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 ...
When I was a child I thought my Uncle Paul served in the Little Bay army. It was a belief that got a few chuckles from the adults around me. Since I’ve started uncovering Little Bay’s history I’ve found the concept of the Little Bay army to feel a li ...
The summers of my childhood were spent in Little Bay. I fished for trout out of a small pond off the main road. It’s called Lind’s Pond. I didn’t understand the name’s significance to Newfoundland’s military history when I played by that pond as a ch ...
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 ...
This is what I have on the Dillon family in Little Bay. The miner John Dillon (pictured) was present by 1882 and two of his sons remained in town into the 1950s. I’m pretty proud of my research work on this one. I remembered a Dillon reference in the ...
John Croak - the first Newfoundlander to receive the Victoria Cross, KIA Aug 8th 1918Michael HeadDavid Dobbin - joined via the Canadian militaryP. NobleJohn Dillon (5553)Matthew Dillon (5535)Thomas Dillon (5536)William Osmond (4114) - KIA Oct 3rd 191 ...
