There is a cove called Brown's across the bay at St. Patrick's. This is likely where they lived.1878 - Brown, Edward (birth from 1921 census)1879 - * Brown, George (Vital Stats, 1753-1893)Brown, Selina - wife of George (Vital Stats, 1753-1893)Brown, ...
I can say very little about the Hanrahans, which is odd as I can place the name in Little Bay from the town's beginnings until into the 1930s. If remembered in living memory please reach out and let me know.1878 -John J. Hanrahan was born in Little B ...
George Osmond and his wife Victoria Wheeler came to Little Bay from Tizzard's Harbour so I'd expect some ties to the Boyde family. They moved to Little Bay between 1878 and 1881 and were still represented there into the 20th century. They arrived wit ...
I only have one lonely reference to the name Hillyer. It’s from the police journals of Sergeant Wells which were published in “All Quiet” by his great great grandson Doyle Wells. At 9am on Feb 15 1886 Constable Meaney served James Hillyer a summons f ...
John William Crane and his wife Catherine arrived in Little Bay between 1878 and 1881. They're involved in the town's higher culture. They each perform at the Public Hall. Further, Catherine's sister Eliza was married to mine captain Philip McVicar. ...
The surnames for 19th century Little Bay are listed here - nearly 600 of them! I plan to link each name to its own page where my research can be sorted publicly. This will be an ongoing project. Let me know which families you're most interested in in ...
Newfoundland has a hidden history. In the last decades of the 19th century there was a mining boom in the Northern region which culminated at Little Bay after a copper discovery there in 1878. It dwarfed all previous finds and garnered the attention ...
JanuaryLittle Bay had been quiet that holiday season - a point of pride for the town’s Temperance movement who eagerly solicited “signatures to a petition asking the Council and House of Assembly to write legislation with regard to the sale and manu ...
January As the year 1887 opened the ban against alcohol came into effect (Twillingate Sun, January 1, 1887). Sergeant Wells hired spies to buy alcohol and report back to him on its sellers (Wells, 164). On January 22nd the cops busted up alcohol op ...
January The year 1886 opened bleak as the fisheries were increasingly dismal and the mining operations had now been slowed for months. In a letter to the editor of the Twillingate Sun that January was written “We have just entered upon another New ...
