edited and updated today by ILGHR...Thank you Cindy....I suggest posting this information to: [email protected] [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:57:09 -0500 Subject: [DOR] West Country Strays This week, while doing some research using the parish registers of the Forteau Mission of the Church of England Diocese of Newfoundland dating from the 1850s and 60s, I found a number of records referring to men from the Dorset, Devon, Somerset and one from Cornwall who married women from Newfoundland and Labrador. They may be able to help someone out there, so I have pasted them below. With the exception of places on this side referred to as in Conception Bay, which is in the southeast of Newfoundland, near St. John's, all of the villages are located on either the south coast of Labrador or on the opposite shore of the northern part of the island of Newfoundland. Also, as I am not part of lists for the other counties, please feel free to forward this to lists for Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Cindy Gibbons West Country Strays - found in the Register of Marriages, Forteau Mission --------------------------------------------------------- Charles GOMM, bachelor, of Dorchester, County Dorset, England and Elizabeth BARRETT, [BARRE] spinster, of Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, were married at English Point, Forteau, Labrador on 9 April 1853. --------------------------------------------------------- John BARNEY, bachelor, of St. German’s, County Cornwall, England, and Eliza SHENICKS, widow, of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, were married at English Point, Forteau, Labrador on 10 Sept 1853. http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuuOv1NRFvmcBln9XNyoA?p=%22St.+GERMAINs%22+Newfoundland&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush1-mail&x=wrt ------------------------------------------------------------- Henry CAINS, [b.1824] bachelor, aged 29, of Hazelbury Bryant, County Dorset, England and Elizabeth COOMBS, spinster, aged 16, of Bay Ste Barbe, Newfoundland were married at Bay Ste Barbe on 2 Nov 1853. http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu9I70tRFBV8B9ohXNyoA?p=%22Hazelbury+Bryant%22++Newfoundland&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush1-mail&x=wrt ----------------------------------------------------------- John BARBER, [b.1822] bachelor, aged 31, of , Country Devon, England and Jane BRINE, spinster, aged 26, of Bonavista, Newfoundland, were married at L’Anse au Loup, Labrador on 21 Nov 1853. ------------------------------------------------- Thomas MITCHELMORE, [b.1826] widower, aged 28, of Green Island Cove, Newfoundland, late of Dartmouth, Devon, England and Maria BILLET, spinster, aged 18, of Flower’s Cove, Newfoundland, were married in the house of Mr. William WELLS at Flower’s Cove on 12 Oct 1854. ------------------------------------------------------------- James TOOP, bachelor, late of Holwell, Somerset, England, http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Holwell%2C+Somerset%22+Newfoundland&fr=ush1-mail now of St. Barbe’s Bay, Newfoundland and Isabella DREDGE of St. Barbe’s Bay were married at Anchor Point on 1 July 1855. ------------------------------------------------------------- George Popplestone BUCKINGHAM, bachelor, of Loddiswill, County Devon, England and Alice MCGRATH, spinster, of Hollyrood, Conception Bay, Newfoundland were married at L’Anse au Loup, Labrador on 14 June 1856. LODDIS-WELL http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuuwC1NRFgkABBmJXNyoA?p=%22Loddiswell%22+Buckingham+Newfoundland&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush1-mail&x=wrt ------------------------------------------------------------ James GODFREY, bachelor, of Yeovil, Somerset, England and Sophia DUNCAN, spinster, of Bear Cove, Newfoundland were married at Black Duck Cove, St. Barbe’s Bay, Newfoundland on 29 June 1858. -------------------------------------------------------- Richard Penn GILLY, bachelor, of Aveton Gifford, Devonshire, England and Susanna SHORT, spinster, of Broom Point, Newfoundland were married at Seal Cove, Newfoundland on 30 June 1858. http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geut0o1tRF6BABU9pXNyoA?p=%22Aveton+Gifford%2C+Devon%22++ANSTEY&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush1-mail&x=wrt -------------------------------------------------------- Thomas MITCHELMORE, widower, late of Dartmouth, County Devon, England, now of Green Island Cove, Newfoundland and Fanny WHELAN, spinster, of French Island Harbour, Newfoundland were married at Green Island Cove on 4 July 1858. ----------------------------------------------------- Samuel COOMBS, bachelor, or Alton Pancrass, Dorset, England and Mary COOMBS, spinster, of Bay Ste Barbe, Newfoundland were married at Anchor Point, Newfoundland on 25 Oct 1858. http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/info/dorset1.txt ------------------------------------------------------------- James HOMAN, bachelor, of the parish of Beamister, England and Sarah SEAWARD, spinster, of Red Bay were married at West St. Modeste on 3 Jan 1862. --------------------------------------------------------- Charles RYLAND, bachelor, of Ilminster, Somerset in England and Keziah SHENICKS, s of St. Leonard’s, Newfoundland were married at L’Anse au Loup, Labrador on 26 Oct 1865. --------------------------------------------------- http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/estate_P.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? 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