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 Cove, Little Bay Brown, John - Wild Bight, Little Bay Byrne, Samuel - Indian Bight, Little Bay Boyle, Peter - Indian Bight, Little Bay Burke, Patrick - Indian Bight, Little Bay Burke, Harold - Indian Bight, Little Bay (25 years) Brown, J ...
Consider this is an official request from Little Bay, Newfoundland to Bayonne, New Jersey to assist with rediscovering an old connection between the two communities. It concerns 30 men from Bayonne who lived in Newfoundland in the mid to late 1880s.While working on my piece about Little Bay’s driver, Walter Rollings, I tracked him to Bayonne. That was the first time I had encountered Bayonne in my work. I shared my article on Mr. Rollings to New Jersey’s genealogical pages hoping it would find i ...
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 earned a reputation as a respectable merchant.His sons; Nicholas, Edward, and Pierce worked to expand the family business and it was to that purpose that Nicholas built the schooner Hiberian in 1880. That was probably the last joyful time for the fam ...
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 the O. It can further have an accent over the first E. And in one final twist a reference I found spelled it Peloughery. Needless to say this one has proven tedious to untangle! I write it as DeLouchrey as that was how Harold signed it in his military ...
Joseph Justis McKinnon (1849-1936) was known to his friends as Joe. He was the machinist who oversaw the hoist engine, pumps, and other surface equipment for the Little Bay mine. He was described as a hardworking and intelligent fellow.Joe had been born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to Scottish immigrant parents. He likely acquired his trade there before moving to Newfoundland with fellow Nova Scotians Joe Deluchery and John Stewart. I’d guess an arrival around 1880 when the British took over oper ...
Richard Grey (1823-1907) was an Irishman who worked the dressing floor of Little Bay’s mine as the right-hand-man to Walter Spinney. He was known for his wit and was a popular character among the working men (St. John’s Daily News, May 13, 1955).He is involved in Newfoundland mining very early with my first reference to him in Newfoundland connected to the Terra Nova operation near Baie Verte in 1860. He went from there to Tilt Cove before finding his way to Little Bay. I can't put him in town u ...
I made a fortunate discovery recently. In January of 1891 the Colonist published the list of parishioners for Little Bay’s Catholic Church. This was in response to Father O’Flynn thanking them for the gift of a new horse. This was a fortunate find in a couple of ways. The first concerns demographic information as there was a census in 1891 as well. So now we have a parishioners list giving us a total number of 200 and a census putting the total number of Catholics at 1104. To account for the di ...
Walter Spinney ran Little Bay mine’s dressing floor along with his right-hand-man: a witty Irishman named Richard Gray. Mr. Spinney was from Cape Breton; he worked under another Nova Scotian: Mine Manager Whyte. Walter Spinney was a member of Little Bay’s Rifle Club, its Billiards and Reading Room Club, and he was on the committee for fire relief after the 1888 fire. He also played the cornet. My last reference to him in Little Bay comes from 1892 in which him and Magistrate Blandford harmonize ...
Spelling variants: Rollings, Rollins, Rollin, and RollmsWalter M. Rollings (1853-1926) was Little Bay’s driver and tireman. He was an Englishman, a Methodist, and the child of Henry Rollingsway and Sarah Hodder. Walter Rollings could read and write having had 8 years of schooling in England. As an adult he showed a continued passion for books and literacy.Walter and Amelia Rollings had married before crossing the pond and they brought with them two small children. One a girl named Nellie and the ...
Spelling variants: Howson, Hawson, Housen, HousonJoseph Beckett Howson (1838-1905) was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in 1838 to Richard Joseph Howson and Ann Worth. He immigrated to Newfoundland as a young man and is recorded first in Burgeo at his wedding to Mary Avery in 1865. He’d relocated to the Northern mining region by 1882 when the Voter’ List places him in Betts Cove. I can’t put him in Little Bay until 1887, however, the presence of an Annie Howson there in 1885 may suggest an ...
