor.igs.net
"St. John's Over a Century Ago" Living Conditions in Newfoundland, as Revealed in the First Volume of the Royal Gazette. Written in 1907, by the Late J.W. Withers, then King's Printer. [This would be around 1800-06.]
"PROPOSALS For Printing a Weekly Paper to be Intitled the ROYAL GAZETTE AND NEWFOUNDLAND ADVERTISER, Intended for the Diffusion of Useful as well as Ornamental Knowledge, News and Liberal Amusement in General." Subscriber's Names here included Parker and Knight, and Goss & Butler per L. Knight. It continues with the growth of the town of St. John's from 1806 onwards, societies, meetings.etc... the reference at bottom being: "The society which seems to have been earliest at work and apparently with excellent results, was that 'For Improving the Condition of the Poor of St. John's'..."
"There is one amusing little incident in connection with the schools of this society which is worth recalling as showing the paternal and omniscient care of the Governor of the Colony. "At a Quarterly meeting of the society 'His Excellency recommended that the girls who attended the Charity Schools should have their hair cut short, as being the more chaste and cleanly practice.' We suppose it is Mr. Knight, the secretary, (of the firm of Parker & Knight) who communicated this information to THE GAZETTE, and he adds in a P.S.: 'I was so much pleased with the recommendation as likely to influence every class of community to reform a most ridiculous practice and a very immodest one, in permitting and encouraging girls of 6 years and upwards to turn up their hair and confine it with a comb, that I obtained leave from the Governor to put the proceeding paragraph in THE GAZETTE'." Barbara Pederson.
1800 "the "Association" and found the following : Built 1800 in Poole, 244 tons, 15' draught, Owner, Ledgard; Captain John Knight; Owner registered at Lloyds 1800; Voyages Poole coastal. Graham Rogers >Fordingbridge Hampshire UK >ge.rogers@ukonline.co.uk
Early 1800's South Brook is a logging community located at the bottom of Hall's Bay, at the mouth of a river of the same name. The area was one of the first sites in western Notre Dame Bay to have been settled by Europeans in the early 1800's. Only one family, the Rowsell's, inhabited the area until the 1870's when several sawmills were established in the area, and a few families settled near the Rowsell's. http://calvin.stemnet.nf.ca/~bjackman/comm.html#Little Bay
1801 Birth year of "Ann Knight died 1879, age 71. Burial records of St. John's Circuit 1876 to 1890 Methodists Records. NFLD Ancestor 6, 3
1801 (Town of Fortune) In the early days, Fortune was predominately Methodist. Services were held in John Lake's house from 1801 to 1811 by Reverend Richard Knight. The first church was built in 1824. The fourth Methodist church was built in 1911, and became Fortune's first United Church of Canada in 1925, and served the congregation until 1967 when a new one was built. http://www.k12.nf.ca/lakeacademy/history.htm
1801 From :"Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "In the settlement of English Harbour... the 1753 census listed six planter families... by 1801 only three surnames (Batson, Jones, and Pottle) were retained... Bugden, Kember, Miller, and Sweetland had married Batson females..." Barbara Pederson
Feb.26,1801 Newport Pagnel 26 Feb 1801
Dear Brethren
I am unwilling to let the first convoy sail without a few lines from me, as I understand from Brother Melledge that you had not recd. a Lr. which I wrote last year, in reply to that which I had from you informing me of the death of my late friend Mr. Jones, & applying to me (as well acquainted with your circumstances & as connected with the Missionary Society) to endeavour to procure a suitable Minister of Christ to become your pastor - Immediately upon receiving your application I transmitted it to the Directors of the Society, being myself out of that number by Lot at the time - They passed a resolution to make enquiries on the subject, & I addressed my own to such persons as I judged most likely to sympathize with & to supply your wants - Your Lr. was read before the students in Mr. Bull's Academy at this Town, which had been the means by which the application from Twillingate had become successful in the precedg year(302) - It pleased GOD from the first to affect the heart of Mr. Rutton Morris(303) one of the Students with a particular concern for your Welfare, but as both he & his Tutor were very desirous that he should remain at Newport till his course of Studies was completely finished, he declined any immediate engagemt. & proposed to wait in hope that the LORD might otherwise effectually supply your need - I could not however obtain from any other Quarter information of any Minister who was willing to forego his prospects of usefulness & comfort in his native country, to labour among you, - I was thoroughly satisfied that it was very unlikely any one would offer his services whose qualifications were superior or even equal to those of Mr. Morris in my Judgmt.
But I was doubtful whether he would remove from the Academy before the close of this year when his time of continuance would expire: & I was likewise at a loss respecting his means of conveyce. to Newfoundland, even if he would shorten his stay here
I had applied to the Missy. Directors to know whether they would engage for the expence of his equipment & voyage; which they declined - Yr. Lr. had not mentd. this charge. It also left me in some doubt of the means by which you were likely to fulfil the engagemt. of makg suitable provision for a Minister at St. John's, & my knowledge of the difficulties which Mr. Jones had sometimes suffered, made me fearful of urging my friend Mr. Morris to become his Successor - Matters stood thus, when I wrote in answer to yr. Lr. & I committed mine to the care of Mr. Hardcastle, Treasurer of the Missy. Society at London(304); my own situation seldom admitting me to hear in proper time of oppertunities of conveyce. - I imagine this Lr. has been lost on the passage, as I find it had not reached you, when Mr. Melledge set sail for England - These circumstances prevented me [125] from taking farther steps, till I was agreeably surprised by a Lr. from Mr. Melledge on his arrival at Bristol - I informed him of what had passed, & invited him to visit us, that satisfaction might be obtained on what was doubtful, & that he might form his own Judgmt, of Mr. Morris, from observation & particular report in the neighbourhood, as well as use further means if he judged proper to remove the diffts. that remained with Mr. Morris & his Tutor - Mr. Melledge accordingly spent almost a week at Newport during which time he had oppertunity to be almost constantly in Mr. Morris's Compy. to hear him preach four times & to Judge of the esteem in which he was held by his neighbours - He appears to have recd. satisfactn. of the desirableness that Mr. Morris should proceed to St. John's, & he has succeeded completely in obtaining his consent & Mr. Bull's permission for him to do so -I rejoice that the LORD has thus ordered all things apparently for the best, & indeed beyond my hopes as to the probability of the success of his cause at St. John's.
I thought it necessary that every thing should be made perfectly clear to the understanding of all the parties concerned, & therefore drew up a paper stating the Several Articles of engagemt. between Mr. Morris on the one part, & Mr. Melledge as acting for the Church at St. John's on the other - This was not done at Mr. Morris's desire, but it appeared expedient to his Friends; & the Articles have accordingly been signed by him, Mr. Melledge, the Revd. Wm. Bull, The Revd. Thos. Bull(305) (who is his Father's co-pastor & Assistant Tutor, & by myself, declaring our Ideas of the engagemt. mutually made - I have been attending & assisting at Mr. Morris's Ordination,(306) which has been solemn & affecting You will hear more of it from Mr. Melledge & Mr. Knight(307) who have come today from London to be present on the occasion - I have only time to add my earnest prayer that the LORD may own this transaction with abundt. & permanent blessing - Hoping to write again by our friends return.
I remain
Very Affectionately Yours in the LORD Jesus
Saml. Greatheed Copy of a Lr. fm. the Revd. S. Greatheed to the Committeee of the Church of Christ at St. John's Newfoundland
March 26,1801 (Note 303. 0) Rutton Morris (1775-1842) was 26 when he was ordained. On March 26 1801 he left Bristol in the brig William, with Stephen Knight and his nephew to join the convoy at Torbay. On April 1 the brig was captured by a French privateer. Conversing in French, Rutton Morris persuaded the Captain to allow the three of them to stay on board. Almost at the shores of France they were rescued by Captain Tobin of the frigate Dasher. They returned to Plymouth to sail in the Quebec convoy. Not many months after his arrival at St. John's, he was married on November 30 at the Anglican church by the Rev, John Harries to Miss Rachel Butler. The witnesses were Nathan Parker, James Melledge and William Barnes, whose wife, Hannah, was Rachel's sister. Two daughters were baptised at the meeting house, Eunice Alice born December 19 1802 and Lydia Butler born October 17 1804. Rutton Morris and his family left for England in 1805, but later Eunice Alice returned and married her cousin, Richard, son of William and Hannah Barnes, the member for Trinity Bay in the Amalgamated Legislature of 1843 and President of the Natives Society. Evangelical Magazine 1801, 290-292; J.S.S.Armour et al, op.cit., 43-46; Pamela Bruce, Barnes,Richard, DCB, Vol V11, 48-49.
July 16,1801 St. John's Newfoundland 16 July 1801
Revd. & Dear Sir,
We cannot let the present oppertunity pass without acknowledging the receipt of your kind & very interesting Lr. of the 26 Feb last by our friend Mr. Stepn. Knight - The contents of which we can assure you was to us a source of great consolation - We observe by it you had already written us last year relative to the application we made on the death of our dear Father in Christ Mr. Jones that the great head of the Church would regard our destitute situation & dispose the heart of one of his faithful servants to accept the pastoral care of the people here - But this answer we had not the happiness to receive.
Mr. Rutton Morris whom the LORD we trust has directed you to make choice of as our Teacher was kindly conducted to us the [126] 23 June we desire to receive him as the peculiar gift of GOD to this church here & most cheerfully acquiesce in the appointment of his Mission & Oh that he with whom is the residue of the Spirit may manifest His Almighty power & cause his labours amongst us to be blessed indeed - As a Church we feel ourselves much indebted to you Sir, & the rest of our dear friends in England for your great exertions in bringing to Issue an event so important to us, & to the rising generation - We most sincerely request a continual interest in your prayers for the prosperity of our Zion & at the same time assure you it shall be our daily study to make his situation among us as comfortable as possible - We fully believe him a person taught of GOD & whose desire is to promote the Redeemer's kingdom among men.
Our much esteem'd Brother Mr. Jno. Hillyard of Twillingate is now here for a few days on a visit - We are happy to learn not only from him but others of that place not immediately connected with the Society - that considerable success have attended his labours, they also inform us his exertions for the rising generation have been unremitted - his attention we are pleased to observe is not solely directed to those who are young but also to those who are more advanced in life - they all seem desirous of instruction & are apparently making great progress therein(308) - As he is here we suppose he will likewise address you & to him we beg leave to refer you for further particulars respecting his Mission -
The state of our Society & the schools(309) remain much the same as last year - Our Brother Morris will write you from time to time respecting them - We remain
Revd. & Dr. Sir
Your much obliged Servts. & brethren in Christ
In behalf of the Church
The Members of the Committe
TEMPLE
In Newfoundland: Family tradition: George, from England, was one of the earliest settlers of Norman's Cove (Trinity B.) in the early 1800s. Early instances: Thomas, of Bonavista, 1816; George, planter of Selby Cove (Bay de Verde district), 1824; George, planter of Norman's Cove, 1829; William, planter of Upper Island Cove, 1846; Matthew and William, of Chapel Arm (Trinity B.), 1871 (Lovell); James, planter of Cobblers Island (Bonavista B.), 1871 (Lovell). E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland"
1802 "TEMPLEMAN, James m abt 1802 Bonavista, Nfld Cecil Vivian St John's, Nfld. cvivian@gte.net
1802- 1815 "Descendants of John Knight, John Knight (born circa 1802-1815) married -?-" File: KNIGHT1.NS From Rudy Knight, Halifax, N.S. Nov. 29, 1997 Barbara Pederson
Jan.10,1802 William Vincent is reputed to be b. on Christmas Day in 1800 at St. John's, poss. the s. of Joseph and Jane Vincent who was ba [bapt.] 1802.01.10 in St. John's, Joseph being a soldier with the Royal NF Regiment. [Submitted by] William Vincent, P.O. Box 154, Stephenville, NF, Canada A2N 2Y9 From "The Newfoundland Ancestor" Summer 1996 "Research Interest" column
1802 Joseph Vincent, soldier of St. John's, 1802; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
1803 ">do you have any info on the parents of SARAH JANE BUTT> This is purely speculative, but I think her parents may have been Moses Butt, b. Spaniard's Bay, bapt 7 Aug 1803 and her mother, Elizabeth Ash, b. Hbr Grace, bapt 22 Feb 1804, St Paul's, Trinity records. Ruth (Pigott) Harper, U.E., rharper@eagle.ca
1803 "Philip's (Little) son, Cornelius, in Meath, took some part in Robert Emmett's Revolt in 1803, as a result of which he had to flee the country. The family tradition of raising good horses proved valuable on that occasion: from the house at Rathbeggin (the Iittles' "fort") Cornelius took his portion of the family fortune -- one thousand, perhaps two thousand, pounds in gold -- and fled for the fishing village of Howth. He deliberately avoided the more obvious ports of Drogheda and Dublin. A hired fishing boat from Howth took him to Northern Scotland [Caithness, possibly] whence he boarded a brandy smuggler for France. There he took a Louisiana packet or other large vessel to Maryland. In Maryland he found the same religious and political bigotry as he tried to escape from in Ireland. His trek all the way to Nova Scotia led to more encounters with anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bigotry. Next. "...he went over in the direction of Newfoundland --”
"James [i.e. John] Costin had emigrated from Waterford much earlier and "settled in Newfoundland" [?]. He was related to Father Costin, revered in Ardmore (his picture is still preserved in Ardmore church). He settled on 239 acres in Lot 49 along Squaw Bay Mr. Costin did not consider Cornelius Little suitable for his daughter Brigid; but Cornelius persisted, and married Brigid Costin." PROVIDED BY DR. BRENDAN O'GRADY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Based on Notes by Dr. George A. Little of Rathgar, Dublin
LITTLE, a surname of England, Scotland and Ireland, from Old English 'lytel' - little, small; in Ireland a synonym by translation of Begg(ane), Biggane, Ir. 'beag' - little, and Petty, Pettit...From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary
1804 George Rowsell Sr., operated salmon fishery at Halls Bay and New Bay, 1804; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
1805 "Lot 914 Claimant: Elizabeth Knight Nature of Claim: By deed of gift from her father Occupier in 1805: John Warn and B. Linthorne Year Acquired: 1755 Size in Yards: 131x 185 Contents of Lot: 1 stage, 1 flake, 3 stores, 1 cookroom, 3 houses, 4 gardens, 1 meadow." Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
1805 "Plantation Book: Carbonear Lot 917 Claimant: Callaghan McCarthy Nature of Claim: Purchased from Eliz. Knight for £8 Occupier in 1805: No person Year Acquired: 1797 Size in Yards: 168x 90 Contents of Lot: 1 garden." Plantation Book: Carbonear http://www.mun.ca/cgi-bin/mfs/03/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/cb/plantcarb.htm?1169#mfs
1805 Sir John Lester: Merchant; Year of Will/Probate: 1805/05; Newfoundland Properties/Location: "my part share and interest in plantations, house, warehouses, fishing rooms, flakes, ships, ships, vessels" to be sold; Chief Benefactor(s): Benjamin Linthorne, Geo. Garland (Trustees). "Selected Extracts from Poole Merchants Wills" Gordon Handcock's "Soe long as there comes noe women", Barbara Pederson
Oct.25,1805 Mary Ann Vincent, Later to marry John Temple Knight, is born. Tree and Barbara Pederson
1805 "Oct(r) 26(th) Married Capt(n) W(m) Lander of the Brig(d) Hope of
Poole in Great Britain & Elizabeth Daughter of Joseph & Elizabeth
Moors of this Harb(r). Trinity - St. Paul's (1757-1820) http://www.huronweb.com/genweb/nfdata/main_060.htm#07b
1805 Birth year of "[Aug. 7, 1869] Capt. William Vincent of Salcombe of schooner "Llady Rodney" {"Lady Rodney"?) died age 64 on Aug. 5th, 1869." Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Queen Milley as told to Barbara Pederson
1805 Henry Rosewell (? for Rowsell), of Bay Roberts, 1805; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
KNIGHT, Ronald Page 73
ROWSELL, Capt. Mark 27
Rowsell George 34,36
son of George 36
VINCENT, John 70 SHIPWRECKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR - by Frank Galgay and....
Vincent, Phillip Page 165
VINCENT, Charlie Page 244 WAKE OF THE SCHOONERS by Robert Parsons (Published by Creative Publishers) from Halifax City Regional Library, Halifax ISBN: 1-895387-24-8
VINCENT, Gabriel page 161
TOLL OF THE SEA by Robert Parson (Published by Creative Publishers) ISBN: 1-895387-51-5 Mary Anne masibley@telusplanet.net Mary Anne Sibley, 320 Fleet Street, SW., Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada T1A 7Z5 e- mail address no good
1806 "2 John Shaw b: Abt. 1791 in New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland d: Sep-16-1857
........ m. Ann Knight b: Abt. 1806 in St. John's, NF, d: Jan-17-1890" David Shaw <dbshaw@ix.netcom.com>
1808 Birth year of "Burial records of St. John's circuit 1876-1890 Ann Knight, 1879, aged 71" Methodist Records, NFLD Anc. 6,3
1808 "Russell; George (Jr.); Fogo; 1808 fisher" Fishermen of Fogo and Change Islands" from the Notre Dame Bay Project site? Barbara Pederson
1808 Vincent; John; Fogo; 1808 Planters of Fogo, Twillingate and Change Islands http://www.iosphere.net/~jholwell/ndb/lists/ndb-planters.html
1808 John Vincent, planter of Fogo, 1808; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary
June 6,1808 Josian Knight is born to John Temple Knight and Mary Ann Vincent. Tree and Barbara Pederson.
Nov.15,1808 "James Rew Knight; buried November 15, 1808; of H----------- (undeciphrable); age 61 years." Harbour Grace CofE registers / David Wells
1809 Seek info on Margaret Shaw b.c. 1809 in St. John's, and m. 1831.11.22 to William Vincent and d. 1890 at Gravels, Bay St. George. [Submitted by] William Vincent, P.O. Box 154, Stephenville, NF, Canada A2N 2Y9 From "The Newfoundland Ancestor" Summer 1996 "Research Interest" column
1809 William Vincent+Margaret Shaw b: Abt 1809 in St. John's, NF David Shaw, Philadelphia, dbshaw@ix.netcom.com
August 1809 I am on a quest - and found your pages in the internet. Hopefully, someone can give me some ideas on where and how to proceed. My gr-gr-gr-gr-gr grandfather, William Knott, apparently left Ashburton, Devon, England - sometime after August 1809, reportedly died off the coast of Newfoundland (lost at sea), and his will was proved 1815. Family tradition indicates that he was a sea captain. His will was written in Dartmouth. His will was proved and is filed in Exeter, Devon, England. No other documents are included with the will, to show exact date and/or manner of death. His son, William Soper Knott, then came to Boston either just before 1815 or shortly after. I have searched in vain for William Knott's death record. Do you think there would be any record in Newfoundland? Should I write to the Maritime Museum there. I do not have the name of the ship. William Knott's will reads, "....if I do not return..." This leads me to believe that he did indeed undertake a journey - this was during the conflict between England and France, could he have been a privateer? Could he have planned to make a trip across the ocean, down to the Indies? There would have been great risk, but also great rewards then. Any ideas on where else I might search? Spelling of last name is often found as Knot, Not or Nott. Thanks for any input ;Gloria 313-782-8778, Schurmag@Mazda.Com
1809 Richard Knight - married Ann Ashe in 1809 at St. John's. notes by Robert Knight
1810 From "Soe longe as there comes no women" by W. Gordon Handcock: "...Henry Batson of Wimbourn Minister, aged seventy-one years in 1810, was nine years old when his father first took him to Newfoundland, and George Short, born in Hooke, Dorset, but examined at Wimbourn in 1762, testified he went to sea first in service to 'Bernard Batson', planter then resident in Newfoundland'." Barbara Pederson.
1810 I am researching the Coombs family of the NorthWest Coast of the Island of Newfoundland. From some of my older relatives I had heard that there may have been a Jersey connection. My earliest (sketchy) information was of a George Coombs of unknown place of origin who would have been born circa 1810. He is the first Coombs that I have heard of in that area. Do you have any idea how I might find further information on this. Thanks in advance. Brad Coombs bcoombs@atcon.com
1810 Miss Knight, school-mistress of Harbour Grace, 1810; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
1810 "About 1810, a short lived style of the Job firm was partnership - Parker Knight & Job." Betty Knight via Barbara Pederson
1810 "VINCENT Researcher: Cyndi Alcock - kckl@thezone.net Address: 29 Brown Cres., Gander NF, A1V 1R3 Area of research: Bonavista Bay Description: Any information of Ancestors or decendants of John 1810-1892 and Honor Vincent of Cape Island Bonnavista Bay. They had the following Children: Jonathan 1830-1892, Otham 1832-?, Phoebe 1826-1911, George 1835-?. Extent of research: Moderate [5/97] "
May 24, 1810 "Notice: Hugh Hamlin, sailmaker, informs the public he has taken the lot of James Lilly in the lane opposite Messrs. Parker, Knight & Bulley's lower store where he will be happy to receive orders." Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
June 7, 1810 "Absconded from his service last Sunday, John Dogh, native of Newtown Barry, County of Wexford, Ireland. 5' 10", fair complexion, light hair, wearing long mixed light coat, short blur lined jacket, with metal buttons, long blue trousers. considerable horsness in his lungs with much coughing. Came from Ireland in the schooner 'Bickley'. James Norman master: Signed Stn Knight" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
June 7, 1810 "For charter, The sch'r Brothers, Henry Squarey, Master." Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
June 28, 1810 ""All persons having claims on the estate of the late James Rew Knight of Harbour Grace are required to attend the house of William Danson, of said place on the 20th of July when the subscriber will be ready to pay a final dividend. Alex Campbell, Solomon Knight Amd'rs" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Aug. 2, 1810 "Brig Hope, Thomas Pinfon, Liverpool - entered" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Aug. 9, 1810 Society for improving the condition of the poor of St. John's; Stephen Knight chosen treasurer. Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Sept. 6, 1810 "To be let yearly for a term, the premises latley occupied by Thomas Roberts, deceased, consisting of a dwelling house, garden and meadow, situated at the back of Ft. Williams, on the road leading to Mr. Knight's farm. Apply to W B Thomas St. John's" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Sept. 7, 1810 "Henry Squarey, Brothers, Lisborn, entered. Newspaper date Sept. 13, 1810" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Sept. 13, 1810 "Vice Admiral of The white J. Knight, Esq July 31, 1810 Admiralty office to be Vice Admiral of Red. Published sept. 13, 1810" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Oct. 11, 1810 Susana Winter, Harriet Winter, Amelia. Can't remember why I copied this. I think maybe someone on the list enquired about the name. I think these were sisters performing at a benifit for the poor of St. John's. Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Oct. 15, 1810 "Stn Knight to leave for England Pub. Sept 20, 1810. Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
1811 "The oldest theatre... Known as Fisherman's Hall, its cornerstone was laid 23 May 1861, on a piece of property owned by John Broom and leased to James Cullen... Jonas Bartar, who died tragically in the Apple Tree Welll Fire, owned the adjoining land to the north. The site was originally known as Lady's Ships' Room. The harbour waters in those days came to the north side of Water Street. The "Lady" who owned the ships' room could have been Mrs. Fursey, the only female landowner shown on Thornton's plan in 1689. A man named Stephen Knight took posession of Lady's Ships' Room for L150 in 1811. This was probably the Stephen Knight of Parker & Knight." Barbara Pederson
The citizens of St. John's "...formed the Voluntary Armed Association in
1811 Augustin CHEVALIER b. 1811 (supposedly Arichat, but I have my doubts). His father was Jean Baptiste and lived in Arichat (Nova Scotia) in early 1800's. Augustin had two sisters, Veronique and Henriette and a brother. The family lived on Miquelon (Island off S. Coast of Nfld.) in early 1800's. Augustin m. Susan Anderson (b.1820) and had 4 children: Harriet Ann, 1841; Priscilla, Eleanor, 1846; Veronique Eleanor m. Lambert FORWARD in 1866. Augustin and Susan lived in Burgeo but moved to Sydney, N.S. in 1888 to live with dau. Priscilla. He died there in l900. It has been suggested to me that the family could have been Acadians, but I have no verification of that. Augustin's obit said his family went back to France when he was an infant. That wasn't true--they were on St. Pierre or Miquelon in early 1800's. Let me know if you find any connction between the families. Dot Walker Bozrah@aol.com
1811 "Stephen Knight was one of the members of a committee in St. John's who wrote to England requesting self government for Nfld. in 1811." Book of Nfld.: Vol. II (1937) by J.R. Smallwood) Barbara Pederson
Jan. 6,1811 "John Knight married Julia (nee Knight) Russell. both Moreton's Harbor. children Sarah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Agnes, Henry, Amelia, Mark, Abel, Hannah, Jane, Frederick," NFLD Ancestor
July 13, 1811 "At Brigus, Conception Bay - Robert Knight; died 13 July 1811; age 52 years 4 months." David Wells davewells19@hotmail.com
Aug. 19, 1811 " 19 Aug. 1911 4th Bengal Volunteers, capts Campbell and Knight'" published March 13, 1812 Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Oct. 31, 1811 "Any persons desirious of contracting a road from St. John's to Portugal Cove, not less than 14' are desired to give tender for the same on or before 20 Nov. next to Stephan Knight" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Nov. 7, 1811 "Cleared brig Hope, Andrew Little, Liverpool, NS" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Nov. 17, 1811 "At a general meeting of the merchantsand principal inhabitants of the Town of St. John's, in the Island of Newfoundland, held at Merchant's Hall, on Thursday the 7th November, 1811.
Mr. Boucher being called to the chair, breifly stated the object of the meeting- which was for the purpose of petitioning the Prince Regent for the appropriation of monies from the sale of the Ships Rooms.
Dr. Carson moved that the letter of the inhabitants to the foreman of the Grand Jury , dated 22nd of October -the letter of the Foreman of the Grand Jury to the High Sheriff, dated 23rd of October, the High Sherrifs letter to the Foreman of the Grand Jury, dated 24th of October; and the requisition of the inhabitants to the Foreman of the Grand Jury, dated 29th of October, be now read. Mr. Dunscomb seconded the motuion, and the letters were accordingly read.
Mr. Macbraire after staqting the imperious necessity which in his opinion, and that of others, called for this meeting and recommend, the objects of it, moved an address to the Prince Regent and that a Committee of three be nominated to prepare it. Dr. CARSON seconded this motion. Mr. Knight suggested, that the object of the meeting was premature as the Rents under the direction of the Governor, were already appropriated for one year. Mr. Robinson stated his reasons for dissenting from the last Speaker -which Mr. Knight allowed were satisfactory and removed his objection. Mr. Melledge moved " that Mr. Macbraige, Mr. Robinson, Dr. Carson prepare the Address~which was seconded by Mr. Huie, arid passed. '
The Address was then prepared, brought in and read.
Mr. Knight objected to the expression of "surprised" in the Address, on ground of his being aquatinted that the measure was in contemplation.
Mr. Robinson contended for the necessity it asserting that 19-20ths of the inhabitants were unacquainted with it.
The Chairman than put the question and the original words were voted to Remain, with two dissenting voices only.
Mr. O'Regan moved that the Address be again read, and each clause be put separately, which was supported by Mr. Thomas W. Williams. ·
Dr. Carson objected to this, but on a division, it was carried in the affirmative.
The first Clause being read, was approved. On reading the second clause, Mr. Knight moved an addition to it, after reciting the Title of the Bill to the following effect: " Without a Clause having been inserted to provide for the appiicatlon Of the Funds arising therefrom for the sole improvement of the Town and Harbour," which, was negatived.
The Third Clause was then read,
Mr. O'Regan objected to it thinking it implied censure upon the government which was disclaimed by those supporting it.
Mr. O'Regan than moved- that the word "unnecessary" be expunged, which was negatived.
The fourth, fifth and sixth clauses were read and approved.
The seventh Clause was then read--on which Mr. O'Regan proposed and admendment, that after the words, "for the accomplishment of these purposes" the following be inserted instead of those in the Address, "Seven of your Petitioners who shall be noinated by the Grand Jury of the Island," which was-negatived,
The Names of the Board.of Police having been ballotted for, and inserted in the Addrcss~
Mr. Robinson moved that the Address be trannsmitted to the members of Parliment for the City of London to than be by----- (not worth finishing but was followed by four editions of recriminations between Steven Knight and Macbraire and others.) Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Nov. 28, 1811 "Entered Schnr Speedwell, Vincent, PEI" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Dec. 12, 1811 "Merchant's Society elected on November 28th James Macbraire, President; Stephan Knight, John Dunscomb, Nicholas Gill, James Simms to committees; Thomas Stabb, Treasurer and John Guest Sect. At the meeting John Roche, John Keefe, James Keefe and Michael Mahar were comended for saving lives of the unfortunate people in the boat that was lost on the Narrows on 4th last." Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Dec. 12, 1811 Stephan Knight is chastized by editors of the Gazette noting his reluctance to be a Police Magistrate due to his Quaker religion. Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Dec. 19, 1811 The schooner Maria is offered for sale to be used in seal fishery. Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Jan. 9, 1812 "Deaths: March, Stephen. Age 78. Former resident of Old Perlican. Died this morning. Interrment from Stephen Knights, next Sabbath morning." Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Jan. 16, 1812 Obit of Stephan Knight Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Feb. 18, 1812 Stephan Knight, James MacBraire, David Tasker, John Dunscomb, Robert Hutton are appointed as a committee of five to form the Marine Insurance Society of St. John's. Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
June 11, 1812 "Entered Speedwell, Vincent, PEI"Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
April 16, 1812 "John Brake 4-16-1812 from Halifax" Royal Gzette and NFLD Adv, Boston Public lib, J2 .Z5
Aug. 17, 1812 "Tremlett: Claimants against the estate of Robert Tremlett of West Teinmouth, county of Devon, late of St. John"s, Merchant, deceased. apply to Stephen Knight Adin. Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Early 1800's "ROWSELL Researcher: Glynn Hewlett - ar393@freenet.toronto.on.ca Address: 2503 Hurontario St. 258, Mississauga, Ont., L5A 2G7, Canada Tel: 905-272-0101 Area of research: Notre Dame Bay Description: Seeking info on Caroline ROWSELL who m. George MOREY in early 1800s. Foe more info please send e-mail. Also covers Green Bay area. Extent of research: Very Limited [6/96]
Nov. 10, 1812 "Chapter VII The Family of Giles Hosier, Esq.
Giles Hosier, Esq., for many years carried on merchandize at Bonavista. He came from England and subsequently married Miss Grace Newell, daughter of Captain Newell of Trinity. Mr. Hosier lived in a lordly home in good English style. He was well educated, a man of refined tastes and superior attainments, which qualities were transmitted to a large family of interesting sons and daughters... His son William, a promising youth of nineteen years, had gone to St. John's to secure the Fall's merchandize and on his way home the ship and cargo valued at several thousands of pounds, was lost with all hands... There was no insurance, and the loss spelt ruin to the Hosiers. In a few weeks he died of a broken heart, followed by his other son, in his 57th* year, on the 10th of Nov., 1812. Mrs. Hosier was left to face the world with four daughters... Miss Bessie opened a day school in a room of the old homestead... After a few years she was married to Mr. Fifield and was the only one of the daughters to spend her days in Bonavista. The second daughter, Miss Jane, married the Rev. Ninian Barr who boarded with Mrs. Hosier... After seven years the Rev. Ninian Barr returned to Scotland and of course, Mrs. Barr accompanied her husband... By a strange and fortuitous combination of circumstances, a gentleman named John E. Congdon, a graduate of Oxford University... came to Bonavista... This gentleman was enamoured of Hannah. They married and left the Colony. He opened an academy in North Dakota, U.S.A. and in the year 1888 Mrs. Congdon died at the home of Mrs. Aram, her daughter, in her 90th year. The fourth and last daughter, Mary, married the Rev. Richard Knight (afterwards D.D.) the pioneer of Grand Bank Methodism. Mrs. Knight became the mother of eleven very clever sons and daughters, and her descendants consist of twenty grandsons, all of whom are filling influential positions in various parts of British North America, and the United States. [*My note: It says 57th year, I don't know if it means the father or the other son's age - a bit confusing. I don't know how accurate these dates are as I didn't pay much attention to them while reading it.] Just checking:- Gee- if she was 90 in 1888, she was born in 1798, and her husband died in 1812, at the age of 57? Can't be right Or am I losing it altogether? Barbara Pederson From "The Story of Methodism in Bonavista" (1985) by Charles Lench [First published in 1925]
Dec. 16,1812 "Ancestor of the ROUSSEL DU GOULET is SIMON ROUSSEL, son of didier ( died in Tracadie 16 Dec. 1812 at 66yrs.) and Madeleine Hache, who married the 21 feb 1814 to Barbe Thebeau,of Shippagan, daughtr of Mathurin and Catherine Duval. Simon died in Shippagan the 24 June 1868 at 85 yrs. Children: Basil, Anne born Shippagan 2 Nov. 1826, Lazare born Shippagan 2 Oct 1821, bapt. 20 Jan 1822, marr. in Tracadie 11 Oct 1847 Marie McGrath dau. of Urbain and euphronsine brideau. henri. maybe!! BASILE son of Simon & Barbe born the 2 May 1816 bapt. in Tracadie, marr. Sara Mallet. died 1 Jan 1888 Shippagan. Children Victoire-marr. Thomas Mallet (Urbain & Marie Breau) 4 Nov 1867 ship..Lange-marr. Genevieve Mallet (Honore & Rose Chiasson) 16 Jan 1882 ship. marr. Venerande Hache widower of Joseph Savoie 24 nov 1884, died ship. 23 May 1942 87yrs. father of Exibe. Thaddee--marr Shipp. 7 Jan 1874 Marie Duguay (Raymond & Archange Basque of Tracadie) James--marr Shipp. 29 Jan 1877 Maggie Drysdale (Jean & Tharsile Gautreau) Louise--marr Shipp. 9 july 1888 Jean Duguay (Hippolyte & Celeste Goupil) Charles--marr. Marie Francoeur, he was the father of Olivier marr. to Christine Lacroix ,who gave birth to Emile who was the father of Basile, proprietor of a fish plant at the bridge Shippagan-Lameque. HENRI born about 1819 marr. Celanie alias Melanie , Pelagie Basque. children: Henri-born about 1845 marr. Shipp. 23 Nov 1868 Celina Duguay,, parents of Henri (Elisabeth Hache) Fabien (Basillice Mailloux) vital, venerande (Thaddee Roussel) Philomene, Georges (Sephronie Chiasson) Fidele-born about 1849 Peter--marr Shipp. 30 jan 1876 Phoebe Mallet (Prudente) James born about 1852 David born about 1855 John born about 1858 marr Shipp. 16 Nov 1880 Marguerite Aylward Marie born about 1860 Fabien marr. Shipp. 27 Nov 1877 Marie Aylward. Shippagan is at the northern most part of New-Brunswick. it is in Gloucester co. it is also across from the small island of Ile Lameque. The author is Donat Robichaud Diane Amos@grolen.com
Newfoundlanders in PEI in 1880 Meacham's Atlas
Name, Location, Occupation, date of settlement if given
Patrick Foley, Charlottetown, Merchant
Donald McKenzie, Charlottetown, Auctioneer and Com Merchant, 1868
A. P. Mills, Summerside, 1861
William B. Dyer, Alberton, Chemist & Druggist
J. W. Foley, Alberton, General Trader
Hon. R. B. Reid, Alberton, M.I.C. and Merchant
Robert T. Dobie, Lot 13, Clergyman, 1875
James Sullivan, Lot 20, Farmer and Master Mariner, 1848
Frederick Meek, Lot 21, General Merchant and Farmer, 1850
James Power, Lot 24, Postmaster, Shoemaker and Farmer
Thomas Savier, Lot 24, fisherman, 1855
John Savier, Lot 24, Fisherman, 1855
Robert Cummings, Lot 32, Farmer, 1813
Patrick J. P. McCoubrey, Lot 33, farmer, 1837
William Hayley, Lot 35, farmer, 1839
Julius Cox, Morell, Farmer, 1842
Frank Cox, Morell, Physician, and Surgeon, 1843
Mary Byrne Acorn, Lot 49, 1839
John O'Keefe, Farmer, Lot 49, 1827
R. W. Sprague, Lot 52, Merchant, 1864
James Morrisey, Lot 58, Farmer, 1838
Patrick Morrisey, Lot 58, Farmer, 1838
James Foley, Lot 65, Farmer, 1820
1813 " In 1813 Sir Richard G. Keats appointed Pinson, of Temple Bay, and Samuel Prowse, of Cape Charles, justices of the peace for the Labrador; it was the first attempt to create courts of justice on this desolate coast. History of NFLD by Prowse http://www.cuff.com/prowse/page/602.htm
April 7, 1813 "7 April, 1813 - Mr. Knight has a lease and wants to purchase same. (from Bathurst)"http://www.wordplay.com/ngb/history/colonial.htm
July 8, 1813 "Knight , Stephen Esq. of the house of Parker, Knight and Bulley. Merchants. Died early this morning. Leaves wife and children." Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
July 16,1813 "1813.07.16. Fol. D29 Page 03. Samuel Bulley, Richard Langley, David Tasker, & Thomas Bulley, all of St. John's, Merchants. Sam. Bulley & Rich. Langley adms. of estate & effects of Stephen Knight of Shaftbury, Dorset, late of St. John's. L30,000. From "The Nfld. Ancestor" Winter 1997: Wills and Family History column: Barbara Pederson
Oct. 20, 1813 "1813.10.20. Fol.E01 Page 17. Anna Bulley of St. John's, Widow & Nathan Parker of St. John's, Merchant, & Thomas Bulley of Teignmouth, Devon, but at present of St. John's. Anna Bulley adm. of estate & effects of her late husband Samuel Bulley of Teignmouth. Nathan Parker & Thomas Bulley also adms. L10,000. [10,000 pounds.]"From "The Nfld. Ancestor" Winter 1997: Wills and Family History column: Barbara Pederson
1813 "George Kemp's wife, Sarah, had died in 1813 and two years later the 58 year old widower married again, to a 31 year old widow, Elizabeth Knight (nee Pearce) who herself had already children of her own." Just noticed that I did make a note of Elizabeth from the Mansions and Merchants book: BP
1814
1814.10.12. Fol. F04 Page 105. John Bonnell & Mary Normor of Brigus, CB, Planters, & Michael Dunn of St. John's, Planter, & James Simms, of St. John's, Notary Public. John Bonnell adm. of estate & effects of William Knight of Brigus, Planter. L1000. [1000 pounds]
1814.10.27. Fol. F08 Page 113. William Munden, & William Percy, of Brigus, Planters, adms. of estate & effects of Samuel Knight of Brigus, Planter.
L400. [400 pounds] The Neafoundland Ancestor" Spring 1998: Wills & Family History Barbara Pederson
1814 "I finally made contact with Wanda Rowsell who originally did the research on the early history of the Rowsell family that I have. We plan to get together soon to update both our files. I gave her the information on your web site and she will probably be in contact. She confirmed the information that I have on Ephraim's father, Joseph. He was born 1814 and died on May 18, 1873. He married a Ann Linfield. I also noticed the Linfield name mentioned in your notes. Joseph and Ann had the following children:
1. Tamar Rowsell (b. Nov 29, 1840/ m. Albert Yates)
2. Sarah Ann Rowsell (b. Mar 9, 1843)
3. Delilah Rowsell (b. June 25, 1845)
4. Elizabeth Rowsell (b. August 27, 1847)
5. Jane Rowsell (b. Aug 5, 1849)
6. Phoebe Rowsell (b. July 22, 1851/m. Nathaniel Noseworthy)
7. Emily Rowsell (b. Aug, 1853/m. Samuel Whitehorn)
8. Ephraim Titus Rowsell (b. Oct 31, 1855/ m. Sarah Bridger)
I still have a few recent additions to add to my notes on the Rowsell family, which I will forward later. I also have the children of Ephriam who were born between 1880 and 1900, if you wish more information. I also noted your interest in the Moores family. I have the family tree of a Edmund Moores (b. 1765- ) who arrived in Fogo or Twillingate, Nf in 1785 aboard the Slade & Company brig. "Love and Unity" from Poole, Dorset, England. He married and had at least two sons, Edmund (Jr) and John who settled in Moores Cove near Cottrell's Cove. I have the 15 children of Edmund (Jr) and Martha (Seciour) Moores. Also three children of John who married a Roberts. If this is of any benefit to you please let me know. I am a descendent of Edmund and Martha's son, John Moores. beverly.warford@nf.sympatico.ca
1814 Birth year of "Edward Knight died 1 Nov. 1883 at St. John's, age 69." "Gleanings from The Sun", Genealogical Abstracts from the "Twillingate Sun", by Michael A. Bromley (Dates in brackets indicate date of newspaper) Barbara Pederson
1814 Anne Knight, from Glasgow, Scotland, married at St. John's, 1814; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
18 March, 1814 - To Keats from Henry Goulburn: "I am directed by Lord Bathurst to transmit to you an application which he has received for a grant of a piece of ground in the Township of St. John's for the purpose of erecting a chapel for the use of the Society and People called Methodists and I am to request that you will favor Lord Bathurst with your opinion thereupon." Colonial Office Records http://www.wordplay.com/ngb/history/colonial.htm
Sept. 1814 "William Knight; died September 1814." David Wells davewells19@hotmail.com
Dec. 8, 1814 "Notice; all persons having claims on Parker, Knight and Bulley ......." Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
1815 "The essay begins in 1810, when an apprentice butcher named John Mitchell came to Newfoundland from Dorset, England, by way of Waterford, Ireland. In 1815 Mitchell married Ann March from Old Perlican..." "Evening Telegram", dated Dec. 4, 1997, an article by Jean Edwards Stacey on the history of Bannerman House in St. John's; she mentions St. John's resident John Fitzgerald, a historian and member of the Nfld. Historic Trust, who has written an essay in which he outlines the history of the property and occupants of Bannerman House.
I'm researching the possiable connection with
Ryalls here in Newfoundland and a family of Rahills that lived in
Virginia Co Cavan. The earliest records I've found on the Ryalls in NFLD
are of a Edward Rahil having children baptised in 1815 in Harbour Grace
RC records. Edward lived in Job's Cove and was recorded as well with a
James in 1833. At that time they spelled it Ryall. I've found many
different spellings of the name over the years. The oral history is that
they came from Ireland. Early records of the other Ryalls in Job's Cove
show that they were Protestant.
Another researcher told me about the Rahills in Ireland and that they
had a long history of being sea captians. Which matches with the fact
that the Ryalls of Job's Cove were planters and fishermen. I was
wondering if you could tell me where I could find information on this
family in Ireland. Any information would be a great help. Cheers Don. dryall@roadrunner.nf.net
1815 Knight, William C. (1815-1900). Mariner. Born St. John's. He engaged mainly in the coastal trading business and prosecuted the seal fishery for many years both as crewman and as captain.
In June 1859 Knight commanded the schooner Integrity chartered by the American painter Frederic Edwin Church qv to sail to Labrador in search of icebergs, which he wished to use as painting subjects. (A detailed account of the voyage, written by Church's friend the Rev. Louis Noble, who accompanied him, was published in 1861 under the title After Icebergs with a Painter.) Knight's later voyages to the seal hunt were made in steam-powered ships, from 1870 to 1872 in the Ospray and from 1873 to 1875 in the Hector. Knight was the maternal grandfather of the poet E.J. Pratt qv. He died at St. John's in 1900. http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/53/5305.htm
1815 "William Knight b 1815 d 1900 m. Charlotte Pitts. ch 1 Fanny Pitts b1852 d 1926 M. 1877 Rev. John Pratt b. 1839 d. 1904" Estate of Robert G. Knight MG 947 Pro Archives
1815 Birth year of "I was just browsing a Transcription List for Midgell Presbyterian/United Cemetery, Lot 40, P.E.I. and found the following. "ANDERSON: Rachel E., dau of the late Richard Knight of Nfld, wife of Wm Andersom, died June 7, 1879, ae 64 yrs". Hope this will help someone. Ruth (Pigott) Harper, U.E., rharper@eagle.ca"
1815 "Turning to Fortune Bay, we find Harbour Breton being looked after by Dr. Clinton. He was born in London, England in 1815, graduated from the London College of Surgeons and came out to Newman and Company shortly afterwards. He died quite young - at the age of forty-two. Dr. Knight of this city [St. John's, Nfld.] is a grandson of Dr. Clinton." (From "Book of Newfoundland" Vol. II (1937) by J.R. Smallwood) Barbara Pederson
1815 ""In memory of James Norris, a native of Waterford, Ireland, aged 73 years." So James' father died at Three Arms. There was no date on the gravestone. James Sr.'s wife is buried there too, she died in 1891 age 76 yrs. James Jr. amd wife had lots of sadness in their lives, losing at least three of their children at an early age, one son killed in WW1, only 24 years old, and 2 others, only 3 and 10 years old. There is a stone there in memory of James Jr. who died in St. John's, erected by his wife; and someone put one there in her memory too (his wife) even though she died in Montreal." Barbara Pederson
Oct. 12, 1815 "Notice; all persons having claims on Parker, Knight and Bulley ......." Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Oct. 12, 1815 "Notice: all persons holding bills of exchange drawn by Parker, Knight or by Parker, Knight and Bulley are requested to send them immediatly to the office of Parker, Bulley, Job and Co., where they will be paid. Nathan Parker" Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Oct. 12, 1815 "Notice; the passengers who arrived here from New Ross last spring in the brig John James, Shaw master, are required to take notice...." Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Dec. 1, 1815 "Notice; the passengers who arrived here from New Ross last spring in the brig John James, Shaw master, are required to take notice...." Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Newfoundland Fire of 1816
1816 The distributation of the sum given for the relief of Sufferers of the Fire of February 1816 by his Majesty: stating the names of parties and the amount paid to each. Vice Admiral Frances Pickmore, Governor of Newfoundland in account with the right Hionourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury. Paid to William Haynes, for 125 distressed persons sent to Ireland in the Schooner Stephen Knight. Irish Family History Vol. XI. 1995 page 42
July 4, 1816 "Port of Charleston (Charlottetown ?) July 4 arrived sloop Hermit, Vincent, st. Mary's" Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Aug. 6, 1816 "Aug 5 Sch Elizabeth, Vincent, PEI Islands" Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Aug. 13, 1816 "Cleared Sch'r Elizabeth, Vincent, PEI" Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
Aug. 20, Tuesday, 1816 "Friday last arrived brig Hope" Rayal Gazette and St. John's Newfoundland Advirtiser, J2.25 , NEHGS
1816 Birth year of "Dec. 25, 1877 (newspaper date ?) "Knight, Isabella Johnston Wright wife of Samuel Knight. native of town Delry, Scot died aged 61. Here 41 years. for 25 years "Mother" of Knight home. " Gazette / Morning Chronicle Births, Marriages, Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers CS88, N6, C7, V0l. 5, NEHGS
1817 Birth year of “Seek info on Sarah Amy Tozer Squarey who married Henry Knight. Sarah died 1904 at age 87, three children Leall, Emma, Lemuel. (From Elizabeth Squarey in CA. USA)” "The Newfoud land Ancestor", Fall 1996: per Barbara Pederson
1817 Richard Knight was a Methodist minister from England, stationed in Fortune Bay in 1817. Book of Nfld.: Vol. II (1937) by J.R. Smallwood) Barbara Pederson
Jan. 28, 1817 Marriages: Higgins / Knight: Lately at Harbor Grace by Rev. Carrington. John Higgins to Ann Knight, both of that place. Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Jan. 31, 1817 "Now landing Schooner "Stephen Knight" Captain Bibbins, from Cork, at Jn. Dunscomb & Co. Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
March 11, 1817/ On Tuesday last by the Rev. David Rowland, Mr. Robert Brown, Merchant, to Miss Mary, daughter of Lionel Chancey, Esq. of this town] Royal Gasette and Newfoundland Advertiser
April 8, 1817 "The fire broke out at a tenement occupied by Joseph Cressy on the road leading to Best's farm. The principal sufferers were the Heirs of Mr. Mathew Grindale. Mr. Cressy, his wife and four children and their servant girl. Capt. Johnson, his wife and six children. Wm Carlilly ?, his wife and three children. This family had escaped the memorable Feb. 12th fire. Lastly, Richard Curran, the owner of the building who had been profiting in potatoes. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser April 8, 1817
By April St. John's was trying to feed 2900 people a day. On April 8th a fire killed 20 and destroyed 3 buildings. In a cellar of one of the building was found 10 barrels of potatoes which the proprietor, Richard Curran, deceased, had been selling at exorbitant prices "a shameful imposition on the necessitous poor". The town was closed to the poor of the outposts and troops stationed to enforce the barricades. The harbor was still iced in and help from Nova Scotia was three weeks away. The following men pledged to feed the following number of men one meal per day till relief would be possible. John Teage 20 men. William Kydd 10, Thos Meagher 30, Thos Williams 25, John Ryan 10, Alex. Haire 10, John Breen 8, Jas Melledge 20, James Ferges ? 20, Patrick Hale 20, Henry Shea 30, George A. Elliett 10, J. B. Tremlett 20, James Cross 20, George Lilly 20, T. H. Brooking `30, W. B .Thomas 20, John Moore 10, James Simms 12, Ryan & Sons 20, Rich Langley 20, Capt. Buchan 150, W. M'Allaster 20, Edward Banks 10, Attwood & Haynes 20, James Blaikie 10, John Bland 10, P. Lemessurier 10, Nicholas Gill 10, Joseph Gill 10, Hunt, Stabb, Preston & Co. 30, James Clift 6, Bickley Angel & Co. 10, Brown, Hoyles & Co. 20, John Broom 20, James Macbraire & Co. 30, A. H. Brooking 20, Wm Evans 5, P. W. Carter, Rev. D. Rowland 6, Patk Morris 10, And. Simpson 10, Patrick Doyle 10, Baine, Johnstone & Co 20, Dalton & Ryan 10, James Arnott 20, David Duggan 5, J. Dunscomb 20, Thos Parsons 5, Peter M'Kie 8, James Brine 6, M'Callum, Watson & Co. 10, George Allen 10, Murphy & Gleason 10, Hunters & Co. 10, Wm Newman 2, Benj Bowring 2, John Follett 8, Jas Anderson 6, Mrs. Gaden 5, Robert Nevins 4, w. Branscomb 10, Bishop Scallon 10, John Snellgrove 5, John Brophy 5, J. Stentford 5, W. Slater 3, Stewart & Rennie 10, total fed per day 991" Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, April 15, 1817
Start Advertiser April 29, 1817
1819 John Vincent, of Greenspond, 1819;"Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
March 18,1819 "I have an ancestor, Ann March Knight "of Newfoundland" (but I don't know if she was born there or was born in UK and moved there later). She was born Dec.25, 1799, died May 26, 1857 or 1859. March 18, 1819 she married Cam Gyde Heaven who was from England, had gone to Newfoundland, and later returned to England. Actually they might have returned before getting married, not sure. Her middle name was March, and she was the daughter of Stephen and Ann Knight. I suspect that Ann Knight's maiden name was Ann March, since they used to give the mother's maiden name as a middle name." Diana R. CoachDiana@aol.com
1819 Henry Knight, of Moreton's Harbour, 1819; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
MORTON'S HARBOUR,
September 10, 1819.
To His Excellency
Sir Charles Hamilton.
I humbly beg leave to address Your Excellency stating that in the month of April 1817, I was plundered by the Red Indians in the bottom of White Bay, property to the amount of fifty pounds taken from the winter house, and the Micmac Indians infest White Bay in that manner that makes it impossible for me or any other person settled here to make a life of it by catching fur. I have 200 traps and used to catch three hundred pounds of a winter, but now I do not catch forty or fifty pounds in consequence of the Micmacs infesting that Bay. They also infest the Bay of Islands, Boon Bay and the Bay of St. George's. I am informed by those that live there that they do a great deal of injury to the fur catchers in that quarter. Their principal resort is in St. George's Bay where they are in the habit of selling their fur to Mr. Philip Le Chewy, a Jersey Merchant. I am fully convinced that if an order was sent to the principal people of the above places, it would deter them in future, the name of a Man of War would make them keep off. If Your Excellency thinks proper to send any communications to the principal people of the above Bays, I will be the bearer, as I am in the habit of crossing the Island, the names of the principal /119/ people living in the different bays are Ralph Blake, Bay of Islands, Philip Le Arvy, St. George's Bay, and John Payne, of Boon Bay. I am fully persuaded that if those are empowered it will put a stop finally to their visiting the Island, which is much desired by all who are concerned in the fur business.
I am,
Your Excellency's
most obedient and humble servant,
his
(signed) JOHN X GALE
mark
witness
(signed) Henry Knight
" Jno. Sarrel
1820 LIST OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS NAMES ON THIS PETITION: Fishermen of Gaspe
AHIER, Gideon
ALEXANDER, Philip
ALLEYRE, Peter, John and Charles
BAKER, John Sr. and Jr.
COUSTANCHE, Philippe
CHEVALIER, George
DE BOIS, Francis
DE CAIN, John
DE LA PERRELLE, Elias and George
DESLANDES , Daniel
DOLBEL, Charles
FRUING, William
GALLIE, Jack
GERRARD, John
GILBERT, John
GOREY, David
HACQUOIL, William
HENRY, John
L'ABBE, Jacques and Jean
LAFFOLEY, Philippe
LE PAGE, Ephraim and Joseph
LENFESTEY, James
LE SCELLEUR, Philip
MARCHAND, Nicholas
MARETT, Henry
MAUGER, Edward and Richard
MCKENZIE, John
PIQUET, Clement
RENOUF, Philip
ROCK, John, Edmunds alias ROCK ? DE LA ROQUE?
SMITH, Frncis MOON
TAPP, John Sr and Jr.
THELLAND, John and Francois
TOSVIN, James
TRACHY, Edward
TUZO, Joseph
Bonne journee, Marie-T Trachy contact@ietc.ca
1820 "Under the date 1246, Harbour Mille is listed as being of Channel Island origin. The town was founded in 1820 by my great-great-great grandfather - William Bearns (a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo) and his wife Ann. They arrived at Harbour Mille via St. Pierre et Miquelon (now a French department). At the end of the last century, the family name was changed from Bearns to Barnes. It is indeed likely that the NAME of the town is of Channel Island extraction, however, the townspeople are almost exclusively of Dorset descent. Perhaps of some interest, there is a ghost story from Harbour Mille whereby a group of men land on a barge and do not speak English. Patois perhaps??? I would like to thank you for the connection to Mr. Andrew Pratt of Maine - a distant cousin on my mother's side through the Nicholle's. Sincerely, C. Dean Barnes Montreal" deanb@aro.lan.mcgill.ca
1821 Thomas Rowsall, fisherman of Change Islands, 1821; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
1821 Robert G. Knight is born to John Temple Knight and Mary Ann Vincent. Tree from Lester Knight This statement can't be verified , don't see it on the tree
1821 Birth year of "Robert G. Knight died Jan. 18, 1873 age 52 yrs. (Headstone), buried JC. {next to his mother Rachel Knight, died Feb. 15, 1860 JC, age 78 yrs.). Barbra Pederson
1821 Birth year of "[Mar. 4, 1873] Capt. Robert G. Knight: Native of this town (St. John's), resided some time in Harbour Grace, died Jan. 18th age 52 yrs. at Burtons Pond, Notre Dame Bay, left wife and 8 children. Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Barbara Pederson
1821 Birth year of "[Feb. 8, 1876] "Annie Vincent, wife of William Vincent (Branch Pilot) died on 29th age 55. Residence Cochrane Street (St. John's)." Excerpts from newspapers in the archives at Memorial Universtity Library, St. John's. The newspapers are not identified, but newspaper dates are in [brackets]. Queen Milley as told to Barbara Pederson
1822 "KNIGHT, James Sabine Lodg <1822> ----Newfoundland Cheriton Fitzpaine." Three counties, being Devon, Norfolk and Warwick from the LDS 1851 census CD
1822 "Bennett, John, of Benest? fam. orig Normandy, rem to J, than to lands End, Cornwall, and to Nfld. Mar Catherine NORMORE, qv., 1822, witnessed by Mary Squire and Thomas Knight. (See Pasquire and Chevalier) (Rev. Hammond)" Quiet Adventurers in Canada CS 89 A2 T8, NEHGS
1822 Rousell; Thomas; Change Islands; 1822; http://www.iosphere.net/~jholwell/ndb/lists/ndb-fishermen.html
1822 Elizabeth Rowsall, of Twillingate, 1822; From "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" (1980) by E.R. Seary / Barbara Pederson
February 11, 1822 - Henry, Julia, Thomas and Joseph of Joseph and Sarah Knight, Moreton's Harbour, P
February 11, 1822 - Elizabeth (an adult) of Joseph and Sarah Knight, Moreton's Harbour, P Amalie Tuffin These are the notes I took from a 19 page list of Baptisms in the Twillingate area 1816 - 1823. PANL C of E TWILLINGATE BOX #1 - CHURCH OF ENGLAND BAPTISMS 1816-1823 (PARTIAL) All dates are date of baptism, not birth. after parents' names indicates father was fisherman; P is for planter
1823 Birth year of "Martha Knight, Wife of Charlie Langdon, Died Dec. 25, 1904, Aged 81" Robert Knight's notes as given Barbara Pederson
(1823-1901). Newhook, Jonas N. Shipwright. Born New Harbour T.B., son of Martha (Penny) and Charles Newhook qv. Married Rachel Knight. From a long line of renowned shipbuilders, Newhook as a young man settled in Jackson's Cove, Green Bay, where he continued the family tradition. His barque Fleetwing, a 249-ton vessel, was described in the Telegraph of St. John's: ``...coppered high to the bends, of a very superior build, all juniper frame, topsides, rails and covering boards of Baltimore white oak, keelson of white oak and Demerara greenheart with greenheart treenails. This vessel will bear the strictest examination and is, without exception, the fastest vessel in the trade.'' In his sailing autobiography, When Ships Were Ships, Captain William Morris Barnes termed the barque ``the fastest thing ever sailed salt water''. It apparently made numerous trips from Harbour Grace to Pernambuco in record time. Newhook also built the Tasso, another vessel of legendary speed. http://enl.cuff.nf.ca/entry/63/6328.htm
1823 "In the Trinity Index only listing was the birth of a GRACE BUTT, in 1823, mother Mary & father George. Ruth Ruth (Pigott) Harper, U.E., rharper@eagle.ca
1824 Early instances; Catherine Dawson, from Co. Kilkenny, married at St. John's, 1824); "The Irish in Newfoundland 1623-1800" by Michael J. McCarthy (1982): Barbara Pederson
Feb.18,1824 Martha Knight, later to marry Charles Langdon, is born to Johnathon Temple Knight and Mary Ann Vincent. Barbara Pederson
1825 "I am hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I am looking for a vessel named Kite, under the leadership of Captain Pike. It is my understanding that the Kite was the first vessel to sail to the North Pole. My ancestor, James Hudson, was, it has been told me, co-captained this ship with Pike. The time period would be about 1825-1840. Captain Hudson died in 1889. In 1840, at the time one of his daughters was born, the family was living in Adams Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. It is probable that he came from England, as there was an estate there connected with him. So far I have not been able to find anything about this ship. Other ships captained by Pike are mentioned in some books I found at the library, though James Hudson was never mentioned. I would be so grateful for any direction you can give. Thank you very much, Shelley Sherman ShermanFam@aol.com Marysville, WA
1825 Alice Vincent , of Harbour Grace, 1825; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
1826 William Vincent, of Bonavista, 1826; "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland" by E.R. Seary /Barbara Pederson
Dec. 13, 1826 "Date of Marriage; December 13, 1826 Place of Marriage; Black Head Groom; William Knight Bride; Elizabeth Crummey Residence of each; Western Bay Married by; Wm Ellis Witnesses; Robert Grimbsy Edward Crummey" United Methodist of St. John, records before 1891, Pro Archives, St. John (Black Head North, just up a bit from St. John's (to the north). )
I have not done any research in Newfoundland personally, but My cousin has. She tells me there are 3 places with quite similar names, but different spellings, in Newfoundland, but she has found information in only one location. One Blackhead, or perhaps Black Head, is located about 4-5 miles east southeast of the city of St. John's, on the road to Cape Spear. It is likely within the city limits now. That is not the place I spoke of. The Blackhead I referred to is located on the north side of Conception Bay. If you proceed eastward past Harbour Grace about 20-25 miles you come to Blackhead. That is where my cousin has found records in graveyards. Some of the PIPPY clan were known in Harbour Grace, Carbonear, and Bristol's Hope, etc.. I don't know where the third place is, and my tourist map doesn't show it. Place names have changed over the years. Bristol's Hope was known as Mosquito back in the 1700s and early 1800s. I hope this helps a bit. As far as communities go, the second Blackhead above was a far more prosperous location than the first one. As for origins, I can't help much. Tradition says many came from the South counties of England, as workers for the traders who dealt in the fishery. In 1634, Charles I gave a charter to `The Company of Western Adventurers" for the exclusive fishery off Newfoundland. Never mind the Spanish, Portuguese, Basques, French and others who had been fishing there for decades. One of the major traders was Slades of POOLE, England. I understand there were others. There are some trade records, with names of people, still in existence. I believe most are at Memorial University Library in St. John's. Some records of Newman & Co., exist, but they arrived on the scene in the middle to late 1800s, I understand. Cheers, Jim & Lois Roberts, New Brunswick, Canada e-mail: robertsj@atcon.com Members: MLFHS #8778, Devon FHS #7506, Somerset & Dorset FHS #7623.B Researching: ROBERTS, ATHERTON, WILLIAMS in/around greater Wigan, Lancashire, Eng. Williams in Clay County, IN, USA. Searching for PIPP(e)Y (and variants) anywhere. BISHOP, Wilts., Hamps.
July 26, 1827 "Place of birth; Beachhead Parants name; Richard and Mary Knight Childs name; Thomas Frederick Sex; (m) by whom baptized; J. Pichavant Date of baptism; July 26, 1827 religion; Methodist Father's occupation; fishing Remarks; date of birth not given" United Methodist of St. John, records before 1891, Pro Archives, St. John
1827 Birth year of " Devon, William F Knight M. 1855 b. 1827 , son of James Knight of Shaldon, mason, near Teignmouth, Dartmouth" NEHGS table 8.2 characteristics of St. Nicholas Parish Immigrants 176 - P. 177
1827 Richard Knight, fisherman of Blackhead (Bay de Verde district), 1827; From E.R. Seary's "Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland": Barbara Pederson
June 26,1828 Josian (Josiah) Knight is born to Johnathon Temple Knight and Mary Ann *Vincent. Barbara Pederson* Mary Ann Knight according to tree by Lester Knight.
Nov.12, 1826 "Jn McCarty and Catherine Knight of St. John's of Goughalt - married at St. John's 12th day of November, 1826 by me, Anth Fleming. Solemnized by Jn McCarthy- Catherine Knight Witnesses: ? McDaniel, Honoria Buller." Church Marriages - Certificate St. John's and other areas. Methodist / United Church, 1825 - 1833 - Volume 2, item 310. Pro Archives, St. John's
1827 Birth year of "Knight, James Luke native of Exeter, Devon died on 18th aged 48 Res 11 British Sq." Aug. 24/75 Gazette / Times / Morning Chronicle Births, Marriages, Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers CS88, N6, C7, V0l. 5, NEHGS
Nov. 11, 1827 "John Damerell, late of St. John's, Carpenter, deceased, apply to John Ebsary, Admin. (11 Nov.) Jim & Arlene Bennett <buzzyjab@frontiernet.net>
Jan. 22, 1828 (newspaper date) "Snellgrove: Mrs. Ann, 68 year old wife of John Snellgrove, died Sunday" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
July 10, 1828 "George Harvey, His Imperial Majesty's Government presented a gold medal to George Harvey for saving the crew and passengers of the English emigrant ship "Dispatch", lost at Dead Island, near Cape Ray, Jul 10, 1828: 163 persons all told were saved. >From The Book of Newfoundland. Volume 5, Dan Breen, breen@enterprise.cybersurf.net
Sept. 30, 1828 "Knight, Mrs. Mary, 41 years old, wife of George Knight, shipwright of this town. Died Friday" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
1829 In connection with the settlement of Drummondville, there is a list of over 200 names of servicemen who bought or were given land. Among these surnames of widely varied origins were a few that may have been from the Channel Islands, such as: ANTOINE, CLERK, CLEMENT, COLLINS, DALLEY, DELANEY, DU VAL, GODDIN, GREEN, HUDSON, KNIGHT, LANGLOIS, LE FEVRE, REBY, ROBERTS, ROBINS, SANDERS, SHEPPARD, TURNER, and WAGGONER.
July 1829 Birth year of "KNIGHT; Henry; born Jul 1829 in St. John's, NFND; Methodist; Private Income, widower." 1929 Census of NFND. Born in 1830 according to Lester Knight's tree.
July 7, 1829 "Richard Knight died age 47 July 7, 1829. (Gazette) Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspapers 1825 - 1850 NEHGS CS 88 N6 C7 V.1
July 27, 1829 "Knight, Richard, 46 years, Shipwright of this town. died Saterday, the 27th (July)" Royal Gazette & NFLD Adv. 1810- 1845 CS88 N6 H69 NEHGS
Oct. 4, 1829 "Place of birth; Beachhead Parants name; Richard and Mary Knight Childs name; Lavinia Marie Sex; (F) by whom baptized; John Haight Date of baptism; Oct. 4, 1829 religion; Methodist Father's occupation; fishing Remarks; date of birth not given" United Methodist of St. John, records before 1891, Pro Archives, St. John
Oct. 17, 1829"Date of Marriage; Oct. 17, 1829 Place of Marriage; Black Head Groom; John Knight Bride; Eleanor Lawrence Residence of each; Adam's Cove Married by; R. Knight Witnesses; Robert Lacey Thomas Butts" United Methodist of St. John, records before 1891, Pro Archives, St. John