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Id no Volume First Name Last Name Brief summary
00000092 Select Volume Michael McGRATH MCGRATH, MICHAEL: was born in Ireland in 1798. He married Bridget Murphy, who was born in Ireland also. It is unknown if they were married in Ireland or here in New Brunswick. Their first child was baptised at St. Patrick’s RC, Nelson in May 1824, so it is likely that they were married in Nelson Parish, NB.

Michael died in August 1846 in Chatham and is buried in St. Michael’s RC Cemetery, Chatham. It is unknown when Bridget died, she was listed as a widow, age 49, in the 1851 Northumberland County Census, and there is no listing for a Bridget McGrath in the 1861 Census. Did she remarry? Her youngest child in 1851 would only have been 9 years old. All their children were baptised at St. Patrick’s RC Church Nelson.
00000002 Vol. 1 Alexander ADAMS ADAMS, ALEXANDER: was christened on 4 February 1784 in Midmar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He died in Matapedia, PQ on 12 July 1845. He married Catherine Henderson on 1 August 1818 in Newcastle, NB. She was born 1798 on the Miramichi and died 19 July 1864 in Matapedia, PQ. The family moved to Matapedia, PQ circa 1838.
00000013 Vol. 1 James BARRY 1838-1908
BARRY, JAMES; was born October 15, 1838 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, and died 10 February 1908 in North West Bridge, NB. He married 1st Julia Dennis, daughter of James Dennis and Ellen Dennis on 27 April 1858 in St. Patrick’s RC Church, Nelson, NB. She was born about 1841 in Point Pleasant, NB and died 13 November 1880 in Point Pleasant, NB.

James married 2nd Johanna Hayden, daughter of Patrick Hayden and Catherine Sullivan, sometime after 1880. She was born 16 May 1846 in Inkerman, NB and died 10 January 1924 in North West Bridge, NB.

James had a sister Ann who married William Young and who lived nearby. James and both his wives are buried in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Newcastle.

Date of Arrival: immigrated to Canada on August 21, 1854 from Ireland when 18 years old.
00000014 Vol. 1 Walter BELL 1802-1854
BELL, WALTER: was born 25 December 1802 in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, son of John and Janet Bell, and died 7 November 1854 in the Burnt Church area and is buried in the First Burnt Church Cemetery. He came to New Brunswick as a boy with his mother and stepfather, William Drummond and they settled at Drummond’s Pool in New Jersey, Northumberland Co, NB. He made his living as a carpenter. He built the window frames for the Catholic Church in Neguac out of wood, held together by wooden pegs. He married Marjory Loggie, daughter of Alexander Loggie and Helen Murray, on 3 February 1831. She was born 16 June 1801 in New Jersey, NB, and died 2 May 1884.
00000015 Vol. 1 Johnson BERNARD 1819-1897
Date of Arrival: before 1839 from Prince Edward Island
BERNARD, JOHNSON: born about 1819 in PEI and died 22 March 1897, age 80 in Chatham. He married Amelia Coughlan 21 November 1839 in Northumberland Co, NB. She was born about 1822 in PEI and died after 1881. Johnson was a ship’s carpenter. The family lived in Chatham and had at least nine children per the Anglican Church records, though only three have been listed below.
00000016 Vol. 1 Joseph BREAU 1848 - ?
BREAU, JOSEPH: born 1848, son of Edouard Breau and Marie Mazerolle. He married Lucille LaTuilippe, born New Brunswick, died 19 September 1896.
00000017 Vol. 1 George BRYENTON 1816-1907
BRYENTON, GEORGE: born 13 March 1816 in Bungay, England and died 2 October 1907 in Bryenton, NB, Can. He married Mary McIntosh on 10 May 1838 in Northumberland County. She was born 10 October 1821 in Scotland and died 6 February 1903, most likely in Bryenton, NB.

The family must have spent the next 10 years in Prince Edward Island because the first five children consistently state they were born in PEI on various census records. The family does not appear in Northumberland County until the 1861 census where George is listed as a farmer in Derby Parish.

The next two children state they were born in Derby Parish, then another child in PEI, and the last five born again in Derby Parish. Was George a fisherman? Or was he farming over there, before he finally settled in Derby Parish in the area that is now known as Bryenton? George and Mary are buried in Derby United Cemetery, Millerton, NB.
00000018 Vol. 1 Nathaniel BUCK 1808-1894
BUCK, NATHANIEL: born about 17 May 1807 Buckfield, Oxford Co, ME USA, died 30 January 1894. He was the son of Nathaniel Buck Sr. and Sarah Seabury. He married Elizabeth Quayle, daughter of William Quayle and Christina Barlow, on 11 August 1831 in Northumberland Co, NB. She was born in County Leitrem, Ireland and died after 1847. Nathaniel served as Overseer of Highways in the 1840’s in the South Esk district. The family lived in Williamstown area where the children attended school until at least 1847.

Between 1833-1837, Nathaniel and Elizabeth were living at Hodgdon, Aroostook County, Maine as their three oldest children were born there.
00000019 Vol. 1 James BUCKLEY 1768-bef 1851
BUCKLEY, JAMES: born 1768 in County Cork, Ireland and died before 1851 in Bay du Vin, NB. He married Abigail Cadagen who was born in 1773 in County Cork, Ireland and died between 1851 and 1861 in Bay du Vin, NB. James and Abigail arrived in New Brunswick with their eight children.
00000020 Vol. 1 William CHAPLIN 1791-1858
CHAPLIN, WILLIAM: born 15 September 1791 in Bridgton, ME, USA and died 13 August 1858 in Cassilis, NB, Can. He was one of three sons of John Chaplin and Margaret Chaplin who ended up marrying local Miramichi girls and settling along the river. He came to NB with his parents and stayed when they returned to Maine. He states he entered NB in June 1810 on the 1851 census.

He purchased Lot R at Cassilis from Donald Ross in 1815. According to an entry in a Family Bible, William married Helen Walsh in 1810 in No Co. The daughter of James Walsh and Ann Martin, she was born about 1787 in the Red Bank area and died 1 October 1878 in Cassilis, NB. William became very active in the community and was a prosperous farmer and lumberman. Helen is buried in St. Thomas RC Cemetery, Red Bank, NB. No headstone has been found for William.
00000021 Vol. 1 James CLARK 1803-1875
CLARK, JAMES: born 9 January 1803 in Edmonton Parish, Middlesex Co, England and died in 1875 in Six Mile Brook-The Portage, York Co, NB. He married Jane Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnston on 9 February 1833 in Ludlow Parish, Northumberland Co. She was born 8 March 1815 in Antwerp, Holland and died 1894 in Six Mile Brook-The Portage, York Co, NB. James worked for Bill Richards & Co in Boiestown, NB, likely as a bookkeeper. The family lived by the Taxis River near Boiestown and later near the “Old Coach Road” (The Portage). James and Jane are buried in Boiestown Old Cemetery.
00000022 Vol. 1 John CLEARWATER 1790-bef 1871
CLEARWATER (CLOWATER), JOHN: born 5 November 1790 in York County, believed to be the son of the Loyalist Frederick Clearwater of New York. Census records state he was a farmer and a wheelwright. He died between 1861 and 1871. He married Nancy Young on 19 February 1812 at St. Mary’s. She was born 12 November 1795 and died after 1881 at Ludlow.
00000023 Vol. 1 James COPP 1794-1855
COPP, JAMES: baptised 23 March 1794 in the Anglican Church at Roborough by Torrington, near Bidford, England, and died 6 June 1855 likely in the Newcastle, NB area. He married Mary Unknown in England. She likely died in Newcastle. James taught school at Copp’s Settlement (Trout Brook) in 1834 and 1835, then the family moved to Newcastle.
00000024 Vol. 1 Charles CRAMMOND c 1788-
CRAMMOND, CHARLES: born about 1788 in Aberdeen Scotland and died between 1861 and 1881 most likely in Newcastle, NB. He married Elspeth Ross in Scotland. She was born about 1896 in Scotland and died after 1881 most likely in Newcastle, NB. Charles and Elspeth moved from Scotland with their four children. In 1835 Charles built a house for his family on farmland along what is now called Old King George Highway, Nordin, NB. This home is still occupied today by 4th and 5th generation Crammonds. As well as farming, Charles was a gunsmith and also a violin maker, registered with the “British Violin Makers”.
00000026 Vol. 1 James DAVIDSON 1763-1824
DAVIDSON, JAMES: was born in Banffshire, Scotland in 1763 and died 22 March 1824 in Oak Point, NB. He was the son of Alexander Davidson and Helen Robinson, who were married on 25 November 1757 in Rathven, Banffshire, Scotland. James married Annabella MacDonald on 14 November 1791. She was born 1764 and died 1804. Annabelle was the sister of Alexander MacDonald who built and lived in the stone house at Bartibogue, known today as the MacDonald Farm.

After Annabelle’s death, James married Gertrude Savoy about 1810 in Bartibogue, NB. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amon Savoy. Gertrude, as a widow, age 58, was living with John and Anne Burchill in 1851. In 1788 William Davidson wrote a letter to Jonathan Odell, the Provincial Secretary, highly recommending Amon Savoy, whom he had known for twenty years. He said Savoy was one of the first settlers in this place, industrious and deserving, a good subject and a good member of society.
00000027 Vol. 1 William DAVIDSON 1740-1790
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM: born John Godsman about 1740, died 17 June 1790, was born in the Parish of Bellie, near the Town of Fochabers, Banffshire, Scotland. He immigrated to British North America in 1765 to establish a salmon fishing industry in Nova Scotia. It was at this time he changed his name to Davidson assuming the name of his maternal grandfather.

On 31 October 1765, he received in association with John Cort, a native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a grant of 100,000 acres, situated on the Miramichi River, from Gov. Wilmot of Nova Scotia. This grant was primarily for establishing a fishery, but also for colonization. The first fishing station was established at Elm Tree, about 12 miles above Beaubear’s Island on the South West Branch of the Miramichi in 1766. This commenced the first British settlement on the Miramichi.

At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776, due to loss of markets, raids by enemy ships and unfriendliness of the Indians, Davidson and his fellow settlers moved inland to the Saint John River. In 1779 Davidson received a contract to supply white pine masts for the Royal Navy. Davidson and his “family” returned to the Miramichi in June 1783 where they had to rebuild everything and re-established the permanent settlement on the Miramichi. While in Maugerville, in 1778 he married Sarah Nevers, born Essex Co, MA, USA, and died after 22 August 1818 in Millerton, NO Co, NB.

On 28 April 1783 Davidson was elected to the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia as one of the members for Sunbury Co. At the first general election for the House of Assembly of the newly constituted Province of New Brunswick, on 17 November 1785, he was elected as one of the members for Northumberland County, and sat as a member until his death.
00000031 Vol. 1 John Thomas DONALDSON 1812-1857
DONALDSON, JOHN THOMAS: was born 25 September 1812 in Halifax, NS and died 29 March 1857 in Blissfield, NB. He married Susannah Bamford, widow of John Mooers, Jr. on 21 November 1849 in Blissfield, NB. The daughter of John Bamford and Susan Munro, she was born 28 September 1825 in Blissfield and died 4 December 1872 in Blissfield. John was a farmer and lumberman.
00000033 Vol. 1 Cornelius DONOVAN c1793-
DONOVAN, CORNELIUS: born c 1793. Arriving in Canada he first settled at Pokemouche, Gloucester Co, NB and moved to Renous in 1834. On 30 June 1820 he married Johanna Barrett (1798-1875) on Prince Edward Island.

According to the 1861 Census, Cornelius and Johanna were farming with 26 acres of cultivated land and 80 acres of unimproved land at Renous. Mr. & Mrs. Donovan are buried in the St. Bridget’s RC Cemetery, next to the church.
00000036 Vol. 1 William DRYSDALE 1730-1798
DRYSDALE, WILLIAM: born about 1730, believed in Scotland, a cooper by trade moved to England where he was engaged in the British fisheries. He married a Mary, surname unknown and moved to Prince Edward Island, though this reference to Prince Edward Island may refer to his son William who married a woman from PEI. He moved to Nelson on the Miramichi sometime before 1775, as his son William was the first while English baby born in Nelson. He later settled on Lot 23 on the Newcastle side, later moving to Tracadie about 1793. He was buried in a small family cemetery on Lot #29.

“Legend” has it that his wife “Mary” was the daughter of the Prince of Wales. William was working in a position with the royalty and met up with the Princess while in their employ. The crown could not accept this and because of Mary’s rank, they could not dismiss her but sent Mary and William off to Prince Edward Island (in Britain’s new country).
00000037 Vol. 1 Stephen DUTHIE 1840-1910
DUTHIE, Stephen “Etienne” the son of Andre “Andrew” & Ann (Kelly) Duthie was born January 1, 1840 in Quebec and died March 26, 1910 in McKinleyville, N.B. He was a grandson of the first English family to settle in New Richmond area.

Stephen married Bridget Walsh, the daughter of John & Mary (O’Brien) Walsh on June 18, 1872. Their attendants were Edward Murphy and Ellen Walsh. Bridget was born in June 1845 and passed away on October 16, 1885. After her death, he married Catherine Delaney on June 6,1887. She was born in 1845 and died February 6, 1916. The Duthies farmed, operated the Duthie Hotel (around 1876) and the local Post Office (1909-1911). They are interred at St Edward’s Catholic Cemetery, Chelmsford.
00000038 Vol. 1 John EMMERSON 1796-1856
EMMERSON, JOHN: born 1796 in Charlottetown, Queens Co, PEI and died 6 February 1856 in Cannon City, Rice Co, MN, USA. He married Mariah Ives Tozer, daughter of Jared Tozer and Sarah Ives, around 1823 in North Esk. She was born 4 August 1808 in Maugerville, Sunbury Co, NB and died 5 June 1889 in Grove Lake, Pope Co, MN, USA.

The family lived in Whitney for over 30 years, where John occupied various parish offices and was a Deacon of the North Esk Baptist Church. The family moved to Minnesota in 1855.
00000040 Vol. 1 James ENGLISH 1816-
ENGLISH, JAMES: born 1816 in Port Laoise, Ireland, and son of George and Bridget English. He came to this country in 1844 with his mother and other members of his family. James met Ellen Lucy and had one daughter.

He married Bridget Foley, daughter of Peter Foley and Elanor Kaine (both born in Ireland), on 11 August 1847 in Nelson, NB. Bridget was born 10 September 1826 in Nelson, NB. The family was Roman Catholic. James and Bridget had 10 children.

James & Ellen:
00000041 Vol. 1 James ENGLISH 1816-
ENGLISH, JAMES: born 1816 in Port Laoise, Ireland, and son of George and Bridget English. He came to this country in 1844 with his mother and other members of his family. James met Ellen Lucy and had one daughter.

He married Bridget Foley, daughter of Peter Foley and Elanor Kaine (both born in Ireland), on 11 August 1847 in Nelson, NB. Bridget was born 10 September 1826 in Nelson, NB. The family was Roman Catholic. James and Bridget had 10 children.

James & Ellen:
00000043 Vol. 1 Daniel ESTEY --bef 1826
ESTY / ESTEY, DANIEL: was born in Massachusetts, USA and died between 1819 and 1826 in Northumberland County, NB, Can. He married Louisa Crowe in No Co, NB. She was born about 1771 in NB, Can and died between 1861 and 1871 in No Co. Daniel, along with George Hubbard in June 1791 petitioned for land. In it they state they were “natives of the American states” who had been residing on the Miramichi for 2 years and were employed in the masting industry. By 1819 Daniel owned Lots 12 and 13 at South Esk. There they raised their family.
00000053 Vol. 1 Angus GILLIS bef 1774-1792
Members of The Miramichi Branch Genealogy Society are researching and compiling information about Angus Gillis and each of the other First Families in our List. This information will be entered into our "data files" and will be made available when completed.
00000131 Vol. 1 Jerome ROY 1847 - 1925
ROY, JEROME: born 15 August 1847 in Green Point, Gloucester Co, NB, the son of John Roy and Mary LeBlanc. He died in Newcastle 16 December 1925. He married Nancy Annie Sherrard, daughter of James Sherrard and Rebecca Shannon, on 21 March 1878 in Newcastle. She was born 4 June 1849 in Strathadam, died 2 February 1937 in Newcastle.

Jerome is buried in St. Mary’s RC Cemetery, Newcastle, and Nancy in the Miramichi Cemetery. They lived the rest of their married life in Newcastle, where they raised 7 children.
00000203 Vol. 1 John DUNNETT John Dunnett was born in Scotland in 1797 and died after 1871. They had nine children. From 1824 to 1827, John taught school at Strathadam and Whitneyville and became a school trustee. He established himself as a farmer and businessman.

Date of Arrival: From Scotland to Whitney, Northumberland County, N.B. in 1823

Area of Residence: Whitney
Occupation: teacher, farmer, cooper, inspector of fish and barrels and a school trustee
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Ann Nicholson October 14, 1820 in Wick, Caithness, Scotland.

00000157 Vol. 1 (revised) William ABRAMS William Abrams was born c1785 in Plymouth, England. He died aged 59, on February 6, 1844 in Newcastle, N.B.

Date of Arrival: William and Sarah arrived on the Miramichi from England in 1820.

Area of Residence: Newcastle

Occupation: William was in business in Greenock, Scotland before settling on the Miramichi. A year prior to his arrival, William Abrams & Co. purchased two properties at Rosebank on which to locate shipbuilding and merchandising business. This company suffered huge losses in the Miramichi Fire of 1825, but trans-Atlantic trade was expanding, and they soon recovered.
William was:
(1) the first vestryman of St Paul’s Anglican Church 1823;
(2) captain of the 4th Battalion of militia;
(3) treasurer of the 1st county agricultural society 1824;
(4) organized the first Miramichi Chamber of Commerce 1826;
(5) school trustee for Newcastle parish;
(6) a commissioner of the Seaman’s Hospital, Douglastown;
(7) member of the Northumberland County Board of Health;
(8) harbormaster of the Miramichi Port 1832-1835;
(9) instrumental in the establishment of a branch of the Bank of British North American at Newcastle 1839; and
(10) keeper of a postal way office at his store at Rosebank in 1843.
Abrams was one of the most successful businessmen on the Miramichi in the first half of the 19th century and one of the province’s leading shipbuilders.

Religion: Church of England/Anglican

Married: Sarah Triglohon.
Born: c1783
Died: February 12, 1850, aged 67. A tombstone was located at St. Paul’s Anglican Cemetery for William and Sarah and children Ann and William Harvey who perished in the Miramichi Fire.


00000158 Vol. 1 (revised) Abner A. ADAMS Abner A. Adams was born January 18, 1864 in Smyma Mills, Aroostook, Maine. He died April 19, 1924 in Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.

Area of residence:
Occupation:
Religion:
Married: Hannah Johnston Robertson on October 29, 1888 in Chatham, N.B.
Born: April 4, 1865 Tabusintac, N.B.
Died: May 18, 1919 in Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.
Father: Duncan Robertson
Mother: Louisa Hierlihy
Date of Arrival:
Religion:

Note: Proof is needed to show that this was a First Family. They married in 1888 but were in Campbellton the following year.
00000159 Vol. 1 (revised) James C. ADAMS James C. Adams was born on June 4, 1840 on P.E.I. He died July 15, 1915 in Little Branch, N. B. He was the son of Jonathan Adams and Agnes Johnson and great- grandson of John Adams (1734-1815) and Sarah Harrison who came from Derbyshire, England to New London, P.E.I. in 1774 as part of a group of settlers brought out by Robert Clark.

Arrival in Northumberland County: from P.E.I. in 1883 with wife Ellen.

Area of Residence: James and Ellen settled at Little Branch.
Occupation: According to the census he was a farmer and miller.
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Ellen Ferris
Born: June 1, 1841 P.E.I. to Scottish parents; died: December 30, 1909.

00000160 Vol. 1 (revised) Alexander ALLISON Alexander Allison was born c1830 in Ireland. He died on October 5, 1871 in North Esk. He, along with William Leach, was killed while working at the Goodfellow Stone Quarry at Shillelagh Cove at South Esk.

Date of Arrival: before 1870

Area of Residence: Boom Road, N B.
Occupation: quarryman
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Mary Jane Fraser on May 18, 1870.
Born: 1838 at North Esk
Died: 1879
Father: Andrew Fraser
Mother: Alice Elspeth McKinnon. She was the widow of Asa Mutch (1832-1869) of Whitney.

00000161 Vol. 1 (revised) John ALLISON John and Eleanor Allison arrived in Northumberland from Londonderry, Ireland. John Allison died in 1839 in North Esk.

Date of Arrival: 1824.

Area of Residence: Boom Road on Lot F in 1826
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Eleanor before 1824


00000162 Vol. 1 (revised) William ALLISON William Allison was born c1768 in Limavady, Co. Londonderry, Ireland. He died on September 13, 1853 in North Esk. This Allison family lived at Evish Hill near Enoch Loch, in the immediate vicinity of the City of Londonderry. William’s father sold his farm and with his whole family, except one son, immigrated to Stillwater (Meadow, on the northwest Miramichi River), New Brunswick in July 1824.

Area of Residence: North Esk
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Eliza Smyth of Cross Derry, Ireland on July 16, 1820. Born: 1778; Died: before 1851

Date of Arrival: with her husband in 1824


00000163 Vol. 1 (revised) James ANDERSON James Anderson was born in Dranie near Lossiemouth, Elgin Co., Scotland in 1761. He belonged to a family of three brothers, John, James, and William Anderson. John, the eldest, went to London, England and carried on business. There he married a widow who had two daughters. He had no issue. James exchanged his lot on Beaubear’s Island for one owned by blacksmith (name unknown) at Burnt Church in 1782 and lived at this location for some years. His family in Scotland never came to this county as far as is known. James traded fish and timber. One autumn he was returning from Halifax, where he had gone to sell his summer catch of fish, and his schooner was wrecked on Prince Edward Island. Here he had to spend the winter, during which he became acquainted with a family named Murray, who was Loyalists from Albany, New York. When he returned to Burnt Church in the spring he brought Mary Murray with him as his bride, and her sister Ellen as a guest. It is related that Mrs. John Davidson, who had been for years, the only white woman in the place, wept tears of joy when she saw the women. James Anderson died on March 14, 1857 at Burnt Church, N. B. A tombstone for Mary Anderson was located at Moorefield Cemetery but not for James.

Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Mary Murray on PEI in 1797
Born: c1773 Harpersfield, Tryon Co., N.Y.
Died: July 15, 1857 at Burnt Church, N. B.
Father: John Murray Sr.
Mother: Mary Kennedy (both Scotland).


00000164 Vol. 1 (revised) Joseph BATEMAN Joseph Bateman was born c1801 in Ireland. He died after 1881.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland in 1826 at the age 25

Area of Residence: South Nelson
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Church of England
Married: Alice Ann Beamish on July 17, 1832.
Born: c1813
Died: between 1861 and 1871.
Father:
Mother:
Entry into Canada: 1826
Religion:

00000165 Vol. 1 (revised) William BAZLEY/BAISLEY/BEAZELY William Bazely was born in Ireland and arrived in 1840. He married three times* after he arrived on the Miramichi. The 1851 Census of Northumberland County states that he was a native of Ireland, aged 26, and entered this province in May 1840. Although he later settled in the Trout Brook area, he first settled far up the Northwest Branch past the mouth of the Tomogonops River. William died October 24, 1900.

Date of Arrival: May 1840

Area of Residence: Trout Brook
Occupation: farmer and woodsworker
Religion: Methodist
Married: (1) Nancy Ann Mullin on March 27, 1855 by the Rev John Snowball,
Missionary of the Miramichi Methodist Circuit.
Born: January 31, 1831
Died: before May 11, 1861
Father: Patrick Mullin
Mother: Nancy Ann Shannon
Entry into Canada:
Religion: Methodist
Married: (2) Alice Rolph on May 11, 1861
Born: c1838
Died: December 20, 1888
Father: John Rolph
Mother: Ann “Nancy” Mullin
Entry into Canada: father in 1824
Religion:

00000166 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas RIchard BLACKMORE Thomas Richard Blackmore was baptized on March 30, 1788 in Stoke Damerel, Devonshire, England and might have been born in 1785, the son of Thomas Blackmore and Ann Pomeroy.

Date of Arrival: 1818
Area of Residence: Derby & Sillikers
Occupation: farmer, trader with the native Indians
Religion: Anglican
Married: Phoebe Newman on January 12, 1819
Born: 1802 in N.B.
Died: 1870
Father: David J. Newman
Mother: Mary Sherwood
Entry into Canada: father was Loyalist
Religion:
00000167 Vol. 1 (revised) Cyrus BRAY Cyrus Bray was born on July 25, 1807 in Minot, Maine, the son of Daniel Bray and Elizabeth Haskell. He came to Canada in the 1830s with his brother Daniel to work at a mill. Here, he met and became engaged to Amy Whitney. Amy died suddenly of pneumonia. On June 19, 1836 he married Amy’s sister, Charlotte Whitney, at North Esk. He died after 1859 in Houlton, Maine.

Arrival in Canada: c1830
Area of Residence: Whitney & Maine
Occupation: mill worker
Religion:
Married: Charlotte Whitney
Born: April 16, 1816, Whitney, N.B.
Died: 1888, Houlton, Maine
Father: Ebenezer Whitney
Mother: Charlotte Parker
Religion: Baptist
00000168 Vol. 1 (revised) Philip BREMNER/BRIMMER Philip Bremner was born c1780 and baptized on January 3, 1781 at the Dutch Reformed Church in Lunenburg, NS. He died April 11, 1859 in Chatham. He was the son of Robert Bremner and his second wife, a widow, Sophia MacDonald (Treuter). In approximately 1792, following the death of his father, Philip travelled to the Miramichi to live with his half sister, Helen Bremner, who was married to Alexander Gilliss.

Date of Arrival: c1792 in Northumberland County
Area of Residence: Rocks Head (opposite Middle Island) near Chatham. He also acquired land in Glenelg Parish (Napan) which his family farmed.
Occupation: Farmer
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Catherine Murdoch c1809
Born: 1787
Died: 1848, aged 61
Father: John Murdoch
Mother: Janet Malcolm
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000169 Vol. 1 (revised) William BROWN William Brown was born in England, married before emigration to the province of Nova Scotia, and eldest child born in Poole, Dorsetshire, England, and the remainder of the children in the colony. Name of wife is not known at this time. He was stated to have been a rope maker.

Date of Arrival: from England c1765 to the colony of Nova Scotia and to the Miramichi in 1777 where William Brown settled by Capt. Boyle below the Davidson grant on the south side of the Miramichi River in what is now Nelson-Miramichi.

00000170 Vol. 1 (revised) Richard BURBRIDGE Richard Burbridge was born c1790 in Whistleton, Cottingham, Northamptonshire, England and died June 30, 1866 in Chatham, N.B. He joined the Royal Eastern Regiment of Middlesex on December 15, 1811 in Portsmouth, England. In 1814 he enlisted as a private in the 95th Regiment of Foot (later known as the Rifle Brigade) stationed in Belfast. He was successively appointed to the ranks of Corporal and Sergeant. He served three years in France and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. Afterwards, he served six years in North America, where he received his discharge February 27, 1832 on account of good conduct. While still in the military, Richard became a member of the Masonic Lodge. Indenture 305 at the Registry office in Newcastle, N.B., dated July 5, 1836, shows that Richard bought some property in Chatham from Francis Peabody and his wife Lydia. The property was located at the northwest corner of the intersection of King and Howard Street. On June 30, 1839 the property was sold to William Houd.

Date of Arrival: Halifax, N.S. with the First Battalion in 1825; Northumberland County, N.B. in 1829.
Area of Residence: Chatham
Occupation: soldier, farmer, labourer
Religion: Church of England
Married: (1) Jane Shank(s) [also Schenk(s)] c1834
Born: c1800 in Halifax, N.S. of German parents
Died: July 1840 in Chatham
Father:
Mother:
Married: (2) Mary Ann Shank(s) [also Schenk(s)] October 18, 1840
Born: c1814 in Halifax, N.S., sister of Jane
Died: December 17, 1889

00000171 Vol. 1 (revised) William BURNS William Burns was born in 1809 in County Down, Ireland and arrived on the Miramichi in June 1830. William and Elizabeth Ann Matchett had twelve children. William died on April 22, 1884. William and Elizabeth were interred at St. Thomas Roman Catholic Cemetery, Red Bank.

Date of Arrival: June 1830
Area of Residence: Sunny Corner
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Elizabeth Ann Matchett on January 31, 1843 at St. Patrick’s RC Church, Nelson
Born: July 29, 1829 Sunny Corner
Died: July 17, 1898 Sunny Corner
Father: William Matchett
Mother: Mary Fraser
Religion: Presbyterian

00000172 Vol. 1 (revised) Archibald CAMERON Archibald Cameron was born 1769 in Argyllshire, Scotland. He immigrated to Black River in 1804 with his wife, four eldest children, his brother Charles, and a cousin. Archibald, Mary, and Archibald Jr. received a 400 acre grant on the north side of Black River, Lots 16 and 17 where they farmed. Archibald died March 15, 1861 at age 92.

Date of Arrival: 1804

Area of Residence: Black River, New Brunswick
Occupation: farmer
Religion:
Married: Mary McKeller; Born: Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland in 1769
Died: October 27, 1854, aged 84
Father:
Mother:
Entry into Canada: August 1804 with their four eldest children
Religion:


00000173 Vol. 1 (revised) Donald CAMERON Donald Cameron was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia on 1826. He was the son of “Red” Jim Cameron (1799-1863). He came to Black River, N.B. with his father and four brothers. He died September 27, 1889.

Area of Residence: Black River, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian

Married: Jane Elizabeth Jardine on October 16, 1856; Born: February 10, 1836 Napan, N.B.
Died: 26 April 1912
Father: John Jardine
Mother: Elizabeth “Betsy” Dickson
00000174 Vol. 1 (revised) John CAMPBELL John Campbell was born c1758 in Loch Carron, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland and died May 17, 1850. He was with Military in 104th Regiment. His religion was the Church of England. He was in the Military and a farmer. He married Mary McIntosh in Scotland. Her religion was the Church of England.

Date of Arrival: from Loch Carron, Scotland in 1794

John Campbell was an original settler at Little Shippegan, Gloucester County, NB. In his petition for land, dated 1826, he stated that he was a native of North Britain, that he had served in the 104th Regiment of Foot and that he was a pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. He and his wife Mary McIntosh were members of the church in Glenelg, Scotland in 1803 and brought with them a letter of character recommendation for themselves and their family. From John’s discharge papers we learn that he was born in Loch Carron Parish, Scotland. From another petition dated 1836 made in NB, he stated that he was a native of Glenelg in Invernesshire (a little farther south of Loch Carron). He enlisted with Captain Moodie at Glasgow, several years prior to the last American War and came with the Regiment about 35 years ago with his wife and two sons, Donald and Murdock. His sons entered 41st Majesty’s service as soon as they were able to carry Arms. Donald fell with Lieut.-Col. Drummond at Fort Erie. Murdock and Petitioner were disbanded with the 104th.
00000175 Vol. 1 (revised) Daniel CARROLL Daniel Carroll was born c1783 in Tipperary, Ireland and died before 1881 in N.B. He married Anna O’Neal (born c1793), probably before they arrived in Canada in 1814. Daniel and Anna farmed in Blackville. Anna, also called “Nancy”, died before 1871 and Daniel, before 1881. They were Roman Catholic. Only three children have been located for Daniel and Anna.

00000176 Vol. 1 (revised) Malachy CARROLL Malachy Carroll was born c1792 in Ireland and died after 1836, possibly in Victoria County, N.B. He married Catherine Lowry in Ireland c1823 before immigrating to Canada. They lived in the Miramichi until the early 1830’s when they left for western N.B. Some of their descendants moved to Maine.

Date of Arrival: Northumberland County in 1824

Area of Residence: Bartibogue, Alnwick Parish; Nelson, Glenelg Parish; Victoria Co.
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000177 Vol. 1 (revised) Matthew CARROLL Matthew Carroll was born c1794 in County Kilkenny, Ireland. He died August 16, 1868 and was buried in Malcolm Cemetery, St. Patrick’s R.C., Nelson, Northumberland County, N.B. He married Ann Lynch January 13, 1832, possibly the daughter of James and Catherine Lynch who arrived in May 1825.

Date of Arrival: 1818

Area of Residence: Nelson, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Ann Lynch January 13, 1832
Born: c1796
Died: before 1861
Date of Arrival: 1825
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000178 Vol. 1 (revised) Matthew CARROLL Matthew Carroll was born c1800 in Ireland and died c1835. He was a carpenter and a wheelwright.

Date of Arrival: c1827

Area of Residence: Chatham

Matthew’s arrival date in Northumberland County is unknown. The earliest mention of him is the sale of Lot 5 Alnwick to him by George Taylor. About the same year, he married Catherine “Kitty” Gidney (born c1805), after which they had three boys. Matthew must have died in the mid-1830s since Catherine remarried 14 May 1835 to Patrick Maddock. The 1851 Census indicates that Catherine arrived in Northumberland County in 1826 and Patrick in 1824. Patrick Maddock was a shipwright and he must have introduced the Carroll boys to the industry. They lived in Chatham. Catherine died October 9, 1853 and was buried in St. Michael’s R.C. Church Cemetery.

Religion: Roman Catholic
00000179 Vol. 1 (revised) Matthew CARROLL Matthew Carroll was born c1801 in County Tipperary, Ireland and died after 1871.

Date of Arrival: 1833 from Ireland

Area of Residence: Nelson, Northumberland County, N.B.
Married: Catherine Dunn on July 4, 1833 at St. Patrick’s R.C. Church, Nelson
Born: c1811 Ireland
Died: April 23, 1893 Barnaby River, Nelson Parish
Date of Arrival: 1824 from Ireland

A story handed down in the family says that Catherine aided her mother to escape to a raft in the river at Newcastle during the 1525 Miramichi Fire.

00000180 Vol. 1 (revised) Michael CARROLL Michael Carroll was born c1792 in Ireland and died before 1871 in Bathurst, N.B. He was a carpenter and a farmer. Michael petitioned for land on Big Hole Brook in September of 1818 wherein he stated that he was 27, single, born in Ireland, and arrived in this county two and one-half years ago; that is, in the spring of 1816.

Michael married Louisa/Eliza Delahunty, a native of Ireland, but a record has not been found. The first three children were born and baptized in Northumberland County, and in the 1830’s they were found in the Bathurst/Belldune area of Gloucester County. In the 1861 Gloucester County Census for Bathurst, Michael (68) and Eliza (66) and Thomas (34) and Margaret (26) have been recorded living in the same household.

Date of Arrival: 1816

00000181 Vol. 1 (revised) Miles CARROLL Miles Carroll was born c1804 in County Tipperary, Ireland to James Carroll (1770-1824) and Mary Callaghan (1775-1824). Miles died September 1871 and was buried with some of his family in St. Peter & St. Paul R.C. Cemetery, Bartibog. The 1851 census has a niece of Miles, Jane O’Harron, living with the family. One of the witnesses to Miles’ marriage was Michael Ahearn.

Date of Arrival: 1822
Area of Residence: Alnwick Parish, west of the Bartibog River, Northumberland Co.
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Catherine Howlett on November 19, 1826 at St. Patrick’s RC, Nelson
Born: c1806 County Wexford, Ireland
Died: June 4, 1881; buried in St. Peter & St. Paul R.C. Cemetery, Bartibog
Parents: unknown
Date of Arrival: 1823


00000182 Vol. 1 (revised) Patrick CARROLL Patrick Carroll was born c1775 in County Meath, Ireland. He married Margaret Everett c1800 in Ireland. They had six children, all born in Co. Meath and immigrated to New Brunswick in August 1828. Three years later, Patrick purchased part of Lot 7 on the east side of Bay du Vin from Angus McInnis. After Patrick died c1835, his three sons purchased additional property which remained in the family into the 20th Century.

Margaret was still living in 1851 with her son Thomas, but was not in the 1861 census. Also living with them was Margaret Corlon (16), granddaughter of Margaret Carroll, who arrived in 1838. Perhaps she was the daughter of the third Carroll child whose name is not known. Since Patrick and Margaret were married c1800, Margaret’s birth date was probably c1780.

Date of Arrival: 1828

Area of Residence: Escuminac/Bay du Vin/Baie-Ste.-Anne
Religion: Roman Catholic


00000183 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas CARROLL Thomas Carroll, born c1774 in Ireland, was a widower when he arrived in Northumberland County c1808. He purchased Lot 4 (200 Acres) on the east side of the Bartibog River in 1812. He also petitioned for land in 1814 in which he said he “…has been 6 years in British America, during 4 of which he resided in this country. He is 40 years of age and unmarried.” He received the grant on August 17, 1816, Lot 8 on the opposite side of the Bartibog; however, he remained on the east side, selling Lot 8 to Thomas Smith on March 26, 1818. Thomas’ two children (there may have been more) arrived in 1828 and were given ownership of half of Lot 4 each in the 1830’s (Timothy in 1833 and Ellen in 1838). Thomas died in Bartibog sometime in the 1840’s. Both Timothy and Ellen and their families occupied the lot for most of the 19th century.

00000184 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas CARROLL Thomas Carroll was born in 1810 in Ireland and died July 5, 1895 in Brainerd, Minnesota where he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, St. Francis R.C. Church. Thomas probably worked in the shipyards of Chatham, Montreal, and Bytown (Ottawa), finally settling in Chelsea, Quebec (just north of Bytown) by the time of the 1851 census. There, Thomas and some of his sons worked at Gilmore’s Mill (the same Gilmore associated with Alexander Rankin in Douglastown, Northumberland Co.). Between 1859 and 1873 four of the sons and, eventually, Thomas himself, moved to the woods of Wisconsin following the lumber industry. Two other children moved to Ottawa.

Date of Arrival: before 1834 in Northumberland County

Area of Residence: Bartibog, Northumberland County
Occupation: shipbuilder and labourer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Annastasia “Anna” Fahey on July 16, 1834 in Chatham
Born: September 14, 1814
Died: January 17, 1872 Chelsea, Quebec
Buried: St. Stephen Cemetery, Chelsea
Father: James Fahey (1785-c1874)
Date of Arrival: 1819
Mother: Bridget Kennedy (1791-c1861)
Religion: Roman Catholic
Date of Arrival: 1826

00000185 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas CARROLL Thomas Carroll was born c1810 in County Tipperary, Ireland and died November 25, 1859 in Northumberland County, N.B.

Date of Arrival: 1827

Area of Residence: Nelson & Blissfield.
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Ann Carney on August 19, 1836 at St. Patrick RC Church, Nelson
Born: c1818; baptized, aged five, 1823 in Ludlow Parish, Northumberland County
Died: July 27, 1876
Father: Morris Carney
Mother: Elizabeth Lyons
Religion: Church of England

This Carroll family was neighbours of the Culhane family in Blissfield in the 1851 census. Hannah (Ann) Culhane, wife of Cornelius Culhane, died February 8, 1860, and on December 8, 1860 he married Ann [Carney] Culhane. Culhane’s were Baptist; the Carroll’s were RC. In the 1861 census Cornelius was listed as RC, along with Ann.

00000186 Vol. 1 (revised) James CHAPMAN James Chapman was born December 25, 1826 in Scotland. He arrived on the Miramichi aboard a lumber ship as part of the crew in May of 1842. He became the first light-keeper at Bird Rock at the mouth of Miramichi Bay but was forced to resign to make way for a Quebec resident with more influence with government. Later, he became the keeper at the newly-built Bay du Vin Island Light and served there until his death in March 1909.

Date of Arrival: May 1842

Area of Residence: Point aux Carr, Bay du Vin
Occupation: sailor; later worked at Mouad’s Hotel at Point aux Carr; later a light-house
keeper.
Religion: Presbyterian.
Married: (1) Ann Goodfellow on August 5, 1848
Born: c1818 in N.B.
Died: between 1871 and 1881
Father: James Goodfellow
Stepfather: Robert Mouad/Monad
Mother: Isabelle Walls
Entry into Canada:
Religion:

Married: (2) Alice Jane Helman about 1884
Born: June 26, 1866
Father: Richard Helman
Mother: Ruth _________?
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000187 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas CLANCY Thomas Clancy was born in Ireland in c1781 and died January 19, 1873, aged 95.
He was a farmer and a Roman Catholic.

Date of Arrival: 1812

Area of Residence: Nelson (1851)
Occupation: farmer
Married: Anne Power on January 8, 1816
Born:
Died: before 1851
Father: John Power
Mother: Mary McCarthy
Religion: Roman Catholic
Date of Arrival:

00000188 Vol. 1 (revised) James CLARK James Clark was born in 1754 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and died in 1823 in Northumberland County. The son of James and Mary Clark, he was a corporal in the Prince of Wales Regiment.

Date of Arrival: 1783

Area of Residence: Nelson-Miramichi
Married: Barbara Henning between 1775 and 1783


00000189 Vol. 1 (revised) Abraham Clarake Abraham Clarke was born in 1811 and died in 1889. He was the son of John Clarke and Sarah Vanderbeck. He married Hannah Astle on January 2, 1839. She was born c1816 and died June 18, 1885 in St. Stephen, N.B. She was the daughter of Daniel Astle and Jane Parker.

Date of Arrival:

Area of Residence: Nelson
Occupation: farmer & lumberman
Religion: Wesleyan Methodist

00000190 Vol. 1 (revised) Terrence Cook Terrence Cook was born in 1809 in County Cork or County Wexford, Ireland. He ran away from home at age 13 and stowed away on a ship. He was allowed to remain on the ship due to the captain observing he was a smart young lad. Several years later, he arrived on the Miramichi and decided to stay here. He donated the land for St. Margaret’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Margaret’s, Glenelg Parish. He died July 1, 1881 in St. Margaret’s and was buried in the first plot of St. Margaret’s R.C. Church Cemetery. Terrence was the only Cook to settle in Northumberland County.

Date of Arrival: May 1825

Area of Residence: St. Margarets, Glenelg Parish.
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Bridget Flanagan on November 13, 1832
Born: September 20, 1814/15 in County Westmeath, Ireland
Died: November 15, 1902, aged 88
Father:
Mother:
Date of Arrival: She arrived in St. Margaret’s about May 1832 with her mother; her father had died en route to Canada.
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000191 Vol. 1 (revised) Henry COPP Henry Copp was born on October 31, 1785, one of four brothers who emigrated from England and settled on the west side of the North West at the Meadows and Trout Brook. These brothers were among ten children born to John and Susannah Copp of Devonshire, England and baptized in the Anglican Parish Church at Roborough by Torrington, near Bideford. Henry Copp stated in a land petition dated March 2, 1822 that he came to the Miramichi two and one half years previously. He obtained 200 Acres of land five miles above the entrance to Big Sevogle River, known for many tears as Copp’s Settlement, now Trout Brook. He died April 23, 1877 in Copp’s Settlement, North Esk Parish.

Date of Arrival: 1823

Occupation: farmer and lumberman
Religion: Church of England
Married: Elizabeth Page on August 2, 1810 Morchard Bishop Parish, Devonshire,
England
Born: 1780
Died: November 12, 1872
Father: John Page
Mother: Mary
Religion: Wesleyan Methodist

00000192 Vol. 1 (revised) Richard Arnold CRABB Richard Arnold Crabb was born in 1789 in Kings County, N.B. and died on June 12, 1867 in Maple Park, Kane County, Illinois. He was the son of Loyalist John Crabb and his wife Elizabeth Basset who fled New York on August 29, 1783 on the ship “Cyrus” and arrived in Saint John, N.B. on September 19, 1783. This family name appears also as Crabtree as indicated by one of Richard’s sons who went by the name. By 1851 no Crabb’s or Crabtree’s were recorded in Northumberland County.
Several family members petitioned before the Probate Court in Dover, Maine, Piscataquis County to have the family name of Crabb changed to Crabtree, citing “The name Crabtree was the original family name” and having many relatives by that name it creates confusion by members of the same family branch to be known by different names. Some of the Loyalist Crabb families acquired land grants in Greenwich Parish, Kings County, N.B. and were recorded in the 1851 census using the abbreviated version
of the name.

Date of Arrival: c1827 from Kings County

Area of Residence: Ludlow & North Esk Parishes
Occupation: Timber contractor & Overseer of fisheries
Religion: Baptist?
Married: Mary Giggey/Giggie on December 25, 1808
Born:
Died: 1863 Kane County, Illinois

00000193 Vol. 1 (revised) Cornelius CROWE Cornelius Crowe arrived from Ireland with his parents about 1836. He was born April 10, 1826 and died March 26, 1904. He resided in Sevogle, Northumberland County.

Date of Arrival: c1836

Area of Residence: Sevogle
Occupation: lumberman, farmer, general merchant
Religion: Roman Catholic

Married: Ann Dolan (Dooling/Doolin) on August 4, 1863.
Born: April 22, c1830
Died: December 14, 1908
Father: Charles Dolan
Mother: Mary McCormick
Entry into Canada: 1825 (parents)
Religion: Roman Catholic
00000194 Vol. 1 (revised) John CURTIS John Curtis was born in London, England before 1796 and arrived in New Brunswick in 1818. (In the resource books, there are various spellings of Curtis, Curtice, Curtes.) He died September 26, 1862 in Blackville.

Area of Residence: Blackville
Occupation: Farmer
Religion: Episcopalian
Married: Anna Appilon
Born: in England c1794
Father:
Mother:
Entry into Canada: 1820
Religion: Episcopalian/Church of England

00000195 Vol. 1 (revised) Joseph DENNIS Joseph Dennis was born c1805 in Ireland and died January 18, 1866 in Newcastle, N.B.
Joseph was buried with his wife in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery (Old) in Newcastle.

Date of Arrival: 1823

Area of Residence: North Esk; Newcastle after 1851
Occupation: lumber operator
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Margaret Mary Sullivan on June 3, 1837 at St. Thomas R.C. Church, Red
Bank
Born: c1820 in Ireland
Died: May 25, 1876
Father:
Mother:
Date of Arrival: c1825
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000196 Vol. 1 (revised) George DICK George Dick, son of William Dick and Grace Hay, was born in Polmont, Sterlingshire, Scotland in December 1745. He died in 1814. He married (1) Margaret Brown on August 14, 1787. She was born in 1763 in Polmont, Scotland and died in 1796. He married (2) Janet Inglis on January 28, 1797 in Scotland.

Date of Arrival: arrived from Scotland c1826

00000197 Vol. 1 (revised) James DICKISON James Dickson was born c1770 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and died October 23, 1858 in Napan. He married Jane “Jean” Ross, a native of Maryport, Cumberland, England, who was born c1780 and died March 23, 1857. They farmed in Napan. Both were buried in St. John’s Presbyterian and St. Luke’s Methodist Cemetery, Chatham.

Date of Arrival: from Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1823.

Area of Residence: Napan

00000198 Vol. 1 (revised) John DORAN John Doran was born in Fredericton, N.B. on June 12, 1835 and died of pneumonia November 8, 1919 in Northumberland County. He was the son of Thomas Doran and Margaret Cole. John was a blacksmith and a veteran of the American Civil War.

Date of Arrival: from Fredericton c1868

Area of Residence: Derby Parish
Occupation: blacksmith
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Mary Anne Kelly on April 20, 1868 at St. Dunstan’s R.C. Church, Fredericton
Born: August 9, 1845
Died: October 8, 1909
Father: Philip Kelly
Mother: Katherine Gratton
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000199 Vol. 1 (revised) John DOWER John Dower emigrated from Ireland to the Miramichi at the age of 18. He settled in the Nelson area and married Mary Brown in 1820. She was born in 1787. John died prior to 1851 when Mary is found living in Nelson with her son Thomas and his wife Margaret.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland before 1800

Area of Residence: Nelson

00000200 Vol. 1 (revised) Maurice DOYLE Maurice Doyle was born c1807 in Ireland. On October 2, 1836 in Northumberland County he married Catherine Mary Walsh, born c1816 in Kilkenny, Ireland. He died April 12, 1862 whereas Catherine lived into the 1890’s, possibly dying on June 9, 1896 (“Mrs. Doyle”) in Upper Nelson. Maurice and Catherine both died in Renous.

Date of Arrival: Maurice, 1827; Catherine, 1835

Area of Residence: Renous, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000201 Vol. 1 (revised) Daniel DUNN Daniel Dunn was born 1754 in his native Ireland and immigrated to the ‘American States’. He was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and arrived in New Brunswick in 1785 from Westchester, New York. He became a constable in 1789 and, later, overseer of fisheries in 1795. He gave an acre to build a school in his community. Reports indicate that the family had eight children, but the source cites that the four listed below are definitely this family, and the four others cannot be proved. Daniel died in 1823.

Date of Arrival: 1785 in N.B.

Area of Residence: Red Bank
Occupation: farmer, constable, overseer of fisheries.
Religion: Roman Catholic

Married: Barbara Rogers
Born: c1755
Died: Before 1812
Date of Arrival: 1785 in N.B.
Religion:

00000202 Vol. 1 (revised) John DUNN John Dunn was born c1812 in Ireland and died in Nelson Parish on December 11, 1881. He was a farmer and a lumberman. On January 17, 1844 he married Bridget Anne Kane who was born c1821. They lived in Barnaby River. By 1871 Anne had gone blind. She died on April 10, 1875. They were buried in St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Cemetery.

Date of Arrival: 1830

00000204 Vol. 1 (revised) Angus FISHER Angus Fisher was born c1788 in Prince Edward Island. Angus died prior to 1871 in South Esk

Date of Arrival: from Prince Edward Island before 1819

Area of Residence: South Esk Parish, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer & fisherman
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Elizabeth Forsyth
Born: c1793
Died: c1858
Father: Robert Forsyth
Mother: Jane Martin

00000205 Vol. 1 (revised) Martin FLANAGAN Martin Flanagan was born c1809 in Athlone, County Westmorland, Ireland and arrived in Canada as a young man. He married Mary Deagan, born 1808, on March 4, 1832 in Bartibogue, Northumberland County. They settled and raised their family in Laketon, south of the county line with Kent. Martin and Mary kept a roadhouse for the travelling public on the highway between Chatham and Richibucto, Kent County. Martin died November 23, 1874 and Mary, April 2, 1879. Both were buried in the cemetery of St. Margaret’s Roman Catholic Church which is in Northumberland County.

Date of Arrival: c1830 from Ireland

Area of Residence: Laketon, Kent County

00000206 Vol. 1 (revised) George FLETT George Flett was born October 22, 1780 in Orkney, Scotland to James Flett and Katherine Cursater and died December 13, 1867. He married Susannah Godfrey on November 9, 1815 at St. James Presbyterian Church, Nelson, N.B. She was the daughter of Richard Godfrey and Sarah Jane Lavender.

Date of Arrival: from Orkney, Scotland in 1815

Area of Residence: Nelson
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian

00000207 Vol. 1 (revised) George FOWLIE George Fowlie was born in Scotland on September 15, 1793. He was a carpenter, millwright and farmer, securing a grant at “Little Branch”, Black River, Northumberland Co., N.B. where he built a gristmill and a sawmill operated by water power. He died on December 2, 1843 and was buried in St. Stephen’s Cemetery, Black River.

Date of Arrival: from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1816

Area of Residence: Black River
Occupation: carpenter, millwright and farmer
Religion:
Married: Jean (Jane) MacKnight on August 13, 1828
Born: 1809 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Died: October 14, 1898 in Black River
Father: Samuel MacKnight*
Mother: Elizabeth Halliday

00000208 Vol. 1 (revised) Alexander FRASER, Jr. Alexander Fraser, Jr., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Fraser, was born in Scotland c1788. The family had immigrated in 1804 to Nova Scotia. On June 22, 1822 in Chatham Head, N.B. he married Catherine Fraser (maiden name Fraser) who was born in Invernesshire, Scotland. Katherine died in 1842 at the age of 39. Alexander died December 24, 1866.

Date of Arrival: from Edinburgh, Scotland, c1812, via Nova Scotia

Area of Residence: Chatham & Newcastle
Occupation: merchant, Justice of the Peace & mill owner
Religion: Presbyterian

00000209 Vol. 1 (revised) John GIBBONS John Gibbons was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland April 10, 1810 and came to N.B. with his mother, Catherine, c1819. On November 14, 1831 John, a resident of Blackville, married Eunice Ives Somers (1813-1899), the daughter of John Somers and Abigail Tozer. John was a school teacher at Whitney for several years before moving to Lyttleton where he was a farmer and lumberman. He erected the first Lyttleton schoolhouse, which he opened in 1841. In 1854 the Gibbons family moved to Dane County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. At the time of his death June 20, 1875, he was the postmaster at Sun Prairie, Dane Co., WI. John became Baptist deacon in 1845.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland in 1819

00000210 Vol. 1 (revised) Elmer Alton GLENDENNING Elmer Alton Glendenning was born in 1875 in Canobie, New Brunswick, the son of Walter Glendenning and Elizabeth Peters. After marriage to Grace, they moved many times to find work and returned to Little Branch, Northumberland County where they set up the post office in their home. In 1919 they settled down in Little Branch, and Elmer engaged in mixed farming. He was active in the Black River Community Hall, the establishment of the Agricultural Society, and he established the Northumberland Creamery. He was a member of the Masonic, Orange, and Oddfellow Lodges.

Areas of Residence: Portland, Maine; Parksville, Tennessee; Little Branch, N.B.; North Haven, Connecticut; Hampton, Virginia; Mussel Shoals, Alabama; New Hampshire; Wisconsin; and Texas.
Occupation: farmer, postmaster, construction
Religion: Presbyterian

Married: Jane Elizabeth Jardine Watling on October 18, 1910 in Northumberland Co.
Born: February 28, 1890
Died: March 25, 1964
Father: Jubal Watling, III
Mother: Grace MacAskill MacDonald
Religion: Presbyterian

00000211 Vol. 1 (revised) Charles Maxwell GREEN Charles Maxwell Green was born June 1810 in Londonderry, Ireland. He came to N.B. in 1820 and settled in Nelson Hollow, N.B. He married Sarah Robinson on March 13,
1838. She was born in 1817 in Grenagh, County Cork, Ireland and came to N.B. when she was 19 years of age.

Date of Arrival: Maxwell, 1820; Sarah, 1835

Area of Residence: Nelson Hollow, N.B. and for a time, Fredericton.
Occupation: sawyer
Religion: Church of Scotland

00000212 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert GREGAN Robert Gregan lived in Hardwicke Parish and Carleton Parish, N.B. Born in 1801 and died in 1849, he was married to Jean/Jane Potter (1816-1905) of Kouchibouguac, Carleton Parish, Kent County. Jean remarried October 25, 1855 to Donald Robison/ Robinson of Saint John, N.B.

Date of Arrival:

Area of Residence: Hardwicke, Northumberland County; Carleton Parish, Kent County.
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian

00000213 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert HARDING Robert Harding was born on August 4, 1842 in French River, P.E.I. He was the son of Charles Harding, born January 25, 1812, and Mary Calder, born January 1, 1809 and died December 27, 1907. He came to Caraquet, N.B. in 1873 where he worked on a farm. He married Sarah Jane Blanchard on April 6, 1864. Sarah was born in 1836 and died in 1896 in Tabusintac.
On September 29, 1875 he came by boat to Cain Point (Tabusintac) and brought his wife and family from P.E.I. in 1877. Their first home was at the Old Boom Brook. Later he built a home on top of the hill in Cain Point, and resided there until his death. Robert made his living working in the woods, cutting lumber, and peeling hemlock for dye. He also kept the ice cut around the piers of the Cain Point Bridge. Robert died March 7, 1931. Both he and Sarah were buried in Riverside Cemetery, Tabusintac with their youngest son, Benjamin, who died in 1930. The family was Presbyterian.
00000214 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert HARPER Robert Harper was born on November 27, 1885 in the parish of Old Luce (Glenluce), Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was the son of John Harper and Matilda Muir. He married Christina McWhirter Carswell in 1910 in Wigtownshire, Scotland. Christina was born on May 27, 1888 in Craig, Parish of Old Luce, Scotland. She was the daughter of James & Elizabeth Carswell. Christina died on November 15, 1964 and Robert, on March 2, 1978. They were buried in St. Stephen’s Community Cemetery, Black River, N.B.

Date of Arrival: 1928 from Wigtownshire, Scotland to Black River, N.B.

Religion: Presbyterian/United Church of Canada

00000215 Vol. 1 (revised) James HARRIS James Harris was born c1801. He was listed as a native of N.B. in the 1851 census but a native of England in 1861. On October 1, 1842 he married a teenager, Margaret Sutherland. Margaret was born May 19, 1826 in Scotland, the daughter of Alexander and Jane Sutherland of Halcomb. James died c1868 in Halcomb.

Date of Arrival: from England c1835

Area of Residence: Halcomb, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer and labourer
Religion: Presbyterian

00000216 Vol. 1 (revised) William HAY William Hay was born in Annan, Scotland in 1792 and died at Escuminac in 1873 at the age of 80. He and his wife, Mary, arrived in New Brunswick c1823. She was born in Scotland in 1797 and died July 27 1831. Following the death of Mary, he married Margaret McGregor on January 17 1833. She was born c1809 and died April 18, 1852. They were buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Chatham.

Date of Arrival: c1823

Area of Residence: Chatham and Escuminac, Northumberland County.
Occupation: blacksmith; lighthouse keeper from 1850’s until his death.
Religion: Presbyterian

00000217 Vol. 1 (revised) Philip HIERLIHY Philip Hierlihy was born before 1766 in Mallow, Ireland. He died between 1802 and 1804 in Alnwick Parish and was buried in Bartibog. He was the son of Cornelius Hierlihy. Apparently, he was a Catholic. He married Charlotte Howe Taylor Blake/Black Wishart who was born c1755 and died April 27, 1841. Known as the “Mother of Tabusintac”, she was Protestant and was buried in Tabusintac, N.B.

Date of Arrival: Before 1800.
Occupation: soldier and farmer.
00000218 Vol. 1 (revised) James HOLMES James Holmes was born December 1799 in Port Glasgow, Scotland. He and his brother John came to the Miramichi, followed later by his parents, James and Margaret Holmes. James erected the first schoolhouse in Halcomb. He died on October 24, 1859 at Halcomb. Margaret died August 4, 1910. James and Catherine were buried next to Margaret Holmes in St Stephen’s United (Former Presbyterian) Cemetery, Red Bank.

Date of Arrival: c1825 from Scotland

Area of Residence: James and Catherine settled on a 400 Acre grant at Halcomb.
Occupation: farmer, lumberman.
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Catherine Wedden June 18, 1824 at North Esk
Born: September 10, 1805 England
Died: January 28, 1871, Halcomb
Father: John Wedden
Mother: Elizabeth Roy/Ray
Date of Arrival: Before 1810 with her family
Religion: Roman Catholic
00000219 Vol. 1 (revised) Joseph JARDINE Joseph Jardine was born in 1767 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He married Jennie Kerr on November 16, 1792 who was born c1772 in Scotland. Joseph died June 22, 1849 and was buried in St. John’s Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chatham, N.B.

Date of Arrival: From Ecclefachen, Dumfries, Scotland in 1824.

00000220 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert JARDINE Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jardine, Esq. was born in January/February 1799 in Applegarth, Dumfriesshire, Scotland to David Jardine and Grizel Boyes. He moved to Kingsclear, York County, N.B. where he married Glorannah Reed, the granddaughter of Lieutenant Leonard Reed of the King’s American Regiment, who settled in York County. Robert died, aged 76, on February 10, 1875 in Indiantown, Northumberland County, N.B. and was buried in the St. Andrew’s United Church Cemetery, Blackville, N.B.

Date of Arrival: From Applegarth, Dumfriesshire, Scotland to N.B. between 1815 and 1819 and to the Miramichi in 1825.

Area of Residence: Indiantown, Northumberland County.
Occupation: Ensign, Captain, Second Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia; later proprietor and farmer.
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Glorannah Reed on December 8, 1819, Kingsclear, York County, N.B.
Born: September 19, 1801 in Kingsclear, York County
Died: December 1, 1879 at the home of her son Francis, Indiantown; buried in the United Church Cemetery, Blackville
Father: Benjamin Reed
Mother: Elizabeth _________

00000221 Vol. 1 (revised) Alexander JESSIMAN Alexander Jessiman (Jessamine) was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1807 and died at Douglastown, Northumberland County on February 19, 1889. Alexander was a wheelwright. Alexander and Elizabeth were both buried in St. James & St. John’s United Church Cemetery, Newcastle.

Date of Arrival: Alexander, from Scotland c1832; Elizabeth, from Scotland c1830

Area of Residence: Douglastown
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Elizabeth Anderson on October 8, 1835
Born: August 1818 in Scotland
Died: September 29, 1906
Father:
Mother:

00000222 Vol. 1 (revised) James M. KELLY James M. Kelly was born before 1798 in Belfast, Ireland. James M. Kelly emigrated from Belfast, Ireland, to N.B. in 1798. He settled in The Bend of the Petitcodiac (now Moncton). In 1839 he obtained a contract from the N.B. government to operate a mail stage between Miramichi and Moncton. Later, he added mail and passenger coaches between Miramichi and Moncton. He died on November 5, 1844 at Newcastle and his eldest son, William Moore Kelly, took over his stagecoach business.

Date of Arrival: from Belfast, Ireland via Moncton to Northumberland County c1839

Area of Residence: Chatham

00000223 Vol. 1 (revised) William KELLY William Kelly was born c1791 in Coot Hill, County Wexford, Ireland. He was Catholic and a farmer. On June 1, 1841 he married Mary Royal. Mary was born c1816, aged 35 in 1851 Census. In 1861, Chatham Parish, Mary was the head of the family with six of the children still living at home. In 1881 Mary was a widow living with her two sons, John and Bernard. At the age of 73, she died in Lower Napan on April 5/7, 1892. Her birth place was given as Dublin, Ireland.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland to Miramichi in 1827.

Area of Residence: Chatham Parish

00000224 Vol. 1 (revised) Michael KENNY/KENNIE Michael Kenny was born in Bathurst on October 11, 1839 and died in Neguac on December 4, 1913. He was the son of John Kenny and Anne Drisdelle of Tracadie, N.B. He was buried with his wife in St. Bernard’s (Old) R.C. Cemetery, Neguac, Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County.

Area of Residence: Tracadie, N.B.
Religion: Church of England
Married: Mary Julia Grattan on February 15, 1864 at Tracadie, N.B.
Born: July 10, 1842
Died: June 19, 1920
Father: John Grattan
Mother: Bridget Morgan
Religion: Roman Catholic

00000225 Vol. 1 (revised) George KERR George Kerr was born March 4, 1805 in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire Parish, Scotland and died on February 4, 1872 in Aitken, South Carolina, U.S.A. He was the son of William Kerr and Isabella Little who arrived from Scotland in 1816 and settled with their six children in Napan. George worked in Newcastle and was the attorney for Joseph Cunard and Co. He then moved to Chatham and worked as a lawyer and inherited his former father-in law’s* sawmill business at Rosebank. He also was elected MLA for his constituency. He retired due to poor health in 1870 and died in 1872 while wintering in South Carolina.

Date of Arrival: 1816

Area of Residence: Chatham, N.B.
Occupation: lawyer, businessman and MLA
Religion: Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
Married: (1) Eliza Ann Abrams on May 23, 1834.
Born: c1816; died January 29, 1845, aged 29
Married: (2) Agnes Swayne on April 18, 1850
Born: c1809 in Dysart, Scotland.
Died: April 18, 1888, aged 79, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of Arrival: 1849

00000226 Vol. 1 (revised) James KERR James Kerr was born in 1810 in Kirkbean Parish, Kircudbrightshire, Scotland. Like his brother George (previous page), James was the son of William M. Kerr, born c1795, and Isabella Little, born c1785. James died January 18, 1879, aged 69, in Chatham. James and Elspeth were buried, along with William and Isabella and others in the family, in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Cemetery, Chatham.

Date of Arrival: 1816

Area of Residence: Chatham
Occupation: farmer, businessman & saw mill superintendent
Married: Elspeth Burnett Johnstone on November 9, 1837
Born: c1816 to David and Janet Johnstone in Scotland
Died: January 12, 1858, aged 42
Date of Arrival: 1816 with her parents

00000228 Vol. 1 (revised) David KRYGSVELD David Krygsveld was born July 21, 1941 in New Westminster, BC, the son of William Krygsveld and Violet Waltraud Svensson. He married (1) Mary Dineen on September 3, 1966 and had three children. David and Mary were divorced before Mary died in February 1989.

David married (2) Marlyn (Walsh) Hennigar on September 16, 1989. Marlyn was the daughter of Florence McLean of Chelmsford and Bernard Walsh of Campbellton. Bernard died when Marlyn was only a year old and Florence remarried Leo Thibodeau of Newcastle.

Date of Arrival: from Western Canada about 1984.

00000229 Vol. 1 (revised) John LEWIS John Lewis was born c1780 in Carmarthenshire, Wales; died December 17, 1846 at Point Escuminac at the age of 66.

Date of Arrival: from Carmarthenshire, Wales to Point Escuminac in October 1818.

Area of Residence: Point Escuminac
Occupation: labourer
Religion: Church of England
Married: Grace _______, born 1786 in Wales

00000230 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert LOGGIE Robert Loggie was born September 29, 1751 in Bawds, Urquhart Parish, Morayshire, Scotland and died prior to June 4, 1814 in Northumberland County. He was the son of William L. Loggie and Jean Wiseman.

Date of Arrival: c1781 via P.E.I.

Area of Residence: Black Brook, Chatham Parish
Occupation: farmer and fisherman
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Marjorie Hay in Scotland c1770
Born: March 13, 1754 in Teynland, Speymouth, Morayshire, Scotland
Died: 1812
Father: George H. Hay
Mother: Margaret McWilliam

00000231 Vol. 1 (revised) Charles LUKE Charles Luke was born in Clackmannan, Scotland on October 5, 1777, son of William Luke* and Christian Meffen. In 1851 Charles was a widower living with his son James and family. Charles died March 8, 1853 and was buried in St. John’s Presbyterian Cemetery, Chatham.

Date of Arrival: from Scotland in 1816

Area of Residence: Newcastle
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Ann Dawson on June 17, 1802


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