Name
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Wife of/Notes
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Origin/Twsp of
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Died
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Place of burial
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James Shouldice
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Wakefield
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14 ??1864
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Alexander Higgins
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Low
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17 Aug 1864
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William Smiders
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Masham
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15 Sept 1864
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Luke Brown
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Wakefield
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24 Nov 1864
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Sarah Michel
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John Mahon, Reilly witnesses
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Masham
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17 Dec 1864
|
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Hugh Bell Brown
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Eardly
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13 Dec 1864
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Catheren Martin
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Henry Wills
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Wakefield
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6 July 1865
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William Collons
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Wakefield
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1 Sept 1865
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Elizabeth Stewert
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Denholm
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5 Aug 1866
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Elizabeth Kentrick??
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Alwin
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8 Mar 1866
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Alade Farburn
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William Offertson
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Wakefield
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19 July 1867
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Wakefield
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Edward Brown
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Masham
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26 Dec 1867
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Wakefield
|
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Charlot Elizabeth Seaman
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Minister’s daughter
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18 Aug 1868
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Sarah Jane McKitrick
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19 Aug 1868
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Judith Irwin ??
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Robert Shouldice
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Masham
|
10 April 1868?
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Helenar Mullin
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Wakefield
|
2? June 1869
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Ann Jane ____
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Alexander Thomas ______
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Mary Jane Denzell??
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James Jonston
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Masham
|
12 ??? 1870
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John Thompson
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Shouldice & Graham signed
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Masham
|
10 May 1870
|
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Robert Wiggans
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1 April 1871
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Holy Trinity
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Mary Seaman
|
Wakefield
|
16 May 1871
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Thomas Brown
|
Masham
|
4 June 1871
|
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Ellen (Eileen?) Adol??
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James Mullen
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Wakefield
|
4 Aug 1871
|
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William Johnston
|
Portland
|
25 Jan 1871
|
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John James Samuel
|
Portland
|
18 April 1871
|
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Phaby Samuel
|
Portland
|
26 May 1871
|
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Elizabeth Stinke??
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Thomas Mullen
|
Masham
|
4 Jan 1872
|
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Margret Simpson Armstrong
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Robert Armstrong
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Wakefield
|
24 Mar 1872
|
|
Margaret Armstrong
|
d/o above
|
Wakefield
|
30 Mar 1872
|
|
Marjory Murdoch
|
Low
|
5 April 1872
|
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William Murdoch
|
See above, sibling
|
Low
|
8 April 1872
|
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John Bagnols???
|
Lascelles
|
24 May 1872
|
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Isabella Higgins
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Masham
|
20 Sept 1872
|
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Samuel Higgins
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Masham
|
12 Oct 1872
|
Holy Trinity
|
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Elizabeth Wil__
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(Mahon witness)
|
Masham
|
20 Oct 1872
|
|
Wm Thomas Gabriel ??
|
19 April 1873
|
Holy Trinity
|
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Samuel Deagall???
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Masham
|
13 July 1873
|
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Frances Cook
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Robert Nesbit, Mahon & Mitchel witnesses
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Masham
|
29 Oct 1873
|
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James Gordon Kennedy
|
Masham
|
23 April 1874
|
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Mrs Kennedy
|
Adam Kennedy, mother of above
|
Masham
|
23 April 1874
|
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Sarah Elizabeth Brown
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Thomas _____
|
Hawke??
|
25 May 1874
|
|
Andrew Matchet Murdoch
|
(not local)
|
9 Oct 1874
|
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Wm Gordon Fraser??
|
Wakefield
|
11 Jan 1875
|
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Elizabeth Wilkes
|
Wm Craige, O’Hara signature
|
Masham
|
17 Mar 1875
|
|
Jane Mahon
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John Riley (three sons signatures)
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Masham/Irland
|
17 April 1875
|
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Thomas Brown
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Eardly
|
19 Jan 1876
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Anglican Records, Holy Trinity, Lascelles
Well actually I'm going to put up the burial records that the minister for the wider area including Eardly, Low, Wakefield and Lascelles. I don't know the area particularly well so I am including them all. This list is subject to change and to revision when I have more time to take better notes. So here it is, warts and all-- there will be errors so don't take these as gospel. I stopped at 1876 because I ran out of time today. I'll get to the others later if I can. A note here, the minister, John Seaman, was not overfond of providing a great deal of information-- he usually says where someone is from (and I see I missed this in some of my notes) but only very rarely says where someone is buried. IF I follow the reasoning I did with my paper then we have a whole bunch of likely burials at Reilly Cemetery-- anyone who has been to Holy Trinity has noticed the lack of headstones there-- perhaps people were more commonly buried elsewhere.
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Annual Clearance Day
Hello! Long time no see! I haven't dropped off the face of the Earth but I have been incredibly busy (that pesky working for a living eats so much time). Here's a quick update:
There is going to be a general work day at Reilly Cemetery on May 4. We intend to get at it pretty early -- there's brush to clear and tree bits to drag off and, going by the replies to the newsletter, a fair number of people to chat with and get to know. There will be access to the community centre all day (thank you MM for arranging that!) and there will be food. I believe a pot luck is planned-- I'll get back to you on that. If you plan to come fire me an email (see sidebar) and I will alert the organizers. If you want to be on the newsletter list do the same and I will pass it along to the writer. An additional note here that our efforts of last year have definitely resulted in a LOT of positive feedback-- people are very pleased and impressed with what we accomplished at Reilly Cemetery. Thanks again to everyone for everything they did for the cemetery and to help me out.
There is going to be a second cemetery tour in June 15 (though I expect I may practice a bit on the clearing crew) along with a tour of the town of Rupert. I don't know about numbers but it might be an idea to get in touch with the Gatineau Valley Historical Society if you wish to attend.
Sorry, I fell off the bandwagon when it comes to working on the Anglican records-- been too busy doing that gainfully employed thing. There ARE microfilms of it available at the GVHS but they are really hard to get if you aren't fairly precise about what you need (like names and dates). I'm told you can also get specific records from the Anglican church itself for a price. Neither of these options helps general research much and I do still want to get the Anglican records done if only because it will add a fair number of names to my lists (see sidebar). All things in time I guess. I'll see if I can't take a bit of a crack at it over the next week or two just to add a few names and to confirm/disprove my hunch. I might have to limit my efforts to death records.
PS- YES there will be a potluck! HURRAH!
There is going to be a general work day at Reilly Cemetery on May 4. We intend to get at it pretty early -- there's brush to clear and tree bits to drag off and, going by the replies to the newsletter, a fair number of people to chat with and get to know. There will be access to the community centre all day (thank you MM for arranging that!) and there will be food. I believe a pot luck is planned-- I'll get back to you on that. If you plan to come fire me an email (see sidebar) and I will alert the organizers. If you want to be on the newsletter list do the same and I will pass it along to the writer. An additional note here that our efforts of last year have definitely resulted in a LOT of positive feedback-- people are very pleased and impressed with what we accomplished at Reilly Cemetery. Thanks again to everyone for everything they did for the cemetery and to help me out.
There is going to be a second cemetery tour in June 15 (though I expect I may practice a bit on the clearing crew) along with a tour of the town of Rupert. I don't know about numbers but it might be an idea to get in touch with the Gatineau Valley Historical Society if you wish to attend.
Sorry, I fell off the bandwagon when it comes to working on the Anglican records-- been too busy doing that gainfully employed thing. There ARE microfilms of it available at the GVHS but they are really hard to get if you aren't fairly precise about what you need (like names and dates). I'm told you can also get specific records from the Anglican church itself for a price. Neither of these options helps general research much and I do still want to get the Anglican records done if only because it will add a fair number of names to my lists (see sidebar). All things in time I guess. I'll see if I can't take a bit of a crack at it over the next week or two just to add a few names and to confirm/disprove my hunch. I might have to limit my efforts to death records.
PS- YES there will be a potluck! HURRAH!
Friday, 14 December 2012
Low and behold...
Gentle reader, the plot thickens.
When I did my research on cemeteries in Quebec back in the fall of 2011 the consensus was that Methodists and Presbyterians were the denominations represented at Reilly Cemetery, along with a few Anglicans -- Anglicans like Catholics are usually buried in consecrated ground. Nowhere in my research did I come across any mention of any ceremony consecrating the ground at Reilly Cemetery, but that does not mean it never happened-- it just means I haven't seen any written record saying so. At the time I did my archival research the records for the Holy Trinity Church at Lascelles (Anglican) were nowhere to be found. When I put my lists of the confirmed and likely buried at Reilly Cemetery I used only those for which I had a written record. Two thirds of the headstones at Reilly Cemetery did not have corresponding entries in the Methodist and Presbyterian records. The Anglican records recently turned up-- they were there all along, just labelled in such a way as to be misleading. The Anglican diocese was of North Wakefield, the records were listed as being from Low. Well now that I have my hands on these I have started the long process of transcription, along with a fewfools volunteers who have agreed to help me out. There are HUNDREDS of entries and we are doing them all-- baptisms, marriages AND burials. If you'd like to help out drop me a line, we need more willing victims to get this massive job done!
Anyhow, those familiar with this blog will remember that from time to time I could cheerfully choke men of the cloth for their less than adequate record keeping. Again I am experiencing that desire. John Seaman, long time minister at Holy Trinity, only very rarely records a place of burial, I have yet to see a cause of death or place of death, and his spelling and grammar are...interesting. I realize that everyone's handwriting has variations depending on haste, standing or sitting, angle of the paper and all that stuff but I"m pretty sure that someone else wrote out a fair number of the entries (naughty Vicar, NAUGHTY!)-- namely his wife. I base this on the 'hand', and the fact that she could spell and he could not. Mrs Seaman was also passingly familiar with the use of commas. Rev'd Seaman was fond of underlining AD, he often inserted e's or shortened words to suit his fancy or lack of space, and he joined people in Wholey Matrimony. Neither Mrs nor Rev'd Seaman were great with punctuation, for they capitalized almost capriciously and neither used periods. These little, sometimes entertaining, irritants are NOTHING compared to what is coming in another 20 years or so of records for I HAVE SEEN into the future (insert revivalist preacher tone here) and the man who replaced Seaman writes in loops. Seriously, lots and lots of loops with remarkably little by way of dotted i's, crossed t's or any other differentiation of letters. Looking ahead to those records makes me want to cry.
What does all this have to do with Reilly Cemetery? Some of the names that are in those Holy Trinity records are very VERY familiar. Ignoring the vagarities of spelling there are Fairburn, Moore, Mahon, Riley, Shouldice, Shannon, Obre, and Chilcott names in these birth, marriage and burial records. I've recognized a few already but there is, frustratingly, no place of burial given most of the time. I'm wondering if those headstones without Presbyterian or Methodist records may belong to Anglicans...so that would mean that I need to add some names to the likely list and the paper over which I slaved so long and hard tells only part of the story. But that is the fun, and the point, of doing academic work-- there is always more to learn! No story is ever entirely told or unchanging and that appears to be the case at Reilly Cemetery.
When I did my research on cemeteries in Quebec back in the fall of 2011 the consensus was that Methodists and Presbyterians were the denominations represented at Reilly Cemetery, along with a few Anglicans -- Anglicans like Catholics are usually buried in consecrated ground. Nowhere in my research did I come across any mention of any ceremony consecrating the ground at Reilly Cemetery, but that does not mean it never happened-- it just means I haven't seen any written record saying so. At the time I did my archival research the records for the Holy Trinity Church at Lascelles (Anglican) were nowhere to be found. When I put my lists of the confirmed and likely buried at Reilly Cemetery I used only those for which I had a written record. Two thirds of the headstones at Reilly Cemetery did not have corresponding entries in the Methodist and Presbyterian records. The Anglican records recently turned up-- they were there all along, just labelled in such a way as to be misleading. The Anglican diocese was of North Wakefield, the records were listed as being from Low. Well now that I have my hands on these I have started the long process of transcription, along with a few
Anyhow, those familiar with this blog will remember that from time to time I could cheerfully choke men of the cloth for their less than adequate record keeping. Again I am experiencing that desire. John Seaman, long time minister at Holy Trinity, only very rarely records a place of burial, I have yet to see a cause of death or place of death, and his spelling and grammar are...interesting. I realize that everyone's handwriting has variations depending on haste, standing or sitting, angle of the paper and all that stuff but I"m pretty sure that someone else wrote out a fair number of the entries (naughty Vicar, NAUGHTY!)-- namely his wife. I base this on the 'hand', and the fact that she could spell and he could not. Mrs Seaman was also passingly familiar with the use of commas. Rev'd Seaman was fond of underlining AD, he often inserted e's or shortened words to suit his fancy or lack of space, and he joined people in Wholey Matrimony. Neither Mrs nor Rev'd Seaman were great with punctuation, for they capitalized almost capriciously and neither used periods. These little, sometimes entertaining, irritants are NOTHING compared to what is coming in another 20 years or so of records for I HAVE SEEN into the future (insert revivalist preacher tone here) and the man who replaced Seaman writes in loops. Seriously, lots and lots of loops with remarkably little by way of dotted i's, crossed t's or any other differentiation of letters. Looking ahead to those records makes me want to cry.
What does all this have to do with Reilly Cemetery? Some of the names that are in those Holy Trinity records are very VERY familiar. Ignoring the vagarities of spelling there are Fairburn, Moore, Mahon, Riley, Shouldice, Shannon, Obre, and Chilcott names in these birth, marriage and burial records. I've recognized a few already but there is, frustratingly, no place of burial given most of the time. I'm wondering if those headstones without Presbyterian or Methodist records may belong to Anglicans...so that would mean that I need to add some names to the likely list and the paper over which I slaved so long and hard tells only part of the story. But that is the fun, and the point, of doing academic work-- there is always more to learn! No story is ever entirely told or unchanging and that appears to be the case at Reilly Cemetery.
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