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Id no Volume First Name Last Name Brief summary
00000126 Vol. 2 William Redman PRICE c1796-c1866
PRICE, WILLIAM REDMAN: was born in Bedeque, Prince Co, Prince Edward Island about 1796, the third child and second son of Richard & Anastasia (Cody) Price. He married Phebe Stang at Bedeque, PE on 31 July 1820. The marriage was performed by Major Hooper, JP, with brother George Price and brother in law James Walsh as witnesses. Phebe was born about 1800 at Bedeque, PE, the daughter of Jesse & Sarah (Wright) Strang. She died in 1881 at Price Settlement near Tabusintac, NB.

William died at Tabusintac, NB at the age of 70. They are buried in Stymiest Cemetery, Tabusintac. The Price family settled on the south side of the Tabusintac River in the rear of the Indian Reserve, about five miles west of Tabusintac Village. They moved to Tabusintac prior to 1844.
00000050 Vol. 2 William R. FORD 1842-1930
FORD, WILLIAM R: born 11 November 1842 in Bathurst, NB, died 11 October 1930 in Whitney, NB. He married Mary Jane Goodfellow, daughter of John Goodfellow and Alice Goodfellow, on 16 December 1884 in Whitney, NB. She was born 4 December 1859 in South Esk, and died 24 May 1946 in Whitney, NB. William was a farmer. William is buried in St. Thomas RC Cemetery, Red Bank and Mary Jane is buried St. Philip’s United Cemetery, Whitney.
00000103 Vol. 2 William Allen McLEAN MCLEAN, WILLIAM ALLEN: was born 1819 in Guysborough, NS and died 20 October 1899 in Whitney, NB. He married Margaret Sloane on 23 December 1852 in North Esk, NB. She was born 1837 in Nova Scotia and died 19 October 1892 in Whitney, NB.

According to family tradition William’s ancestor (possibly grandfather was a retired sea captain known as Sea Wolf who came to Pictou, NS from the Firth of Mull. After marrying, William and Margaret settled in Allison’s Settlement, North Esk Parish, and there they raised their family. They are buried in St. Philip’s UC Cemetery in Whitney.
00000011 Vol. 2 William ASHTON 1793-1870
ASHTON, WILLIAM: was born in 1793 in Devonshire, England. He settled at English Settlement (Trout Brook) following a stop at Newcastle. He married Mary Braund on 30 October 1837. She was born in 1792 and lived until the 1860’s. William died 25 February 1870. It has been recorded that they had six children that were baptised at the Bible Christian Church in England but we have only found evidence that William lived to adulthood. The Ashtons acquired property in English Settlement and later claimed Lot 6 at Big Hole Tract at Curventon.
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.
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.
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).
00000049 Vol. 2 William FITZGERALD 1791-1873
FITZGERALD, WILLIAM: born about 1791 in the Parish of Schull, County Cork Ireland and died 15 August 1873 in Oshkosh, WI, USA. He married Ann Harrigan, daughter of John Harrigan / Horgan, in Ireland. She was born about 1792 in County Cork, Ireland and died in 1880 in Oshkosh, WI, USA. William and Ann came to the Williamstown, NB area in 1830 with eight of their children. They moved to Oshkosh, WI with a number of their children and relatives in 1857. They had at least ten children, though only two are listed below.
00000055 Vol. 2 William GILLIS c1786 - after 1851
GILLIS, WILLIAM: born 30 April 1786, in Barra, Invernessshire, Scotland, the son of John Gillis and Nancy McNeill of St. John’s. He died before 1851 in Maria, Bonaventure Co, Quebec. He married Mary Ann Walsh on 4 September 1809 according to a Catholic Church record. The daughter of James Welch and Ann Martin, she was born about 1796 in Red Bank and died 1856 Bonventure Co., Quebec. William obtained crown grants on the Little South West and Little Sevogle during the first decade of 1800. In 1813 and 1814 he was a Parish Overseer of Roads and Fisheries. The family lived on Lot 14 at Red Bank until around 1828. In 1835 they were living at Little Russea in Gloucester County.
00000059 Vol. 2 William GRAHAM 1796-
GRAHAM, WILLIAM: born about 1796 in Ireland and died after 1861 in Williamstown, NB. He married Jane McLean on 10 August 1828, daughter of John McLean and Isabelle Tweedie, in Northumberland County, NB.

She was born about 1807 in Ireland and died 27 December 1857 in Williamstown, NB. Between 1815 and 1821 William served in the Enniskillin Dragoons in Ireland. After coming to NB he settled in Williamstown and there they raised their family.
00000065 Vol. 2 William HENDERSON c 1794-bef 1861
HENDERSON, WILLIAM: was born about 1794 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland and died before 1861 in New Brunswick. He married Isabella U/K in Scotland. She was born about 1794 in Scotland and died before 1861 in New Brunswick. The family, with at least three children, settled in Derby, then part of Nelson Parish.
00000072 Vol. 2 William HYLAND c1805-after 1883
HYLAND, WILLIAM: was born in County Wicklow, Ireland circa 1805. The latest date known to be alive was 1883. He married Bridget Fardy (or Flaherty) on 20 November 1831 by Father William Dollard, missionary priest at Nelson, NB. William and Bridget settled in Sillikers, NB about 1833, where they raised their family.

William was a farmer and woodsworker and a parish overseer of fisheries. His wife, Bridget, a native of County Wexford, Ireland died on September 28, 1888.
00000076 Vol. 2 William JOHNSTONE 1780-1867
JOHN’s (T) ON (E), WILLIAM: born about 1795 in Robinson, Maine and died in March 1869 at Renous. Upon coming to N.B. he married Elizabeth Newman, daughter of David and granddaughter of John Newman, a Loyalist who had served at Lot 8 along the Renous River. In the 1861 Census for Northumberland County William is described as a farmer and a lumberman. The family was Presbyterian.
00000086 Vol. 2 William MARTIN 1841-1919
MARTIN, WILLIAM: born about 1741 in Morayshire or Banffshire, Scotland and died 17 May 1814 in Red Bank, NB. He married Mary Ann Unknown in Scotland. She was born about 1729 in Morayshire or Banffshire, Scotland and died 9 June 1810 in Red Bank, NB. William was Red Bank’s first permanent European settler. By November 1773 he was settled, by William Davidson, on what later became Lot 14, Red Bank.

Because of the danger along the river during the American Revolutionary War, Davidson gathered most of the settlers on the Grant and took them to Maugerville on the St. John River, where they remained for six years until the war was over.

William Martin along with Angus Gillis and John Stewart remained on the Grant, as they were settled some distance from the mouth of the Miramichi. He later acquired several grants of crown land in and around Red Bank and the Meadows. In 1785 his name appears in the return of the survey done on the state of Davidson & Cort’s grant, at which time he had a household of four. William and Mary Ann are buried at The Enclosure, Wilson’s Point.

Date of arrival: November 1773 from Scotland to the Miramichi.
00000127 Vol. 2 William QUAYLE c1717-after 1851
QUAYLE, WILLIAM: a retired British soldier, legally discharged from Her Majesty’s 10th Regiment of Militia in Ireland, having served during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, was born about 1771 in Ireland and died after 1851, most likely in Williamstown, NB.

He married Christina Barlow in Ireland. She died before 1851 most likely in Williamstown, NB. William and Christina and their six children arrived in New Brunswick aboard the lumber ship “Maria of Harrington”.

William petitioned for land at Williamstown near the allotments granted Robert Tweedie. In 1851 he was a widower, living with his son Robert and working as a shoemaker.
00000156 Vol. 2 William YOUNG c. 1814 - between 1881/1891
YOUNG, WILLIAM: born circa 1814 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, and died sometime between 1881 and the 1891 Census in South Esk. He married Nancy “Ann” Barry before 1849 in Ireland. She was born circa 1824 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland and died 21 December 1882 in Newcastle. Ann was a sister to James Barry. There is a tombstone for Ann in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Newcastle, NB.

William, Ann, Michael and William, Jr. are listed in the Irish Famine Migration to NB 1845-1852, as coming from Cork to South Esk in 1852. In the 1871 South Esk Census, William was listed as a farmer. They made their home near the South Esk-Derby parish line. The family was Roman Catholic.
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.
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


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:

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.
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
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
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
00000243 Vol. 1 (revised) William MATCHETT William Matchett was born around Poles, Cavan in Ireland and died on November 6, 1875 at Sunny Corner. He arrived on the Miramichi before 1822 as he married Mary Fraser in that year. They might have been buried at St. Stephen’s (Old) Cemetery in Red Bank, but this cannot be confirmed as the church records were destroyed by fire.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland before January 1822.

Area of Residence: Sunny Corner, Parish of North Esk, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer and operator of Matchett’s Ferry on the Northwest Miramichi River.
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Mary Fraser on January 17, 1822 at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Red Bank.
Born: c1802 in Sunny Corner, N.B.
Died: in the 1870s.
Parents: John Fraser and Mary Gillis

00000259 Vol. 1 (revised) William PARKS William Parks was born c1802 in Glendermot Parish, County Londonderry, Ireland and came to Northumberland County with his mother, Nancy. William died September 20, 1853 in Red Bank.

Date of Arrival: 1819 from Londonderry, Ireland

Area of Residence: Red Bank
Occupation: businessman, government agent, surveyor & bookkeeper
Married: Jane (Jennie) Cowden November 11, 1823 Chatham
Born: August 1806 in Kirk Maiden by Drummore, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Died: November 20, 1890 in Red Bank
Father: John Cowden
Mother: Martha Gibson
Date of Arrival: 1813 with parents
Religion: Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
00000266 Vol. 1 (revised) William SCOTT William Scott was born in Scotland in 1812, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Scott, all of whom immigrated to the middle district of Newcastle in what was called Rosebank, now Nordin. He purchased three pieces of Lot # 12, and in the 1838 to 1840 period, built a home and workshop there. He was variously called a block master, mast maker, pump maker and in the 1870’s, a cabinetmaker. A letter dated September 2, 1991 states that the Scott home still stands and was lately owned and occupied by the local artist, Richard Howe.

Date of Arrival: from Greenock, Scotland in May 1822.

Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Mary Creighton on November 11, 1836.
Born: c1815
Died: September 12, 1890
Date of Arrival: 1836
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.
00000105 Vol. 2 Travis McTAVISH MCTAVISH, TAVIS: born about 1785 in Inverness-shire, Scotland and died 25 April 1860 in No Co. He married Ann McDonald 1 July 1817 in No Co. She was born about 1788 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died 1882 in No Co. They made their home in South Esk Parish. They are both buried in St. James & St. John UC Cemetery, Newcastle.
00000125 Vol. 2 Thomas Walter PRICE `749-1817
PRICE, THOMAS “WALTER”: born 1749 in Llanarthyerey Parish, Wales and died 1817 in New Brunswick. He married Mary Woods, a cousin, on 24 September 1772 in Wales. She was born 1754 in Laughame, Wales. Rev. Walter Price was a minister with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, coming from Devonshire England to St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada in 1784.

While he was at the St. John’s Church in St. Johns, NF he arranged for a silver patten and chalice to be provided from England. This silver was on display at the Newfoundland Arts Centre in 1997 and now is most probably at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, which was built on the site of that church.

In 1790 Rev. Price moved his family to New Brunswick, settling near Durham Bridge, Parish of St. Mary’s, near Fredericton. He petitioned for land in Ludlow in 1805 as his sons had already moved there, and he was a member of the Legislature of New Brunswick. Walter died of Typhoid Fever in 1817. It is believed he is buried in Nashwaak or St. Mary’s, York Co, NB.
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:
00000255 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas King MURRAY Thomas King Murray was born in Scotland 1805 and died July 18, 1873. Thomas married Margaret Miller in Scotland, where she was born in 1803 to David Miller
and Margaret Haddon. She died in Douglastown on April 17, 1865.

Date of Arrival: from Perthshire, Scotland in August 1824.*

Area of Residence: Alnwick Parish. Thomas received a land grant of 100 Acres on
March 17, 1856.
Occupation: labourer and millman
Religion: Presbyterian
00000084 Vol. 2 Thomas Baker MALTBY 1792-1857
MALTBY, THOMAS BAKER: born 17 June 1792 in Scarborough, York, England, and died 2 February 1857 in Newcastle, NB. He married Margaret Kirton on 11 May 1816 in Monkwearmouth Church, Sunderland, England. She was born about 1790 in England and died 9 June 1868 in Newcastle, NB.

The family sailed from River Wear, Sunderland, England to Quebec in April 1817. They were shipwrecked and picked up by another vessel bound for the Miramichi. They settled in Newcastle. Thomas and Margaret are buried in St. Paul’s Anglican Cemetery, Bushville, Chatham Parish, NB.

Date of Arrival: 1817 from River Wear, Sunderland, England.
00000066 Vol. 2 Thomas HILL 1824-after 1891
HILL, THOMAS: born about 1824 in Ireland and died after 1891 in South Esk, NB. He married Abigail Goodfellow, daughter of John Goodfellow and Mary Williston, on 25 January 1849 by Rev. William Henderson, Presbyterian minister. She was born about 1827 in South Esk and died 4 July 1895 in South Esk. He farmed in South Esk Parish, neighbours to the Goodfellow’s.
00000067 Vol. 2 Thomas HINES 1810-1885
HINES, THOMAS: was born about 1810 in Ireland and died 25 April 1884 in Boom Road, NB. He married Margaret McCarthy in Ireland. She was born about 1819 in Ireland and died 16 October 1887 in Boom Road, NB. Thomas, Margaret and son John arrived from Ireland and settled on a farm at Boom Road. Thomas and Margaret are buried in St. Thomas RC Cemetery, Red Bank, NB.
00000143 Vol. 2 Thomas STEPHENSON 1815-1903
STEPHENSON, THOMAS: born 1815 to Thomas & Elizabeth Traill (Fea) Stephenson of Stremness, Orkneys, Scotland. He died in 1903. Thomas became a shipwright and was taught this trade by Joseph Russell. On 2 January 1840 he married Mary Ann MacDonald, daughter of Stewart and Margaret MacDonald. She was born 1823 and had come to the Miramichi with her parents in 1833 from Ireland. She died 2 December 1850. He married a second time to Annie Gibbs MacDonald, widow of James MacDonald, on 1 April 1858, by Rev. William Stewart. Annie died in 1880.
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.

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:

00000249 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas McLEAN Thomas McLean was born in 1810 in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and died in Napan March 31, 1897. He was the son of John McLean and Elizabeth Aitchison, Scottish immigrants. He was Presbyterian.

Date of Arrival: 1822

Area of Residence: Napan, Chatham Parish
Occupation: farmer
Married: Margaret Isabella McGrath on February 1, 1843 in Chatham
Born: c1826 in Northumberland County to Irish parents
Died: August 29, 1899
00000254 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas MULLIN Thomas Mullin was born c1793 and died after 1881 in Cassilis, Northumberland County. He was possibly the son of John and Elizabeth Mullin, Loyalists who settled in Kings County, N.B. after the American Revolution. They were Church of England and later Presbyterian.

Date of Arrival: before May 1817 from Belisle Bay, Kings County

Area of Residence: Cassilis
Occupation: farmer & lumberman
Married: Anne Fraser on April 14, 1818
Born: c1794
Father: John Fraser
Mother: Mary Gilliss
Died: June 4, 1858
00000261 Vol. 1 (revised) Thomas PORTER Thomas Porter was born in Ireland in 1811 and died in December 1874 in Blackville. A farmer, he married Margaret Sarah Dean on October 26, 1835 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Blackville, N.B. Margaret was born c1811 in Ireland and died November 9, 1889.

Date of Arrival: Thomas came from Ireland in April 1825; Margaret arrived in 1824.

Area of Residence: Blackville Parish, Northumberland County
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
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.
00000268 Vol. 1 (revised) Stephen SHERWOOD Stephen Sherwood was born (date unknown) in the United States, probably in Westchester County, N.Y. or Fairfield, Connecticut. He was married and had most of his family in the U.S. His wife’s name and those of his parents are unknown. The family settled on the S.W. Miramichi where he bought a lot from William Davidson. On July 16, 1784 Stephen received a grant and settled in Derby Parish. D.G. Bell listed Stephen Sherwood as a farmer from Dutchess County, N.Y. His family included two adult females, two children over 10, and three children under 10 when they landed in Saint John, N.B. in June 1783. They had travelled with a company of other Loyalists on the ship ‘Littledale’. Stephen died in Derby Parish in 1823.

Date of Arrival: June 1783 in Saint John and September 1784 in Northumberland Co.

Area of Residence: Derby Parish
00000121 Vol. 2 Samuel PAYNE PAYNE, SAMUEL: was born about 1800 in Ireland and died after 1871 at Red Bank, NB. He married Sarah Ealey on 25 October 1827 in Newcastle. She was born about 1801 in Ireland and died possibly at Red Bank, NB.

By 1847 Samuel and Sarah were living on Lot 25 South, the property being given to him by the Indians in 1838. These acres were part of the site of “Indian Gardens” which had been under cultivation before William Davidson’s arrival in the 1770’s. Samuel held minor Parish offices over the years.
00000239 Vol. 1 (revised) Samuel MacKNIGHT Samuel MacKnight was born c1777 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and died August 27, 1845 in Napan. He married Elizabeth Halliday who was born October 1, 1761 in Scotland and died in Napan May 6, 1862, aged 100 years & 7 months. She was buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Chatham, NB.

Date of Arrival: arrived in Napan, N.B. from Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland with his wife and six children, in October 3, 1816
00000238 Vol. 1 (revised) Roderick MacKENZIE Roderick MacKenzie was born in Scotland in 1808 and died in Black River Bridge, N.B. in 1893. He immigrated to this country in 1840 with his first wife and his son, John, from Aberdeen, Scotland. We are led to believe that Roderick’s first wife was a McLeod. Mrs. MacKenzie died around 1845. Roderick married his second wife, Isabella McDonald, on July 17, 1848. Isabella was the daughter of Alexander McDonald and Grace McAskill of Black River Bridge. Isabella was born in 1810 in Aeryol, Scotland. Roderick and Isabella were buried, along with the two youngest children, in St. Stephen’s Community Cemetery, Black River.

Date of Arrival: June 1840
Area of Residence: Black River, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion:
Married: (1) _________McLeod
(2) Isabelle McDonald on July 17, 1848 in Northumberland County
Born: 1810 in Aeryol, Scotland
Died: between 1881 and 1891
Father: Alexander McDonald
Mother: Grace McAskill
Religion: Presbyterian
00000007 Vol. 2 Robert Walter AMOS 1815-1900
He married Catherine McNeill, daughter of Alexander McNeill and Margaret McPhee, on 1 March 1838 in Lot 65, Queens Co, PEI. She was born 1 February 1813 or 1814 at West River, Lot 65, PEI and died 2 January 1892 in Lower Derby, NB. Joseph was a farmer in the Lower Derby area.

Date of Arrival: 1819 from Scotland to Prince Edward Island, then 1863 to Miramichi.
00000004 Vol. 2 Robert ALFORD 1798-?
ALFORD, ROBERT: born about 1798 in England and died after 1833. He married Abigail Fraser, daughter of John Fraser and Mary Gillis, on 24 December 1823 in Northumberland County. She was born in Sunny Corner, NB and died after 1833. Abigail had acquired a portion of her father’s Lot 10 at Sunny Corner and this is where they lived until 1833, when the family name disappears from North Esk records. It appears the family may have moved up into Quebec..
Date of Arrival: 1814 from England to New Brunswick.
00000045 Vol. 2 Robert FORSYTHE --1819
FORSYTH, ROBERT: born most likely in PA, USA and died 1818-1819 in South Esk, NB. He married Jean/Jane Martin, daughter of William & Mary Martin in February 1788. She died after 17 February 1816 in South Esk. He received a crown grant of Lot 58, within the Micheau Survey between Newcastle and Bartibog in March 1788, but moved to South Esk in 1791 where he acquired Lot 2 from William Gordon in exchange for the down river lot. He held several parish offices over a period of more than twenty years. Robert and Jane are likely buried in The Enclosure, Wilson’s Point, Newcastle, NB.
00000090 Vol. 2 Robert McCOSH MCCOSH, ROBERT: born c 1793, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Family tradition suggests that he arrived in New Brunswick about 1820 as a shipbuilder with Gilmour, Rankin and Co. Robert married Catherine Taylor, the daughter of Robert Taylor and Margaret MacLain on 26 November 1822 in Newcastle. They were both listed as residents of Newcastle at that time. Headstones in St. James & St John Cemetery in Newcastle State that Robert died 21 May 1868, age 75, and his wife Catherine died 6 January 1863, age 62.
00000097 Vol. 2 Robert McKAY MCKAY, ROBERT: born 1791, Nashwaak, York Co, NB, the 4th son of Robert McKay, Jr., formerly of the 42nd Highlanders, and Barbara (McCloud). He married Eleanor (Alice) Parrett on 14 June 1820, Strathadam, NB. She was born c 1796, Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, died 30 August 1882 at the age of 91, Strathadam.

He preceded his wife, dying between 1865 and 1869 in Strathadam. Robert raised his family at Strathadam on the farm. He was a Constable in 1812 and Surveyor of Lumber for a number of terms in the 1820’s 30’s and 40’s, otherwise he was not a public figure.
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
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 _________
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
00000244 Vol. 1 (revised) Robert MAYES Robert Mayes and his brother Henry May(e)s emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland to Napan where they farmed. Robert was born c1789 and died October 15, 1853. He was buried in St. John’s Presbyterian, Chatham. Henry was born c1792 and died after the 1861 census. He remained unmarried. In 1851 he was living with Robert and his family. In 1861 after Robert died, he was boarding and working as a labourer with a local Dickens family who were also farmers. Robert and Henry were Presbyterian.

Date of Arrival: June 1819

Area of Residence: Napan
Occupation: farmer

Robert married in Ireland and raised a family in Northumberland County. There were three known children.

Married: Margaret ____________
Born: c1793 In Ireland
Died: June 14, 1880, aged 87, in Napan
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
00000151 Vol. 2 Richard VERIKER c1825
VERIKER, RICHARD: born in Ireland about 1825. It is believed he was brought to this country by his uncle, Rev. Richard Veriker. He married Mary Ann Kelly of Chatham, daughter of Patrick and Ann (Cavinaugh) Kelly (both from Ireland), on 9 June 1859. The marriage was performed by Richard’s uncle, Rev. Richard Veriker. They resided n Nowlan Settlement where they raised a family of 6 children.
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
00000010 Vol. 2 Raphael ARSENEAU 1845-?
ARSENEAU, RAPHAEL: was born 7 February 1845 in New Brunswick, the son of Moise Arseneau and Cecile Caissy. He was living in St-Paul, Kent Co in 1878, but spent 56 years of his life in Rogersville, Northumberland Co.

On 7 January 1870 in Ste-Marie de Kent he married Genevieve Girouard, born 15 October 1847. They had eight children.
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
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.
00000271 Vol. 1 (revised) Peter SINCLAIR Peter Sinclair was born 1812 in Caithnesshire, Scotland to Andrew and Jane Sinclair.

Date of Arrival: 1830; his parents, 1840

Area of Residence: Sinclair Island, at Whitneyville, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: (1) Huldah Jane Curtis on December 5, 1839 at St. James Presbyterian
Church, Newcastle
Born: April 3, 1817 in Whitney
Died: in the 1840’s
Father: William Curtis
Mother: Susannah Travis of North Esk
Married: (2) Maria Copp on July 20, 1847 in Northumberland County
Born: April 16, 1821 in Roborough, Devonshire, England
Died: April 14, 1904 in Whitney, N.B.
Father: Henry Copp
Mother: Elizabeth Page of Trout Brook
They were buried at St. Stephen’s United Church Cemetery, formerly Red Bank Presbyterian.
00000274 Vol. 1 (revised) Peter SWEENEY Peter Sweeney was born c1837 in Quebec and died before November 1893. He married c1867 Jane McInnis, born May 1, 1850 to John McInnis* and Maria Clark of Nelson Parish, Northumberland County. Peter and Jane were living in Nelson Parish in 1881. In 1891 they were living in Newcastle where Peter was a sawmill labourer. Peter was Roman Catholic, whereas Jane and the children, who were all born in Nelson Parish, were Presbyterian. After Peter’s death Jane married Thomas Dempsey, a widower from Belledune. In 1901 Jane and Thomas were living in Newcastle, along with the four youngest Sweeney children and one Dempsey child, Ethan.

Date of Arrival: from Quebec before 1869

Area of Residence: Nelson Parish
00000082 Vol. 2 Paul LYONS 1794-after 1874
LYONS, PAUL: born circa 1794 in Ireland, died after 1874 in NB, Can. He married Margaret Ryan in Ireland.
Date of Arrival: 1828 from Ireland
00000232 Vol. 1 (revised) Paul LYONS Paul Lyons was born c1794 in Ireland and died after 1871. He married Margaret Ryan in Ireland who was born c1801. They farmed in The Meadows, Northumberland County. The family was Presbyterian.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland in 1828.
00000029 Vol. 2 Patrick DESMOND c 1781-
DESMOND, PATRICK: was born about 1781 in Ireland and died in Nelson Parish, Northumberland Co, NB.

He was married in Ireland and had at least one daughter there. His daughter Catherine accompanied him to Canada.
00000034 Vol. 2 Patrick KELLY c1806-1883
KELLY, PATRICK: was born in Ireland in 1809. He married Ann Cavinaugh, who was also born in Ireland in 1811. They came to Canada in 1835 and settled in Chatham Parish. Ann must have been pregnant during the voyage because their daughter Mary Ann was born in December 1835. Patrick died 16 December 1864. Ann is variously recorded in the census as living alone or with one of her daughters until her death at Chatham on 22 April 1892, at age 81. It has not been established whether Patrick was related to other Kelly families on the Miramichi.
00000079 Vol. 2 Patrick KEATON/KEATING c1806-1883
KEATON/KEATING, PATRICK: was born about 1812 in Ireland and died October 4, 1883 in Whitney, NB. He married Margaret May Hutchison, daughter of James Hutchison and Judith Murphy, on June 13, 1844 in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Nelson, NB. She was born January 1829 in Strathadam, NB and died June 28, 1874 in Strathadam, NB. The family lived on property purchased from Alexander Mutch at Whitney, NB. There were still young children at home when Margaret died in 1874. The family was Roman Catholic; Patrick and Margaret are buried in St Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Red Bank, NB.

Date of Arrival: From Ireland in 1827 per 1851 Northumberland County Census
00000116 Vol. 2 Patrick O'BRIEN O’BRIEN, PATRICK: born before 1816 in Newton Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland and died after 1849. He married Bridget Dorrington on 7 July 1845 in Northumberland County. The daughter of Michael Dorrington and Catherine Grady, she was born about 1816 and died after 1845. Patrick came from Ireland on the ship “Hannah” (or Harriet) which sank off Prince Edward Island. Patrick and his brother Michael eventually made their way to NB and settled on the Little South West Miramichi at Halcomb.
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
00000227 Vol. 2 Patrick KEYS (KEAS, KEAYS, KEYES) Patrick Keys was born in County Tipperary, Ireland c1797 and died July 26, 1877 at Cassilis.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland before the Miramichi Fire in 1825.

Area of Residence: Lot W at Cassilis
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Ann Harrigan on July 16, 1833, conducted by Father William Dollard, Nelson Parish
Born: c1811; bp. September 16, 1811 County Cork, Ireland
Died: 1857
Father: Dennis Harrigan
Mother: Catherine Driscoll
Religion: Roman Catholic
Area of Residence: Williamstown, Northumberland County
Date of Arrival: July 1831
00000263 Vol. 1 (revised) Patrick QUINN Patrick Quinn was born c1761 in Ireland and died at Little Black River, Northumberland County on August 10, 1838 at the age of 77. Patrick petitioned for land in 1829 and in 1830 received a grant of land, 200 Acres, at Little Black River, thirteen miles east of Chatham. On April 22, 1834, his barn, stable, and outbuildings were destroyed by fire. At the time, Quinn’s was the only place of accommodation for travelers between Chatham and Kouchibouguac, Kent County.

Date of Arrival: from Ireland in June 1825

Area of Residence: Little Black River, Northumberland County
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Roman Catholic
Married: Mary _____________
Born: c1771 in Ireland
Died: between 1851 and 1861
00000245 Vol. 1 (revised) Neil McGRAW Neil McGraw was born in Argyllshire, Scotland in 1755 and died in Black River in May 1834 at the age of 79. He served with the 42nd Highlanders during the American War of Independence and received a pension after having been wounded in the arm. Neil and his comrades received land grants on the Nashwaak River, York County prior to his move to Northumberland County where he petitioned for land in 1814. He was buried in St. Stephen’s Community Cemetery, Black River Bridge, Northumberland County.

Date of Arrival: before 1814

Area of Residence: Black River, Northumberland County.
Occupation: farmer
Religion: Presbyterian
Married: Mary Edwards on June 30, 1796 in Northumberland County
Born: c1757 in Essex, England
Died: 1862
Father: Col. Rueben Edwards
Mother:
Religion: Presbyterian
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.
00000281 Vol. 1 (revised) Mungo WILSON Mungo Wilson was born in Dumfries, Scotland on December 12, 1782. He emigrated with his second wife and his family and settled in Napan, Northumberland County, N. B. He died in August 1866 and was buried in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Chatham. He married (1) Miss Moffatt in Scotland and (2) Mary Irving in Scotland before emigrating. Mary was born on January 13, 1798 and died on February 12, 1878.

Date of Arrival: from Dumfries, Scotland c1820.
00000012 Vol. 2 Moses AUSTIN 1780 - ?
AUSTIN, MOSES: born between 1780-1800 in Massachusetts, USA.

In August of 1813, Moses, as a memorialist, petitioned for a lot of 200 acres of upland, joining to a tract of land memorialed for a Mill Tract by Benjamin Stymiest, at the Tabusintac River in the Parish of Alnwick, North’ld Co, NB.

Moses married Eleanor Robinson sometime between August 4, 1813 and September 1, 1821, possibly in Alnwick Parish. Eleanor was born between 1790 and 1800 in New Brunswick.

Moses sold the tract of land, situate lying and being on Portage Brook, known as Lot #2, to Benjamin Stymiest on September 1, 1821. By August 21, 1850 Moses and Eleanor were living in the Williams College Grant division of Aroostook Co, ME, USA.

They both died sometime after July 1, 1860 in Littleton, Aroostook, ME, USA, and are buried in what is now known as the Henderson Cemetery on the Foxcroft Road in Littleton, ME.
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
00000042 Vol. 2 Michael ENGLISH 1824-
ENGLISH, MICHAEL (MICK): born about 1824 in Port Laoise, Ireland and came to Canada with his mother and other members of the family in 1944. He was the son of George and Bridget English. The family was Roman Catholic. He met Ellen Murphy and they had a son. They did not marry.

He married Catherine Murphy, daughter of Mark Murphy and Mary Synnott, on 22 November 1859 at St. Patrick’s RC Church, Nelson, NB. She was born February 1835 in Nelson and died 13 April 1909. Michael died 16 October 1908.

There is a headstone in Malcolm Cemetery, Nelson, for Michael, age 84, and Catherine, age 73. Catherine also raised another son born to Michael, who arrived shortly after they were married.

Date of Arrival: 1844 from Ireland
00000048 Vol. 2 Michael FITZGERALD –bef 1829
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL: born in Ireland and died before June 1829, most likely in North Esk Parish. He married Mary Gillis, daughter of Duffy Gillis, on 18 January 1814 in Northumberland Co. She was born about 1791 in North Esk and died after 1829. The family was Roman Catholic. They were living in Grand Digue, NB when their son James was born, but settled in North Esk shortly after.
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.
00000098 Vol. 2 Michael McKENDRICK MCKENDRICK, MICHAEL: born about 1796 in PEI and died 15 December 1870 most likely in the Red Bank area. He married 1st Louisa Estey on 2 November 1820 in No Co, NB. The daughter of Daniel Estey and Louisa Crowe, she was born in South Esk Parish and died about 1846. He married 2nd Mary White on 13 December 1848 in No Co, NB. She was born about 1803 in County Down, Ireland and died 5 February 1874 in Red Bank Area. Michael was very active in the community, holding a number of parish offices.

He was a successful lumberman and during the 1840’s he acquired most of the assets of the former lumber business of John Cuppage at Red Bank. He was Red Bank’s first postmaster, serving in that position from 5 January 1854 until 1870 when he died. It is believed he is buried in St. Stephen’s United (former Presbyterian) Cemetery, Red Bank, NB as there are records of him calling for tenders in July 1853, to finish the gallery of the new Presbyterian Church that was being built in Red Bank. All the children listed below are children of Michael and Louisa.

Submitted by: Loran & Barb McKay
00000106 Vol. 2 Michael MEAGHER/MAHER/MAHAR MEAGHER/MAHER/MAHAR, MICHAEL: born circa 1786 in Ireland, entered the colony with his wife Mary Kennedy, and family of at least four. He was listed in the 1851 Census as a Roman Catholic, and a School Master. He had farm property at Barnaby River but also lived in Chatham, probably later in life. According to their headstone in St. Michael’s RC Cemetery, Old Section, Chatham, Michael died 2 October 1868, age 82, and his wife Mary Kennedy died 17 July 1892, age 88. Many of his children, in the early 1900’s, moved to Bangor and/or Brewer, ME, USA.
00000115 Vol. 2 Michael O'BRIEN O’BRIEN, MICHAEL: born 1813 in Newton Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland and died 1907 in Stillwater, MN, US. He married Mary Casey on 7 April 1842 in Northumberland County, NB. The daughter of James Casey and Margaret Tobin, she was born 1816 (possibly) in PEI, Can. and died 8 December 1882 in Stillwater, MN, USA. Michael was on the ship “Hannah” (or Harriet) which sank off PEI.

In the 1830’s and 1840’s Michael owned substantial property at Halcomb and there the family lived until about 1848 when they moved to Maine, USA. In 1853 there were living in Stillwater, MN, USA. Michael and Mary are buried in Stillwater, MN.
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
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
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
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.

00000113 Vol. 2 Martin MURPHY MURPHY, MARTIN M: born circa 1808 in Tipperary, Ireland, died after 1871. He married 1st Mary u/k in Ireland, born circa 1810 in Ireland, believed to have died enroute to Canada, 2nd Catherine Kennedy circa 1836 in St. Patrick’s RC Church, Nelson, NB. She was born circa 1817 in either Ireland or Newfoundland, came to New Brunswick around 1836, and died after 1871. Martin was a farmer & a labourer. They were Roman Catholic.
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
00000112 Vol. 2 Marcus MURPHY MURPHY, MARCUS: Marcus (Mark) was born in Ireland about 1801. He made the voyage to Canada as a young man. He married Mary Synnott on 24 January 1830. The marriage was performed by Father Dollard and witnessed by James Murphy and Margaret Deake. Mary was also born in Ireland about 1810 and came to this country in 1826. Among Nowlan Settlement’s earliest settlers, they established a farm and raised their family there.
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
00000111 Vol. 2 Luke MURPHY MURPHY, LUKE: born 22 June 1798, Wexford Co, Ireland, died 19 July 1895 Eagle Point, Chippewa, WI, USA. He married Elizabeth Fraser on 27 July 1840 in Neguac, Northumberland Co, NB. She was born in 1808 in NB, Can, and died 12 January 1895 at Eagle Point, Chippewa, WI.
00000141 Vol. 2 Leonard Albert Andrew SMALLWOOD 1846 - after 1901
SMALLWOOD, LEONARD ALBERT ALDREW: born 15 August 1846 in Prince Edward Island and died after 1901. He married 1st Susan Unknown, born about 1841 in NB, died between 1881 and 1883; 2nd Margaret B. Patterson on 19 April 1883 in Northumberland County, NB. She was born 19 January 1860, and died 23 August 1943, most likely Protectionville (Maple Glen), NB area.

Leonard, Susan and 4 year-old Ernest were living in North Esk Parish in 1881, where Leonard was listed as a farmer. Leonard and his 2nd family, as well as Ernest, were living and farming in Protectionville in 1901. There is a headstone for Margaret in Maple Glen United Cemetery.
00000003 Vol. 2 Justus ADAMS ADAMS, JUSTUS: Justus, when purchasing land at Strathadam in 1831, stated he was a native of New Brunswick. Parents have not been determined at this time. He married Mary McKay, oldest daughter of Robert McKay and E. Alice Parrett on 20 August 1840 in NO Co. She was born 13 May 1822 in North Esk and died 14 July 1902 in North Esk. Justus died 8 April 1883 in North Esk. Justus was a farmer and lumberman, a successful member of the Strathadam community where they raised their 10 children.
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