The Sinnotts came to Little Bay from Placentia to work as miners. They were Catholic. Peter was born in 1850 and David was born in 1851. The first record of the name associated with Little Bay is from July of 1880 when Little Bay’s mine manager, Adol ...
The Furey family came to Little Bay from Harbour Main and are first found in my records in 1882. They left Little Bay for the mine in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia after the 1904 fire. The family consisted James and his sons. They worked as fishermen and re ...
The Kennedy family were present in Little Bay by 1879. They were Catholic. They came from the Avalon. The Kennedys largely left Little Bay after 1904, likely a result of the fires. Many returned to the east coast but some went to Glace Bay, Nova Scot ...
The Hayes family are present in my Little Bay records by 1888. They arrived from Bay Roberts via the mining communities of Tilt Cove and Bett’s Cove. They came sometime after 1882. The first generation consist of Willam, Thomas, and Mary Ellen. The s ...
The Benson family arrived in Little Bay from St. John’s in 1879. Johnathan J. Benson may very well have been the first shopkeeper in town. He owned several fishing schooners which employed people from Little Bay to serve as fishermen off the cold coa ...
Patrick Burke was born in Fogo in 1859 to Myles and Margaret Burke. He traveled to Little Bay with his widowed mother and was present in the town by 1888. I have reference to a Margaret Burke in Little Bay in 1883 which could place the family there e ...
The history of the Colbourne family and the history of Little Bay are intertwined. When the Colbourne family arrived in Newfoundland they set up shop in Twillingate but many relocated to Wild Bight (known now as Beachside). It began in the 1850s. The ...
The Armstrong family of Witless Bay immigrated to Little Bay via Betts Cove at some point prior to 1886. I’d guess it was after 1882. One of my first records of them is the obituary of Rosanna Armstrong. She died in Little Bay in 1886. It reads “At L ...
OverviewThe Anstey family first appears in my records for Little Bay in 1880. They were Methodists. According to information derived from a MyHeritage family tree ran by Hubert Glyn McKay and a sign at the Springdale Heritage Centre sourced to Chelsl ...
https://historyoflittlebay.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Boyd_Arthur_Arthur_Boyd_interview_February_14_1986.mp3 According to the 1986 interview with Arthur Boyde embedded above the Boyde family came from England when his great grandfather landed ...
