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White Bay Region ~ Baie Verte District

Bett's Cove - Anglican Mission Marriages 1876 - 1878

From Church Records held at Botwood

They records come from about 18 original, large volumes which were stored at the Anglican Church in Botwood. The earlier records were found in a box in the basement while preparations were on-going for the 50th anniversary of the Church. Some of volumes survived a fire and a lot of the pages were partially burned. I was fortunate to be able to take the volumes home to transcribe them ..... this is very unusual with Church records. These volumes will be stored either in the Anglican Archives for Central Newfoundland or the Botwood Heritage Society Archives. I copied all the records on diskettes to be stored at the Church to eliminate any further handling of the fragile pages. A lot of the handwriting was hard to decipher so there are bound to be errors.

Transcribed by PAUL & JUDY GILL, 2000. While we have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors.

DATE	GROOM	BRIDE	INFORMATION
June 28, 1876	Joseph REED, fisherman, Leading Tickles	& Rachel NOSEWORTHY, of Samuel & Elizabeth, Leading Tickles	at the residence of Mrs. Cox
January 21, 1878	George TUCKER, age 23, miner, of George, sail maker	(illegible)
February 6, 1878	Thomas SHINER, age 28, fisherman, Stocking Harbor	& Mary SHELLEY, age 26, of George
March 30, 1878	Richard A SCOTT, age 22, miner, of Richard, fisherman, St. John's (deceased)	& Mary THOMAS
April 20, 1878	Alfred JAMES, age 20, mechanic, of Elijah		horse ?, Leeds
May 15, 1878	Louis Edouard AUBIN, age 28, confectioner, Courdeville, France	& Mary Jane CRAGG, age 20
Sunday, July 14, 1878	Beniah KING, age 20, labourer, Harbor Grace	& Harriet Ann PROWSE, age 20, of William
Sunday, July 14, 1878	Charles THOMAS, age 20, labourer, of the Labrador	& Sarah Jane BUDGEL, age 17, of Elias
August 7, 1878	Charles Stacey ROWLAND, age 21, of George, St. John's	& Sarah Elizabeth COLBOURNE, age 21, of Josiah
December 26, 1878	John HOUNSELL, age 28, fisherman, of George, formerly Stocking Harbor	& Maria SHINER, age 25
December 13, 1878	Andrew Gray GULTAN, age 32, engineer, formerly of (illegible), Tifeshine, Scotland

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Name in Record	Description of Error	My Name