I’ve been trying to find the story of Constable John Nowlan, Little Bay’s first police officer. I don't think I've been overly successful. However, in the attempt I have found the context of his arrival and I think it tells another, broader tale of t ...
Recently I received a request to put together what I've got on the Power family in Little Bay. Well, I've come to suspect more than one Power family were present. All appeared to be Catholic but little else connected them. I had a lot of pieces that ...
The town of Little Bay is planning a memorial plaque to honour those who lost their lives working Little Bay Mines. I’ve been asked to find the men killed there in the 19th century. I have two deaths that are proving difficult to name. I’m missing th ...
Spelling variants found: Loader, Loder, Lowder, Loather, Loathers, Louther, LouthersMy first reference to the Loader family in Little Bay appears on the 1882 electoral list for the region. It has recently been suggested that voters had to have lived ...
I’ve been exploring the possibility that Little Bay has a missing lighthouse. It’s a dubious proposition but not without some circumstantial evidence. It concerns a man named Edward John Paddock.Edward was born at Ward’s Harbour on August 12th 1854 t ...
This is a pretty sweet find. When I'm working on a family I first build a timeline of the references that place them in town. It's an attempt to pinpoint when someone was there before framing their presence in its larger context. Getting a list of na ...
The Eagen family was in Little Bay by 1882 and remained in town until at least 1904. John and Patrick Eagen worked as miners. John has a series of run-ins with the law due to public drinking. His wife was Ann. However, it is Patrick’s wife Catherine ...
Austin, Peter - Little Bay Armstrong, Michael - Little Bay Atkins, George - Little Bay Aspell, John - Little Bay Bennett, James - Little Bay Burt, John - Little Bay Buddin, Henry - Woodford Cove, Little Bay Butler, William - Woodford ...
Fair warning; this is a macabre and melancholy story.John Cantwell (1804-1889) was from Ballyhesan, County Waterford in Ireland. He moved to Newfoundland in 1824 when he was 20 years old. He settled and raised a family in Tizzard’s Harbour. There he ...
Spelling variations: DeLouchrey, Delouchery, Delucry, Deluchry, Deloughry, Deloughery, Deloughrey, Delouckry, Delucre, Delacour - those are the easy ones. They can also be found with a separation between with the first E and L or between the L and th ...
