Michael J. Sutton (1861-1918)Constable Michael Sutton was 25 years old when he arrived in Little Bay. The Irish born policeman had been ordered to the unofficial capitol of the northern mining region by Inspector Fawcett on December 1st 1886. He trav ...
Someone asked me to compile my references for the last name Sully but when I looked into it I only had one reference to a Mr. W.T. Sully in the RC school reports. I found a handful of references to a Mr. W.T. Sculley in the newspapers and realized th ...
The Dunphy family first appears in my Little Bay records in 1884. They are Roman Catholic and seem to have come from the Avalon. They relocate to Nova Scotia in the mid 1890s likely for mining work at Glace Bay before finally ending up in the United ...
The Connors family first appear in my sources for Little Bay in 1881. They were Roman Catholic and came to the mines from Sound Island. They remain in town until at least the early 1920s before appearing in Buchans. 1881 John Connors present (Lind ...
The Coleman family arrived in Little Bay at some point prior to 1882. I’d guess an arrival between 1878 and 1881 as they likely followed the influx of Newfoundlanders seeking work at the mines. There they would have received training in the industry ...
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 ...
Thomas and Josephine Cleary came to Newfoundland in 1820 from Ireland. Thomas worked as the keeper for the Amateur Theatre in St. John’s. This may explain his grandchildren’s later interest in performance. Our tale follows their second child, a boy n ...
The Delaney family came to Little Bay from Bay Roberts. My first reference to them in the area is from 1883. They are absent from the Voter’s list for 1882 further suggesting 83 for their arrival. Captain John Delaney was then 38. His son Edward was ...
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 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 ...
