Horace Montagu Herbert (1849-1919) oversaw several large construction projects in Little Bay in the later half of the 1880s. He moved to the town from Nipper's Harbour in 1886 after obtaining a contract to build a road connecting the town to Hall's B ...
Spelling variants: Escott, Hiscock Richard Hiscott (1858-1930) was a miner who was living in Little Bay from at least 1882 until 1894. Sources: 1858 - Birth of Richard Hiscott (His birth in St. John's is dated 1848 on a MyHeritage page but without ...
Spelling variants: Warford, Wharford, Wauford, WarlordLittle Bay was once again covered by international media after the tragic drowning deaths of the Warford family in December of 1883. They were traveling to visit Little Bay from their home on the ...
The Mansfield family is first found in my Little Bay records in 1885. They are members of the Church of England but unlikely to be tied to the Temperance Movement. The family is absent from the 1882 Voter’s list for Little Bay so I’m placing their ar ...
My first record of the Folks family being at Little Bay is for 1883. They’d arrived from Betts Cove following the German mining operations. The men worked as miners when mining operations were lucrative and otherwise switched into fishing. Some were ...
I don’t have very much for the name Sexton. The name is absent from the 1882 Voter’s list and my first record of them in Little Bay appears in the summer of 1888. They were living on the New Line Road about a mile from the shore. I feel it’s safe to ...
I was contacted recently by David Bergeron, curator for the National Currency Collection. He is working on the Betts Cove Mining Company’s currency for an upcoming publication and was curious about my findings on the Little Bay scrip ...
Giles Foote worked as Shopman and Cashkeeper for the Mining Company Store location in The Bight. I believe he arrived in Little Bay from Tilt Cove in 1880 as the family name was present in town that year. He was voted MHA for the Twillingate district ...
The Stuckless family came to Little Bay from Twillingate in 1883 or ‘84. They were members of the Church of England. Brothers Albert and William arrived with family including two possibly single mothers; Susanna and Emma Stuckless who I suspect were ...
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 ...
