Re: Misc. Cumberland Co., NS items from yesteryear!

William --

Thank you for the Dowe information - my Aunt Alice
(Dowe)Gallagher, Springhill.

I have been enjoying all the intersting reading you
have been providing - keep it up.

Originally I am from Bible Hill, N.S. but living in
Toronto.

Eileen (Dowe) Kelley


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On Wed, 4/27/16, William wthill67@... [nscumber] <nscumber@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [nscumber] Misc. Cumberland Co., NS items from yesteryear!
To: nscumber@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 7:29 PM


 














DIED
– At Digby, N.S., 27th ult. George H. HURD, of Wallace,
Cumberland Co., aged 47
years.

N.B.
COURIER, St. John, of Dec.18, 1858

 

DIED
– Rev. J. SNOWBALL, well known to members of the Methodist
denomination
departed

this
life Wednesday at one o’clock. The Chignecto Post – In
early manhood he
emigrated to this

country
from England and in 1819 entered the Ministry of the
Wesleyan Methodist
Church.

DAILY
MORNING NEWS, St. John, Sept.16, 1871 [place not
given]

 

DIED
– James WELDON, of Lower Cove, Cumb. Co., N.S., committed
suicide Friday morning
last.

His
body was found suspended by a rope which was attached to the
beam in his
barn.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of March 18, 1873

 

DIED –
The death of Lt. Gov. Edward CHANDLER will be heard with
regret. He was a son of
Charles H.

CHANDLER,
Esq., for many years High Sheriff of Cumberland Co., N.S.,
and a grandson of
Joshua

CHANDLER
of New Haven, Conn., loyalist and member of the General
Assembly in 1775, who
proceeded

to Nova
Scotia in 1773 and thence to England to obtain compensation
for his losses
during the American

Revolution.
The deceased was born at Amherst, N.S., in 1800 and
therefore was nearly 80
years of age

at the
time of his death. He was educated at Amherst. In 1822 he
married P. W. MILLIDGE
d/o late Dr.

MILLIDGE
and niece of late Judge BOTSFORD. He was called to the Bar
of N.B. in 1823. He
was Judge

of
Probate for Westmorland Co. for many years and Clerk of the
Peace from 1823 to
1862. He was

President of
the Aolbert Westmorland Mining and Manufacturing Co. He was
member of the
Executive

Council
of this Province from 1844 to 1858 and from 1867 to 1869,
when he resigned on
his appointment

as an
Intercolonial Railway Commissioner. He was appointed Lt.
Gov., of N.B. in July
1878. CHRISTIAN

VISITOR,
Saint John, of Feb.11, 1880.

 

DIED
– Last Saturday, Thomas LEAKE, an old citizen of
Parrsboro, N.S. [no age
given]

THE
TIMES, Moncton, of June 24, 1887

 

MARRIED
– Bethel Baptist Church, Sackville was on Wednesday the
scene of a fashionable
wedding, the

contracting
parties being Weeden FOWLER, Esq., Commissioner of Hammond
Parish Court, KIngs
Co.,

and
J. Annie CAHILL, d/o late Charles CAHILL, Esq., and sister
of Stipendiary
CAHILL. The bride was

attended
by Miss LOGAN of Amherst, Miss MURRAY and Miss Hattie
CAHILL, d/o Stipendiary
CAHILL.

The
nuptial bonds were wedded by Rev. MURRAY, brother-in law of
the bride, assisted
by Rev. W. E.

HALL
– CHIGNECTO POST. KINGS COUNTY RECORD, Sussex, of July 27,
1888.

 

BORN
– At Parrsboro, N.S., 22nd ult., to the w/o Perry WINTERS,
a
daughter.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of May 3, 1889

 

BORN
– At Parrsboro, N.S., 7th inst., to the w/o Laurence
BROWN, a
daughter.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of May 14, 1889, also in THE
TIMES, Moncton, of May
13.

 

BORN
– At Parrsboro, N.S., 19th ult, to the w/o David DOW, a
daughter.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of July 1, 1889

 

BORN –
At Parrsboro, N.S., 27th ult., to the w/o J. H. Haviland
PETTIS, a
son.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of March 6, 1890

 

GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY – On the 28th ult., the golden wedding
of Mr. and Mrs. James
B.

DAVISON,
of Wallace was celebrated by a gathering of their family.
Mr. Davison who is
well known

through
the county, having resided in Wallace for 50 years, was one
of the shipbuilders
for the

Newfoundland
trade for a large number of years and at another time custom
house officer
for

Wallace.
A strange concidence as regards the happy couple is shown in
the fact that both
were

born
on this same day, viz: February 8th, 1813, both now being 78
years of age. Mrs.
Davison’s

maiden
name was Lavenia DICKSON, of Truro, and she was married to
Mr. Davison in 1841.
[ =

At
Onslow, Jan.28, 1841 by Rev. J. Burnyeat – ACADIAN
RECORDER & CHRISTIAN
MESSENGER

carried
the announcement] Halifax MORNING HERALD, of Feb.5, 1891,
plate 3, column
1.

 

MARRIED
AT ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL [The Herald’s Diary column] At 7
o’clock on Thursday
morning,

St.
Mary’s cathedral was the scene of a happy event, when Miss
Sadie J. RYAN,
daughter of J. B.

RYAN,
inspector of weights and measures was married to J. V.
BOURQUE, merchant of
Amherst,

formerly
of Shediac, N.B. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J.
D. Cummane, of Truro.
The

bride
was attended by her younger sister Mary F. RYAN, while
William HALLISEY, of the
Western

Union,
did the honors for Mr. Bourque. In addition to many handsome
presents from her
family, the

bride
received many valuable presents from friends in this city,
also from friends in
Colchester

and
Pictou. The happy couple left by the early train to spend a
few days among their
friends in

Boston
and New York, when they will return to their home in
Amherst. Halifax MORNING
HERALD,

of
Feb.7, 1891, plate 3, column 2.

 

MARRIED
– At Everett, Mass., Feb.24th, by Rev. Addison P. Foster,
Isidore E. BOOMER,
[d/o Warren

and
Charlotte] formerly of Amherst, N.S., to Lewis M. ATWOOD, of
Roxbury, MA. [s/o
Harding and

Dorcas
C., Lewis was age 58, ‘salesman’, and she age 38, a
‘domestic’.....MA marriage,
Volume 416,

page
151,
marriage
# 11, 1891]

 

BORN
– At Parrsboro, N.S., 5th inst., to the w/o Charles
RUSSELL, a
daughter.

           
- At Parrsboro, N.S., 28th ult., to the w/o Timothy
O’REGAN, a
daughter.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of Jan.13, 1892

 

BORN –
At Parrsboro, N.S., 18th inst., to the w/o David LAYTON, a
son.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of May 23, 1892

 

BORN –
At Parrsboro, N.S., July 11th, to the w/o Clarence JOHNSON,
a
daughter.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of July 16, 1892

 

MISC. –
C. I. McLANE, Parrsboro, N.S., is visiting relatives at
Albert (Albert Co.)


THE
MAPLE LEAF, Albert, of Aug. 4, 1892

 

BORN –
At Parrsboro, N.S., March 30th, to the w/o James GILLESPIE,
a son.

THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH, Saint John, of April 8, 1893

 

BORN
– At Parrsboro, N.S., 14th inst., to the w/o Mayor GIBSON,
a son.

CHIGNECTO

POST, Sackville, of Oct.26, 1893

 

TO
BE CONTINUED......

 

Bill










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