This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wNC.2ACE/1078.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Marcie Crocker, The information you provided on the Crockers of St Stephen is much appreciated. May I ask if you are originally from St Stephen or the Miramichi area. I believe that there were at one time three different Crocker families on the Miramichi. The first to arrive were the two Crocker brothers from St Stephen David and Rowlan Crocker around 1814 and they essentially settled and raised families in in the area of Derby such that it became known as Crocker settlement. Detailed accounts of the Crockers of Crocker Settlement can be found in the books Dictionary of Miramichi Biographies and Irish Lumberman Kings. The second family of Crockers to appear on the Miramichi was the family of John and Margaret Crocker who as per the 1851 census emmigrated from Scotland in 1835. Children of family #28 John & Margaret Crocker in the 1851 census for Newcastle include Andrew age 26, Mary age 20, Ellen age 18, David age 28 and William age 19. Strangely all members of this family disappear before the subsequent 1861 census. The third line of Crocker to arrive on the Miramichi was my wife Helen’s gg grandfather Andrew Crocker who came to the area from Nova Scotia shortly after 1851 and married Jane Morell daughter of Hugh Morell first postmaster of Newcastle. The death certificate for Andrew Crocker indicated that he was born in Pictou NS. I have been unable to determine if he was from the Crocker clan that inhabitated the Stewiacke area. Some time ago I came across the following information in the archives room at the Newcastle Public library which I believe was compiled by the Miramichi Historical Society and filed under General Information Volume #24. I tried to determine the source where the information came from but could not find anything at the library. It is obvious that the information was compiled after 1970 perhaps by a researcher, someone from the historical society or by a descendant of Andrew Ross Crocker. If this information is correct it would certainly add a bit of an Irish twist to the Crocker equation. CROCKER EMIGRATED Edward Crocker emigrated from County Limerick Ireland to America in 1747. Settled in New York. Thomas Crocker came to NS in 1784 and settled in Upper Stewiacke. John a son of Thomas Crocker married Margaret Dickie. Andrew Crocker, son of John and Margaret born at Pictou in 1813 came to the Miramichi , settled in Newcastle and married Jane Morell in 1854. Andrew’s brother David Crocker and his mother Margaret (Dickie) Crocker are recorded as living in Newcastle in the 1861 census. Children of Andrew and Jane (Morell) Crocker include: Robert born 1861, Died 1893 unmarried; William born 1862 went to Lincoln Maine; John born 1854 lived in Nelson; Richard went to western Canada; Andrew Ross born Nov 17,1871 died Feb 4,1970 married Annie Jane Russell daughter of George & Mary Hambrook Russell; Sarah born 1867 married George Mowry USA As both the St Stephen/ Derby Crockers and my wife’s Crocker ancestry had roots in the New England area I was wondering if there might be some connection between the two lines. I will try to compile the information I have gathered on the Derby Crockers and send it along your way. Much of it is hand written notes etc. I am told that there were a large number of Crockers who inhabitated the St Stephen area. Timothy b 1792 and married three times must have had a large family as the other two Crocker brothers David and Rowland remained in the Miramichi area. The early map of St Stephen in the Cgarlotte county web site shows a Crocker hill.