EASTERN SHORE FAMILIES:

EASTERN SHORE FAMILIES:

GENEALOGICAL NOTES ON

SHEET HARBOUR

INCLUDING THE LOCALITIES OF

SHEET HARBOUR

WATT SECTION

EAST RIVER

WEST RIVER, SHEET HARBOUR

LOCHABER MINES

MALAY FALLS

MARINETTE

MALAY FALLS

SOBER ISLAND

SHEET HARBOUR PASSAGE

HARDWOOD ISLAND

CARROLL ISLAND

ROBERT KIM STEVENS

MARITIME IMPRINTS

Robert Kim Stevens

or any portions thereof, in any form, including electronic.

First Edition ‑‑ August 2001

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Table of Contents

Introduction..................................................................................................................................... 7

General Introduction to the Series...................................................................................... 7

Acknowledgments................................................................................................................ 9

Sources for Research on Sheet Harbour........................................................................ 10

The Families of Sheet Harbour.................................................................................................. 12

Anderson............................................................................................................................. 12

Andrews.............................................................................................................................. 13

Appleton.............................................................................................................................. 14

Archibald............................................................................................................................. 15

Baker................................................................................................................................... 16

Balcom................................................................................................................................ 17

Barkhouse........................................................................................................................... 25

Beeswanger........................................................................................................................ 29

Behie................................................................................................................................... 31

Belmore............................................................................................................................... 35

Bezanson............................................................................................................................ 37

Biggar.................................................................................................................................. 38

Blackie................................................................................................................................. 39

Bradley................................................................................................................................ 40

Brown................................................................................................................................... 41

Brundige.............................................................................................................................. 42

Burgoyne............................................................................................................................. 43

Butler.................................................................................................................................... 44

Cameron............................................................................................................................. 45

Chisholm............................................................................................................................. 47

Chittick................................................................................................................................. 49

Cleveland............................................................................................................................ 50

Coady.................................................................................................................................. 51

Coffin................................................................................................................................... 53

Combs/Coomb................................................................................................................... 54

Conroy................................................................................................................................. 55

Cook.................................................................................................................................... 56

Corner/Connor.................................................................................................................... 59

Creelman............................................................................................................................. 62

Creighton............................................................................................................................. 63

Cruickshanks...................................................................................................................... 64

Descendants of James Cruickshanks.................................................................... 64

Descendants of Daniel Cruickshanks..................................................................... 65

Descendants of Angus Cruickshanks..................................................................... 66

Currie................................................................................................................................... 68

Curry.................................................................................................................................... 76

Dean.................................................................................................................................... 79

Doherty................................................................................................................................ 81

Drake................................................................................................................................... 82

Duncan................................................................................................................................ 83

Dunn..................................................................................................................................... 84

Dwyer................................................................................................................................... 85

Farnell.................................................................................................................................. 86

Farris................................................................................................................................... 90

Fisher................................................................................................................................... 91

Flemming............................................................................................................................ 93

Fraser.................................................................................................................................. 94

Frost..................................................................................................................................... 99

Gallagher........................................................................................................................... 100

Gault.................................................................................................................................. 101

Geddes............................................................................................................................. 102

Gourley.............................................................................................................................. 103

Graham............................................................................................................................. 104

Grant.................................................................................................................................. 105

Graves............................................................................................................................... 107

Greer................................................................................................................................. 108

Griner................................................................................................................................. 109

Hall..................................................................................................................................... 110

Descendants of John ALakehouse@ Hall............................................................... 110

Descendants of William Hall.................................................................................. 112

Harding.............................................................................................................................. 118

Harnish.............................................................................................................................. 119

Hart.................................................................................................................................... 123

Hartling.............................................................................................................................. 124

Helpard.............................................................................................................................. 125

Henry................................................................................................................................. 131

Hill...................................................................................................................................... 133

Hoff.................................................................................................................................... 134

Hogan................................................................................................................................ 135

Holden............................................................................................................................... 136

Holman.............................................................................................................................. 137

Horton................................................................................................................................ 139

Hudson.............................................................................................................................. 140

Hurd................................................................................................................................... 141

Hyson................................................................................................................................. 143

Jack................................................................................................................................... 144

Jackson............................................................................................................................. 145

Jeffrey................................................................................................................................ 149

Johnson............................................................................................................................. 151

Kelly................................................................................................................................... 152

Kenney.............................................................................................................................. 153

Killian................................................................................................................................. 158

King................................................................................................................................... 159

Knight................................................................................................................................ 160

Knox................................................................................................................................... 161

Lambert............................................................................................................................. 162

Lang................................................................................................................................... 163

Lawlor................................................................................................................................ 164

Lawson.............................................................................................................................. 171

Legg.................................................................................................................................. 172

Levy................................................................................................................................... 173

Lindsay.............................................................................................................................. 174

Logan................................................................................................................................ 175

Lowe.................................................................................................................................. 179

MacDonald/McDonald..................................................................................................... 186

MacKintosh....................................................................................................................... 191

MacMillan.......................................................................................................................... 192

Malay................................................................................................................................. 193

Markie............................................................................................................................... 197

Martin................................................................................................................................. 199

McArthur............................................................................................................................ 203

McCarthy........................................................................................................................... 204

McCondachie................................................................................................................... 209

McDan............................................................................................................................... 210

McInnes............................................................................................................................. 211

McKiel............................................................................................................................... 213

McKenzie.......................................................................................................................... 215

McLean............................................................................................................................. 217

McLellan............................................................................................................................ 218

McLeod............................................................................................................................. 219

McMaster.......................................................................................................................... 220

McNeil............................................................................................................................... 221

McPhail............................................................................................................................. 222

McPhee............................................................................................................................. 223

McPherson........................................................................................................................ 227

McQueen........................................................................................................................... 229

Metcalf............................................................................................................................... 230

Mi=kmaq Families............................................................................................................ 231

Cope ........................................................................................................................ 231

Francis..................................................................................................................... 232

Newall ...................................................................................................................... 232

Thomas............................................................................................................................. 233

Toney ....................................................................................................................... 233

Paul........................................................................................................................... 233

Miller.................................................................................................................................. 237

Munro................................................................................................................................. 238

Murphy............................................................................................................................... 242

Descendants of John Murphy................................................................................ 242

Descendants of Adam Murphy.............................................................................. 242

Descendants of Martin Murphy.............................................................................. 243

Descendants of Martin Murphy.............................................................................. 244

Descendants of Patrick Murphy............................................................................ 247

Murray................................................................................................................................ 251

Nelligan............................................................................................................................. 252

O=Brien.............................................................................................................................. 253

Owen................................................................................................................................. 254

Pace.................................................................................................................................. 255

Parker................................................................................................................................ 257

Patterson........................................................................................................................... 258

Pennie............................................................................................................................... 259

Perry.................................................................................................................................. 260

Descendants of Patrick Perry................................................................................ 260

Descendants of John Perry.................................................................................... 261

Power................................................................................................................................ 262

Purcell................................................................................................................................ 263

Quillinan............................................................................................................................. 266

Redmond.......................................................................................................................... 270

Descendants of David Redmond.......................................................................... 270

Descendants of Patrick Redmond........................................................................ 271

Rhyno................................................................................................................................. 273

Richards............................................................................................................................ 274

Robinson........................................................................................................................... 276

Rood.................................................................................................................................. 277

Rose.................................................................................................................................. 278

Ross.................................................................................................................................. 279

Rumley............................................................................................................................... 280

Russell............................................................................................................................... 281

Rutledge............................................................................................................................ 283

Sample.............................................................................................................................. 289

Scott.................................................................................................................................. 290

Sheehan............................................................................................................................ 291

Simonson.......................................................................................................................... 292

Smith................................................................................................................................. 293

Snyder............................................................................................................................... 294

Spears............................................................................................................................... 295

Spinney............................................................................................................................. 299

Sterling.............................................................................................................................. 300

Sullivan.............................................................................................................................. 301

Sutherland......................................................................................................................... 302

Tabor................................................................................................................................. 304

Talbot................................................................................................................................. 305

Taylor................................................................................................................................. 306

Thorpe............................................................................................................................... 307

Tracey................................................................................................................................ 309

Tupper............................................................................................................................... 310

Verge................................................................................................................................. 311

Walsh................................................................................................................................. 313

Wambolt............................................................................................................................ 314

Ward.................................................................................................................................. 318

Watson.............................................................................................................................. 319

Watt................................................................................................................................... 320

Wessel.............................................................................................................................. 324

Westhaver......................................................................................................................... 328

Whitman............................................................................................................................ 332

Williams............................................................................................................................. 334

Wittneber........................................................................................................................... 335

Wright................................................................................................................................ 336

Yeadon.............................................................................................................................. 337

Young................................................................................................................................. 338

Appendix A................................................................................................................................ 339

Abbreviations................................................................................................................... 339

Appendix B................................................................................................................................ 340

Ministers of Religion........................................................................................................ 340

Summary of the Series............................................................................................................. 345

Introduction

General Introduction to the Series

The series of publications under the general title of Eastern Shore Families has been created to provide the reader with a brief historical overview and present the genealogies of families who lived in the villages along the seacoast between Eastern Passage and Marie Joseph, eastward from Halifax, Nova Scotia. This series is the result of an effort using a genealogical perspective to approach the Eastern Shore as an entire region. The material presented in these volumes can be used effectively by individuals with Eastern Shore ancestors interested in the specifics of their own family history, as well by persons with a more general interest in the economic, social and medical history of the region. Genealogy has been the means of approach to these micro‑histories of the Eastern Shore villages, but the genealogies have not been developed as the only objective.

The scope of this series has been to develop genealogies of the families who settled on the Eastern Shore before the end of the nineteenth century, and to place those genealogies within a local historical context. There was considerable and diverse migration to this region ‑‑ Royalist farmers from the former Southern Colonies, disbanded British soldiers and local Nova Scotian militiamen, artisans and laborers moving out from Halifax, descendants of AForeign Protestants@ leaving a crowded Lunenburg County, farmers moving to the coast from farther up the Musquodoboit River and Upper Stewiacke, and a few immigrants arriving directly from Europe.

There also was considerable emigration from the Eastern Shore communities. These departing settlers initially went primarily to the Halifax/Dartmouth metropolitan area and the other Maritime Provinces, later to Ontario and British Columbia, the mill towns of Massachusetts, the woods of Maine and the gold fields of California. In addition, there were a number of temporary sojourners to the Eastern Shore, individuals, some with families, who came to try to improve their fortunes on the Eastern Shore, did not prosper there and decided to move on, usually after only a few years. Gold miners and lumbermen are stereotypical examples of the temporary resident, but there were many who also came to fish and farm but soon moved elsewhere to seek a better future. Separate genealogies for these temporary residents have been prepared only if these families intermarried with established Eastern Shore families, left children behind to introduce their family surnames to the region, or remained long enough to have appeared in at least two different sets of census or vital records. I have been more generous in presenting details of the earlier families Ajust passing through@ than I have been with later visitors.

For all the romance that can be and is being read into the Eastern Shore now that the region has become Adiscovered@ by the North American urbanite seeking seaside real estate offering easy accessibility and a bit of local color, for most of the last two centuries the Eastern Shore has been a very marginal economic zone characterized by grinding poverty for its inhabitants interrupted only by a short‑lived boom that impacted little on the established residents and left behind little to enrich their lives. Aside from Mi=kmaq Indians, fugitive Acadians and a few isolated and temporary fishermen, the Eastern Shore was not settled in any determined way until the end of the American Revolution, some thirty years after better land elsewhere in Nova Scotia had been distributed and developed. Except for a small area around Chezzetcook Inlet, land along the Eastern Shore is classified by the Lands and Forests as unsuitable for any agricultural use. That fact did not stop many Eastern Shore families from farming it and raising their families on the produce of this thin rocky soil, but it does suggest the difficulty that they had in doing so. Inshore fishing was usually plentiful in the early years, but its pursuit did not lead to a life of abundance for the fisherman. The Eastern Shore fisherman, coastal or off‑shore, as well as the farmer and lumberman, led a very hardscrabble existence. The most prosperous Eastern Shore natives engaged in long distance shipping on locally produced craft, and the title of Captain was the most sought local appellation of honor. All too many ship captains and members of their crews, however, were lost a sea from storms, wrecks, accidents or tropical disease; life was Hobbesian for the seafarer also.

Readers born in the second half of the twentieth century may find it difficult to relate their present lives to much of what is recorded in these family histories ‑‑ life on the Eastern Shore was similar to life on the Western frontier all across North America, yet without the real possibility for a successful new beginning. The Eastern Shore was not an empty land only lacking a capable population to exploit its resources, but a land short of resources positioned geographically to inhibit the exploitation of what little there was, and under the political and financial control of persons who did not have a nativist vision of the future. At the social level, it was a life without antibiotics, where diseases for which we all now routinely receive immunizations in childhood and have been eradicated or controlled in most of North America were everyday killers, where a wife and mother could legitimately wonder each day if all the members of her family would be together again that evening, or if she herself would survive her next childbirth or succumb to endemic tuberculosis. It was a life where the men would often be away from home for long periods of time. Separations were of days for the lumberman, weeks for the coastal fisherman, months for the seaman and for the deep‑sea fishermen, years for South Atlantic whalers and Pacific sealers and the seeker of fortune elsewhere, forever in the case of those who died abroad, were killed in accidents away from home or who just chose to disappear never to be heard from again. Most children along the Eastern Shore in the nineteenth century were raised in what were effectively one‑parent families living in poverty and dwelling in housing that would now be considered sub‑standard. Perhaps the significant proportion of Eastern Shore natives who did not marry, or who married but had no children, made this choice voluntarily because of their memories of being raised in a small house full of hungry, smelly and noisy children, and did not relish a repetition of the experience from the adult perspective.

Family size for most of the nineteenth century was generally at the biological maximum ‑‑ generally a child every two years over a twenty‑year breeding period. Some of the genealogies demonstrate, however, the effect of human interference, even unintentional, in human biology. The beginnings of the revolution in artificial birth control that culminated a century later in Athe pill@ can be noted in Halifax as early as the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century, but effective birth control techniques (abortion aside) did not reach the Eastern Shore until well into the twentieth century. In the pre‑industrial era, children of stable couples came along every two years with a regularity on which family historians can depend, a regularity brought about by hormonal changes linked to breast feeding of infants. Breast feeding, however, was not necessarily possible or desired by all mothers. In the 1870s the means to avoid it ‑‑ bottle feeding using rubber nipples ‑‑ was introduced on the Eastern Shore.

The havoc caused to the natural spacing of births by lack of breast feeding in the absence of other contraceptive measures is immediately evident in the genealogies for that period. A woman over a 20‑25 year reproductive period would in the first half of the nineteenth century expect to have a family of 10‑12 children, but the birth figures were hitting 20 children per some families late in the nineteenth century, before artificial contraception became generally available. The dramatic increase in family size in the late nineteenth century also impacted on the economic life of the Eastern Shore residents. For those large families it represented almost a form of ritualized poverty, the consumption of resources in caring for children, resources that otherwise could have been used in capital accumulation, higher education for some of their children, or personal comfort. These children in the population bulge also reached working age at precisely the time when the Eastern Shore natural resources‑based economy was in serious and permanent decline, greatly increasing the pressures on these same children to leave the Eastern Shore. For these young persons, who were the future of the Eastern Shore, there was no future on the Eastern Shore and many were forced to look elsewhere for work and to build their lives.

The family histories in this series have not been edited to neo‑Victorian standards, and data has been presented as described in contemporary public records, which for the most part were explicit. The information presented relating to illegitimacy, suicide, incest, abortion, genetic‑based maladies and criminal activity has been available for many decades to anyone who cared to look for it. It is difficult to answer many twentieth century social questions with nineteenth century data, but genealogists fare better than other social scientists because the nineteenth‑century mind was concerned about recording accurately the course of human biology. It is worth noting here that the apparent mortality rate for children born to single mothers on the Eastern Shore was unusually high compared to that of children in two‑parent families. Were these children valued and cared for less, making them more susceptible to disease? Or does the data not imply mortality, but disappearance, suggesting either adoption by families outside the region or local social rejection, encouraging early and permanent emigration? It is perhaps also worth noting such births seem to be more prevalent in the elder rather than younger daughters in large families.

In the genetic sense, things will never be the same again on the Eastern Shore. The physical isolation of the nineteenth century Eastern Shore resident has broken down, the off‑shore islands once inhabited now abandoned, the farm at the edge of the woods long overgrown. The automobile ‑‑ as the ship, horse and railroad were never able to do ‑‑ has opened up the Eastern Shore in both directions. It is easier to get out and to get in. The result has been a genetic mixing of new arrivals with the old established families, and an infusion of an entirely new gene pool into the region. Natural selection only works when there is an adequate selection from which to choose, and for much of the past the gene pool in the Eastern Shore villages was dangerously close to lacking sufficient diversity for those who chose mates close to home. This enlargement of the gene pool can only be a positive development for future generations who now may escape some of the problems seen in the past, but it does make things much more complicated for the genealogist. Even with a population now smaller than it was in the nineteenth century, the same kind of study of Eastern Shore families being presented here would be more difficult to duplicate in the twentieth. The current Halifax telephone directory, which includes the listings for the Eastern Shore, contain many surnames not yet found in the burial plots.

The Eastern Shore has been both a place and a state of mind for two centuries now. This series of volumes on Eastern Shore Families should serve to make it more accessible to those of us who care.

Acknowledgments

The data for this book was assembled by an author who lives far from the Eastern Shore ‑‑ most of it was researched while I was living in Rome, Italy, a delightful spot but not exactly a Mecca for investigation into Nova Scotian local history. That it has been possible to assemble such information on a locale so distant is by itself is a tribute to the persons and institutions in Nova Scotia who have collected data and documents on the history of the Eastern Shore and who were willing, often at their personal inconvenience, to make this data available to other interested parties. I have thanked you individually in the past. Now my general thanks to all of you; I hope you feel these volumes have made your efforts worthwhile.

The central repository of published and unpublished information on Nova Scotian history, including family history, is the Public Archives of Nova Scotia (PANS), now known as the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM). While some recent effort has been made to expand holdings of vital records from other than Anglican churches along the Eastern Shore, it appears no special effort has been made over the years to seek out and acquisition Eastern Shore material ‑‑ even in spite of the Eastern Shore origins of some of the archival staff. Nonetheless, the NSARM does yeoman service within unfortunate budgetary constraints in making available to researchers what it does have in its collections, and makes good allowance for those resident at some distance from Halifax. I was especially well served by Philip L. Hartling (himself an author of a local history and genealogy work Ahis@ section of the Eastern Shore), who was kind enough to steer me to useful collections in the NSARM inventory, as well as work out ways in which I could gain access to the information they contained. Julie Morris, the Genealogical Archivist at the time I was researching, was also very helpful on some of the family history problems. I have contributed to the NSARM all the original source material on Eastern Shore families that I acquired from sources other than NSARM collections, so that genealogists who may wish to ascertain the source of information presented in this volume or look for leads I may have not presented will have available to them whatever documentation I was able to gather and which served as the basis of opinions here presented.

For the genealogical researcher not based at Halifax, some of the collections of the NSARM are also available on microfilm from the Family History Center (FHC) of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (LDS) at Salt Lake City, Utah. Copies of microfilms in the FHC collection can be viewed at any of the branches of the FHC, located in Mormon stakes across North America and in many foreign cities. My special thanks to the volunteer staff of the FHC at Kensington, Maryland, who put up with me for many hours and who kept the machinery of research working. I thank both the NSARM for cooperating with this effort to microfilm its records, and the LDS Church itself for permitting non‑members like myself to use the FHC facilities on an equitable basis.

Many individuals, most descended from or related to Eastern Shore families, provided me with considerable help on the individual genealogies. These entries would have been far inferior had it not been for their willingness to guide me along paths they had already trodden and share their lessons learned and data already collected. My particular gratitude to Jennie M. Reid, L. Shirley McCormick, Mary D. Meisner, Cecil Mitchell, Amelia A. Gerard, Nancy Lobban, Lynda M. Conrad, Ray H. Blakeney, Joan M. Durand, Sterling Leslie Prest, Esther Cameron, Lorraine Ernst, Shirley Whitehead, Robert M. Ritcey, William O. Horne, Eugene Smith, Clarence Biggs, Sally Lomas, Richard Walsh, Douglas Johnson, Lyla MacIntosh, Walter C. Mission, Scott Winston Teal, Mildred W. Malafey, David L. Gilchrist, Earle A. Hubley, Rev. Francis J. Melanson, Clifford L. Merck, Daryl Josey, Anna MacDonald, Donald J. Pace, Jennie Webber Siteman, Gary R. Jennex, Douglas N. Borgal, Alan L. Fullerton, Herbert A. Strum and Shirley Floeser.

Special recognition must go to Terrence M. Punch, Nova Scotia=s premier genealogist, who has kept in close touch with me over the years this work has been in preparation, offering sage advice, nuggets from his personal research collection and an experienced editorial eye. He always provided the best Areality check@ I could get. Thanks Terry, I hope that seeing this series in print makes your efforts with me worthwhile.

Sources for Research on Sheet Harbour

This volume on Sheet Harbour is very different from the others in the Eastern Shore Families series. That is, it provides the genealogies of a much greater number of families who lived only for a time at Sheet Harbour, the largest town on the Eastern Shore and the center of the lumber industry, but who did not associate themselves over the long term with Sheet Harbour or the Eastern Shore. As a result of these patterns of migrations, many of the family genealogies are presented only in the sketchiest format, and covering only the period of their Sheet Harbour residence.

As slim as some of them are, however, these genealogies do complement work published elsewhere. Specifically, migration into Sheet Harbour seems to have come from via land from the valley of the Musquodoboit River, and via water from Lunenburg County and from the North Shore. Families established elsewhere along the Eastern Shore will find their Sheet Harbour incarnations, if any, contained in the genealogies of their home village.

There is some material available on the history of Sheet Harbour and its families, but very little of it is in print, either on paper or in microformat. Where records relate to a specific family name only, I have included an annotation after that family=s genealogy; the discourse below refers to records in which information pertaining to more than a single family, or the community in general, can be found.

These also were the decades for which some school lists with names of pupils exist, providing the names and ages of some of the Sheet Harbour children, at times the only record of their existence.

The establishment in 1847 of St. James Anglican Church at nearby Port Dufferin and the permanent assignment there of Rev. James Breading marked the beginning of the well‑documented era for those few Sheet Harbour families who were Anglican, or who at least permitted Rev. Breading to provide them religious services. The original Port Dufferin parish registers to 1950 are available on microfilm for consultation only at the NSARM. Highly recommended are the extracts from the Presbyterian Witness from 1848 to 1907, prepared and published in eight volumes by Mrs. Shirley McCormick. Annabell Ells also prepared extracts from the Halifax papers to 1901 that related to Sheet Harbour and the Eastern Shore.

The Roman Catholic parish registers of St. Peter=s, Sheet Harbour, are useful for the study of Roman Catholic families at Sheet Harbour, mostly of Irish origin. The civil birth, marriage and death records were kept for Sheet Harbour from 1864 to 1877, and are available at the NSARM and on microfilm from the FHC system.

The entire run of detailed census population schedules from 1827 through 1901 for Sheet Harbour is available on microfilm. The 1851 census is indexed (Ronald Verne Jackson, ed., Nova Scotia 1851, North Salt Lake, Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986.) The population schedules for 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 are also available on microfilm for consultation at the NSARM and for purchase from the NAC, as well as on loan through the FHC system and interlibrary loan to public libraries. A surname index for the 1871 census of Eastern Shore districts, including Sheet Harbour, was created by Philip Hartling and published in the Newsletter of the Genealogical Committee of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, and a surname index of the 1871‑81‑91‑1901 census for all of rural Halifax County, including Sheet Harbour, has been assembled by Patricia L. Smith and published by the Bridgewater Business Information & Services.

During the second half of the century much more attention was paid to the Eastern Shore, including Sheet Harbour, by the Halifax press, and one can gather a sense of what was going on in the region. The AGolden Age@ impacted somewhat on Sheet Harbour, and gold was mined nearby, but this spurt of economic activity left no lasting impact on the genealogy of the area. The attention being paid to the Eastern Shore by the mining activity, however, is also reflected in the increase of secondary source material.

Transcriptions of the tombstones in the cemeteries at Sheet Harbour and vicinity have been made and were very useful. There is a collection of these at the NSARM which were made, mostly by Terrence Punch in the 1970s, and contributed to the NSARM. Some more up to date transcriptions are available at genealogical internet web sites. Wills when written have been recorded, but were not too useful for Sheet Harbour. Few of the early residents wrote them (few residents could write), and when they did they did not contain any genealogically significant data not available elsewhere. Land transaction records provided a few clues, but also were not the rich source they have been for other areas. Both wills and land records are available on microfilm at the NSARM and via the LDS Family History Centers.

The Families of Sheet Harbour

Anderson of West Sheet Harbour

Hollis Anderson, known as AHolly,@ was b. 13 Sept. 1873 in Cumberland Co. He m. Eliza Jane Coady, 30 Jan. 1901 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. George Ambrose. She was b. 10 May 1884 at Sheet Harbour, the daughter of James Coady and Catherine Ann Faulkner. He was a Presbyterian lumberman and his family lived at West Sheet Harbour in 1901.

children:

i. Harold Bernard, b. 26 Aug. 1901, Sheet Harbour.

ii. Theresa Jean, b. 20 Sept. 1905, Sheet Harbour.

Elverton Anderson was b. ca. 18__. He m. Laura Dean. His family lived at Sheet Harbour.

children:

i. Arnold Joseph, b. 9 Sept. 1902, Sheet Harbour.

ii. Mary Evelyn, b. 12 March 1904, Sheet Harbour.

John Anderson m. Isabella Kenney (b. 1867)

Andrews of Sober Island

John Andrews was b. ca. 1800 in Nova Scotia (probably in Lunenburg Co.), of German ethnic origin. He m. Sarah Catherine Butler (or perhaps Boutilier). She was b. ca. 1805, as a widow lived with her son in law, Andrew Markie, in 1881, and probably is the AElizabeth Andrews@ who d. 21 Feb. 1888 on Sober Island, æ. 87 years. His family lived originally at St. Margarets Bay. He was enumerated on Sober Island in 1861‑71 as an Anglican fisherman. He d. 22 Nov. 1876 on Sober Island, æ. 76 or 78 years, bur. from St. James, Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Ellen, b. ca. 1830, at home in 1871, with mother in 1881, on Sober Island in 1891, issue: (surnamed Andrews).

a. James William, b. 15 June 1867, Sober Island, with mother in 1891.

ii. Isabella Elizabeth, b. 8 June 1840, St. Margarets Bay, m. George Burgoyne, 11 June 1868 on Sober Island, d. 15 June 1924 at Sheet Harbour Passage.

iii. Mary Caroline, b. ca. 1843, not at home in 1871, m. Andrew Markie, 6 Jan. 1863 at St. James, Port Dufferin, lv. Sober Island.

Appleton of Sheet Harbour

Henry Appleton was b. ca. 18__. He m. Ann McDade. His family was Roman Catholic and lived at Sheet Harbour.

children:

i. John, b. ca. Feb. 1857, bapt. 6 July 1857, St. Peter=s, Sheet Harbour, æ. 5 months.

ii. Robert, b. 29 June 1858, Sheet Harbour.

Archibald of Sheet Harbour

David W. Archibald was b. 24 Nov. 1831 (per 1901 census, 1829 on tombstone) at Musquodoboit, the son of John Barnhill Archibald and Mary McCallum. He left home at an early age and removed to Halifax. He m. Mary Jane Hall, 10 March 1864 at Halifax by Rev. Peter G. McGregor and again on 12 March 1864 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. John Sprott. She was b. 7 Nov. 1847 at Sheet Harbour, the first child of John Hall and Ellen Talbot, and d. 1915. He was a lumber merchant, miller and trader, and his family lived at Sheet Harbour in 1871‑81‑91‑1901. He d. 1920 and both are buried in the Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

children:

i. Mary A., b. ca. 1865, Sheet Harbour, m. John W. Bollong, 29 June 1889 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. Samuel Rosborough, d. 3 Sept. 1898, æ. 33 years, bur. Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

ii. Nettie, b. 20 Dec. 1868, Sheet Harbour, m. John H. A. Bayer, 12 Nov. 1892 at her father=s residence by Rev. Samuel Rosborough, lv. Halifax.

iii. child, b. 27 July 1870, Sheet Harbour, d. 27 July 1870, æ. 2 days (sic, birth register lists as male, death register gives as female).

iv. Elbridge, b. 13 Nov. 1871, Sheet Harbour, m. Kate Irwin (b. 26 June 1873 at Wine Harbour), 30 Nov. 1898 at Halifax by Rev. William W. McNairn, lumberman, lv. Sheet Harbour (1901), issue:

a. Katherine, b. 23 July 1900.

v. George Herbert Storr (AHarbie@), b. 21 March 1874, Sheet Harbour, d. 27 Jan. 1880, bur. Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

vi. Cassie Graham, b. 9 Dec. 1876, Sheet Harbour, d. 11 Jan. 1880 at Sheet Harbour, æ. 32 years.

vii. Hart, b. ca. June 1878, Sheet Harbour, d. 7 Dec. 1886 at Sheet Harbour, æ. 72 years, bur. Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

viii. Nellie, b. 18 Jan. 1882, Sheet Harbour, at home in 1891‑1901.

L Ellen Cumminger, b. ca. 1825, lodged with this family in 1871.

L David Stich, b. 2 May 1875, a clerk in a general store, lodged with this family in 1901.

Franklin Archibald was b. ca. 18__. He m. Annetta May ______. She was b. ca. 1898 and d. 2 March 1921, bur. St. Andrew=s, Sheet Harbour.

Jonathan Archibald was a miller at Sheet Harbour in the census of 1838. He headed a family of himself, wife, one daughter between 6 and 14 years old, and one son and two daughters over age 14.

children:

i. Margaret, b. ca. 1826, attended school at West River, Sheet Harbour, in 1839.

Matthew Archibald, of Port Dufferin, m. Martha Murdoch, using a license dated 1 Feb. 1820.

Matthew Archibald was b. ca. 18__. He m. Jane _____. His family lived at Sheet Harbour in 1848 and then removed to Upper Musquodoboit.

children:

i. Mary, b. 18 Oct. 1848, Sheet Harbour, m. John Kirker, 15 Nov. 1879 at Dartmouth, lv. Quoddy.

Baker of Sheet Harbour

Thomas Albert Baker was b. 30 Nov. 1843 in ?Haythorne, Cumberland Co.?, the son of E. M. L. and A. O. Baker. He m. Sarah Elizabeth McPhee, 2 Sept. 1873 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. Alfred B. Dickie. She was b. 1 Nov. 1849 at Sheet Harbour, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah McPhee, and d. 26 Feb. 1915, æ. 65 years. He was enumerated as a Universalist (or Presbyterian) surveyor and manager of vessels at Watt Section, Sheet Harbour, in the 1871‑81‑91‑1901 census, but he gave his occupation as a laborer and lumberman when he registered his children=s births. He d. 1936 and is buried with his wife in the Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

children:

i. Elma Mae, b. 12 June 1874, Sheet Harbour, school teacher at Watts Section in 1901, m. Walter Glassey (of Ellershouse, Hants Co.), 8 May 1902 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. W. W. McNairn.

ii. Winifred, b. 2 Feb. 1876, Sheet Harbour, d. 19 May 1876.

iii. Winifred (AWinnie@), b. 1 Jan. 1888, Sheet Harbour, at home in 1901.

Balcom of Sheet Harbour

1. Samuel¹ Balcom was b. 16 June 1734 at Sudbury, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Balcom and Deborah Boice. He m. Mary Brigham, 14 Jan. 1761 at Sudbury, Mass. She was b. 25 Sept. 1741 at Sudbury, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Brigham. He removed to Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, about 1761, and settled at Paradise, Annapolis Co.

children:

i. Sarah, b. ca. 1772, Paradise, m. George Starratt, d. 1824.

ii. Lydia, b. ca. 1774, Paradise, m. Abijah Parker, in 1789, lv. Granville.

iii. Henry, b. 1768, m. Ann Morse, lv. Paradise, d. 28 Aug. 1850 at Paradise, issue:

a. Jonas, b. 1797, m. Salome Parker (who d. 20 March 1876 at Paradise, Annapolis Co.), d. 4 Nov. 1870 at Paradise.

b. Ann, b. 1799, m.(1) Silas Parker, m.(2) Joseph Wade.

c. Elizabeth, b. 1803.

d. Lucy, b. 1805, m. Jacob Durland.

2. iv. John Jonas, b. 1770, m. Mary Chase.

v. Reuben, b. 1772, m. Phoebe Messenger, 17 March 1796 at Wilmot, lv. Paradise, d. 6 May 1840 at Paradise, issue:

a. Lydia, b. 1797, m. Jacob Durland.

b. Mary, b. 1799, m. Rev. Obed Parker.

c. Ebenezer, b. 1803, m. Helen Longley.

d. Maria, b. 1806, d. 1806.

e. Reuben, b. 1811, m. Dorcas Emily Longley.

f. Lovicia (or Leovice), b. 1814, d. May 1877 at Paradise, never married.

g. Eliza, b. 1816, m. Obadiah Neily.

h. William Elder, b. 1819, lv. NB.

vi. Joseph Brigham, b. ca. 1774, Paradise, m. Phoebe Tufts, in 1801 in Annapolis Co., lv. Paradise, d. 1840 at Paradise, issue:

a. Silas, b. 1802, m.(1) Ann VanBuskirk, m.(2) ______ (______) Amberman.

b. Major, b. 1804, m. Mary Roax.

c. Lavinia, b. 1806, m. John Remson.

d. Aurelia, b. 1808, d. unmarried.

e. William, b. 1810, d. unmarried.

f. David Harris, b. 1812, m. Mary Willett.

g. Seraphina Ann, b. 1815, m. Paul Amberman.

h. Phyllis, b. 1816, d. unmarried.

i. Theresa, b. 1819, d. unmarried.

j. Leonora, b. 1821, m. Jacob Durland.

k. Joseph Allen, b. 1823.

l. Samuel Judson, b. 1827, m. Elizabeth Banks.

m. Jonas W. H., b. 1829, m. Mary Banks.

vii. Asa, b. ca. 1778, Paradise, m. Anna Brundige, 7 Feb. 1799 at Digby.

viii. Lucy, b. ca. 1780, Paradise, m. Abednego Parker, in 1803.

ix. Phoebe, b. ca. 1782, Paradise, m. John McCormick, in 1803, d. 1861.

2. John Jonas² Balcom (Samuel¹), known as Jonas Balcom, was b. 1770 at Paradise, Annapolis Co. He m. Mary (Bushnell) Chase, of Halifax, and removed to Sheet Harbour. She b. ca. 1771, the daughter of John Bushnell and Elizabeth Woodbridge and the widow of _____ Chase, and d. 28 Dec. 1838 at Sheet Harbour, æ. 67 years (Colonial Churchman, 24 Jan. 1839). In 1827 he was enumerated at Sheet Harbour as a Presbyterian farmer working ten acres and heading a family of three males and one female. One member of his family had died in the 12 months prior to 30 Sept. 1827. In 1838 he was enumerated at Beaver Harbour as a farmer heading a family of himself, wife and one male between 6 and 14 years old. He d. 6 May 1840, æ. 78 years, and is buried in the Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

children:

i. Sarah, b. ca. 1788, m. James McPhee, 14 Nov. 1807 at St. Matthew=s, Halifax, lv. Sheet Harbour, d. 15 June 1856, æ. 68 years, bur. Sheet Harbour.

ii. Ann Elizabeth (ANancy@), b. ca. 178_, m. John Behie, 19 Nov. 1808 at St. Paul=s, Halifax, lv. Sheet Harbour.

3. iii. Samuel, bapt. 19 Oct. 1800, m. Mary Ann McCarthy.

iv. Mary Esther, b. ca. 180_, m. Archibald Currie, 29 Nov. 1826 at St. Paul=s, Halifax, lv. Sheet Harbour and Halifax.

4. v. Henry, b. 20 Oct. 1804, Sheet Harbour, m.(1) Hannah Farrell, m.(2) Mary Quillinan.

vi. Lydia, b. ca. 1806, Sheet Harbour, bapt. 14 Nov. 1807, m. Stutely Horton, 18 July 1825, lv. Sheet Harbour.

3. Samuel³ Balcom (Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. ca. 1800 at Sheet Harbour, and bapt. 19 Oct. 1800. He m. Mary Ann (ANancy@) McCarthy, probably ca. 1828 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. John Sprott. She was b. 19 Oct. 1811 at Sheet Harbour, the daughter of George McCarthy and Jane Currie, and d. 21 Jan. 1888 at Sheet Harbour Ain her 78^th year.@ He was a master mariner and made voyages to Labrador for bird eggs. In the census of 1851‑61‑71‑81 he was enumerated at West River as a Presbyterian farmer and laborer. He is said to have had six sons and six daughters. He d. 3 Nov. 1882 at Sheet Harbour.

children: (by Nancy McCarthy)

i. Mary Jane, b. 30 Dec. 1828, Sheet Harbour, m. John Hall, lv. Sheet Harbour.

ii. Sarah Ann, b. ca. 1831, Sheet Harbour, m. Archibald Bollong, 11 Nov. 1853 at St. James, Port Dufferin, described at marriage as Asecond daughter,@ d. 17 Dec. 1894 at Pope=s Harbour, æ. 63 years.

iii. Henry J., b. ca. 1833, seaman at Sheet Harbour in 1871m not in 1881.

5. iv. Jonas, b. ca. 183_, m. Isabella Benvie.

v. Lydia, b. ca. 1838, Sheet Harbour, m. John M. McLean (a farmer), ca. Sept. 1858 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. John Sprott (Presbyterian Witness, 2 Oct. 1858), lv. New Glasgow (1871), issue:

a. Mary Jane, b. ca. 1860.

b. William J., b. ca. 1862.

c. Margaret, b. ca. 1865.

d. John S., b. ca. 1867.

e. Almira, b. ca. Jan. 1871.

vi. Margaret Sophia, b. 31 Dec. 1842, Sheet Harbour, m. James Taylor, d. 2 Jan. 1930 at Somerville, Mass., æ. 87 years, bur. Brighton, Mass., issue:

a. Samuel Balcom, b. 27 June 1860, Taylorville.

b. Alexander Hall, b. 8 May 1864, Taylorville.

c. Ida Minerva, b. ca. 1866.

d. Annie, b. 6 Sept. 1868, Taylorville.

e. Edmund Walter, b. 20 Aug. 1870, Taylorville.

f. Sarah Margaret, b. 15 July 1872, Taylorville.

g. James Henry Arthur, b. 3 July 1874, Taylorville.

h. David Livingston, b. ca. 1876, Taylorville.

i. Thompson Bell, b. 4 March 1879, Taylorville.

j. Janet Isobel, b. 22 July 1880, Taylorville.

k. Simon Glenroy, b. 31 Dec. 1884, Taylorville.

6. vi. Samuel James, b. 16 July 1844, Sheet Harbour, m. Margaret Atkins.

vii. Lavinia, b. ca. 1846, Sheet Harbour, m. Thomas McMullen (a wheelwright from Little River), 25 March 1866 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. James Waddell (Presbyterian Witness, 10 Nov. 1866).

*. viii. George Washington Sprott, b. ca. 1850, Sheet Harbour, m.(1) Jessie Blackwood Smith, m.(2) Rhoda Jane Taylor.

ix. Almira, b. 4 Feb. 1852, Sheet Harbour, m.(1) Edward Archibald Bollong, 2 Feb. 1871 at Pope=s Harbour, lv. with father in 1881, m.(2) George Edmund Publicover, 11 Oct. 1882 at Sheet Harbour, lv. Ecum Secum in 1901.

x. Reuben, b. ca. 1854, m. Jessie Maria Dunn, 7 March 1878 at the Manse, Sheet Harbour, by Rev. Alfred B. Dickie, captain of the Edith R. Balcom engaged in sealing in the South Atlantic, removed to BC in 1902, picked up a sealing crew in Halifax in Sept. 1905 bound for a voyage to the Falkland Islands, d. Victoria, BC.

4. Henry³ Balcom (Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 20 Oct. 1804 at Sheet Harbour and was bapt. 25 Nov. 1826 at St. Mary=s, Halifax, æ. 22 years. He m.(1) Hannah (or Honora) Farrell, 29 Nov. 1826 at St. Paul=s, Halifax. He m.(2) Mary Quillinan, 11 Jan. 1832 at St. Mary=s, Halifax. She was b. at Sheet Harbour, the daughter of Edmund Quillinan and Susanna Wyham. He removed from Sheet Harbour to Port Dufferin before 1827, when he was enumerated in the census there as a ship builder. In the 1838 census of Beaver Harbour he is shown as a farmer heading a family of two sons and one daughter under six, and two males and two females, all over 14 not heads of households, himself and wife. He was a Member of the House of Assembly (MPP) for Halifax Co., 1863 to 1871, during which time he opposed Confederation. He was a farmer at Port Dufferin in 1881. He d. 12 July 1882 at Port Dufferin in his 78^th year.

children: (by Mary Quillinan)

7. i. Edmund F., b. ca. May 1833, m. Catherine O=Leary.

8. ii. Samuel, b. 5 May 1835, m. Ann O=Leary.

iii. Mary Ann, bapt. 8 July 1837, æ. 2 months, m. Owen Donahue, lv. Halifax, d. 7 Dec. 1858.

9. iv. Henry Jonas, b. 2 Sept. 1839, Port Dufferin, m. Mary Ann Bollong.

10. v. John Horton, b. 11 Oct. 1841, Port Dufferin, m. Mary Jane Smiley.

vi. Susanna Elizabeth, b. ca. 1844, Port Dufferin, m. John A. MacKasey, 15 June 1863 at St. Mary=s, Halifax, mariner, lv. Port Dufferin and Halifax, d. 5 Feb. 1915, issue:

a. Mary Anna, b. 6 Sept. 1864, Port Dufferin, lived with her maternal grandparents in 1871‑81.

b. John Andrew, b. 21 April 1872, Port Dufferin.

c. Edward Samuel, b. Oct. 1874, West Quoddy, bapt. 13 Nov. 1874, æ. 1 month.

11. vii. James Patrick, b. 31 March 1846, Port Dufferin, m. Margaret Breading Whitman.

viii. Margaret M., b. 7 May 1849, Port Dufferin, m. Edward Donahue (a merchant from Eire), 7 Nov. 1869 at St. Peter=s, Halifax, lv. Halifax, d. 29 Oct. 1930.

5. Jonas⁴ Balcom (Samuel³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. ca. 183_. He m. Isabella Benvie, Feb. 1864 at Musquodoboit by Rev. John Sprott. He built square‑rigged schooners at Parrsboro. He died abroad.

children:

i. David Wilbert, b. 29 April 1869, Sheet Harbour.

ii. Ostella, b. 22 April 1871, Sheet Harbour.

iii. Stanley, b. 26 Feb. 1876, Sheet Harbour.

6. Samuel James⁴ Balcom (Samuel³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 16 July 1844 at Sheet Harbour. He m. Margaret Atkins, 6 Feb 1872 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. Alfred B. Dickie. She was b. 7 Sept. 1850 at Harrigan Cove, the daughter of Henry Atkins and Frances Snow. He was a master mariner and his family lived at Sheet Harbour next to his parents in 1881‑91. In 1901 he was enumerated at Halifax.

children:

i. Alfred Dickie, b. 2 Dec. 1872, Sheet Harbour, d. 17 April 1915.

ii. William James, b. 16 July 1875, Sheet Harbour, d. 3 Oct. 1954.

iii. Burton Miller, b. 14 Sept. 1877, Sheet Harbour, d. 3 Oct. 1951.

iv. Jessie Blackwood, b. 9 Nov. 1881, Sheet Harbour, m. Arthur M. Foster (a land surveyor from Bridgewater), 12 Oct. 1915 at Halifax, d. 28 May 1968.

v. Minnie Frances, b. 7 July 1884, Sheet Harbour, d. 1976.

vi. Alice May, b. 2 Oct. 1888, Sheet Harbour.

*. George Washington Sprott Balcom () was b. ca. 1850 at Sheet Harbour. He m.(1) Jessie Blackwood Smith, 14 Jan. 1880 at the Manse, Upper Stewiacke, by Rev. Edward Grant and Rev. J. C. Meek. She was b. ca. 1860 at Upper Stewiacke, the daughter of Rev. James and Jessie Smith, d. 8 Feb. 1882, æ. 22 years, bur. Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour. He m.(2) Rhoda Jane Taylor, 24 Feb. 1890 at Wittenburg, Colchester Co. She was b. 28 March 1865 at Chaswood, the daughter of William E. Taylor and Sarah Pulsifer. He was the captain of the brigantine Laurella engaged in whaling and West Indies trade. InSept. 1900 he purchased a new vessel at Halifax to go on a sealing expedition in the Pacific. He d. ca. 1925 in British Columbia.

children: (by Jessie Blackwood Smith)

i. Samuel Henry, b. 31 Oct. 1880, Sheet Harbour, d. 1918 on board the SS Green off of Vancouver Island.

children: (by Rhoda Jean Taylor)

ii. Zilla May, b. 8 Feb. 1891, Halifax, m. Yogi von Helmut Kudinov, a AWhite Russian@ from St. Petersburg.

iii. Laurence Howard

iv. Ola

v. William Seward

vi. Raymond Joseph

vii. child, b. 8 Dec. 1900, Victoria, BC, d. 9 Dec. 1900, Victoria.

viii. Roberta Edith, b. 17 Aug. 1902, Victoria, BC, d. 18 March 1969 at Victoria.

ix. Arthur Sterling

7. Edmund F.⁴ Balcom (Henry³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. ca. May 1833 at Port Dufferin and bapt. 27 July 1833 at St. Mary=s, Halifax, æ. 2 months. He m. Catherine O=Leary, 30 April 1862 at St. Paul=s, Halifax. She was b. ca. March 1841 at West Quoddy and bapt. 18 April 1841, æ. 6 weeks, a daughter of John O=Leary and Ann Somerville, and d. 13 May 1897 at Port Dufferin, æ. 55 years (Presbyterian Witness, 22 May 1897). He was a ship captain and his family lived at Port Dufferin in 1881‑91. He d. 18 Dec. 1898 in the Victoria General Hospital at Halifax and was buried at Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Henry, b. ca. 1863, at home in 1891, seaman.

ii. John Sprott, b. ca. Jan. 1865, Port Dufferin, d. 20 Sept. 1868 at Port Dufferin of brain fever, æ. 3 years, 8 months.

iii. Thomas Michael, b. 22 Aug. 1867, Port Dufferin, m. Lucy Catherine Smiley, 27 Jan. 1898 at Port Dufferin by Rev. McLeod Harvey, ran a hotel at Port Dufferin in 1901, issue:

a. Edith, b. 15 Sept. 1898, d. 18 Nov. 1906 at Port Dufferin, æ. 8 years.

iv. Mary Ann O=Leary, b. 20 July 1869, Port Dufferin, bapt. 20 Aug. 1901, St. Peter=s, Sheet Harbour.

v. Laura Maud, b. 3 Dec. 1871, Port Dufferin, d. 24 Dec. 1872 of measles.

vi. Margaret Everleigh, b. 25 Oct. 1873, Port Dufferin, at home in 1891.

vii. Mary Ann, b. 21 Oct. 1880, Port Dufferin, m. Daniel Benjamin MacDonald, lv. West River, Sheet Harbour.

viii. Sidney, b. ca. 1884, Port Dufferin.

ix. Stanley, b. 24 Aug. 1886, Port Dufferin, lived with brother Thomas in 1901.

8. Samuel⁴ Balcom (Henry³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 5 May 1835 and bapt. 9 July 1835 at St. Mary=s, Halifax. He m. Ann O=Leary, 22 Jan. 1861 at Port Dufferin by Rev. James Breading. She was b. 1840 at Newdy Quoddy and bapt. 5 Aug. 1840, æ. six months, a daughter of John O=Leary and Ann Somerville, and d. 4 April 1879 at Port Dufferin, æ. 40 years (Acadian Recorder, 15 April 1879). He was a farmer and ship master and his family lived at Port Dufferin in 1871. He was a hotel and store keeper at Port Dufferin in 1881. He d. 3 June 1887 at Port Dufferin, æ. 52 years, and his will was read Nov. 1894.

children:

i. Margaret Everleigh, b. 20 Oct. 1864, Port Dufferin, d. 15 Feb. 1873 at Port Dufferin of measles.

ii. Edward H., b. 21 Aug. 1866, Port Dufferin, m. Margaret Matilda Hilchie, 2 Sept. 1889 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. Samuel Rosborough, merchant at Port Dufferin in 1901, issue:

a. Hilda, b. 5 June 1892.

b. Ethel, b. 26 Dec. 1893.

c. Clarence, b. 19 Feb. 1895.

d. Nina Randall, b. ca. 1896, d. 10 Jan. 1901 at Port Dufferin, æ. 5 years.

e. Earl, b. 9 Sept. 1898.

iii. Rosa Edith, b. 9 Nov. 1869, Port Dufferin, m. Samuel Smith, 21 Nov. 1888 at the Poplar Grove Presbyterian Church, Halifax, by Rev. Allan Simpson, lv. West Quoddy.

iv. Nettie Grace, b. 18 Oct. 1871, Port Dufferin, telegraph operator at Port Dufferin in 1891 living with family of James and Henrietta Whitman, in 1901 lived at Port Dufferin with her brother Edward.

v. Laura Lucy, b. 25 Aug. 1874, Port Dufferin, with father in 1881, with sister Rosa in 1891, m. John Henry Anderson Rowlings, 30 Jan. 1895 at Port Dufferin by Rev. McLeod Harvey (Presbyterian Witness, 9 Nov. 1895), lv. Musquodoboit Harbour, d. 1947, bur. Riverside Cemetery, Musquodoboit Harbour.

9. Henry Jonas⁴ Balcom (Henry³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 2 Sept. 1839 at Port Dufferin. He m. Mary Ann Bollong, 25 Jan. 1870 at Port Dufferin by Rev. Edward Ansell. Known as Elizabeth or ALizzie,@ she was b. 14 March 1848 at Pope=s Harbour, the daughter of Abraham Bollong and Catherine Quillinan. He was a lobster packer at Port Dufferin in 1881‑91‑1901. His family was Anglican. He d. 29 July 1911.

children:

i. Ebenezer Cumminger, b. 15 April 1871, Port Dufferin, can maker in 1891, lobster packer in 1901, m.(1) Lelihie Purcell, m.(2) Bertha Maude Whitman, both of Port Dufferin, 14 Nov. 1900 at Quoddy by Rev. A. E. Fisher, issue:

(by Lelihie Purcell)

a. Bernard Percival, b. 2 May 1895, Sheet Harbour, not with father in 1901.

(by Bertha Maude Whitman)

b. Lillian, b. 21 Feb. 1901.

ii. Mary Ann, b. 28 Oct. 1872, Port Dufferin, m. Hector M. Smiley, 23 Oct. 1895 at St. James, Port Dufferin, lv. Port Dufferin.

iii. Lydia, b. ca. 1874, at home in 1881.

iv. Margaret Catherine, b. 2 Jan. 1876, Port Dufferin, d. 2 Dec. 1879 at Port Dufferin of whooping cough, æ. 2 years, 11 months, described (Citizen, 12 Dec. 1879) as Afourth child.@

v. John, b. 11 Oct. 1877, at home in 1891‑1901.

vi. Almyra, b. 20. Aug. 1880, Port Dufferin, m. Rev. George M. Ambrose (later of St. Mark=s, Halifax), 11 May 1904 at Port Dufferin, lv. Stewiacke

vii. Arthur F., b. 2 Oct. 1882, at home in 1901.

viii. Sarah Isabel, b. 9 July 1884, at home in 1901.

ix. Ethel Maud, b. 27 Dec. 1885, Port Dufferin, m. Frank Reardon (a widowed merchant from Halifax), 5 Sept. 1913 at Halifax by Rev. A. R. Donahue.

x. Samuel R., b. 24 March 1888, Port Dufferin, m. Elizabeth V. Rankin (of Saint John, NB), 23 Dec. 1915 at Halifax, druggist and MPP for Halifax Co., lv. Halifax.

xi. Marie (or Marion E.), b. 10 March 1890, at home in 1901.

xii. Grace B., b. 9 Feb. 1891, Port Dufferin, m. Charles A. Bradley (a farmer from Hamilton, Bermuda), 15 Sept. 1915 at Halifax, lv. Union Springs, NJ.

xiii. William Fielding, b. 18 July 1893, Port Dufferin, m. Verna C. Campbell (of Dartmouth), 16 Aug. 1915 at Halifax, soldier, lv. Halifax.

L Catherine Publicover, b. 2 Sept. 1872 lived with this family as a servant in 1901, and was identified as an adopted daughter.

L Alburne Hardy, b. 16 Nov. 1876, a school teacher, lodged with this family in 1901.

10. John Horton⁴ Balcom (Henry³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 11 Oct. 1841 at Port Dufferin. He m. Mary Jane Smiley, 25 July 1864 at Port Dufferin. She was b. 3 Jan. 1845. In 1870 he was a schoolmaster at Port Dufferin, in the census of 1871 at Sheet Harbour working as a civil engineer, and in 1881‑1901 he in Ward 5 (119 Cunard St.), Halifax, working as a clerk for the Dominion Savings Bank. The family was Anglican. He d. 10 July 1923.

children:

i. Henry A., b. 20 June 1866, clerk in 1881, at home in 1901.

ii. Clara Maud, b. 8 July 1868, Sheet Harbour, not at home in 1871.

iii. Eva Blanche, b. 24 Feb. 1870, Port Dufferin, at home in 1881.

iv. Mabel, b. ca. 1873, at home in 1881, not in 1901.

v. Edward D., b. 19 Jan. 1876, Sheet Harbour, worked in lobster factory at Port Dufferin in 1891, with father at Halifax in 1901.

vi. Emma G., b. 11 Oct. 1878, at home in 1881‑1901.

vii. Mary E., b. Dec. 1880, d. 24 Nov. 1897 at Halifax.

viii. James Arthur, b. 25 April 1885, at home in 1901.

11. James Patrick⁴ Balcom (Henry³, Jonas², Samuel¹) was b. 31 March 1846 at Port Dufferin. He m. Margaret Breading Whitman, 12 Feb. 1874 at Port Dufferin by Rev. Edward Ansell. She was b. 22 Sept. 1854 at Port Dufferin, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Whitman. His family lived with his father in 1881 and he was a bookkeeper at a lobster canning factory at Port Dufferin in 1891‑1901. He d. 17 March 1911.

children:

i. Susan Elizabeth, b. 28 April 1875, Port Dufferin, m. Vincent George Henry (d. 15 April 1935), 2 Dec. 1896 at St. James, Port Dufferin, lv. Newdy Quoddy, d. 1 June 1960, bur. St. Michael=s, East Quoddy.

ii. Ethel, b. ca. 1879, Port Dufferin, d. 28 Dec. 1892 at Port Dufferin, æ. 13 years.

iii. William N., b. 27 June 1882, Port Dufferin, m. Alice L. Smith (b. ca. 1885 at Goldboro, Guys. Co., daughter of S. B. and Amy Smith), 24 Aug. 1904 at Halifax, seaman, lv. Port Dufferin.

iv. Mabel M., b. 31 July 1884, Port Dufferin, m. Nathaniel Howard Dooks, 25 July 1904 at Port Dufferin, lv. Head of Jeddore, d. before 1910.

v. Lucy Winifred (AWinnie@), b. 24 Oct. 1886, Port Dufferin, m. Byron Hadley Mitchell, 2 Dec. 1916 at Halifax, lv. Oyster Pond, d. 1978, bur. St. John=s, Oyster Pond.

vi. Florence C., b. 19 Dec. 1888, Port Dufferin, m. William L. MacLeod (a mariner from Boston, Mass., washed ashore at Marie Joseph after the sinking off Beaver Harbour of the John Irwin in July 1911 and later mate on the Dufferin under Captain Murdock), 7 Sept. 1914 at Port Dufferin.

vii. James E., b. 19 March 1891, at home in 1901.

viii. Horace E., b. 24 Feb. 1893, at home in 1901.

ix. Rosa K., b. 15 Dec. 1894, Port Dufferin, m. John D. MacLeod (a druggist from Halifax), 7 Sept. 1914 at Port Dufferin, lv. Halifax.

x. Cyril R., b. 19 April 1897, at home in 1901.

to be placed:

Margaret Balcom, of Sheet Harbour, m. James M. Taylor, of Musquodoboit, 28 Dec. 1860 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. John Sprott.

Zebulah Balcom m. Charles Baker, using a license dated 22 Sept. 1838.

James Balcom, b. ca. 1888, Guysboro Road, farmer, m. Alice V. Henry, b. ca. 1891 at Guysboro Road, daughter of Ann Henry, 5 Sept. 1911 at Dartmouth (Baptist).

Horace Balcom m. Mona MacKintosh (23 June 1895‑10 Dec. 1965)

Nancy, widow of the late Samuel Balcom, d. 21 Jan. 1888 at Sheet Harbour in her 78^th year.

Eva A. Balcom, b. 1904, m. Frank G. Arthur (1888‑1967), both bur. St. Thomas, Musquodoboit Harbour.

William Balcom m. Bertha Kettle. His family lived at Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Robert H., b. ca. 1932, Port Dufferin, m. Erna Martin, veteran of the Korean War, worked in construction, lv. Watt Section, Sheet Harbour, d. 2 July 2003 at Sheet Harbour, æ. 71 years, bur. St. James, Port Dufferin, issue:

a. Robert H., m. Liz _____, lv. Sheet Harbour.

b. Kenneth, m. Patricia _____, lv. sackville.

c. Sharon, lv. Ontario.

d. Shirley, m. Craig tobin, lv. Halifax.

e. Carolyn, m. Ian Wilkinson, lv. Dartmouth.

f. Charles William, d. before 2003.

ii. Ronald, lv. Port Dufferin.

iii. Juanita, m. _____ Rolfe, lv. Hamilton, Ont.

iv. Jean, m. _____ Sequin, lv. BC.

v. Barbara, m. _____ Watson, lv. Victoria, BC.

vi. Wilson

vii. James

Barkhouse of Sheet Harbour

1. Johann Nikolas¹ Berghaus (known in Nova Scotia as John Nicholas Barkhouse) was b. ca. 1716 in the province of Hessen‑Darmstadt, Germany. He came to Nova Scotia on the Sally, arriving in 1752, at age 36 years. He m. Gertraud ______. The family lived first at Lunenburg, and then moved to Mahone Bay, where he was noted in the 1792 tax lists. He was a farmer. He d. 17 March 1794 at Lunenburg.

children:

i. Elizabeth, b. ca. 1753.

ii. Susanna Elizabeth, bapt. 3 Nov. 1754, St. John=s, Lunenburg, m. Jacob Hubley, 24 Feb. 1784 at the Dutch Reformed Church, Lunenburg.

iii. Anna Catherine, bapt. 21 Jan. 1757, St. John=s, Lunenburg.

iv. Appolonia, bapt. 20 Feb. 1759, St. John=s, Lunenburg.

v. John, b. ca. 1761, m. Elizabeth Knickle, 22 March 1785 at Zion Lutheran Church, Lunenburg, issue:

a. Ann Margaret, b. 26 Nov. 1785, m. Matthew Keddy, 6 Oct. 1807 at St. John=s, Lunenburg.

b. Ann Barbara, b. 3 Oct. 1787.

c. John, b. 1 Oct. 1789.

d. Maria Catherine, b. 21 Feb. 1792.

e. Maria Christina, b. 20 Nov. 1794, d. 14 Jan. 1795 at Lunenburg of the cough, æ. 6 weeks.

f. John Bernard, b. 22 Jan. 1796.

g. Susanna Gertraud, b. 24 April 1798.

2. vi. John Philip, bapt. 18 March 1764, St. John=s, Lunenburg, m. Anna Margaret Knickle.

vii. Barbara, bapt. 1 May 1766, St. John=s, Lunenburg.

viii. Gertraud, b. 14 Oct. 1771, bapt. 19 Oct. 1771, St. John=s, Lunenburg.

2. John Philip² Barkhouse (Nicholas¹), known as Philip, was b. ca. 1763 at Lunenburg. He m. Anna Margaret Knickle, 13 Sept. 1785 at Zion Lutheran, Lunenburg. She was the youngest daughter of John Conrad Knickle and Esther Eve Schaffner. His family lived at Gold River, Lunenburg County.

children:

i. John Conrad, b. 4 Sept. 1786.

ii. John, b. 27 Aug. 1788.

iii. John William, b. 6 March 1791.

iv. Eva Elizabeth, b. 4 Aug. 1793.

3. v. John Jacob, b. 19 Sept. 1795, m. Sarah Craft.

vi. John Philip, b. 6 Dec. 1797, m. Mary Catherine Isenor, lv. New Cornwall, issue:

a. Sophia, d. 17 Sept. 1829, æ. 2 months, 8 days.

b. Elizabeth, b. 18 Oct. 1837, New Cornwall.

b. Elizabeth, b. 25 Dec. 1841, New Cornwall.

vii. John Michael, bapt. 5 March 1800 at Chester, ?m. Barbara Wentzell?

3. John Jacob³ Barkhouse (Philip², Nicholas¹), known as Jacob, was b. 19 Sept. 1795 and bapt. 19 Nov. 1795 at the Dutch Reformed Church, Lunenburg. He m. Sarah ASally@ Craft, 20 Nov. 1819 at St. Paul=s, Halifax. She was b. ca. 1800 and d. 25 Jan. 1884 at Port Dufferin, æ. 84 years. At the time of his marriage his residence was given as Beaver Harbour. He is listed in the 1827 census of Port Dufferin heading a family of three males and two females. He was a farmer. He d. 30 July 1868 at Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Margaret, m. James Henderson, 9 March 1839 at St. Paul=s, Halifax.

4. ii. Philip, b. ca. 1826, m. Sarah Hartling.

iii. Sophia, b. 14 Jan. 1828, lv. with brother William at Port Dufferin in 1881, unmarried.

iv. John Jacob, b. 27 Oct. 1831, d. young.

5. v. William Valentine, b. ca. 1835, Port Dufferin, m. Mary Jane Dahr.

6. vi. Jacob, b. 24 Aug. 1842, Port Dufferin, m.(1) Mary Lowe, m.(2) Sarah Ann (Lawlor) Corner, m.(3) Caroline M. Eisan.

vii. Susannah, b. 5 Oct. 1846, lv. with brother William in 1881, unmarried, domestic at Port Dufferin in 1901 in the home of Charles Ambrose.

viii. Sarah, m. Isaac Scott, 17 Feb. 1863 at Port Dufferin, lv. Sheet Harbour, issue:

a. Margaret Melinda, b. 19 July 1871, Port Dufferin.

b. Thomas Cook, b. 15 May 1875, Sheet Harbour.

ix. Gertrude, b. ca. 1849.

4. Philip⁴ Barkhouse (Jacob³, Philip², Nicholas¹) was b. ca. 1826. He m. Sarah Hartling, 19 Oct. 1858 at Port Dufferin by Rev. William Edward Gelling. She was b. ca. 1826 at Beaver Harbour, the daughter of John Hartling and Mary Ann Hebb, and as a widow m.(2) William George Wessell, 9 May 1879 at Port Dufferin. He d. 21 Nov. 1875 at Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Samuel, b. ca. 1860, at Port Dufferin in 1881.

ii. Henry E., b. ca. 1863, m. Mary A. Hubley, 11 April 1888 at Beaver Harbour.

5. William Valentine⁴ Barkhouse (Jacob³, Philip², Nicholas¹) was b. ca. 1835 at Port Dufferin. He m. Mary Jane Dahr, 28 July 1868 at Port Dufferin by Rev. Edward Ansell. She was b. ca. 1848 at Port Dufferin, the daughter of John Dahr and Priscilla Pace. He was a farmer and his family lived at Port Dufferin in 1881‑91. He d. 24 Dec. 1903 at Port Dufferin, æ. 70 years (Presbyterian Witness, 2 Jan. 1904).

children:

i. Arthur Ansell, d. 27 Sept. 1878 at Port Dufferin.

ii. Gertrude, b. 24 June 1869, Port Dufferin, at home in 1891.

iii. John, b. 19 March 1871, Port Dufferin, d. 2 Oct. 1878 at Port Dufferin.

iv. Malcolm, b. 19 Dec. 1872, Port Dufferin, d. 29 Sept. 1878 at Port Dufferin.

v. Edmund Dickey, b. ca. 1879, Port Dufferin, at home in 1891, m. Mary C. Burgoyne, 20 Nov. 1906 at Smith=s Cove by Rev. A. B. Dickie.

vi. Burton, b. ca. 1881.

vii. Gordon, b. ca. 1883.

7. viii. William S., b. ca. 1885, m. Mary McLellan.

ix. Mary, b. ca. 1887.

6. Jacob⁴ Barkhouse (Jacob³, Philip², Nicholas¹) was b. 24 Aug. 1842 at Port Dufferin. He m.(1) Mary Lowe, 13 Jan. 1869 at The Ferry, Sheet Harbour, by Rev. James Waddell. She was b. ca. 1836 at Sheet Harbour, the daughter of David Lowe and Elizabeth Hall, and d. 26 Dec. 1876 at Sheet Harbour of tuberculosis, æ. 36 years. He m.(2) Sarah Ann (Lawlor) Corner, 21 Nov. 1877. She was the daughter of Michael Lawlor and Ann Cameron, and the widow of Alexander Corner, and d. 22 April 1884 at Sheet Harbour in her 48^th year. He m.(3) Caroline M. ACarrie@ Eisan, 12 Jan. 1886 at Sheet Harbour by Rev. Samuel Rosborough. She was b. 29 Oct. 1859 at Ship Harbour, the daughter of Frederick Eisan and Mary Sophia Weeks. He was an Anglican ship carpenter and farmer and his family lived at Sheet Harbour in 1871‑81‑91‑1901. He d. 1917 and is buried in the Church Point Cemetery, Sheet Harbour.

children: (by Mary Lowe)

i. John William, b. 24 Jan. 1870, Sheet Harbour, d. 21 Sept. 1897, æ. 27 years, 8 months, bur. Sheet Harbour.

ii. Martha Mary, b. March 1871, Sheet Harbour, m. Charles E. Helpard, 1 Dec. 1890 at Sheet Harbour, lv. Sheet Harbour.

iii. Mary Sarah Esther, b. 16 Oct. 1872, Sheet Harbour, m. Tobias Jeffrey, 5 Nov. 1890 at Sheet Harbour, lv. Sheet Harbour.

iv. Edward Ansell, b. ca. 1874, at home in 1891.

v. Alexander Edmund, b. 2 Nov. 1876, Sheet Harbour, at home in 1901, m. Albertha Nancy MacDonald, 20 April 1904 at the Manse, Sheet Harbour, by Rev. W. w. McNairn, blacksmith, lv. Sheet Harbour, d. 1956, bur. St. Andrew=s, Sheet Harbour, issue:

a. Lorne B., b. 1910, drowned 1923.

b. Grant G., b. 1924, d. 1925.

children: (by Caroline M. Eisan)

vi. Malcolm, b. 19 Nov. 1886, at home in 1901.

vii. George, b. 10 April 1889, at home in 1901.

viii. Annie Mary, b. 20 Dec. 1890, Sheet Harbour, at home in 1901, m. John Edward Coady, 7 Sept. 1910 at Sheet Harbour.

ix. Stanley, b. 29 June 1892, Sheet Harbour, lived with his maternal grandmother at Ship Harbour in 1901.

x. Alice, b. 19 Jan. 1894, Sheet Harbour, m. Clarence Alexander Barkhouse, 29 June 1910 at Sheet Harbour.

xi. Finlay, b. 24 May 1896, at home in 1901.

xii. Arthur, b. 3 April 1897 (twin), at home in 1901.

xiii. Ashley, b. 3 April 1897 (twin), at home in 1901.

xiv. Doris, b. 27 Feb. 1900, at home in 1901.

7. William S.⁵ Barkhouse (William⁴, Jacob³, Philip², Nicholas¹) was b. ca. 1885. He m. Mary McLellan. His family lived at Port Dufferin.

children:

8. i. Thomas William, b. 24 May 1915, Port Dufferin, m.(1) Goldie Pace, m.(2) Carrie Gammon.

ii. George, lv. Truro.

iii. Norman, lv. Port Dufferin.

iv. Helen, m. _____ Hodgson, lv. Country Harbour.

v. Alice, m. _____ Gay, lv. Country Harbour.

vi. Sadie, m. _____ MacDonald, lv. Port Dufferin.

vii. Nina, m. _____ MacDonald, lv. Port Dufferin.

viii. Carmie, m. _____ Fleet, lv. Dartmouth.

ix. Jean, m. _____ Martin, lv. Watt Section.

x. Basil

xi. Winslow, worked in the mill at Caribou Gold Mines.

xii. Freda

xiii. Lila

xiv. Edith

8. Thomas William⁶ Barkhouse (William⁵, William⁴, Jacob³, Philip², Nicholas¹) was b. 24 May 1915 at Port Dufferin. He m.(1) Goldie Pace. He m.(2) Carrie Gammon. He was a veteran of WWII and worked for the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation. He d. 8 Aug. 1994 at Lunenburg and is bur. St. James, Port Dufferin.

children:

i. Basil, lv. Port Dufferin.