First Families Is A Collection of Genealogical Information

NOTE:
First Families is a collection of genealogical information taken from

various sources that were periodically submitted to the Provincial
Archives of New Brunswick. The information has not been verified
against any official records. Since the information in First Families is
contributed, it is the responsibility of those who use the information
to verify its accuracy.
D’AVRAY: Joseph Marshall D’Avray b. 30 Nov 1811 probably at Burleigh House,

Picadilly, London, England s/o Dr. Joseph Marshall: came to NB in Jan 1848 to take
charge of the Normal School in Fredericton.
Source: MC80/360 Acadiensis: Vol V, No. 4, Oct, 1905, Joseph Whitman Bailey’s
Joseph Marshall D’Avray, pages 303-305: includes a photograph.
DABEY: Matthew Dabey b. 1805 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1823: settled in

Dorchester Parish, Westmorland County: m. Mary Ann - born 1808 in Ireland
and came to NB in 1824:
Only children mentioned:

1) Matthew Dabey b. 1836 in NB:
2) David Dabey b. 1839 in NB:
Source: MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS1A: on microfilm reel

F20980; see sheet for Matthew Dabey.
DAGGETT: Mark Daggett or Doggett b. 28 Aug 1768 at Middleboro, MA, d. 23

Feb 1838, s/o Jabez Doggett: m. at Bridgewater, ME, Portia Keith: they came to NB
in 1817 and settled on Grand Manan in Charlotte County:
1) Martin Keith Daggett b. 23 May 1800 at Middleboro, MA, d. 1 Jan 1870, m.
Elizabeth Catcomb: they settled on Grand Manan and had eleven children:
2) Mark Daggett born 18 May 1807 at Middleboro, MA, died 11 Feb 1885, m. 1826
Elizabeth Cheney d/o Edmond Cheney: settled on Grand Manan.
Sources: Grand Manan Museum: Manuscripts, Genealogies: Cheney family,

microfilm reel F227, 1 page: Mark came to NB with his brother John Doggett and
sister Rebecca Doggett who married Edmund Cheney and had issue: the surname
became Daggett on Grand Manan, NB: see also Buchanan Charles Manuscripts at
end of microfilm F252, 2 pages.
DAIGLE: Jean-Baptiste Daigle born c1733 in NS, buried 20 Aug 1814, s/o Joseph
Daigle and Madeleine Gautreau, m. (1st) 3 Feb 1755 at Port-Lajoie, PEI, Blanche
Trahan d/o Charles Trahan and Marie Tillard of Pisiguit, NS: m. (2nd) on 12 Feb
1759 at Saint-Charles-de Bellechasse, QC, Marie-Thérèse Trahan d/o Paul Trahan
and Marie Boudreau: they came to NB after 1793: settled in Bathurst, Gloucester
County:
Child of first wife:

1) Marie-Blanche Daigle born in 1755:
Children of second wife:

2) Jean-Baptiste Daigle b. 1759:
3) Anastasie Daigle b. 1762:
4) Marie-Madeleine Daigle b. 1764:
5) Jean-Baptiste Daigle born c1766:
6) Marie-Madeleine Daigle b. 1769:
7) Anne Daigle born 1772.
Source: MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 3,

page 1146.
DAIGLE: Joseph Daigle born 20 Nov 1738 at Grand Pré, NS, d. 19 Jan 1814, s/o
Simon-Joseph Daigle and Madeleine Gautreau of Pisiquid, NS, m. (1st) 23 Nov
1762 at Saint-François de Montmagny, Quebec, Marguerite Guilbeau b. 13 Jun 1739
at Port-Royal, NS, died before 1775, d/o Pierre Guilbeau and Madeleine Forest of
Port Royal, NS: had six children: m. (2nd) 2 Oct 1775 at Saint-Thomas de Montmagny,
QC, Charlotte Lefebvre born on 25 Aug 1745 at St-Thomas, QC, buried on 5 Nov
1819, d/o Claude Lefebvre and Susanne Bissonnette: had no issue: came to NB
about 1767: first settled at Ecoupag above Fredericton in York County, then moved to
Saint-Basile in Madawaska County:
Children are listed in an estimated order:

1) Marie Daigle born 1763:
2) Joseph Daigle b. c1764, m. Théodule or Théodite Cyr d/o Joseph Cyr: had
children:
3) Pierre Daigle born 1765:
4) Marguerite Daigle born 1765:
5) Marie-Angélique Daigle born 1767:
6) Marie-Joseph Daigle b. Jan 1767, buried 4 Jan 1768 QC:
7) Jean-Baptiste Daigle born 1767 at Saint-Basile, died 1836, m. 18 Jul 1791 at
Madawaska Settlement, Marie Ann Cyr b. c1770 at Ecoupag, d. 1848, d/o Joseph
Cyr and Marguerite Blanche Thibodeau: they settled at Madawaska Settlement and
had ten children:
8) Marie-Joseph Daigle b. 4 Mar 1769, m. c1788 at Madawaska Settlement, Simon
Hébert.
Sources: MC80/287 Thomas Albert’s Histoire du Madawaska, pages 79, 81-82, 84,
94, 96, 100, 102, 104, 113, 308: see also MC80/781 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et
généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. II, pages 766-767: see MC80/1397 Daniel F.
Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 52-53: see MC80/1741 Leo G. Cyr’s
Madawaskan Heritage, pages 229-231 and 236-237: Joseph’s brother Jean Baptiste
Daigle settled in Bathurst, NB: see also MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et
généalogie des Acadiens, Volume 3, page 1146: see MC80/2325 Roger Paradis’
Papiers de/Papers of, Prudent L. Mercure, Histoire du Madawaska, Vol. III, Partie
B, pages 35-38.
DAIGLE: Olivier Daigle born 1738 s/o Jean-Baptiste Daigle and Madeleine
Theriault: m. c1758 in England, Blanche Robichaud d/o Joseph Robichaud and
Claire LeBlanc of Cobequid, NS: by 1774 family was settled on Baie des Chaleurs
and some of his children settled at Saint-Basile, Madawaska County, and
Richibouctou, Kent County:
Children:
1) Olivier-Raphael Daigle b. 1759:
2) Marie-Louise Daigle b. 1759:
3) Françoise-Oppoline Daigle born 1763:
4) Casimir-Théodore Daigle b. 1765:
5) François-Joseph Daigle b. 1767, m. (1st) 23 Jan 1792 at Bonaventure, QC, Marie-
Claire Richard, m. (2nd) 5 Jul 1795 at Saint-Basile, Marie-Blanche Léger d/o Pierre
Léger and Anastasie Breau:
6) Jean-Charles Daigle b. 1769, m. 1 Feb 1790 at Carleton, QC, Christine Richard
d/o François Richard and Marie Daigle:
7) Pierre-Édouard Daigle b. c1770.
Source: MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 3,

pages 1149-1150.
DAILEY: Ansel Dailey born c1804 at Jay, ME, d. 6 Feb 1874 at Calais, ME: came to
NB and settled at St. Stephen, Charlotte County: moved to Calais, ME by 1847: m.
Mary Ann - born c1810 in St. Stephen, died 10 Nov 1895 at Tonawanda, NY:
Children born in the St. Stephen:

1) Caroline Dailey b. c1835, d. 25 Mar 1897 in Hawaii, married Mr. Kinney: 2)
Laura H. Dailey b. c Oct 1837, d. 14 Dec 1875 at Machias, ME, m. 16 Sep 1868 at
Calais, James H. Robbins:
3) George S. Dailey born 23 Feb 1842, died 14 Jan 1910 in NY, married 9 Apr 1880
in Albany, NY, Minnie/Emma A. Birchill b. 18 Aug 1853, d. 12 Oct 1927:
4) Mary H. Dailey b. c1844, d. 31 Mar 1881 in Calais.
Source: MC80/2711 Thelma Eye Brooks’ Calais Maine families, page 35.
DALE: James Dale b. in England: married Jane Chin: first settled at Pleasant Villa,
Hampstead Parish, Queens County and had five children: family moved in 1870 to
Summer Hill in Gagetown Parish: the only child mentioned was the youngest child
born at Pleasant Villa, J. Thomas Dale b. 1867, m. Mar 1892 Annie Neales
Hawkshaw: they settled at Summer Hill and had four children.
Source: MC80/2773 Richard Corbett’s Summer Hill, Dunn’s Corner: gone but not
forgotten, pages 36-37: James Dale came to NB with two brothers.
DALEY and DALY are interfiled

DALEY: John Daley or Daly b. in Ireland, died 1830 at Stonehaven, NB: came from
Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland to NB in 1829 and settled at Stonehaven, New
Bandon Parish, Gloucester County: married Alice - born in Scotland or m.
Catherine Daly born 1779 in Ireland, d. Nov 1840:
Children born in Ireland:

1) Joseph Daley b. 1809, d. 12 Dec 1888 at Stonehaven, NB, m. Mary Ann - b.
1820, d. 21 Feb 1904 at New Bandon: settled at Clifton, New Bandon Parish and had
eleven children:
2) Ellen Daly b. c1811, m. 14 Nov 1837 John Hickson:
3) Jane Daly b. 1813, married 14 May 1837 James Barry:
4) John Daley b. 1813, d. unmarried in 1821:
5) William Daley born 1814, d. 1878 at New Bandon, m. 11 Mar 1841 Mary
(Margaret) Hodnett b. 1821 d/o William Hodnett and Ann Ellis: settled at
Stonehaven and had thirteen children:
5) Elizabeth Daley b. 20 May 1818, d. 1 Aug 1903 in Stillwater, MN, married 1 Nov
1837 William Hickson b. 1813, died 13 Aug 1894, s/o Robert Palmer Hickson and
Frances Jane Parrott: had eleven children:
7) Thomas Daley b. c1820, d. after 1891, m. (1st) 15 Nov 1847 Mary Peters born
c1832 in Ireland, d. before 1861, d/o John and Elizabeth Peters: had two children: m.
(2nd) 21 Jul 1866 at Bathurst, Gloucester County, NB, Mary Ann Good b. 1846 d/o
Peter and Elizabeth Good: had nine children: family settled at Canobie in New
Bandon Parish:
8) Richard Daley born 1821, d. 1882 at Stonehaven, NB, m. (1st) 1 Jan 1846
Elizabeth Dempsey b. 1832, d. 30 Mar 1861, d/o Thomas and Ann Dempsey: had
nine children: m. (2nd) 1862 Margaret Elizabeth Glendenning b. 1841, d. 21 Feb
1921, d/o John Glendenning and Margaret Harley: family settled at New Bandon,
NB: had eight children:
9) Jane Daley b. 1821 at Bantry Bay, Ireland, d. 15 Feb 1907 at Bathurst, NB, m. 17
May 1842 at New Bandon, NB, James Barry b. 1813 at County Cork, Ireland, d. 9
Jan 1894 at Janeville, New Bandon Parish, s/o William Barry and Susan Buttimer:
family settled at Salmon Beach, Bathurst Parish, Gloucester County:
10) Mary Ann Daley b. c1825, m. 15 Jun 1845 Joseph Smith: settled in New Bandon
Parish and had ten children:
11) Frances Jane Daley b. 1827, d. 13 Dec 1871, married 1 Jan 1848 William
Dempsey b. 1821, d. 18 Jun 1884, s/o Thomas and Ann Dempsey: had nine children.
Sources: MC80/2818 Wade Daley’s Ancestors and descendants of Chester R. Daley

and Katie Viola Payne: William Hodnett was born 1793 and died 1832: see also
MC1/Hickson, 5 pages: for data on Joseph see MC80/40 Margaret Hunter’s Pioneer
settlers of the Bay of Chaleur, page 16 which spells the surname DALY.
DALEY: Owen Daley b. c1801 in Ireland: came to NB in 1825 and settled in

Hopewell Parish, Albert County: m. 15 Jul 1838 Memramcook, Westmorland County,
Mary Taylor of Hopewell Parish, b. c1816 in Ireland:
Children:
1) David Daley b. c1839, d. 13 Jul 1917, m. (1st) 25 Nov 1869 at New Ireland, NB,
Jane Cairnes d/o Archibald and Mary Cairnes: they had three children: married
(2nd) 29 Jul 1907 at Saint John, NB, Elizabeth (Mountain) Slattery, a widow, d/o
James and Ann Mountain: they moved to Saint John after 1881:
2) Dennis Daley born c1841:
3) John Daley born c1843, died 15 Jun 1902, married 12 Nov 1872 Catherine
McKinley born - , died 16 May 1909, d/o Edward McKinley and Mary Jane
Cairnes of Harvey Parish, NB: settled at New Ireland in Alma Parish and had three
children:
4) James Daley b. c1847, d. 3 Feb 1936, married 13 Nov 1878 at New Ireland, Susan
McAnulty b. - , d. 31 May 1922, d/o Charles McAnulty and Rosanna Boyle of New
Ireland: had three children: moved to Saint John about 1922:
5) Mary Ann Daley b. c1850, m. 15 Nov 1879 John McKinley s/o Edward
McKinley and Mary Jane Cairnes:
6) Susan Daley born c1852, m. 13 Oct 1874 Edward McKinley s/o Patrick
McKinley of Harvey Parish:
7) Margaret Daley born c1855, m. 12 Oct 1876 Luke McAllister s/o Luke
McAllister and Ann Flannigan of Hopewell Parish:
8) William Daley b. c1858, m. 4 Nov 1885 Charlotte (Fales) Hughes d/o Charles
and Rhoda Ann Fales of Hopewell Hill, and the widow of James Hughes also of
Hopewell Hill, NB.
Source: MC80/2014 Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish Catholic settlers of
Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 38-40: Owen was probably the brother of
Philip Daley who married Mary Olsten.
DALEY: Philip Daley born c1808 in Ireland, d. 5 Jul 1900 at Riverside, NB: came to
NB in 1833: settled at New Ireland in Alma Parish, Albert County: m. 1835 Mary
Olsten b. 1818 Ireland, d. 12 May 1902 at Harvey, NB, d/o Peter Olsten and Ann
O’Brien of New Ireland:
Children:
1) John Daley b. c1836, d. 22 Apr 1911 at Harvey Corner, NB, m. Jun 1863 at Wards
Creek, Elizabeth McAnulty b. - , d. 6 May 1916 at Hillsborough, NB, d/o Charles
McAnulty and Rosanna Boyle of Harvey Parish: six children:
2) Peter Daley born c1839, d. 22 Dec 1911 at Beaver Brook, NB, m. Rosanna
McAnulty born - , died 12 Dec 1920 at Beaver Brook, d/o Charles McAnulty and
Rosanna Boyle: settled at New Ireland and had seven children:
3) David Daley b. 1840 at New Ireland:
4) Mary Ann Daley born c1841, d. 1916, m. (1st) c1861 Thomas Wallace, m. (2nd)
31 Jul 1873 at New Ireland, John McCarron s/o John McCarron and Mary
McShary of New Ireland: they had five children:
5) Dennis A. Daley born c1843, died 1920, m. c1871 Theresa Kent b. - , died 9 May
1875, d/o John and Mary Kent: they had one child: m. (2nd) 8 Jan 1880 at New
Ireland, Sarah Ann Moore b. - , died 25 Mar 1934, d/o John Moore and Sarah
McAnulty of Germantown Lake in Harvey Parish: settled in Elgin Parish and had
eight children:
6) Catherine Daley born c1845, died 13 Nov 1913, married (1st) 26 Jun 1866
probably at Wards Creek, Charles H. McManus born c1827, died 7 Jan 1872, s/o
Terrence and Theresa McManus of Dorchester, NB: had two children: m. (2nd) 22
May 1876 Archibald McCrea b. c1825 in Ireland, died 19 May 1907: had five
children: settled in Memramcook, NB:
7) Martha E. Daley born c1847, died 1925, m. (1st) 15 Jul 1878 at Saint John,
Nathaniel Peck born c1819, died 17 Mar 1906, s/o Reuben Peck, widower of
Margaret Calhoun of Harvey Parish: married (2nd) 27 Feb 1912 William L. Dawson
of Hillsborough, NB, born - , died 13 May 1932, s/o Isaac and Susan Dawson:
8) Alice Daley b. c1850, d. 8 Feb 1901 at Eastport, ME, m. 2 Jul 1873 Isaiah Bishop
s/o Joseph Bishop and Rebecca Bishop of Harvey NB: to Eastport, ME in 1881: had
seven children:
9) Owen Daley b. c1852:
10) Susan Daley b. c1852:
11) James Edward Daley born c1854, d. 3 Aug 1937 at Beaver Brook, NB, married
(1st) 16 Jan 1884 at New Ireland, NB, Mary Elizabeth Dornan d/o John Dornan and
Susan Doherty: had one child: married (2nd) 21 Oct 1890 probably at New Ireland,
Mary Crandall: had three children: they settled in New Ireland:
12) Margaret Daley born c1855:
13) William Daley b. c1857:
14) Agnes L. Daley bp. 16 Jun 1858:
15) Philip Ronald Daley bp. 4 Jun 1860, m. 26 Jul 1885 at New Ireland, Elizabeth
Morrisey d/o Thomas Morrisey and Amelia Pettis of New Ireland: they had two
children before leaving the area:
16) Sarah Daley born c1864, d. 25 May 1878.
Source: MC1/McCarron, 2 pages: which spells Philip’s wife as Mary Olsen d/o
Peter Olsen: see MC80/2014 Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish Catholic
settlers of Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 28-37.
DALY: Samuel Daly born in Ireland, d. at age 96, m. Ursula Patterson b. in Ireland,
d. age 41: came from County Cork, Ireland to NB in 1852 and settled at Fair View,
Saint Martins Parish, Saint John County:
Children:
1) Michael Daly m. Mary MacLaren:
2) Jane Daly m. William Brown Sr.:
3) Samuel Daly m. Janie Marshall:
4) Ursula Daly m. James Canders:
5) William Daly drowned at sea when young:
6) Amelia Daly b. in NB and d. at age 31.
Source: MC1/Daly, 1 page: Ursula's brother Robert Patterson settled at Great

Salmon River in 1852.
DALEY: Thomas Daley b. c1820 in Ireland, died before 1881, married Mary
Campbell b. c1831, d. after 1881: came to NB before 1853: settled in Harvey Parish,
Albert County:
Children:
1) Margaret Daley born c1849 in Scotland, m. 6 Nov 1867 George Doherty s/o
William and Catherine Doherty of Harvey Parish:
2) Mary Daley b. c1852 in Scotland:
3) Bridget Daley b. c1853 in NB:
4) Thomas Daley born c1854:
5) Anna Daley b. c1856:
6) George Daley b. 2 Jan 1858:
7) Sarah Elizabeth Daley b. Apr 1860:
8) Martilla Daley born c1863:
9) Robert Daley born c1865:
10) Baby Daley born and died 1867:
11) Susan Daley b. 8 May 1871.
Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 41-42.
DALEY: William Daley born 1796 in Ireland, m. Jane Kingston born 1807 in
Ireland, died 1884 in NB: came to NB and may have settled in Saint John County:
only child mentioned was, James Kingston Daley born 1849 in NB, d. 1926, m. Ann
Isabella Davidson b. 1855 in NB, d. 1937.
Source: MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New
Brunswick, page 70.
DALEY see also Daly
DALGLESH: George Berwick Dalglesh born 1826 in England, possibly on Isle of

Eiggan near border with Wales, d. 29 Feb 1895, m. Isabella Davidson born 1834,
died 18 Dec 1921, d/o John Davidson and Ann Harvey: settled in Guelph, Ontario
then came to NB about 1859: settled at Thomaston Corner in Manners Sutton Parish,
York County: returned to Ontario about 1889:
Children:
1) Anthony Dalglesh b. 14 Jun 1857 at Guelph, ON, d. 18 Feb 1933 Soo, MI, m. in
Ontario, Christina McLean: eventually settled in Michigan: they had six children:
2) Annie Dalglesh b. 26 Jan 1860 Harvey, NB, d. 23 Mar 1928, m. 6 Jun 1877 John
Christie b. 30 Aug 1848 Tryon Settlement, Dumbarton Parish, Charlotte County, d.
23 Apr 1939 at Harvey: settled at Wilmot, NB had twelve children:
3) Mary Ann Dalglesh born 19 May 1863 at Harvey, NB, died 2 Oct 1941, m.
Alexander Grant born 1865, died 1917: they had five children:
4) John Davidson Dalglesh born 25 Mar 1865 at Harvey, died c1944, married
Patricia - : had one son:
5) George Dalglesh born 24 May 1867 at Harvey, d. 1941, married Margaret
McLean, sister of Christina: they had three children:
6) Eleanor Elizabeth Dalglesh b. 2 May 1869 at Harvey, died unmarried:
7) Charles Frederick Dalglesh b. Jul 1872 at Harvey, d. 1885:
8) William Henry Dalglesh b. 12 Jun 1875 at Harvey, d. 1908, m. Agnes Gordon
and had three children:
9) Thomas A. Dalglesh born 1877 at Harvey, m. Nita Eaton: had one child:
10) Edith Dalglesh born in 1880 at Harvey, m. Mr. Eaton: had two children.
Source: MC80/2038 Edgar Christie’s John Christie and descendants 1815-1894,

pages 38-39.
DALLING: John Dalling b. 1801 in England, d. 1875: came to NB in 1820: m. 20

Nov 1828 Mary Chambers born 1804 in Ireland, d. 1869: she came to NB in 1824:
family resided at Chambers Settlement, Waterford Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) William Dalling b. 1831, d. Jun 1899, m. Eliza S. Harvey b. 1831, d. Apr 1899:
2) Judy Dalling born 1834:
3) John Dalling b. 1837, d. 1911, m. (1st) Mary Elizabeth Armstrong born 1840, d.
1863, d/o Francis and Deborah Armstrong, m. (2nd) Isabella Aiton born 1843, died
1920:
4) Jane Dalling b. 1840:
5) Fanny Dalling b. 1842.
Source: MC1/Dalling, 30 pages: file contains a copy of a report titled Family tree of
John Dalling 1801-March 1875 and Mary (Chambers) Dalling 1804-1869 by W.
Harvey Dalling.
DALLON: Thomas Dallon born 1809 in Ireland: came to NB and may have settled
in Saint John: married Ann McIntyre born 1806 in Ireland:
Children:
1) William Dallon born 1838:
2) Ann Jane Dallon b. 1840:
3) John Dallon b. 1842:
4) Thomas Dallon b. 1848:
5) Robert James Dallon b. 1848 in NB, m. Mary Elizabeth Ross b. 1856 in NB,
died 1943 in Saint John.
Brunswick, page 70.
DALY is interfiled with DALEY
DALTON: Edward Dalton b. 1792 in Ireland, m. Anastasia - b. 1802 in

Ireland: came to NB 1818: settled in Botsford Parish, Westmorland County:

1) George Dalton b. 1833 in NB:
2) James Dalton b. 1835 in NB:
3) Sarah Dalton b. 1837 in NB:
4) Matthew Dalton b. 1842 in NB:
5) Edward Dalton b. 1845 in NB.

F20980; see sheet for Edward Dalton.
DALZELL: William Dalzell born in Ireland, died on 19 Sep 1851, married Mary -
b. c1797, died 9 Jul 1883: came to NB in 1825 and settled at Red Head, Simonds
Parish, Saint John County:
Sons mentioned:
1) Arthur Dalzell:
2) Joseph Dalzell:
3) John Dalzell:
4) William Dalzell:
5) James Dalzell:
Daughters:
1) Rachel Dalzell:
2) Ann Dalzell:
3) Mary Anne Dalzell:
4) Nancy Dalzell:
5) Margaret Dalzell m. Francis Aitkens.
Source: MC80/2592 Graeme F. Somerville’s A library of stone pages and other

records of the Wesleyan burial ground, Saint John, NB, page 58.
DAMERY: William Damery: settled in Saint John: married Mary Gay born 1841 in
Ireland, died on 13 Mar 1895, d/o Charles Gay.

DAMOTH: Reuben Damoth born c1802 Waldoboro, ME, d. 16 Feb 1869 in Calais,
ME: came to NB and settled in Saint Patrick Parish, Charlotte County: went to Calais,
ME by 1850: m. 29 Dec 1824 in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, Keziah Jackson b.
c1807 St. Stephen d/o William Jackson and Mary Dyer:
Children:
1) Harriet N. Damoth born on 15 Jan 1828 in Calais, ME, m. c1863 Frank G. Smith
b. c1827 at Francestown, NH: this family settled in Bennington, NH:
2) Mary Ann Damoth b. c1830 in Saint Patrick Parish, NB, died in Nov 1856 in
Calais:
3) Mehitable W. Damoth born c1833 Saint Patrick Parish, m. 29 Sep 1869 in Calais,
ME, John Mitchell:
4) Unnamed Damoth b. c1835 in NB, d. 10 Sep 1845 in Calais:
5) Unnamed Damoth born c1837 in NB, d. 8 Sep 1845 in Calais:
6) Sarah N. Damoth born c1840 in Saint Patrick Parish: settled in Calais:
7) Louisa Damoth born c1842 in Saint Patrick Parish: settled in Calais:
8) George William Damoth born 5 Aug 1846 in Calais, Maine.
Source: MC80/2711 Thelma Eye Brooks’ Calais Maine families, pages 35-36.
DANIEL: Henry Daniel born 1807 at Penzance, Cornwall, England, d. 8 Nov 1896
at Saint John, m. Honora Branwell Edmunds, a cousin of the Bronte sisters, and also
a native of Penzance, England, b. - , d. 24 May 1883: came to NB in 1830 and served
as a Methodist minister:
Children:
1) Emma B. Daniel:
2) Mary Elizabeth Daniel:
3) Eliza Edmonds Daniel:
4) Henry Marwood Daniel:
5) John Waterhouse Daniel b. 27 Jan 1845 at St. Stephen, Charlotte County, d. 11
Jan 1933, m. 15 Oct 1890 Jessie Porteous Ennis d/o John Ennis: settled in Saint
John, NB:
6) Robert Abbott Daniel born in 1849, died 17 Mar 1926 at Saint John: was a
Methodist minister.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: John Waterhouse Daniel, 1 page: see also
MC80/97 E. Arthur Betts’ Bishop Black and his preachers, page 134: see also
MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 246-247.
DANIEL: Thomas Wilder Daniel b. 26 Jun 1818 at Bedfordshire, England s/o

Wilder Daniel and Maria H. Lancaster: came to NB in 1835 and settled in Saint
John:
Source: MC80/407 The Canadian biographical dictionary, page 610: when Thomas
first arrived in Saint John he worked with his uncle Thomas Daniel.
DANIEL: Timothy Daniel: he came from Westchester County, NY to NB in 1783 as

a Loyalist: settled in Hampton Parish, Kings County: the name of his wife is not
provided: a possible child was, James Daniel who m. before 1851 Margaret
Wanamaker.
Source: MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial

tribute, 1 paragraph.
DANIEL: William Alban Daniel b. 23 Jul 1843 at Manchester, Lancashire, England,

died 14 May 1920 in New Maryland, York County: came to NB with the 22nd
Regiment: married 10 Jul 1867 in New Maryland, NB, Jane Hicklin b. 29 Mar 1846
at Gibraltar, Europe, died 14 May 1919, d/o William Hicklin:
Children:
1) Mary Elizabeth Daniel b. c1868 in NB, d. 15 May 1905 at New Maryland: m. as
second wife, 10 Jun 1903 at Fredericton, James William Greer born 23 Jun 1864 at
New Maryland, died 30 Jul 1944 at Fredericton, s/o Robert Greer and Mary
Elizabeth Charters: James m. (1st) Alice Fisher born 1866, bp. 28 Oct 1866 at New
Maryland, d. 25 Apr 1899, d/o Lewis Fisher and Elizabeth Moore: settled at New
Maryland and had three children:
2) Miss Daniel m. William H. Hodgson: settled in Doak Settlement in York County:
3) William Alban Daniel was born 1876 at New Maryland, died 1 Oct 1945 at
Fredericton: m. Mary Elizabeth Price b. 1877 at Doaktown, Northumberland County,
d. 27 Sep 1961 at New Maryland, d/o Coake Price and Ruth Doak: they settled in
New Maryland and had at least four children:
Source: MC1564 New Maryland local history project fonds, Genealogical dictionary
of cemeteries for York and Sunbury Counties: Volume 1, St. Mary the Virgin
Anglican cemetery, New Maryland, York County, pgs. 7-8, 38-39.
DANIELS: Joel Daniels was a Quaker from Alloways Creek, NJ, b. - , died 26 Sep
1807: m. Clarissa Winn b. in NY, d. 29 Nov 1831: came from Staten Island, NY to
NB in 1783 as Loyalists: eventually settled at Sussex Vale in Kings County:
Children mentioned:
1) James Daniels b. 1802, d. 11 Apr 1842 in Dearborn MI:
2) possibly, Elizabeth Daniel m. James McLeod.
Sources: MC1/Daniels #2, 1 page: see also MC80/1720 Theodore C. Holmes’

Loyalists to Canada: the 1783 settlement of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy,
page 49: see MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial
tribute, 1 paragraph under heading Joel Daniel.
DANIELS: William Daniels b. in New London, CT, died before 24 Jun 1810, m.
Martha - : they came to NB in 1770 and settled in Shepody, Hopewell Parish,
Albert County:
Children:
1) Eunice Daniels married 6 Sep 1784 George Boss:
2) William Daniels b. - , d. before 24 Jun 1816, m. Rhoda Rogers? b. c1775, died
after 1851:
3) Joseph Daniels b. c1774, d. 6 Dec 1841, m. 6 Dec 1841 Esther Lord born c1788,
d. 9 May 1863, d/o Marvin and Ruby Lord from Cornwallis, NS: had seven children:
4) John Daniels b. - , d. before 22 Apr 1833, m. 26 Jul 1815 Elizabeth Lord:
5) Asa Daniels m. Miriam Hoar:
6) Dennis Daniels:
7) Elizabeth Daniels:
8) Ann Daniels:
9) Sarah Daniels married 20 Oct 1788 Samuel Mills and had four children:
10) Olive Daniels married 1810 Peter Mills.
Source: MC1/Daniels #1, 3 pages: the members of the Daniel family were Methodists
and William was a preacher: see also MC80/691 Maimie Steeves’ Fundy Folklore,
page 59: see also MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, page 82: see
also MC80/1835 Arthur L. Lord’s Genealogy of the Lords of West Isles, New
Brunswick, page 1 for Joseph and Esther’s children.
DANN: Phillip Paddock Dann born 1775, d. 27 Jun 1851, possibly s/o John Dann
of Connecticut: m. Diana - born 1770, d. 23 Apr 1854: both came to NB in 1783 as
children of Loyalists and settled at Kingston, Kings County:
Children:
1) possibly, James Dann b. 1800 in NB, m. Sarah - b. 1800 in NB: settled in
Kingston and had children:
2) Phillip P. Dann born 1812, married Hannah - b. 1816 in NB: settled in
Kingston and had issue.
Source: MC80/360 Acadiensis Vol VIII, No. 3, July, 1908, Epitaphs: Church of
England Graveyard, Kings County, NB, pg 221: also see the Kings County census
returns: see MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial
DARLING: Benjamin Darling Sr. b. 23 Oct 1730 at Marblehead, MA, died 1810,
m. 1758 Hannah Bassett b. 29 Apr 1730 at Marblehead, MA, d. 27 Sep 1796 in NB:
he came to NB each summer after 1750 to trade with the Indians on the Hammond
River at what later became Darlings Island in Kings County: came to NB and settled
in Hampton Parish, Kings County:
Children mentioned:
1) Henry Darling born 8 Jun 1760, d. Oct 1846, m. (1st) 1 Feb 1798 Abigail Duree:
had one child: m. (2nd) Feb 1798 Hannah Doolittle: had one child: m. (3rd) Esther
Wright:
2) Hannah Darling b. 20 Oct 1762, d. c1870, married Oct 1783 Christopher
Watson, a Loyalist: settled in NB and had eight children:
3) Benjamin Darling b. 27 Dec 1764, married Hannah Ketchum: had eight children:
who settled in the area after 1783:
4) Michael Darling b. 10 Jul 1767, died at sea.
Source: MC80/450 Charlotte Robinson’s Pioneer Profiles of New Brunswick

Settlers, “Hannah Darling”, pages 184-193: see Saint John Regional Library: David
Russell Jack Bequest: Genealogy, microfilm reel F109, page 89.
DARLING: Benjamin Darling Jr. b. 27 Dec 1764 probably at Marblehead, MA, s/o
Benjamin Darling and Hannah Bassett: came to NB and settled in Hampton Parish,
Kings County: married Hannah Ketchum:
Children:
1) John Darling b. 23 Oct 1789, d. unmarried Sep 1837:
2) Benjamin Darling b. 1791, d. 25 Dec 1874, m. 10 Mar 1830 Frances Ann
Townsend b. 21 Oct 1805, d. 31 Oct 1874: had five children:
3) Hannah Darling m. John Fisher and had five children:
4) Elizabeth Darling m. Richard Dickson and had six children:
5) Samuel Darling m. Grace Ann Robertson and had six children:
6) Mary Darling m. John Cogswell and had six children:
7) Ann Darling m. John Townsend and had one daughter:
8) Sarah Darling m. William Hill and had five children.
Source: Saint John Regional Library: David Russell Jack Bequest: Genealogy,
microfilm reel F109, pages 89, 90.
DARLINGTON: John Darlington came from Orange County, NY to NB in 1783 as

a Loyalist and settled on the Kennebecasis River in Kings County: m. Joanna - b.
c1745, d. 1840 in Portland, Saint John.

DARRAH: Cunningham Darrah born c1808 at Strabane in County Tyrone, Ireland,

died in Sep 1870: he came to NB in 1820 and settled in Salmon River, Chipman
Parish in Queens County: his wife died before 1861: the only child mentioned was,
Mary Darrah born 1843, d. 1937, m. 19 Oct 1865 William Alexander Long: first
settled in Chipman Parish, then in Kingston Parish, Kings County.
Source: MC1479 Darrah family genealogical fonds: Cunningham had siblings John
Darrah, James Darrah, Rebecca Darrah and Ann Darrah.
DARRAH: James Darrah born c1804 at Strabane in County Tyrone, Ireland, died 9
Aug 1883: he came to NB and settled in Salmon River, Chipman Parish, Queens
County: married (1st) July 1838 Matilda Brownlow b. 1813, m. (2nd) 19 Jul 1845
Elizabeth Scott, (3rd) 19 Oct 1852 Jane Chitly b. 1814, d. 1897:
Children born in NB of first wife:

1) William Darrah b. 1839, died 1884, m. 17 Sep 1873 Martha Anne Craig born
1848, d. 1907: had two children:
2) John Darrah b. c1841, d. 1914, m. Jane - b. 1840, d. 1933: six children:
3) James Darrah b. 1843, d. 1911, m. 1868 Letitia Linton b. 1845, d. 1930: had five
children

4) Robert Cunningham Darrah b. 1845, d. 1923, married 9 Oct 1878 Sarah Fulton
b. 1849, died 1936: had nine children:
5) Joseph M. Darrah b. 1847:
6) Thomas Darrah b. c1849:
7) Andrew Hugh Darrah b. c1851, d. 1919, m. 15 Nov 1877 Elizabeth Jane
Rankine b. 15 Nov 1857, d. 21 Nov 1930: had seven children:
8) Matilda Ann Darrah b. 1852, d. 1890, married 9 Nov 1878 John Robert Rankine
b. - , d. 16 Apr 1926: had three children.
Sources: MC1479 Darrah family genealogical fonds, 10 pages: James’ siblings John
Darrah, Cunningham Darrah, Rebecca Darrah and Ann Darrah: see also
MC2824 Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Darrah, 10 pages: see also MC80/364 E. Stone
Wiggins, History of Queens County, page 24 in which the surname is spelled as
Derrah.
DARRAH: John Darrah born c1799 at Strabane in County Tyrone, Ireland, died 29
Jul 1873: came to NB in 1820 and settled in Salmon River, Chipman Parish, Queens
County: m. 3 Aug 1831 Martha Stewart b. - , d. 28 Dec 1846:
Children:
1) Matilda Darrah born in 1835, died in 1892, married James Irvine Brien:
2) Mary Jane Darrah b. 1836, d. 1900, married 25 Dec 1858 Robert Ward born
1826, d. 1896:
3) James S. Darrah b. c1837, m. 20 Jul 1864 Rebecca McCollum: moved to Iowa in
1869: had issue
4) Sarah A. Darrah born c1838, m. 14 Jun 1865 William David Hornbrook:
5) Rebecca Darrah born c1839, died 1863, married John Darrah Brien:
6) Isabella Darrah born c1842 in NB, d. 1887, married John Robert Watson born
1840, d. 1908: had one child.
Source: MC1479 Darrah family genealogical fonds: John Darrah’s siblings James
Darrah and Cunningham Darrah also settled at Salmon River: their sister Rebecca
Darrah b. 1810, d. 1886 at Whitehead, Kings County, m. 10 Jan 1829 at Kingston,
Kings County, John Brien b. 1798 in Ireland, d. 1874: had issue: sister Ann Darrah
born 1811 was living with brother Cunningham Darrah in 1861: see also MC2824
Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Darrah, 3 pages.
DARRAH: Thomas Darrah b. c1793 in Ireland, m. in Ireland, Margaret - b.

c1791 in Ireland: came to NB in 1818 and settled in Kingston Parish, Kings County:
Children born in NB:

1) James Darrah b. c1827, m. Sarah Sleep b. c1830: had twelve children:
2) Margaret Darrah b. c1828:
3) Eliza Darrah b. c1830:
Source: MC2824 Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Darrah, file 2, 2 pages.
DAVENPORT: Gabriel Davenport b. c1750, d. Oct 1843: he came from NY to NB

in 1783 as a Loyalist married Abigail - : they eventually settled in Wakefield
Parish, Carleton County: had at least four children

1) Anna Purdy Davenport b. 1794:
2) Joseph Barton Davenport bp. 1796:
3) possibly, William Davenport b. 1803, d. 1846.

DAVID: François David born 8 Nov 1787 in Quebec, s/o Jean David and Françoise
David of Newport, QC: married on 8 Nov 1787 at Paspébiac, QC, Catherine Denys
d/o Louis Denys and Madeleine Larocque: came to NB by 1811 and settled at
Caraquet in Gloucester County:
Children:
1) François David born 14 Apr 1792 at Paspébiac, married (1st) 25 Nov 1809
Henriette Albert d/o Jean-Baptiste Albert and Thérèse Lanteigne: (2nd) 21 Sep
1832 Céleste Guignard d/o Jean-Baptiste Guignard and Marie Breau of Lameque,
NB: married (3rd) Véronique Foulem d/o Thomas Foulem and Rosalie
Chamberlain:
2) Archange David born c1797, m. 26 Nov 1816 Louis Lanteigne s/o Louis
Lanteigne and Luce LeBrasseur:
3) Françoise David b. 7 Apr 1799 at Paspébiac, married 13 Feb 1816 Florent
Lanteigne, brother of Louis:
4) Thérèse David b. 26 Jan 1802 at Paspébiac, m. 20 Aug 1822 at Paspébiac, QC,
Jean-Baptiste Lanteigne, brother of Louis:
5) Alexandre David b. 13 Jul 1804 at Paspébiac, m. 24 Aug 1824 Marguerite
Boucher d/o Joseph Boucher and Catherine Marcel:
6) Marie David born 25 Aug 1809 at Paspébiac, married 22 Apr 1828 Michel
Lanteigne s/o Jean Lanteigne and Marie Parisé:
7) Désirée David b. 21 Oct 1806 at Paspébiac, m. 20 Aug 1829 at Paspébiac, Rose
Boucher, sister of Marguerite.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pgs 118-19.
DAVIDSON: Daniel Davidson born 1784 in NS, died on Oct 1847 in Calais, ME:
came to NB: they settled in Charlotte County: later moved to Calais, ME: m. Mary
Ann Camphor b. c1795 in Fredericton, York County, NB, died 16 Mar 1864 in
Calais, ME:
Children:
1) Parker Davidson b. c1816 Saint David Parish, Charlotte County, d. 27 May 1895
in Calais, m. (1st) Jun 1846 in Calais, Edith Tucker of Robbinston, ME, (2nd) 19 Dec
1850 in Calais, ME, Elizabeth Site b. - , d. before 1895:
2) George Davidson born 11 Apr 1823 in Calais, died 26 Dec 1890, m. after 18 Jul
1846 in Calais, Sarah/Sally Smith b. May 1822 in Saint David Parish, died Apr 1907:
settled in Calais and had eight children:
3) Maria/Marie Davidson b. 19 May 1828 in Calais, d. 16 Apr 1903, married after 23
Apr 1843 in Calais, William F. Whiteneck s/o John Whiteneck and Esther Culver
of Pleasant Valley, Sussex Parish, Kings County, NB: settled in Calais:
4) Mary Ann Davidson born 16 Dec 1831 in Calais:
5) Orren Davidson born 26 Aug 1834 in Calais, ME:
6) Abraham Davidson born c1838 in St. Andrews, Charlotte County, d. after 1875,
married 24 Aug 1871 in Calais, Sarah C. Hatt: divorced Apr 1875.
DAVIDSON: George Davidson born and d. in England, m. Elizabeth - b. 1763,

died 17 Jan 1854: widow and children came to NB in 1837 and settled at Harvey
Settlement, Manners Sutton Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Isabella Davidson b. 11 Jan 1792, died 22 Jan 1869:
2) John Davidson born 5 Dec 1798, died 16 Apr 1856:
3) George Davidson b. 17 Jan 1806, d. unm. 24 Jan 1891.
Source: MC80/2504 Jocelean S. Hall et. al. Harvey Settlement Cemetery 1837-1999,
page 14.
DAVIDSON: James Davidson b. c1756 in Scotland, d. c1840: came to NB in 1783
as a Loyalist and first settled on the Letang River in Saint George Parish, Charlotte
County: married before 21 Jun 1790 at St. George, Nancy Pipley? possibly d/o
Walter Pipley:
Children:
1) Ellen Davidson born 1791 at St. George, d. 4 Jul 1854, m. c1810 Patrick Clinch
born c1790, d. 10 Mar 1869, s/o Peter Clinch and Lucretia Handy: settled at St.
George and had twelve children:
2) James Davidson b. c1792, died 20 Jan 1859, m. 25 Dec 1823 at St. George,
Phoebe Milliken b. 23 Jun 1801, d. 8 Sep 1887, d/o Dominicus Milliken and Mary
Ann Nash: settled at St. George and had eleven children.
Sources: MC80/2488 Mary D. Adams et. al. The Davidsons and related families of
Charlotte County, New Brunswick: see also MC80/2811 Calvin Lee Craig’s Early
families of “The Mackadavy”, pages 262-266.
DAVIDSON: James Davidson born c1763 in Banffshire, Scotland, d. 22 Mar 1824:

he came to NB about 1780 and settled at Oak Point in Alnwick Parish,
Northumberland County: married 14 Nov 1791 in Newcastle Parish, Anabella
McDonald b. - , d. 10 Jan - , age 36: was sister of Alexander McDonald of
Bartibog, NB: had at least five children:

1) Alexander Davidson, the eldest son b. 1793, d. 14 May 1858:
2) James Davidson Jr. m. a lady who was b. c1788, d. 4 Apr 1863 at Bartibog
Newcastle Parish: they settled at Oak Point, NB: had issue:
3) Margaret Davidson b. 1798, d. 29 Jul 1872:
4) Ronald Davidson b. 1799, d. 26 Aug 1872:
Sources: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, pg. 95:

see also MC216 Kathleen Willis Williston fonds, MS 1B5 Biographies and notes on
early settlers written by Mrs. Williston in 1947, 1 page: see entry for James Davidson.
DAVIDSON: James Davidson b. c1768 at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 11 Jul 1852

at Fredericton, York County, s/o Andrew Davidson and Margaret Muir: he came to
NB and probably settled in Saint John: wife’s name is not provided:
Children:
1) James Davidson b. Girvan, Scotland, d. 26 Mar 1881 at Musquash, Saint John
County, m. 11 May 1870 at Musquash, Charlotte Drummond Eadie born c1833,
died 8 Mar 1917:
2) Thomas Davidson b. 24 Nov 1809 at Girvan, d. 23 Mar 1887 in Saint John,
married 14 Oct 1846 Mary Jane Barron born 19 Dec 1825, died 20 Jan 1899:
3) Andrew Davidson born 1812, d. 3 Apr 1856:
4) Hugh D. Davidson b. 2 May 1822 at Girvan, d. 11 Dec 1899 in Saint John.
Brunswick, page 71: widow Charlotte Drummond (Eadie) Davidson married (2nd)
Albert Henderson.
DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. 1740, d. 13 May 1810: he came from New

Hampshire to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Dumfries, York County: m.
Rebecca - b. 1758, d. 27 Sep 1845:

1) William Davidson born 1787, d. 7 Feb 1873:
2) Withers Davidson born 1789, died 15 May 1858, m. Ann Jones, b. 1794, died 11
Oct 1871, third d/o Simeon Jones:
3) Hamilton Davidson.
Source: MC1156 Graves Papers: John Davidson, 1 page.
DAVIDSON: John Davidson born c1770 at Banffshire, Scotland, died before 1851,
s/o Alexander Davidson and Helen Robertson: married 27 Sep 1792 Margaret
Loggie b. 12 Oct 1775 Bawds, Old Urquhart Parish, Elgin County, Scotland, d/o
Robert Loggie and Marjorie Hay of Scotland and also of Burnt Church, NB: settled
at Oak Point, Alnwick Parish in Northumberland County:

1) John Davidson b. 1795, d. 1871, married Margaret - b. 1799, died 1860:
2) Jane Davidson born 8 Jul 1796, married on 25 Nov 1819 George Murray:
3) Robert Davidson b. 30 Mar 1800, d. 8 Oct 1886, m. 17 Oct 1839 Elizabeth
Anderson b. 1809:
4) Alexander Davidson born c1801, d. Jan 1884, married 15 Mar 1836 Janet
Drummond b. 1829:
5) Peter Davidson born c1804, d. 28 Jun 1884, m. 28 Aug 1843 Jane Loggie b. 1823,
d. 22 Jun 1864:
6) Margary Davidson b. 1807:
7) Helen/Ellen Davidson born 1811 at Burnt Church, d. 1905, m. 31 Jan 1850 John
Morrison:
8) Margaret Davidson b. 1812:
9) Mary Davidson b. c1817, m. 26 Oct 1837 Peter Morrison:
10) George Davidson b. 1819 at Oak Point, d. 6 Aug 1887, married Margaret Harris
born 1824, died 27 Feb 1897.
Sources: MC1/Davidson #2, 6 pages: Margaret Loggie had brothers George Loggie,
Robert Loggie, Peter Loggie, William Loggie, John Loggie and Alexander Loggie
and at least one sister, Janet Loggie: see also MC80/743 Jane L. Webster’s Robert
Logie of Miramichi, New Brunswick and his descendants, page 14: see also
MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the NBGS, Some first families of the Miramichi, 1
pg.: see MC2657 NBGS Generations Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2000, Avadne Connolly’s
First Burnt Church cemetery, Parish of Alnwick, Northumberland Co., N.B., page
24.
DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. 6 Apr 1780 at Horton, NS, died 11 Feb 1856, s/o
Samuel Davidson and Abigail English: came to NB: first settled in Albert County,
then at Portage Vale, Cardwell Parish, Kings County: m. 14 May 1807 at Dorchester
in Westmorland County, Sarah Stults born c1784 at Dorchester, died 8 Sep 1835, d/o
Henry and Elizabeth Stults:
Children:
1) Samuel Davidson:
2) Ann Davidson born 1811, died 16 Aug 1859, married Matthew Holstead:
3) Elizabeth Davidson born 1816, d. unmarried 4 Oct 1838:
4) Augustus Davidson b. 1818, d. 7 Mar 1894, married Eliza Forsyth b. - , d. before
1894:
5) John Davidson b. 1820, died 14 Mar 1891, married 31 Oct 1844 Margaret Snider
born 1822 at Portage Vale, NB, d. 28 Apr 1872, d/o Elias Snider and Deborah
Ketchum: settled in Portage Vale and had issue:
6) Abigail Davidson born c1825, married on 14 Mar 1844 James Forsyth:
7) Henry Davidson b. 1827, d. 18 Sep 1882, m. 25 Mar 1852 Emma Amy Hayward
born 1833, d. 2 Nov 1914:
8) Gilbert Davidson b. 1830, d. 8 Oct 1897, m. 31 Oct 1855 Sarah Frances
Hayward b. 1838, d. 7 Aug 1906.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 235-236:

see the Kings County census records: see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS:
Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 71.
DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. 1799 in England, d. 1868, m. Ann Harvey: came

from Newcastle, England to NB about 1852: probably first settled in St. Andrews,
Charlotte County:
Children mentioned:
1) Thomas Davidson b. c1826 England, d. 10 Jul 1903, m. Jane Carmichael b. 1838,
d. 16 Dec 1894, d/o John Carmichael and Margaret Hume: settled at Thomaston
Corner in Manners Sutton Parish, York County:
2) Adam Davidson:
3) Isabella Davidson born 1834 in England, d. 18 Dec 1921, married George
Berwick Dalglesh b. 1826 in England, d. 29 Feb 1895: settled at Thomaston Corner
and had ten children.
Source: MC80/2038 Edgar Christie’s John Christie and descendants 1815-1894,

pages 38-39, 62: John Carmichael born 1799, d. 21 Jun 1879, married Margaret Hume
born 1805, died 22 Oct 1872: was one of the first to settle at Harvey, Manners Sutton
Parish, York County.
DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. c1825 in Scotland, d. 1908, m. 20 Aug 1853 at

Banff, Scotland, Isabella C. Trail born 12 Jul 1832 in Brackenbrae, Forgue, Scotland,
died 1888, d/o William Trail and Rachel Henderson: they came to NB after 1853:
settled at Temperance Vale, Southampton Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Davidson born Sep 1857, died 6 Aug 1861:
2) John William Davidson b. 13 Sep 1859, d. 25 Nov 1927, m. 27 Jun 1883 in
Fredericton, NB, Alwida Stairs born 21 Dec 1855 at Southhampton, NB, died 15 Sep
1945, d/o Gideon Stairs and Melvina Albina Bates: settled in Southampton and had
two children:
3) Ellena Davidson b. c1862, died 9 Dec 1940 at Davidson, Sask., m. (1st) 23 Oct
1883 George Rockwell born 1856, d. 26 Apr 1886 s/o George Rockwell and Ann
Bayless: one child: m. (2nd) 20 Oct 1887 at Woodstock, NB, George Whitfield Grant
born 6 Aug 1848 in Southampton, d. 12 Feb 1931 at Craik, Sask., s/o John Grant and
Abisha Cronkhite: settled in Southampton: had one child:
4) Louisa Murray Davidson born 6 Aug 1866, d. 6 Jul 1952, married 16 May 1888
Allison Theodore Miller b. 1863, died Jan 1921: settled in Southampton and had two
children:
5) George Davidson b. 24 Jan 1874, d. 4 Aug 1943, m. 21 Aug 1895 Hannah Miller
born 10 Aug 1878 at Lower Southampton, NB, died 17 Feb 1949, d/o George Miller
and Hannah Cronkhite: settled at Lower Southampton and had five children.
Source: MC80/1967 Patricia G. Trail’s The Trail line, pages 18-56: George Whitfield
Grant married (1st) Emma A. Armstrong.
DAVIDSON: Robert Davidson: came to NB in 1832 and settled in Saint John:

married Sarah - b. 1799, d. 27 May 1852.

DAVIDSON: Thomas Davidson born 29 Mar 1827 in England, died 8 Jul 1902 or on
10 Jul 1903: came to NB in 1847: settled at Thomaston, Manners Sutton Parish, York
County: m. Jane Carmichael born 4 Jul 1838 in Harvey, NB, d. 16 Dec 1894, d/o
John Carmichael and Margaret Hume: no issue were named.
Source: MC80/2504 Jocelean S. Hall et. al. Harvey Settlement Cemetery 1837-1999,
page 27.
DAVIDSON: William Davidson was born c1740 as John Godsman in Bellie Parish
near Fochabers in Banffshire, Scotland, died 17 Jun 1790, s/o William Godsman and
his wife - Davidson: came to NB in 1765: took name of his maternal grandfather:
family settled at Wilson’s Point on the Miramichi River in Northumberland County:
during Revolutionary War he was in Maugerville, Sunbury County where he married
in 1778 Sarah Nevers d/o Dr. Phinehas Nevers and Mercy Green of Maugerville:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Davidson b. Mar 1779, d. at Maugerville, m. George McGregor born
1794:
2) William Davidson Jr. born Sep 1780, m. Jane McCullam: had no family:
3) Phinehas Davidson born Jan 1782, d. 7 Jan 1863 at Elm Tree, NB, m. Sara
Ledden:
4) Jane Davidson b. in Oct 1783, died at Miramichi:
5) Alexander Davidson b. Mar 1788, d. 26 Sep 1860 at Newcastle, m. c1818 Ann
Saunders b. 6 Jun 1793, died 3 Jul 1878 at Derby, d/o Joseph Saunders and
Margaret Anderson: settled at Elm Tree, Nelson Parish: had ten children.
Sources: MC80 #984 The Nevers family by George Hayward: see MC1156 Graves
Papers: William Davidson, 1 page: widow Sarah (Nevers) Davidson married Mar
1805 Alexander Allan: see also MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of
Miramichi Biography: see also MC1286 Volume IV Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, pages 195-197: see MC80/205 W.H. Davidson’s An account of the life of
William Davidson 1740-1790: see also MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the NBGS,
Some first families of the Miramichi, 1 page (Alexander Davidson): see also MC216
Kathleen Willis Williston fonds, MS 1B13 Biography of William Davidson written
by Mrs. Williston, 13 pages.
DAVIDSON: William Davidson born 1777 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, died 21 May

1847, m. Agnes Charters born 1793 in Dumfriesshire, d. 22 Jan 1872: came to NB in
1820 and settled at Jolicure, Westmorland Parish, Westmorland County:

1) Jane Davidson b. 1818:
2) John Davidson b. 1824, d. 10 May 1864:
3) Walter Davidson b. 1829:
4) Mary Davidson b. 1831:
5) Isabelle Davidson b. 13 Aug 1834, d. 5 Jan 1916, m. John Fawcett Copp.
Source: MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS2: on microfilm reel

F20987: see sheet for William Davidson.
DAVIDSON: William Davidson born c1782, died 23 Feb 1862 in Newcastle: fought
in Battle of Waterloo: came to NB in 1818: settled in North Esk Parish,
Northumberland County: married 2 Nov 1820 Margaret Reid born c1784: no
children mentioned.
Source: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, page 116.
DAVIE: James Thomas Davie born at Halifax, NS, d. 29 Jul 1909, m. 5 Oct 1840 at
Saint John, NB, Mary Amelia Fenwick born 2 May 1818 at Milkish, NB, d. c1901,
d/o Thomas Fenwick and Elizabeth Barlow: settled at Milkish, Westfield Parish,
Kings County:
Children:
1) Thomas Fenwick Davie b. 1841:
2) Charlotte Elizabeth Davie b. 15 Jul 1843 at Saint John:
3) Mary Amelia Davie b. 1844:
4) Helen Grey Davie born 5 Aug 1848 at Milkish, NB, died 18 Aug 1938, m. 17 Sep
1877 at Saint John, Samuel Souther:
5) Abigail W. Davie born 1850, m. 1 Jun 1887 at Bayswater, NB, William M. Kerr:
6) Henry James Davie b. 1852, d. 7 Nov 1901, married Olivia Jane Baxter:
7) Charles W. Davie born 1854, married 14 Sep 1887 Alice M. Miles:
8) Harriet Josephine Davie b. 1857:
9) George E. Davie b. 1859, d. 1938.
Source: MC1/Souther, 2 pages.
DAVIS: Abel Davis b. - , d. 1809, possibly s/o Abel Davis Sr. of Salisbury, MA: first
settled on PEI, then came to NB by 1803 and settled on Miramichi River in
Northumberland County: m. 1794 Angelica Astle born 19 Jun 1774 Schenectady, NY,
died c1815, d/o James Astle and Elizabeth McLean:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Davis born in 1795:
2) Henry David Davis born 1797:
3) James W. Nelson Davis born in 1799:
4) John Augustus Davis born 1801:
5) Hannah Davis born in 1805.
Source: MC80/1027 William R. MacKinnon Jr.’s Over the portage: early history of
the Upper Miramichi (revised), page 78, and index: Angelica (Astle) Davis m. (2nd)
by 11 Sep 1809 James Walls.
DAVIS: Benjamin Davis born 1769 at Salisbury, MA, d. after 1821, possibly s/o
Abel Davis Sr.: he first settled in Queensbury Parish, York County 1790, then moved
to the Miramichi River in Northumberland County by 1801: he m. Hannah Astle? d/o
James Astle and Elizabeth McLean:
Children:
1) Mary Davis b. 1796, m. 2 Jan 1815 Daniel McGraw:
2) Dorothy Bridget Davis b. 1798, m. 25 Jan 1816 Hugh McGraw:
3) Clarissa Davis born 1800, m. 13 Aug 1818 Abraham Peterson:
4) Angelica Davis married 7 Jul 1824 John McLeod.
Sources: MC80/1027 William R. MacKinnon Jr.’s Over the portage: early history of
the Upper Miramichi (revised), page 78, and the index: see also MC80/1804 Linda
Stufflebean’s James Astle, Loyalist of New York, Quebec and New Brunswick: Hugh
McGraw m. (2nd) 22 Sep 1818 Rebecca Munro.
DAVIS: Caleb Davis b. 14 Feb 1760 at Glamorganshire, Wales, died 20 Apr 1833: he
came to NB and settled at Hatfield Point, Springfield Parish, Kings County: m. (1st)
Mary Spragg b. 2 Nov 1760 Fishkill, NY, d. 20 Dec 1815, d/o Thomas Spragg and
Mary Carman: m. (2nd) 2 Apr 1817 in Springfield Parish, Mary (Clark) Brittain d/o
Alexander and Jane Clark:
Children born in Springfield Parish to first wife:

1) John Davis b. 22 Dec 1784, d. 13 Nov 1861, m. 21 Jan 1808 in Springfield Parish,
Elizabeth Fowler b. 24 Dec 1781, d. 7 Mar 1818, d/o Weeden Fowler and Elizabeth
Sherwood: m. (2nd) 29 Jan 1822 Springfield Parish, Charlotte J. MacFarlane b.
1801: they settled in Springfield Parish and had children:
2) Jane Davis m. David Odell:
3) Susanna Davis:
4) Sarah Lean Davis born 17 Dec 1787, d. 1834, m. 4 Feb 1818 in Springfield Parish,
Samuel Spragg b. 1789, d. 12 Mar 1873: they settled at Hatfield Point: 5) Mary
Davis born 1790, married 27 Mar 1812 Robert Crawford b. 15 Dec 1785, d. 9 Sep
1862:
6) James Embree Davis born 1791, died 21 Nov 1831, married 3 Mar 1814 in
Springfield Parish, Lydia Gillies born 1 Oct 1793, d. 1 Mar 1829: they settled at
Hatfield Point:
7) Elizabeth Davis born 1893, married 24 Jan 1813 Joseph Hughson b. 1784:
8) Caleb Davis born 10 Aug 1800, d. 12 Jan 1874, married (1st) 30 Mar 1828
Christina Brittain born 27 Jan 1808, d. 6 Apr 1845: married (2nd) Mrs. John
Sherwood:

9) Walter Clark Davis b. 1817, died 27 Nov 1882, married 16 Nov 1841 Ann
DeForest b. 1819, d. 14 Apr 1855: they settled at Hatfield Point:
10) Isabella Davis born 1826, d. 15 Aug 1904.

see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New
Brunswick, pages 71-72.
DAVIS: Daniel Davis born 1790 at Bradford, Wiltshire, England, died 1867: m. 19
May 1810 at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Jane/Elizabeth Batchelor b. 1788 at Wiltshire,
d. 1862: came from Bristol, England to PEI in 1811, then moved to NB in 1812: first
settled at Point de Bute, NB until 1823, then at Shemogue, Botsford Parish,
Westmorland County: had ten children:
Children mentioned:
1) John Davis b. 1812 on PEI, 1896: settled in Leicester, Cumberland County, NS: m.
Tryphena Boss b. 1817, d. 1890: had ten children:
2) Samuel Davis born 1816 at Point de Bute, NB, d. 25 Feb 1864: he settled in
Botsford Parish, NB:
3) Henry Davis b. 1818, d. 1899: settled in Cumberland County, NS: m. c1844 Mary
Ward born 1817 in Yorkshire, England, d. 1887: they had four children:
4) Mary Davis b. 1823, married 27 Apr 1864 at Shemogue, Ludwig McNutt of
Spring Hill: settled in Botsford Parish, NB:
5) Priestly Davis b. 1824, d. Dec 1859, m. 11 Nov 1852 at Nappan, NS, Eliza Ripley:
settled in Cumberland County, NS and had three children:
6) William Davis b. 1826, died 1899, married Ruth Amelia Ripley b. 1833 at
Nappan, NS, d. 1910, sister of Eliza: settled in Botsford Parish: four children:
7) Hannah Davis born 1828, died 10 Jan 1890: settled in Botsford Parish, NB:
8) Joseph Davis b. 1831, d. 1897, married 18 Sep 1864 Rebecca Eliza Copp born
1840, d. 1931: settled on homestead: had six children.
Sources: MC80/5 W.M. Burns’ A history and story of Botsford, page 65: see
MC2876 Daniel Davis a weaver from Wiltshire by Leslie M. Davis, 227 pgs.
DAVIS: David Daniel Davis born 1817 probably in Wales, died 30 Oct 1872 at
Fredericton: came to NB in June 1819 and settled in Douglas Parish, York County:
married 20 Nov 1845 Mary McCallum b. c1811, d/o Rev. Archibald McCallum and
Margaret Campbell of Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County:
Only child mentioned, Archibald McCallum Davis b. 24 Dec 1847, m. (1st) 10 Feb
1869 at Sheffield, NB, Frances H. Hunter b. 19 Apr 1849, d. 19 Oct 1876, d/o
Charles B. Hunter and Eliza Tapley of Canning, NB: married (2nd) 24 Apr 1881
Fredericton, Alice M. Harmon of Peel Parish, Carleton County, born c1862 d/o
William and Elizabeth Harmon: moved to BC.
Source: MC80/1825 Donald Fleming’s The history of the Davis-McCallum family of

New Brunswick: David came to NB in June 1819 with his widowed mother, Mary
Ann Thomas b. c1779 in Wales and with siblings John Davis born 1800, Louisa
Davis, Isabell Davis, Evan Davis born c1824.
DAVIS: James S. Davis born 1811 in USA, m. - born 1813 in USA: came to NB
in 1849: settled in Shediac Parish, Westmorland County: the only child mentioned
was, James Davis b. 1848 in USA.

F20980; see sheet for James S. Davis.
DAVIS: John Davis b. 1806 in Wales, died 19 Jan 1868: came to NB in 1819 and
settled in Fredericton, York County: m. (1st) 16 Jul 1839 Ann Stokoe born c1810, d.
20 Sep 1848: m. (2nd) Jane or Janet - b. c1803 in Scotland, d. 13 May 1900: had
two children:
Children mentioned:
1) Eliza Ann Davis born c1833, d. 12 Jul 1852:
2) Emelia Davis b. c1835:
3) Robert D. Davis born c1836, died 11 May 1911, married Eleanor Isabella Miller,
youngest d/o Alex P. Miller of Fredericton:
4) Charles J. Davis b. c1837, d. 27 Sep 1875, married Isabella L. Whittaker d/o
Stephen Whittaker: settled in Fredericton:
5) Henry W. Davis b. c1840, d. 15 Apr 1875:
6) Susan Mary Davis born 1842, d. Aug 1842:
7) Frances Davis b. c1844:
8) Louisa J. Davis b. c1847, d. 7 Feb 1917:
9) Annie Stokoe Davis born 1848, d. 25 Oct 1851:
9) George H. Davis b. c1857, married Janet Paisley:
10) Isabella Davis born c1863: moved to B.C.
Sources: MC80/132 Lillian M.B. Maxwell’s The old grave-yard, page 73: see
MC80/2334 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. III, pages
61-63: widow Isabella (Whittaker) Davis m. (2nd) George Frederick Gregory: also
see the Fredericton census records: see also MC80/1825 Donald Fleming’s The
history of the Davis-McCallum family of New Brunswick: David came to NB in Jun
1819 with his widowed mother, Mary Ann Thomas born c1779 in Wales and with
his siblings.
DAVIS: John S. Davis born 16 Apr 1862, d. 4 Apr 1932, m. Sarah - : settled at
Bristol in Kent Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) George T. Davis m. Gertrude T. Keswick of Harcourt, NB:
2) Dora A. Davis m. Charles M. Burnham and went to Alberta:
3) Vella H. Davis m. Aubrey B. Gaines from East Florenceville, NB:
4) John W. Davis m. Lottie Keith of Campbellton:
5) Viva L. Davis m. Harley T. Watson:
6) Edna L. Davis m. Duncan W. Rogers and settled in Bristol:
7) Olga M.E. Davis m. Leander A. White of Centreville, NB:
8) William K. Davis m. Violet Marsten of Woodstock:
9) Crystal N.M. Davis m. E. Roy Hunter: settled at East Florenceville:
10) James A. Davis married Mildred Tompkins: settled at East Florenceville, NB:
11) Vada L.M. Davis m. Herman Giberson and settled at Perth:
12) Paul R. Davis:
13) Maxwell G. Davis.
Source: MC1/Davis, 1 page.
DAVIS: Josiah Davis born 26 Jul 1779 at Washington, NH, d. 24 Mar 1846, s/o
Josiah and Susannah Davis: he came to NB and settled at Second Falls in Saint
George Parish, Charlotte County: m. Phoebe - b. - , died 25 Nov 1860:
Children:
1) Moses Davis: went to Winn, ME:
2) Alfred Davis:
3) Isaac Davis:
4) Thomas Davis b. 1808, d. 1867, m. (1st) Elizabeth Henderson: had eight children:
m. (2nd) Caroline Johnson: had six children:
5) Robert Davis:
6) Hugh Davis:
7) Lucy Davis:
8) Phoebe Davis.
Sources: MC80/604 Marjory M. Waters’ Our Loyalist ancestors: kith and kin of
Holder Turner, pages 76-77: see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New
Brunswick lineages, page 126.
DAVIS: Richard Davis born c1806 in Wales, d. 19 Oct 1883, m. (1st) Sarah
Eckelstone b. c1800 in England, died 7 Feb 1859, married (2nd) 24 May 1859
Ann/Nancy Wade b. c1823 in Northern Ireland: came to NB in 1840: settled at Cork,
Manners Sutton Parish in York County:
Children of first wife:

1) Edward Davis b. 1837 in England:
2) Samuel Davis b. 1839 in England:
3) Harriet Davis b. 1840, d. 1884, married John Pollock b. 1831 Indiantown, Saint
John County, died 1930, s/o John Pollock and Sarah Long: settled in Acton, NB and
had issue:
4) Thomas Davis b. 1843 in NB:
Child of second wife:

5) Ann Davis born 1860, d. 26 May 1941.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, page 218: also
see York County census records: see MC80/2504 Jocelean S. Hall et. al. Harvey
Settlement Cemetery 1837-1999, page 25.
DAVIS: Thomas Davis m. Margaret Cecil: they came from Monmouthshire,

England to NB and settled in Kingston, Kings County: only child mentioned was Ann
Davis born c1773, d. 1858, m. 4 Jul 1814 William Scovil b. 20 May 1766, died 27
Apr 1851 in Saint John, s/o James Scovil and Amy Nichols of Kingston, NB: had
issue.
Source: MC211 Raymond P. Gorham fonds, MS 4/4/3 (File 1) Notes on Loyalist

settlers in Kingston.
DAVIS: Thomas Davis came from Wales to NB about 1800 and settled at Bayside,
Botsford Parish, Westmorland County:
Children mentioned:
1) Emily Davis:
2) Anne Davis:
3) Stephen Davis: married and settled on the homestead:
4) Thomas Davis died young.
Source: MC80/5 W.M. Burns’ A history and story of Botsford, page 65.
DAVIS: William Davis b. c1803 in Ireland, married in Ireland, Jane - born c1809
in Ireland: came to NB in Jun 1837: settled near Gray Ridge, Aberdeen Parish,
Carleton County:
Children:
1) William Davis b. c1827 in Ireland:
2) Mary Davis b. c1831 in Ireland:
3) Elizabeth Davis born c1835 in Ireland:
4) Joseph B. Davis b. c1837 in Ireland, d. 9 Dec 1906 at Grand Falls, Victoria
County, m. Lucy Ann Crouse b. - , died 1875: settled at Foreston in Aberdeen Parish,
Carleton County about 1877: had at least six children:
5) Jane Davis born c1839 in NB:
6) Hannah Davis b. c1841 in NB:
7) George Davis born c1842:
8) Emeline Davis born c1844:
9) Ann Davis b. c1847:
10) Weyman Davis born about 1849.
Source: MC80/2241 Herbert N. Bradley’s History of Foreston, Carleton County,
New Brunswick including adjacent communities of Biggar Ridge and Beaufort,
page 110: also see the Carleton County census returns.
DAVITT: John Davitt born in Ireland: came to NB and settled in Saint John: his
wife’s name is not provided: only child mentioned was, John Davitt born 1854 in
Ireland, d. 30 Aug 1913.

DAWSON: Daniel Dawson b. 1792 in County Donegal, Ireland, d. Jan 1871, m.

Anne Murphy b. 1791 in County Donegal, d. May 1884: they came to NB: settled in
Johnville, Kent Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) Michael Dawson b. c1843 in Ireland, d. Jun 1873, m. Margaret Carlin and had
two children:
2) Anne Dawson born c1844 in Ireland, d. Nov 1933, m. 26 Apr 1881 Charles
Furlong b. 1851, d. Mar 1895: he came from Ireland in 1854 and first settled in Saint
John, then at Johnville: had five children:
3) John Dawson b. 1856 in NB, d. 1937, m. 23 Jun 1903 Mary E. McGuire born
1861, d. 1926: settled in Johnville and had three children:
4) Daniel Dawson b. Jul 1860 in NB, died 1941, married Mary Ploude born 1871,
died 1931: had no children.
Source: MC80/1649 William P. Kilfoil The Kilfoils of Carleton County and related
families: Daniel Dawson’s sister Nancy Dawson married Anthony Kilfoil Sr.
DAWSON: James Dawson b. in Northern Ireland, d. 10 Jan 1812, s/o Castle

Dawson: m. Margaret Seaton b. c1760 County Antrim, Ireland, d. Feb 1848 in
Eastport, ME: came to NB and first settled in Saint George Parish, then in Lepreau
Parish, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) Jane Dawson born c1785 in England, died 2 May 1842 at St. George, NB, m. (1st)
Alexander Williamson born at or near Aberdeen, Scotland, d. 2 Nov 1809 at Dipper
Harbour, Musquash Parish, Charlotte County, NB: he came to NB about 1796 and
settled on Indian Island: had three children: m. (2nd) 2 Jan 1814 at Musquash, NB,
William French b. 25 Dec 1772 in New Haven, CT, died 19 Nov 1846 in NB: had
seven children:
2) Maria Dawson b. in Lepreau, NB, m. David Getchell:
3) Elizabeth Dawson b. in Lepreau:
4) Margaret Dawson b. in Lepreau, m. Thomas Gray and had three children:
5) Ann Dawson born in Lepreau, married George Mullen and had one child:
6) James Seaton Dawson b. in Lepreau, m. Catherine - : had four children:
7) Thomas Seaton Dawson b. in Lepreau:
8) Robert Dawson b. in Lepreau:
9) Baby Dawson born in Lepreau:
10) John Ferguson Dawson b. c1800 in Lepreau, m. 1 Apr 1832 Margaret Young b.
c1811 in St. George, NB: had seven children.
Source: MC80/2811 Calvin Lee Craig’s Early families of “The Mackadavy”, pages
280-285.
DAWSON: John Dawson b. 8 Apr 1836 Whorlton, Durham County, England, died
on 6 Feb 1913, married Elizabeth Gofton born 31 Oct 1832 at Newburn in
Northumberland County, England, died 5 Sep 1905 at Annapolis Royal, NS: came to
NB and settled in or near Campbellton, Restigouche County:
Children mentioned:
1) Dorothy Dawson b. 1857, d. 1935:
2) Elizabeth Dawson b. 1859, d. 1934:
3) Robert Dawson b. 1862, d. 1927, m. Catherine Adams b. 1870, died 1941:
4) John Dawson b. 24 Mar 1865 in Northumberland County, England, died 15 Nov
1914:
5) Jane Lester Dawson b. Jul 1870, d. 20 Aug 1870:
Source: MC2657 NBGS Generations Issue #28, June 1986: The Campbellton
cemetery (Restigouche County), page 31.
DAWSON: Richard Dawson of Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, born c1779, died 13
Dec 1869, married Martha Morgan b. c1787, d. 15 Jun 1839, second d/o James
Morgan and Mary Good of Newcestown, Murragh Parish, County Cork: came to NB
by 1831: settled in New Bandon Parish, Gloucester County:

1) Rebecca Dawson married 13 Aug 1834 at Bathurst, Rev. George Douglas:
2) Mary Ann Dawson m. 1 Jan 1835 at Bathurst, Frederick Sutherland of Bathurst,
NB:
3) Richard Dawson b. c1822, m. (1st) 2 Jun 1845 Newcastle, Northumberland
County, Elizabeth Gremley born c1822, died Feb 1847, the only d/o William
Gremley of Newcastle, NB: m. (2nd) Mary - b. 1827 in NS: they settled at New
Bandon and had at least five children:
4) William Dawson born c1828, d. 19 Oct 1868, married Charlotte - born c1826,
d. 4 Nov 1869: they had eight children:
5) Elizabeth Dawson born 1830 in NB, d. unmarried 1861.
Source: MC80/2686 Susan E. Eddy’s The Robert and Jane Eady/Eddy family: a
history, pages 57-62.
DAWSON: Thomas Dawson born 1776, d. 11 Aug 1834 in Wolverton, ON, m.

c1796 Rachel Steeves b. 1778 d/o John Steeves and Margaret Lutes of
Hillsborough, NB: settled at Dawson Settlement in Hillsborough Parish, Albert
County: later went to Wolverton, ON:
Children mentioned:
1) John Dawson married on 3 Jan 1821 at Hillsborough, Barbara Daniels:
2) Isaac Dawson b. 6 Jul 1800, d. 18 Mar 1888, m. (1st) 15 Mar 1821 Rachel Steeves
born 1798, d. 1860, d/o Lewis Steeves and Elizabeth Porter: m. (2nd) 6 Aug 1864
Bridget Duffy d/o Patrick Duffy and Margaret Clark: m. (3rd) Margaret Magee b.
1830 at Coverdale, Albert County, died 21 Apr 1905, d/o William Magee and Sarah
Babcock:
3) James Dawson b. - , d. 6 Sep 1828, m. 13 May 1824 at Hillsborough, NB, Ann
Steeves born Mar 1796, d. 15 Apr 1888, d/o Matthais Steeves:
4) Thomas Dawson b. 1808, married and died in Wolverton, Ontario:
5) William Dawson:
6) Rachel Dawson born 1814, m. Moses Innis b. c1807, died 1852:
7) George Dawson born 1818, m. Eliza - , born 1813:
8) Abraham Dawson born 1821, married Annie Davison born in England: they had
twelve children.
Sources: MC1/Dawson, 23 pages: see also MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families
revisited, page 83: see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Volume 26, No. 1, Spring
2004, Gerald P. Dawson’s Early familiesof a minor note, pages 18-19.
DAWSON: William Dawson b. c1807 in Ireland, d. after 1881: came to NB in 1826:

settled at North Esk Boom, North Esk Parish, Northumbland County: m. 9 Apr 1857
Mrs. Sarah (White) McColm b. c1816, the widow of James McColm b. c1795, d.
1854, m. 8 Oct 1833 Sarah White who already had four children.
Source: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, pages 116-117.
DAY: Absalom Day b. 20 May 1823 in Queens County, NB, d. 23 Jun 1897, s/o
William Day and Mary Ann Corey, m. c1847 Sarah Elizabeth Ferris born 22 Nov
1828 in Queens County, NB, died 15 Jan 1911: family resided at Youngs Cove,
Waterborough Parish, Queens County:
Children:
1) George William Day b. 1847, d. 14 Dec 1926:
2) Sarah Ambrodine Day born 1849:
3) Evangeline Nacrisa Day born 17 Mar 1853, d. 6 Dec 1940:
4) Woodville R. Day born 1856:
5) Alfonso Herald Day born 1857:
6) Delphina Eveline Day b. 1858:
7) Isolda Edith Day b. 1859:
8) Constanza Angelia Day b. 1860:
9) Cendora Day:
10) Ambrodine Day:
11) Stannie Day.
Source: MC1/Day, 5 pages: this family left Youngs Cove 7 Nov 1872 and went to
Cleburne, Texas.
DAY: Jacob Day b. Jan 1773, d. 7 Oct 1858, s/o John and Hannah Day: m. (1st)
before 1798 Margaret Hopper b. c1785, d. c1813: m. (2nd) 7 Mar 1814 Margaret
Colpitts b. 11 Oct 1784 Little River, Albert County, d. 6 Feb 1871, d/o Robert
Colpitts and Margaret Wade: settled at Long Island in Wickham Parish, Queens
County:

1) John Day born c1798, died 14 Oct 1868, m. 29 Nov 1838 Susan Murdoch b.
c1819 and d. before 1871, d/o John Murdoch and Mary Jane Berryman:
2) Margaret Day born c1800, married on 29 Nov 1821 James E. McDonald:
3) Jane Day born c1803, married on 23 Nov 1820 John Smith:
4) Mary Ann Day b. c1807, m. 17 Jan 1828 Daniel McDonald:
5) Ann Day b. c1809, married 29 Oct 1827 Benjamin Underhill:
6) Catherine Day born c1813, d. 10 Sep 1893, married 4 Oct 1832 Cornelius
Vaughan b. 1805. d. 4 Aug 1872: settled at Wickham, NB:

7) Robert Day born c1815, d. 27 Nov 1853, m. 2 Feb 1843 Hannah Augusta Colwell
b. c1822, d. Aug 1887:
8) Jacob Day b. 13 Jan 1817, d. 21 May 1901, m. (1st) 9 Mar 1848 Charlotte
Elizabeth Colwell b. - , d. 31 Mar 1854: married (2nd) Mar 1856 Catherine A. Hart
born c1833, died 2 Apr 1857: may have m. (3rd) Martha Abigail Smith:
9) George Day born 3 Oct 1819, d. 29 Jan 1902, m. 16 Sep 1868 Mary Atkins
Colpitts b. 6 May 1842, d. 11 Jul 1926, d/o Robert Colpitts and Mary Beck: 10)
Eleanor Day born c1822, d. 22 Feb 1882, m. 23 Feb 1843 John VanWart born 1817,
d. 25 Aug 1885.
Sources: MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, page 84: see also
MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New
Brunswick, pages 72-73: see also MC1846 Scribner family study, MS8 The Day
family, 1 page: see also RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Day family:
The Day family: microfilm F11081, 3 pgs; also Heaviside family, microfilm F11084,
2 pages.
DAY: John Day b. - , died Jan 1795, m. Hannah - : came from New Jersey to NB
in 1783 as Loyalists and settled in Wickham Parish in Queens County:
Children:
1) Jacob Day born c1773, d. 7 Oct 1858, married Margaret Hopper: settled at
Washademoak Lake and had issue:
2) James Day: went to sea:
3) John Day:
4) Henry Day b. - , m. 1790 Catherine Compton: settled in USA:
5) William Day: settled in USA.
Brunswick, pg. 73: widow Hannah Day m. (2nd) 1799 Jacob Remsen: see also
MC1846 Scribner family study, MS8 The Day family, 10 page.
DAY: Peter Day born c1758 in England, died in 1831, s/o Abraham Day and
Jenneke Ellis: came to the USA before 1775 and settled in Hackensack, NJ: he
married in New Jersey, Catherine Allen b. - , d. age 88, d/o John Allen and Rachel
VanBuskirk of Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ: they came to NS in 1783 as
Loyalists and then to NB: settled at Swan Creek in Burton Parish, Sunbury County:
Children:
1) Sarah Day b. in NJ, died 1784 in NS:
2) Rachel Day b. in NJ, d. 1784:
3) Jane Day b. in NJ, died 1784:
4) Abraham Day born 4 Jun 1786, died after 1861, m. his cousin, Catherine Allen
born 1788 at Sheffield, NB, d. after 1851, d/o Lawrence Allen and Jane Patterson:
settled at Maquapit Lake, Sunbury County: had five sons and three daughters:
5) Lawrence Day born 29 Aug 1788, d. 3 Nov 1862, married 31 May 1814 in
Sunbury County, Lucinda Palmer born c1788, died 14 Jan 1871, d/o Nathan Palmer
and Hannah Fletcher: settled in Sheffield, NB: had eleven children:
6) Peter Day born 7 Jan 1791, d. 17 May 1880 Grey County, ON, married 16 Mar
1813 in Sheffield, NB, Mary Wasson born c1791, d. in 1871, d/o John Wasson and
Hannah Estey: they first settled on Cumberland Bay in Queens County in 1816 and
had ten children:
7) John Day born 6 May 1793, married (1st) Elizabeth Hersey and had three
children: he moved to the Miramichi, married a lady born in County Longford,
Ireland: had five daughters.
Sources: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, page 23: see
MC1/Allen #7: see MC80/1002 Saint John Branch NBGS, Generations 10, pages 31-
32 which says Peter Day Sr. was born in Weehawken, NJ: see MC80/1397 Daniel F.
Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 22-23, 227-228, 269-271 which says Peter
Day was born 1758 in New Durham, NJ and that his son Abraham m. Mary or
Catherine Trayer: had children: see also MC80/1903 Donald D. Day’s The Day
Genealogy: see also MC300 York-Sunbury Historical Society Collection, MS3/90, 2
pages: see also RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Day family: The Day
family of Sheffield, NB: microfilm F11081, 2 pages: see also MC80/2902 Sharon
Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph which says
that Peter Day was born in Weehawken, NJ.
DAY: William Day born 1792 near Montreal, Quebec: came to NB and settled in
1819 on the Washademoak in Queens County: married Mary Ann Corey:
Children:
1) Absalom Day married Sarah Elizabeth Ferris: moved to Texas:
2) George Day m. Sarah Dingee:
3) Charles W. Day m. Margaret Belyea:
4) Amos S. Day married Priscilla Perry:
5) Jedediah Day m. Sarah Elizabeth Thorne:
6) Sarah Jane Day married Robert Robertson:
7) Margaret Day m. James Patterson:
8) Mary Ann Day: died unmarried.
Source: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, page 23.

DAYTON: Samuel Dayton b. c1759 Newport, RI, died 1796 Salisbury, North
Carolina, s/o Isaac Dayton and Mary Morey: m. 22 Jul 1781 in Newport, RI,
Catherine Margaret Gaynor b. c1760, d. 1847, d/o Peter Gaynor, Loyalist: widow
and two children came to NB:

1) Catherine Dayton born c1783 at Newport, RI, d. unmarried 1847:
2) Samuel Dayton b. and d. 1792 in Newport, RI:
3) William Dayton b. 1794 Salisbury, NC, d. 29 Aug 1871, m. 1821 Susanna
McGibbon born 1791, d. 8 Oct 1877 d/o David McGibbon of Douglas, NB: had five
children.
Sources: MC80/2714 Paul D. Kilburn’s Fathers and Mothers: history and genealogy
of Kilburn and Graham, pages 24-43: see MC300 York-Sunbury Historical Society
Collection, MS20/28, Descendants of the MacGregor of Balhaldie, pages 6-8.
DEACON: William F. Deacon born in Cornwall, England: he came to NB and

settled at Coldbrook in Simonds Parish, Saint John County: m. Isabel Marion - b.
1834, d. 23 Jan 1878.

DEAKIN: William Deakin born 1826 at Tamworth in Staffordshire, England, d.

1905, m. Elizabeth - b. 1828 at Tamworth: first settled in Levis, QC, then came to
NB in 1856: settled at Benton in Woodstock Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Deakin b. 1848 in England: went to Boston, MA:
2) William Deakin born 1850 in England, d. 1882 at Benton Ridge, m. Miss
McElroy b. - , d. at Benton Ridge:
3) Harry Deakin b. 1 Dec 1856 at Levis, QC, d. 1 Jan 1928 at Benton, m. 1 Aug 1876
Caroline Britany b. 12 Feb 1858, d. 30 Jan 1935 Long Island, NY:
4) Clementine Deakin b. 1858 at Benton, m. William Chapman b. - , d. at
Bangor, ME:
5) Zella Deakin b. 1861 at Benton, d. in Saint John, m. Charles Wellington
Dickinson:
6) Arthur Deakin born 1864 at Benton, died at Portland, ME, m. Edith Mills b. - ,
died at Portland, ME:
7) George Deakin b. 1866 at Benton, d. at Butte, MT:
8) John Deakin b. at Benton, d. at Butte, MT:
9) Margaret Deakin m. Harry Worrell.
Brunswick, pages 73-74.
DEAN: Isaiah Bachelder Dean b. 29 Jun 1791 in Lincolnville, ME, died 11 Aug
1865, m. c1824 Mary Aphia Woodcock b. 16 May 1803 at Union, ME, d/o David
Woodcock and Aphia Peabody: settled at Saint David Parish in Charlotte County,
NB:
Children:
1) Aphia Jane Dean born 24 Feb 1825, d. 8 Dec 1894, m. Jun 1874 Michael Young
Reid: moved to Minnesota:
2) Rufus Putnam Dean b. 8 Jul 1827, died 9 Jan 1869, m. 14 Nov 1855 Mary Jane
Smith: settled in Oak Bay, NB and had seven children:
3) Joshua Douglas Dean b. 19 Mar 1832, m. (1st) 17 Jun 1857 at Calais, ME, Eliza
Ann Fleming b. - , d. 8 Nov 1857, m. (2nd) 2 Aug 1860 Emeline Nash Jackson of St.
Stephen, NB, b. -, died 11 Dec 1876, married (3rd) 14 Aug 1879 Mary Louise Taylor:
4) Joseph Warren Dean b. 14 Mar 1834:
5) Mary Elizabeth Dean b. 8 Apr 1836, d. 30 Sep 1901, m. 1856 George Francis
Smith b. - , d. 13 Apr 1878, m. (2nd) 31 Jul 1889 Thomas Cotterell: settled at Oak
Bay, NB:
6) Sarah Ann Dean b. 28 Dec 1838, m. 24 Dec 1874 at Portland, ME, John Fulton
Cochrane b. c1823, d. 23 May 1901 in NB:
7) William Coulter Dean born 14 Jul 1842, died Sep 1845:
8) Belinda Thompson Dean b. 19 May 1845, d. 31 Dec 1856:
9) Julia Sophia Dean b. 25 Aug 1849, m. (1st) 4 Sep 1878 James Madison McCann
b. - , died Sep 1884, m. (2nd) Rev. Henry Penna of B.C.
Sources: MC1/Woodcock, contains a copy of John Woodcock of Rehoboth, Mass.

1647 and some of his descendants: data on the Dean family starts page 96: see also
MC80/1715 Clara E. Maxwell’s Genealogy of a Maxwell, Dean, Smith, United
Empire Loyalists of Charlotte County, New Brunswick 1785-1974, pages 23-25.
DEAN: John Dean: he came from Connecticut to NB in 1783 as a Penobscot Loyalist

and first settled at Oak Bay, Charlotte County: he and his sons later settled on Deer
Island, West Isles Parish: John’s wife’s name is not provided:
Children:
1) Samuel Dean married and had issue:
2) Gideon Dean married and had issue:
3) Henry Dean m. 29 March 1809 Susannah Laney.
Source: MC80/21 Martha Barto’s Passamaquoddy: Genealogies of West Isles

families, pages 59-61.
DEAN: John Dean: he settled at Quaco in Saint Martins Parish, Saint John County:
married 27 Nov 1802 at Quaco, Margaret McLean born c1780, died 6 Sep 1851:
Children:
1) Henry Dean b. 1808, d. 25 Jul 1877, married 13 Aug 1834 in Saint John, Mary
Benson:
2) Margaret Dean born 1812, died unmarried 26 Sep 1847 at Saint John:
3) John Dean:
4) Harriet Dean m. 24 Dec 1840 in Saint John, NB, Francis Clerke: settled in Saint
John and had issue.
DEAN: John Dean born c1785 in Ireland, died after 1851: he came to NB in 1819: m.
Margaret - : first settled at Lyttleton, then moved to Red Bank in South Esk Parish,
Northumberland County:
Children mentioned:
1) Christina Dean born c1828, m. Angus McDonald b. c1815:
2) John Dean Jr. born c1832.
DEAN: Peter Dean b. 1800 in Ireland, d. 1890: came to NB May 1828: first settled at
Wards Creek, Sussex Parish, Kings County: they went to Saint John about 1853: m.
Bridget Caulfield b. - , d. 1879:
Children:
1) Mary Dean m. George Harkins of Sussex:
2) Margaret Dean m. Hugh Cummings of Sussex, NB:
3) Jane Dean m. Luke Burke of Sussex:
4) Catherine Dean married Charles Gallagher:
5) Bridget Dean m. John E. Ryan of Norton:
6) Nancy Dean m. John McDonald of Saint John:
7) Ellen Dean d. at age 24:
8) Peter Dean Jr. b. - , d. 1881, m. Mary A. Coffee d/o Andrew and Lucy Coffee of
Amherst, NS: they settled in Saint John and had three children:
9) Rose Dean:
10) Hannah Dean m. John Welch of Saint John:
11) William Dean: went to Maisoneuve, Quebec:
12) Thomas Dean b. 15 Oct 1853 in Sussex, NB.
Sources: MC80/1 Grace Aiton’s The story of Sussex and vicinity, page 60: see also
MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 517-518.
DEARBORN: Henry Dearborn b. 28 Aug 1809 in Pembroke, NH, d. 4 Oct 1892 in

Woodstock, VT, s/o Nathaniel Dearborn and Abigail Newman, m. 1 Jan 1832
Mahala Fox b. 21 Mar 1813 d/o Daniel Fox, d. 4 Mar 1903: came to Saint John, NB
in 1857 where Henry established a grocery business:
Children:
1) Charles Henry Dearborn born 30 Mar 1833 in London, NH, died 28 Apr 1904, m.
Oct 1862 Louisa C. Wellington born 14 Nov 1841, died 21 Jul 1912, d/o Benjamin
Wellington and Susan (Osgood) Pierce of Boston, MA: family settled in Saint John,
NB:
2) Anna Mahala Dearborn b. 28 May 1835, d. 23 Jan 1839:
3) Laura Annie Dearborn born 15 Aug 1839 at Reading, MA, d. 3 Sep 1931: moved
to VT:
4) John Newman Dearborn b. 24 Jan 1846 at Reading, MA, d. 10 Apr 1886, m. 8
Sep 1868 Clara Maria Haskell: family settled in Saint John:
5) Walter Whiting Dearborn b. 22 Jan 1848 at Lawrence, MA: went to VT:
6) Carrie E. Dearborn b. 1850, d. 7 Mar 1859.
Source: MC1/Dearborn, 50 pgs.: file contains a portion of a report by Charles Coffin,

1845, titled The lives and services of ... and Major General Henry Dearborn.
DEARMOR: Charles Dearmor b. 1806 in Scotland, m. Margaret - born 1801

in Scotland: came to NB 1844: settled in Moncton Parish, Westmorland County: the
only child mentioned was, Ellen Dearmor born 1843 in Scotland.

F20980; see sheet for Charles Dearmor.
DEBECK: John Ludwig Debeck m. in 1780 Elizabeth Althouse d/o John

Althouse: they came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at Keswick, York County:
son George Debeck born 1783 at Saint John: fought in Napoleon's Army and returned
to NB: married Mar 1810 Mary Green: settled at Keswick, York County, NB and had
issue.
Source: MC1/DeBeck, 6 pages: file contains a copy of Historic Family Notes.
DEBLOIS: Lewis DeBlois b. 10 Apr 1762 in Boston, MA, d. 9 Oct 1801, s/o Lewis
DeBlois, merchant of Boston, MA and London, England, and Elizabeth Jenkins:
came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Saint John: married 17 Aug 1784 in
Saint John, Elizabeth Lawton b. 25 Jul 1762 at Newport, RI, died Sep 1809:
Children:
1) Lewis DeBlois born 22 Aug 1788 at Providence, RI, died 26 Nov 1788 in Boston,
MA:
2) Elizabeth Cranston DeBlois b. 20 Oct 1790, d. 18 Feb 1855, m. 2 Nov 1818
James White, High Sheriff of Saint John:
3) Sarah DeBlois b. 9 May 1792, died 1 Jun 1869 unmarried:
4) Thomas Lawton DeBlois b. 30 Dec 1794, lost at sea 1822:
5) Gilbert DeBlois b. 28 Apr 1796, d. unm. at Gagetown, Queens County:
6) George Lewis DeBlois b. 23 Jun 1798, d. Nov 1819.
Sources: MC80/360 Acadiensis, Vol. 2, No. 3, Jul 1902, Book-Plates, page 193: see
also MC80/2238 Ralph S. Blois et. al. DeBlois family history from France to
America, pages 9, 30: see RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Deblois
family: Lewis DeBlois family Bible: microfilm F11081, 11 pgs: see also D.R. Jack’s
Loyalist families of New Brunswick on microfilm F355, Vol II, pages 4-8.
DEBOW: James DeBow born c1754, d. Nov 1833, s/o Lawrence DeBow and
Deborah Robbins, m. Huldah Eamons? born c1753, died 11 Mar 1847: they came
from New Jersey to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: probably settled in Sussex Parish, Kings
County:
Children:
1) John DeBow:
2) Jane DeBow born c1784, died 13 Jan 1864, married 11 Jul 1812 Joseph Hudson:
3) William DeBow b. c1786, d. 18 Jan 1871, m. Elizabeth McDonald born Jul 1784,
d. 27 Apr 1873:
4) Ann DeBow b. c1787, married Charles Graves born c1786:
5) Deborah DeBow born c1790, died 18 Mar 1851, m. 9 Feb 1818 Edward Pickence
b. c1794:
6) Lawrence DeBow b. c1793, died before 1854, married 14 Mar 1844 Eliza
Dunfield:
7) Mary DeBow m. on 21 May 1820 Thomas Walker:
8) Esther DeBow born c1797, died 20 Jul 1887, m. 6 Dec 1827 John Thomas
Woodley born c1795, d. Feb 1842:
9) James DeBow born c1800, d. 1869, m. 2 Dec 1830 Rachel Bull, b. c1800, died
after 1881:
10) Sarah DeBow b. c1801, died 1869, married 27 Dec 1834 Capt. Bernard
Pickence b. 1793, d. 21 Jan 1866:
11) Huldah DeBow b. 1806. d. 21 Nov 1843, m. 3 May 1829 Arthur Slader.
Brunswick, page 74.
DECANTILLON: John Decantillon born c1808 in Ireland, possibly the s/o Patrick
Decantillon who had settled in Nelson Parish, d. after 1861, m. 1834 Mrs. Nancy
Fowler b. -, died 1888 at Doaktown, NB: they lived for a time in Blissfield Parish,
Northumberland County.
Source: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography: Nancy

Fowler had a son, Elijah Fowler by her first marriage.
DECOURCEY: James Decourcey born c1793 in Ireland: he came to NB by 1818

and settled on Miscou Island in Gloucester County: married c1822 Anne or Nancy
Murphy:
Children:
1) Marie Madeleine Decourcey bp. 6 May 1824:
2) Marie Rebecca Decourcey born 24 Feb 1826:
3) Marguerite Decourcey bp. 27 Jan 1829.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, page 119.
DECOURCY: John DeCourcy b. c1790 in Ireland, d. c1849, m. Mary - b. c1792

in Ireland, died after 1851: came to NB in 1821 and resided at McCain Settlement,
Sussex Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) Edward DeCourcy born c1810 in Ireland, d. 1885, m. Margaret - born c1816
in Ireland, d. 1895: settled at Wards Creek, Sussex Parish, Kings County and they had
at least five children:
2) Nancy DeCourcy born 1826:
3) John DeCourcy born 1827:
4) Ellen DeCourcy born 1829.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 89-90: also
see the Kings County census.
DEE: Nicholas Dee born 1797 in Ireland or at Morrell Siding in Grand Falls Parish,
Victoria County, m. Rebecca Russell? born 1798 at Fort Fairfield, ME: settled in
Cliffordvale, Grand Falls Parish, Victoria County:
Children:
1) Phoebe Dee born 1826:
2) Hannah Dee born c1831 at Cliffordvale, d. 1921, married James Nicholas
Morrell born in 1837 at Morrell Siding, died 1882, s/o James and Catherine
(Grumble) Morrell: settled at Morrell Siding: had issue:
3) William Dee born 1833, m. Marmage - : settled in Grand Falls Parish and had
issue:
4) Richard Dee b. 1835:
5) Nicholas Dee b. 1840.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 175-176:

also see the Victoria County census.
DEEVES, John see DIVES, John
DEFOREST: Ephraim DeForest b. 1740 in Wilton, CT, d. 13 Apr 1814: m. Sarah

Betts: came from Reading, CT to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: eventually settled at
Hampton, Kings County:

1) Nathan DeForest b. c1765, d. 1840, married Anna Hoyt b. - , d. 1849, d/o Israel
Hoyt and Mercy Raymond: settled at Hampton, Kings County and had children:
2) Zalmon DeForest b. c1766 at Reading, CT: they settled at Hampton, NB:
3) Thomas DeForest b. before 1783: settled at Hampton, NB:
4) Samuel DeForest b. c1786, possibly m. (1st) Miss Judson: had issue: m. (2nd) 22
Nov 1820 Rachel Fowler of Norton, NB: settled at Kingston, Kings County and had
issue:
5) Henry DeForest b. - , died 22 Feb 1820 at residence of brother Nathan, m. 9 Oct
1814 Mary Fowler:
6) possibly, Esther DeForest b. - , m. 14 Feb 1821 Josiah Fowler.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pgs 61-62: see
also MC300 York-Sunbury Historical Society Collection, MS15/11 Zalmon
DeForest, pgs. 113-115: see also New Brunswick Museum: Markham scrapbooks:
The DeForest family on microfilm F10048, pgs. 60-62 in second scrapbook.
DEFOREST: Samuel DeForest came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Saint

John: he married and had issue: the only child mentioned was, Samuel Judson
DeForest who settled in Saint John, married and had issue.
Source: MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 323-325.
DEGRACE: Antoine DeGrace born c1757 at Palma, on Island of Majorca off the
coast of Spain in the Mediterranean s/o Joseph DeGrace and Madeleine Poujade, d.
1845: came to NB after 1784: first settled in Bathurst, Gloucester County where he
married 3 Jul 1787 Angélique Haché d/o Joseph Haché and Madeleine Doucet of
Bathurst:
Children:
1) Rosalie DeGrace married 23 Sep 1806 Antoine Doucet s/o Pierre Doucet:
2) Antoine DeGrace Jr. married 21 May 1810 Françoise Boudreau:
3) Marie DeGrace married 17 Feb 1811 Michel Frenette:
4) Raphael DeGrace m. 11 Feb 1817 Marie Doucet d/o Charles Doucet and Marie
Arseneau: they had children:
5) Pierre DeGrace born 9 Feb 1796, died 1 Feb 1889, married at Shippagan Adélaide
Robichaud born in 1805, died 1876, d/o Jean-Baptist Robichaud: settled in
Shippegan, NB: had children:
6) Lucie DeGrace b. 10 Dec 1797, m. 8 Jan 1816 Charles Doucet s/o Charles and
Marie (Arseneau) Doucet: had issue:
7) Rose DeGrace born 11 Oct 1799, m. Romain Doucet s/o Charles Doucet:
8) Ferdinand DeGrace born 25 Nov 1801, m. Marie Doucet d/o Luc Doucet and
Françoise Lejeune:
9) David Simon DeGrace b. 20 Feb 1804, m. Marie Doucet d/o Dominique Doucet:
10) Marguerite DeGrace born 3 Oct 1806, m. Joseph Doucet s/o Dominique
Doucet:
11) Françoise DeGrace born 30 Oct 1808:
12) Vénérande DeGrace b. 13 Aug 1809, married Bernard Doucet s/o Luc Doucet:
went to Detroit, MI:
13) Françoise DeGrace born 24 Aug 1812:
14) Celeste DeGrace born 27 May 1814, m. Aimé Doucet s/o Pierre Doucet.
Source: MC80/99 William F. Ganong’s The history of Shippegan, pages 154-155:

see also MC80/286 Donat Robichaud’s Le grand Chipagan: histoire de Shippagan,
pages 323-327: see MC80/73 William F. Ganong’s The history of Caraquet and
Pokemouche, pages 51-52: see MC80/995 Donat Robichaud’s Beresford: Le petit
Nipisiguit, pages 232-234.
DEINSTADT: Thomas J. Deinstadt born in 1840 at Shelburne, NS, died 17 Mar

1926 at Saint John: he came to NB before 1871 and served as a Methodist minister.
Source: MC80/97 E. Arthur Betts’ Bishop Black and his preachers, page 135.
DELAGARDE: Charles Delagarde was born in Jersey Islands: came to NB in 1838:
settled at Shippagan in Gloucester County: m. 6 Feb 1842 Vénérante Robichaud d/o
Jean-Baptiste Robichaud:
Children:
1) Louisa Delagarde born c1843, m. 18 Jan 1870 Joseph Paquet s/o Jean Paquet
and Marguerite Noel:
2) Esther Delagarde b. 6 Mar 1844, m. 26 Jul 1875 at Shippagan, Auguste
Robichaud, s/o Louis Robichaud and Brigitte Finn:
3) Isabella Delagarde born 2 Jun 1847, married 11 Jan 1877 at Shippagan, James
Mallet s/o Benjamin Mallet and Marie Duguay:
4) Vénérante Delagarde born c1849:
5) Charles Delagarde Jr. b. c1852, m. (1st) Elmire Rioux of Trois-Pistoles, QC: had
children: m. (2nd) Marie-Louise DeGrâce d/o Chrysologue DeGrâce of Shippagan:
6) John Delagarde b. c1856, d. 19 Mar 1939 at Shippagan, m. Miss Paquet.
Source: MC80/286 Donat Robichaud’s Le grand Chipagan: histoire de Shippagan,

pages 345-346.
DELESDERNIER: John Mark Crank Delesdernier born c1758 at Windsor, NS, d.

7 Jul 1843, s/o Gideon Delesdernier and Madelon Martin: m. c1783 Elizabeth
Atkinson born c1766, died 4 Aug 1850, d/o William Atkinson and Dorothy Heigh
of Lancashire, England and Miramichi: they first settled on the Miramichi River in
Northumberland County, then moved to Quebec in 1796:
Children mentioned:
1) Matilda Delesdernier b. c1784 at Miramichi, died 7 Jun 1856, m. 15 Jun 1829
William Whitlock: had no issue:
2) Drusilla Delesdernier born c1785 at Miramichi, d. 30 May 1854, m. c1808 John
Schneider and had eight children:
3) Peter Francis Christian Delesdernier born c1793 at Miramichi, d. 3 Jun 1854, m.
25 Feb 1826 Amelia Rice b. - , d. 21 Jul 1860: had one daughter:
4) William Gould Delesdernier b. 2 Feb 1796 at St. Anne de Bellevue, QC, d. in
Quebec 7 Dec 1846, m. 1830 Mary Rice: had four children:
5) Horatio Nelson Delesdernier b. 15 Dec 1798, d. 2 Nov 1843, m. (1st) 30 Apr 1821
Mary Park and had six children: m. (2nd) Harriet Delesdernier:
6) Mary Charlotte Delesdernier born 1 Sep 1802 at Como, QC, m. 17 Dec 1823
Francois Xavier Desjardins and had three children:
7) Sophia Delesdernier b. c1805 at Como, QC, d. in Halifax, NS, m. 23 Oct 1829
Norman Fitzgerald Uniacke.
Source: MC1/Delesdernier, 40 pages: file contains a copy of Pioneer, patriot and

rebel: Lewis Delesdernier of Nova Scotia and Maine 1752-1838 by E.C. Royle: see
MC80/1056 John C. Hatt’s A historical study of the Delesdernier family, early
inhabitants of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick: see also RS184 New Brunswick
Museum Vertical files, Delesdernier family: The family of Moses Frederic
Delesdernier: microfilm F11081, 2 pages.
DELESDERNIER: Moses John Frederick Delesdernier born 15 Mar 1724 Russin,
Geneva, Switzerland, died 8 Sep 1811, possibly the son of Ferdinand Delesdernier
and Susanne Courageou: married (1st) c1740 Judith Martin of Russin, born c1722,
d. 30 Sep 1759: no children: m. (2nd) 27 Dec 1761 a young widow, Eleanor Bonner at
Falmouth, NS, born c1741, died 26 Jul 1826, d/o Mrs. Martha (Williams) Pritchard
by her first marriage: (she subsequently m. Paul Pritchard of Halifax): first resided in
Windsor, NS, then by 1770 at Hillsborough, then at Hopewell, Albert County:
Children:
1) Martha Maria Delesdernier born 2 Dec 1762 at Windsor, d. 9 Feb 1803, married
3 May 1775 Richard J. Uniacke:
2) Paul Ferdinand Delesdernier born 1764 at Windsor, married (1st) 14 May 1796
Albany Atkinson, married (2nd) 1800 Mary O'Neal:
3) Moses John Frederick Delesdernier b. 1765 at Windsor, died unm. 1798:
4) Mary Delesdernier b. 1766 Windsor:
5) Joseph Michael Franklin Delesdernier b. 1767 at Windsor:
6) Henry Willoughby Delesdernier b. 8 Mar 1769 Windsor, died unmarried 10 Jun
1841 at Mount Norman, Fort Lawrence, NS:
7) Margaret Delesdernier born c1780, d. 26 Feb 1853 at Sackville, NB, m. John
Richard Cahill b. 1777 at London, England, d. 1851 at Sachville, NB: they had
eleven children:
8) Charles H. Delesdernier born c1781, m. (1st) 3 Jan 1805 Ann Tower d/o
Benjamin and Ann Tower of Sackville: m. (2nd) Elizabeth Wilson b. c1790 at
Sackville, NB, died 22 Mar 1856 at Dover, NB, d/o Richard Wilson and Ann
Harper:
9) Anna Delesdernier b. c1783:
10) Richard John Delesdernier b. c1787, died 15 Mar 1871, m. 2 Sep 1813 Frances
Budd b. c1794, d. 28 Nov 1870, d/o Richard and Martha Budd of Downing Village,
NB: settled at Fort Lawrence, NS: had twelve children.
Sources: MC1/Delesdernier, 40 pages: see also MC1286 Vol. V Dictionary of

Canadian Biography, pages 239-241: see also MC80/1056 John C. Hatt’s A
historical study of the Delesdernier family, early inhabitants of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick which says Moses was born 15 Mar 1724, and died 8 Sep 1811, s/o
Ferdinand and Susanne (Courageou) Delesdernier: see MC80/1480 John C. Hatt’s A
genealogical study of the Delesdernier family.
DELONG: Aaron DeLong Sr born c1755 in Albany Township, NY, d. before 1844,
s/o Nicholas DeLong and Johanna Dolsen: m. 10 Nov 1788 at Jamaica, Long Island,
NY, Mary Keirstead b. 22 May 1770 at Jamaica, NY, d. 1873, d/o Samuel
Keirstead and Mary Johnson: came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at
Millstream, Kingston Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) Catherine DeLong b. 29 Oct 1789, d. 1860, married 6 Dec 1813 in Kings County,
Richard Perkins or Richard Folkins:
2) Hezekiah DeLong born 5 Jun 1792, died 13 Oct 1862, m. 1816 Elizabeth
McCumber born 13 Jan 1795, d. 5 Apr 1863:
3) Charles Gaiter DeLong born 18 or 22 Mar 1795, died c1890, m. 10 Jul 1817 in
Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County, Cornelia Parmelia McDonald b. 1801 Sheffield,
NB, d. c1855, d/o Benjamin and Pamilla McDonald: settled at Little River, NB:
4) John Reuben DeLong b. 11 Feb 1797, m. 21 Sep 1819 in Sheffield Parish, Mary
Ann Lunn:
5) Aaron DeLong Jr. b. 22 Jun 1799, d. 9 Apr 1896, m. 15 Feb 1830 at Saint John,
Sarah Ann Berry born c1810 St. Martins, died before 1871, d/o Jacob Berry: settled
at Gibson, York County: had seven children:
6) Mary Ann DeLong born 23 Apr 1801/1802, m. 15 Feb 1824 George Fox: 7)
Hannah/Ellen/Eleanor DeLong born 9 Mar 1803, m. 28 Apr 1831 Justus Brown:
8) David DeLong born 6 Jun 1807:
9) Esther DeLong b. 6 May 1809 or 6 May 1811, died 22 Jun 1879, married
Benjamin Keirstead b. 1803, d. 22 Aug 1870:
10) Eliza DeLong b. 28 Dec 1811 or 28 Dec 1812, died 6 Jul 1873, m. (1st) 25 May
1829 James Price Thomas: m. (2nd) 11 Jan 1835 Robert F. Mitchell:
11) William DeLong born 22 May 1814 or 22 May 1815, married 3 Nov 1842 in
Kings County, Eleanor Bunnell.
Sources: MC80/1285 Loyalist lineages of Canada 1783-1983, pages 180-181: see

MC191 MacDonald, Charles: Genealogical Collection: see MC80/1397 Daniel F.
Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 275-276: see MC80/2348 Cleadie B.
Barnett et. al. Loyalist families, page 9: see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS:
Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 75.
DELONG: Aaron DeLong Jr. m. Anna Berry d/o Jacob Berry: they settled at Bay
View in Saint Martins Parish, Saint John County:
Children:
1) Jacob Berry DeLong b. 6 Nov 1830 married Anne Eliza Smith b. 6 Mar 1828:
2) Joseph DeLong:
3) David DeLong:
4) Edward DeLong:
5) Kate DeLong.
Source: MC1/DeLong, 20 pages: this family was involved in shipping and

shipbuilding.
DELUE: Jacob Delue b. c1760, d. 1825: came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and

settled in Saint John: wife’s name is not provided:

1) possibly, Jacob Delue m. Matilda Mason:
2) Elizabeth Delue born 22 May 1796 in Saint John, m. 14 Jul 1816 in Saint John,
Joshua Veazie born 10 Mar 1790 in Deerfield, NH, died 15 May 1858: moved to
Eastport, ME by 1817 and then went to Calais, ME: they had seven children born in
Maine.
Sources: MC80/2711 Thelma Eye Brooks’ Calais Maine families, pgs. 168-9: see
MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, 1
paragraph.
DEMERCHANT: John DeMerchant Sr. b. c1760, d. 1830: a Loyalist who served in
the Prince of Wales Regiment: possibly came from Pennsylvania: he moved to NB in
1783 with his first wife and settled in Lincoln Parish, Sunbury County: m. (2nd) c1791
in Fredericton, York County, Mary - b. c1770, died c1848: moved to Wakefield
Parish in Carleton County about 1803: had at least seven children:
Children of second wife surnamed Cuffman or DeMerchant:

1) John DeMerchant bp. 21 Jul 1792 at Maugerville, Sunbury County:
2) Mary Catherine Frances DeMerchant bp. 28 May 1798, m. 23 Feb 1815 at
British Military Garrison at Presque Isle, Simonds Parish, Carleton County, Contan
Dionne:
3) Charlotte Catherine DeMerchant bp. 2 Jan 1800:
4) possibly, Eliza DeMerchant b. - , married 1821 Patrick Murphy:
5) Robert DeMerchant b. c1806 at Bath, died 22 Jan 1885, m. c1826 at Bath, Sarah
Gee born c1806 at Florenceville, died 16 Aug 1890, d/o Cornelius Gee and Rachel
Fowler: they settled at Bath and had ten children:
5) Charles DeMerchant b. 9 Nov 1808:
Source: MC80/2764 Norman DeMerchant’s The strength of Loyalty: history of John

DeMerchant Sr., 38 pages: in the early records the surname was often spelled as
Cuffman (Kauffman).
DEMERCHANT: John DeMerchant Jr. b. c1788 in NB, probably s/o John

DeMerchant (or Cuffman): John Jr. m. Louisa - b. 1792: settled above Bath in
Kent Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) John DeMerchant born 1 Dec 1815:
2) possibly, Mary Ann DeMerchant b. 17 Aug 1819:
3) Eliza DeMerchant born 1 Jun 1820, d. 1871, m. Israel Calkins b. 1793 in NS,
died 1862, s/o Ahira Calkins and Irene Porter of Cornwallis, NS: settled in Wicklow
Parish: had issue:
6) George DeMerchant born 15 Dec 1822:
7) Bartly DeMerchant born 27 Feb 1824:
8) Melvin DeMerchant b. 7 Dec 1827:
9) Richard DeMerchant b. 31 Mar 1830, married Ann - b. 1827: had issue:
10) Robert DeMerchant born 1833, m. Sally Gee: had children:
11) Charles DeMerchant born 1839.
Sources: MC80/587 Leatha Sisson’s Our family tree, Vol 1, pages 61, 75: he may
have had a brother, George DeMerchant, who married Jane - settled near John and
had issue: possible sister, Frances Maria DeMerchant b. Aug 1804, died 14 Mar
1884, m. John Y. Butterfield: had issue: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New
Brunswick lineages, pages 248 to249: see also MC80/2764 Norman A. DeMerchant’s
The strength of Loyalty: history of John DeMerchant Sr., 38 pages.
DEMILL: John DeMill b. 26 Aug 1757 at Stamford, Fairfield, CT, d. 13 Jan 1825,
s/o Abraham DeMill and Mary King: m. in May 1780 at Eatons Neck, Suffolk
County, Long Island, NY, Elizabeth Smith b. 27 Jul 1762, d. 26 May 1819, d/o Dr.
Nathan and Elizabeth Smith: came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: settled at Hampton,
Kings County:
Children:
1) Abraham DeMill b. 23 May 1782 at Eatons Neck, NY, d. young:
2) John DeMill b. 16 Feb 1784 in Saint John, d. in infancy:
3) Mary or Polly DeMill born 5 Mar 1786 in Saint John, died before 1819:
4) Abraham DeMill b. 3 May 1788, died 26 Aug 1843, m. Sarah Morrell:
5) Fanny DeMill b. 21 Nov 1790:
6) Henry DeMill b. 21 Nov 1793, d. 28 May 1866 Upham, NB, m. 10 Mar 1814 at
Hampton, Charity Smith born 11 Aug 1793 d/o Isaiah Smith and Charity Newton:
7) William DeMill born 21 Sep 1795, married 6 Aug 1868, m. 15 Jan 1828 at
Hampton, NB, Rhoda Anna Force born 1804, d. 2 Sep 1876:
8) John Thomas Smith DeMill born 24 Feb 1798, died 9 or 11 Mar 1862, m. 13 or
29 May 1822 at Norton, NB, Julia Johanna Smith b. 30 Apr 1800, died 20 Mar
1873, d/o Isaiah Smith and Charity Newton: settled Hampton Parish:
9) Rufus Smith DeMill born 14 Aug 1802, died 7 Dec 1882, m. (1st) 14 Aug 1825
Jemima Morrell b. 1802, d. 12 Jan 1845: had six children: m. (2nd) 1846 Mary
McIndoe born 1827 at Richmond, NB, died 1890, d/o James McIndoe: had six
children: settled in Woodstock, Carleton County after 1825:
10) Nathan Smith DeMill born 14 Oct 1804, d. 26 Dec 1864 at Saint John, m. 9 Jul
1828 at Digby, NS, Elizabeth Tongue Budd born 16 Jun 1807 at Digby, d/o Elisha
Budd and Elizabeth Bonnell of Digby, NS, d. 25 Nov 1891: they settled in Saint
John:
11) possible daughter, Elizabeth DeMill married on 18 Feb 1831 John Ford
Sherwood of Hampton Parish.
Sources: MC1/DeMill, 90 pages: the file contains John DeMill, Loyalist: his
ancestry and descendants by Muriel DeMill Raymond: John DeMill's uncle Joseph
DeMill, also a Loyalist, got a land grant on the Washademoak Lake near the Narrows,
Queens County, NB in 1786: he later returned to Stamford, CT: see MC80/2385
Lawrence E. Lowe’s Notes on Demille family history with particular reference to the
ancestors of Alice Demille 1847-1926, p 17ff.
DEMILL: Joseph DeMill born 27 Feb 1740/41 in Stamford, CT, died 21 Nov 1800,
s/o Peter DeMill and Abigail Banks, m. (1st) 1770 Elizabeth Arnold d/o John
Arnold: m. (2nd) 13 Jan 1791 Sarah Holly: came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and
settled on the Washademoak Lake near the Narrows, Queens County: later returned to
Stamford, CT.
Source: MC80/2385 Lawrence E. Lowe’s Notes on Demille family history with

particular reference to the ancestors of Alice Demille 1847-1926, pg 16.
DEMPSEY: Thomas Dempsey born 1784, m. Ann - born 1800: came to NB and
settled at New Bandon, Gloucester County: children mentioned, Nathaniel Dempsey
and Sarah Dempsey.
Source: MC80/40 Margaret Hunter’s Pioneer settlers of the Bay of Chaleur, page 16.
DENNIS: John Dennis was a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, s/o Henry
Dennis of Philadelphia: m. Martha - and had three or four children before coming
to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: received land at Beaver Harbour in Pennfield Parish,
Charlotte County: family later moved to Ontario.
Source: MC80/1720 Theodore C. Holmes’ Loyalists to Canada: the 1783 settlement

of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy, page 49.
DENNIS: Joseph Dennis born c1805 in Ireland, d. 18 Jan 1866: came to NB in 1832:
first settled at Spriggs Brook, North Esk Parish, then at Halcomb in South Esk Parish,
then at Newcastle in Northumberland County: married 23 Jun 1837 Margaret Mary
Sullivan born c1820, in Ireland, d. 25 May 1876:
Children:
1) John Dennis born 10 Apr 1838, d. 21 Jun 1903, m. 1871 Elizabeth Foran born
c1840, d. 5 May 1905 d/o James Foran and Catherine Flynn: settled at Upper
Halcomb and had three children:
2) Daniel Dennis b. 1840 at Halcomb, d. 14 Sep 1914, married 28 Aug 1867 at Red
Bank, Mary Ann Mullin born 6 May 1839 d/o Robert Mullin and Sally Shannon:
first settled at Wayerton, NB: went to Fall River, MA in the 1880’s: they had one son:
3) Catherine Dennis born 5 Feb 1842, d. 2 Apr 1916, married James Foran born Feb
1843, d. 30 Sep 1915, s/o James Foran and Catherine Flynn: had five children:
4) Judith/Julia Dennis born about Nov 1843 at Halcomb, d. after 1871:
5) Margaret Dennis born c1846 at Halcomb, died after 1871:
6) Joseph Dennis b. c1848 at Halcomb, d. after 1871:
7) Hannah Dennis b. c1851 Halcomb, d. before 1881:
8) Ellen Dennis b. c1853 at Newcastle, d. after 1932, m. George Foran born 10 Oct
1846, died 11 Nov 1932, s/o James Foran and Catherine Flynn:
9) Mary Ann Dennis born c1856, died 13 Jan 1927, married John Foran born Apr
1849, died 14 Mar 1922, s/o James Foran and Catherine Flynn: had two children:
10) Elizabeth Dennis (adopted) born c1868, died on 23 Jul 1921, married (1st)
William Hamilton b. 22 Jan 1832, d. 18 Sep 1910, s/o Robert Hamilton and Anna
Brown: m. (2nd) William Alexander Leach b. 5 Mar 1854, d. 1926, s/o Alexander
Leach and Zilpha Rogers.
Source: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, pages 118-119: also
see the Northumberland County census: see also MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the
NBGS, Some first families of the Miramichi, 1 page.
DENNISON: Michael Dennison born c1742 possibly at Hempstead on Long Island,

NY, or at Belfast, Ireland, died 15 Apr 1840: he came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and
settled at Penniac, Saint Marys Parish in York County: married c1784 in Saint Marys
Parish, Mary - :
Children:
1) James Dennison born c1785, d. after Jul 1844, m. c1808 Abigail Manzer born 13
Sep 1789, d. 1861, d/o John Manzer and Martha Patience Parent: had seven
children:
2) Ann Dennison b. c1787, d. before 1810, m. 20 May 1807 in Saint Marys Parish,
William Weade born 5 Jun 1779, d. 4 Nov 1863, s/o Philip Weade and Phoebe
Carnes: had two children:
3) Sarah Rebecca Dennison b. c1789, m. John Peterson b. c1785 in USA: came to
NB in 1809: settled in York County and had four children:
4) Mary M. Dennison born c1790, m. (1st) before 1812 John Weade born 7 Feb
1788, s/o Philip Weade and Phoebe Carnes: settled in York County and had four
children: m. (2nd) 8 Nov 1832 in NB, Robert Craig born 1811:
5) Miss Dennison b. c1791, m. Mr. Noble and had at least one child:
6) Bridget Dennison b. c1792, married 2 Jan 1813 at Fredericton, NB, James
Fitzherbert born about 1792 possibly s/o Jonas Fitzherbert of Fredericton:
7) Margaret Dennison born 1793, d. Feb 1871, m. Samuel Clayton b. 1793 at
Penniac, NB, d. 15 Oct 1866, s/o Samuel Clayton and Sarah Archibald: had eight
children:
8) Catherine Dennison born c1795, died after 1856, m. 2 Nov 1826 in Saint Marys
Parish, Thomas Stinson b. - , died 25 Feb 1833 at Nashwaak: had at least one child:
6) Susanna Dennison b. c1800, d. before 1839 Stanley, NB, m. 28 Jul 1827 in Saint
Marys Parish, Hugh Stewart b. 1791 in NB: had four children:
7) Grace Dennison born 9 Jan 1803, d. 17 May 1892 at Tracy Mills, Carleton County,
m. 29 Dec 1825 Edward A. Barrett b. 18 Sep 1802, died 7 Jan 1869, s/o John
Barrett and Martha Maria Price: settled at Centreville in Wicklow, Parish, Carleton
County and had thirteen children.
Sources: MC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-1885, pages 35-
36: see also MC80/1964 Allan Dennison’s In service of his country: (Michael
Dennison and John Manzer): see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Issue #48, June
1991: Ahnentafel [chart of] Sandra B. Leighton, pages 21-24: Issue #49, pages 55-
60: see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Volume 23, No. 2, Summer 2001, Delores
B. Anderson’s Descendants of Michael Dennison, pages 34-40.
DENNISON: Michael Dennison b. 15 Sep 1809, d. 1890, married 9 Apr 1835 Mary
Crawford b. 26 Sep 1817: settled at Saint John, Saint John County, NB:
Children:
1) James Dennison b. 16 Jan 1836, died 21 Jul 1921:
2) Isabel Dennison b. 30 Jun 1837, m. Rory McLeod:
3) Edward Dennison b. 25 Nov 1838:
4) Mary Dennison born 15 Jul 1840, d. Oct 1929:
5) Sarah Dennison born 15 Jun 1843, d. Mar 1918:
6) Martha Dennison b. 22 Dec 1844, d. Mar 1934:
7) George Dennison b. 12 Mar 1847, d. Aug 1920:
8) Matilda Dennison b. 23 Apr 1851:
9) Abigail Dennison b. 27 Feb 1854, d. 19 Dec 1944:
10) John Dennison 15 Sep 1856:
11) James A. Dennison (adopted) b. 29 Dec 1867:
12) Gertie Dennison born 23 Nov 1872, d. 27 Jul 1929:
13) Joanna Dennison b. 22 Nov 1876, d. 18 Feb 1921.
Source: MC1/Dennison, 2 pages.
DENSMORE: James Densmore b. 1797 in Ireland, m. Jane - b. 1797 in Ireland:

family came from County Antrim, Ireland to NB in 1833 and settled at Chamcook,
Saint Andrews Parish, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) Francis Densmore b. 1826 in Ireland, d. 29 Jul 1903, m. Sarah A. Doherty born
1834 in St. Andrews, d. 28 Feb 1910: settled in Chamcook: had children:
2) John Densmore b. 1832 Ireland, d. 4 Aug 1918:
3) Rachel Densmore born 1835 in NB:
4) Robert Densmore born 1837:
5) Sarah Densmore born 1839:
6) Thomas Densmore b. 1841, died 21 Jan 1895: possibly m. Elizabeth Short born
1838 in St. Stephen, d. 23 Sep 1921 at Calais, ME.
Sources: MC80/1813 Shirley Clarke’s Church of St. Andrew: St. Andrews, NB:
Cemetery & Interment Records: also see the Charlotte County census.
DENSMORE: William Densmore born 1828 in Ireland, died 14 May 1862, m. (1st)
Mary Scullion born 1824 in County Armagh, Ireland, d. 13 Jan 1857, d/o Thomas
and Cecelia Scullion: m. (2nd) Bridget - born 1838:

1) Thomas Densmore born 1848:
2) Mary J. Densmore born 1851:
Children of second marriage:

3) Eliza Densmore b. c1860, d 23 Jul 1860:
4) John Densmore born in 1861.
Source: MC80/360 Acadiensis Vol VII, No. 3, Jul, 1907 Old Roman Catholic
Graveyard at St. Andrews, page 198.
DENSMORE: see also DINSMORE
DENTON: Moses Denton born c1786 s/o of a pre-Loyalist, possible Samuel

Denton, died 5 Jan 1867 in Fredericton: Moses married and had issue: his son
Solomon Denton m. Mary Mitchell born in Scotland: their children are listed in the
1851 Fredericton census returns.
MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. I, pages 5-
6.
DENTON: Samuel Denton born about 1752, d. 24 May 1827: was possibly a
resident of Queens County, NY before 1775: came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and
first settled in Canning Parish, then Waterborough Parish, Queens County: married
Elizabeth - b. c1750, died 1 Jul 1814:
Children:
1) Moses Denton m. Eleanor Brill and had at least four sons:
2) Samuel Denton Jr. m. Hannah Thorne: had at least five sons.
Source: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, pgs. 23-24.
DEPEYSTER: Abraham DePeyster born 1753 in NY City, d. 19 Feb 1798, s/o

James DePeyster and Sarah Reade: married 1783 in NY City, Catherine
Livingston d/o John Livingston: came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and first settled at
Maugerville, Sunbury County, then at Saint John: had six children: his wife and
remaining children returned to NY following Abraham’s death.
Source: MC1286 Volume IV Dictionary of Canadian Biography, pages 210-211: see

also MC80/110 J.W Lawrence’s Foot-prints, or incidents in early history of NB,
page 55: see MC1156 Graves Papers: Abraham DePeyster, 1 page: Abraham’s
brother Frederic DePeyster also came to NB as a Loyalist but returned to New York.
DERRAH, James see under DARRAH, James
DESBRISAY: Theophilus Desbrisay b. 12 Aug 1789 Covehead, PEI, died 1 Aug

1847, s/o Theophilus Desbrisay and Margaret Stewart, married Mrs. Lucy
(Wright) Colledge of Charlottetown, PEI, b. 1782, d. 1834, d/o Thomas Wright, and
widow of Capt. Colledge who died at Quebec City: came to NB in 1824 and settled at
Chatham, Northumberland County: had five children:
Children mentioned:
1) Theophilus Desbrisay b. 13 Dec 1816 at Charlottetown, m. 1851 Jemima Swayne
d/o David Swayne of Dysart, Scotland: settled in Bathurst, NB and had four sons and
one daughter:
2) Lestock Peach Wilson Desbrisay born 1820, died 10 Dec 1872, m. 14 Oct 1841
Diana Gay Smith d/o Dr. Rufus Smith of Westmorland County and had four sons
and three daughters:
3) Margaret Desbrisay m. Charles A. Harding and settled in Richibucto.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: Theophilus Desbrisay, 4 pages: see also

MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography: see also
MC80/407 The Canadian biographical dictionary, pages 647-648.
DESMOND: James Desmond born c1819 in Ireland, died 1899, married (1st) - ,
(2nd) Ellen Crotty b. 1823, d. 1889: came to NB in 1847 and settled on the Barnaby
River Road (Nowlanville), Nelson Parish, Northumberland County:

1) Julia Desmond m. William Kerr: settled in Chatham: had a large family:

2) Catherine Desmond: went to USA and died in the late 1920’s:
3) John Desmond:
4) James Desmond m. Annie - : went to Waterville, ME: had issue:
5) Mary Desmond: went to USA:
6) Daniel Desmond born c1858, died in 1930, m. 1889 Susan Mary English born
c1870, d. 3 Mar 1894: settled on Barnaby Road and had two daughters:
7) Dennis Desmond: settled in Minneapolis, MN:
8) Patrick Desmond: he went to the USA:
9) Michael Desmond.
Source: MC80/1844 Louise Werstiuk’s The Dolan-Desmond family.
DESMOND: James Desmond born 22 Nov 1830 in Ireland, d. 24 Mar 1918, s/o
Patrick Desmond and Johanna Mahoney: came to NB in May 1847, m. (1st) 1851
Charlotte Kerr d/o Adam Kerr and Rose McGuiness of Alnwick Parish, married
(2nd) 1873 Sarah B. Wynne of Chatham, (3rd) 1887 Joanna Sweeney: they settled in
Chatham, Northumberland County: had two sons by his second wife, Patrick J.
Desmond, and Daniel Desmond who moved to Portland, ME.
Source: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography: James

Desmond had siblings Patrick Desmond, Ellen Desmond and Daniel Desmond.
DESMOND: John Desmond born in Ireland: he came to NB in 1840 and first settled
in Douglastown and then at Buctouche, Kent County: married and had children: only
child mentioned was Patrick Desmond b. 1826 in County Cork, Ireland, died 1880,
married Sarah Fitzpatrick b. in Chatham, Northumberland County, NB, d/o Luke
Fitzpatrick and Mary O’Leary of County Wexford in Ireland.
Source: MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, page 152.
DESMOND: Patrick Desmond born c1803 in Ireland, m. Johanna Mahoney b.

c1811 in Ireland: came to NB in 1847: settled at Chatham, Northumberland County:
Children mentioned:
1) James Desmond b. 22 Nov 1830:
2) Patrick Desmond b. c1837, died 11 Mar 1903, m. 1864 Susan Sheridan d/o John
Sheridan and Ann Duffy, all natives of Ireland: they settled at Chatham and raised a
large family:
3) Ellen Desmond born c1839:
4) Mary Desmond born c1843:
5) Daniel Desmond born c1846:
6) Amora Desmond born c1850.
Source: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography.
DESPRES: J.B. Despres born c1743, d. 30 Oct 1817, m. Magdeleine Bourg b. 1753,
d. 21 Jan 1844, d/o Michel Bourg and Marguerite Bourgeois, settled at Cocagne in
Dundas Parish, Kent County:
Children:
1) Charlemange Despres born c1783, d. 23 May 1864, m. Jeanne Richard d/o
Michel Richard and Marguerite Babineau:
2) Gertrude Despres m. 17 Jul 1809 Maurice Hache:
3) Placide Despres b. c1795, d. Oct 1831, m. Anastasie Richard:
4) Barbe Despres:
5) Honore Despres m. 22 Nov 1813 Marie Gueguen:
6) Marie Blanche Despres m. 26 Feb 1810 Paschal Bourk:
7) Genevieve Despres b. 1783, d. 7 Nov 1863, m. 19 Jul 1802 August Leger.
Source: MC1/Despres, 10 pages.
DESROCHES: Placide Desroches born in 1798, died 15 Dec 1868, s/o Jean
Desroches and Esther Bastarache: married 7 Nov 1814 in Richibucto Village Kent
County, Marguerite Gueguen b. 1795, d/o Joseph Gueguen and Anne LeBlanc:
settled in Buctouche, Kent County: son Louis Desroches b. 18 Aug 1815, d. 22 May
1895, married 28 Jan 1839 Victoire Robichaud.
Source: MC1/DesRoches, 22 pages: file contains a copy of a report Genealogy of

Theresa DesRoches: Ancestors and relationships by Francis X. Edwards.
DEVEAU: Firmin Deveau was s/o Joseph Deveau and Rose Michaud of
Kamouraska, QC: m. c1800 Marie Joseph Beaulieu d/o Mathurin Beaulieu and
Marie Guérette: they came to NB by 1816 and first settled in Caraquet, Gloucester
County, then in Restigouche County by 1819, then in Saint-Basile, Madawaska
County by 1826:
Children:
1) Michel Deveau m. 6 Feb 1826 at St-Basile, Olive Letourneau d/o Charles
Letourneau and Marthe Bernard:
2) Pierre Deveau married 14 May 1832 at St-Basile, NB, Sophie Lagacé d/o
Raphael Lagacé and Marie-Anne Guerette:
3) Germain Deveau m. 15 Jan 1833 at New Richmond, QC, Virginie Audet:
4) François Nicomède Deveau (twin) born 15 Sep 1816, d. 25 Feb 1817:
5) Liboire Deveau (twin) b. 15 Sep 1816:
6) Suzanne Deveau b. 1 Mar 1819 at Restigouche:
7) Nazaire Deveau married (1st) 8 Oct 1837 at St-Basile, Suzanne Sirois d/o Jean-
Baptiste Sirois and Adélaide Mercure: married (2nd) on 30 May 1854 at St-Basile,
Virginie Lizotte d/o Pierre Lizotte and Olive Thibodeau.
Sources: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, page 120: see also
MC80/1933 Bicentenaire de la Grande-Rivière Saint-Léonard et Saint-Léonard-
Parent, 1789-1989, page 76.
DEVEBER: Gabriel DeVeber born in 1732 in Switzerland s/o Gabriel and Mary
Ann DeVeber, died 26 Jul 1810: m. (1st) c1750 Mary Burke, m. (2nd) 13 Jan 1766
Mary Johnston: family came to NB 1783 as Loyalists and settled at Maugerville,
Sunbury County:
Children by first wife:

1) Gabriel DeVeber born c1752, died 23 May 1827, m. Margaret Hubbard b. c1754
in CT, d. 8 Apr 1827, d/o Nathaniel Hubbard and Mary Quintard: settled in
Sunbury County:
2) Francis DeVeber b. c1760, m. 8 May 1782 Lucretia Thurston: returned to NY
where he died:
Children by second wife,

3) Anne DeVeber b. 1766, m. Walter Campbell:
4) Sarah/Sally DeVeber b. 1769, m. Alexander Menzies of Musquash, Saint John
County, NB: an officer in British Army: went to England:
5) John DeVeber b. 1770, d. 29 Dec 1860, m. c1806 Freelove Smith b. 1785, d. Jan
1858: she was the sister of James T. Hanford’s second wife: settled at Maugerville,
NB: had one child who died:
6) Henry DeVeber b. 1772, d. 21 Oct 1867, m. c1804 Cornelia Vradenburg
Hubbard born 1782, d. Dec 1851, d/o Isaac Hubbard: they settled at Burton,
Sunbury County, NB and had six children:
7) Samuel DeVeber born 1774:
8) Joshua DeVeber b. 1775:
9) Benjamin DeVeber born 1777:
10) Mary DeVeber born 1781, died 8 Sep 1868 at Maugerville:
11) Caroline DeVeber b. 1782:
12) Henrietta DeVeber b. 1783, d. 14 Aug 1876, m. 23 Jul 1831 Rev. Raper Milner
b. 1791 in Yorkshire, England, d. 11 Aug 1843, s/o George Milner and Barbara
Raper: Rev. Milner was rector at Maugerville, NB:
13) Claudius Isaac DeVeber b. 1786, d. 12 May 1867, m. 15 Nov 1817, Jane W.
Moore born 1792, d. Sep 1856, third d/o James Moore of Saint Marys Parish, York
County: settled at Maugerville, Sunbury County and had issue:
14) Frederic Abraham DeVeber born 1788, died 10 Jan 1870, married 3 Sep 1829
Barbara Milner b. 1789 d/o George Milner and Barbara Raper, died 27 Aug 1868:
15) Angelina Sophia DeVeber b. 17 Jan 1802, d. 3 Mar 1848 at Maugerville.
Sources: MC1/DeVeber, 40 pgs.: see MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical

Review, pages 538-542: see also Saint John Regional Library: David Russell Jack
Bequest: Genealogy, microfilm reel F109, pages 97,113.
DEVER: Brien Dever b. c1817 in Ireland, d. 10 Sep 1895: came from County
Donegal, Ireland to NB and settled at Mosquito Cove, Saint John: m. c1840 in West
Saint John, Mary O’Connell b. in Cork City, Ireland:
Children born in Saint John:

1) John Dever m. Ann Gallagher: had two children:
2) Mary Ann Dever:
3) Cornelius Dever m. Margaret/Maggie Carson: had four children:
4) James Dever:
5) Hugh A. Dever b. Mar 1857, d. 10 Feb 1934, m. 27 Nov 1888 Mary Ann Frances
Leahy b. 2 Feb 1864, d. 28 Dec 1928, d/o James Leahy (b. 1835, d. 27 Jan 1905) and
Mary A. Walsh: settled in Saint John: had seven children:
6) Alfred Dever m. Alice Mahoney: had eight children:
7) Frances Dever m. Patrick Rogers: had nine children:
8) Charles Dever married and had two children:
9) Henry Dever m. Mary MacGowan: had six children:
10) Theresa Dever:
11) Ellen Dever m. James McKenna: had two children.
Source: MC2452 Olmstead family fonds, Box 2523, Dever-Eldridge file, 25 pages
DEVER: James Dever b. in Ballyshannon, Ireland, died 1861, s/o Paul Dever and -
McGowan: m. 1817 Catherine Gallagher b. - , died 1870, d/o Daniel Gallagher of
Rusheen, County Clair and Margaret O’Donnell of Tyrconnel, Ireland: came from
Ballyshannon, Ireland to NB after 1825: settled at Chipman Hill in Saint John: had six
sons and two daughters:

1) James Dever Jr. b. 2 May 1825 at Ballyshannon, d. 7 May 1904 at Ottawa, ON,
married on 25 Nov 1853 at Saint John, Margaret Morris third d/o Daniel Morris of
Lancaster, NB: they settled in Saint John and had seven children:
2) John Dever: settled in Saint John.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: James Dever, 1 page: MC2452 Olmstead family
fonds, Box 2523, Dever-Eldridge file contains data on James Dever Jr.: see also
RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Dever family: James Dever:
microfilm F11081, 2 pages.
DEVINE: David Devine b. c1821 in County Cork, Ireland, d. 1876: came to NB in

1841 and settled in Sussex Parish, Kings County: m. Nancy/Ann - b. c1820 in
County Tyrone, Ireland, died 16 Oct 1865: she came to NB in 1829: adopted two
children: 1) John McNaught born about 1852 in NB: 2) Sarah McNaught born
c1854 in NB.
Sources: MC80/2326 John R. Elliott’s Gone but not forgotten: cemetery inscriptions
of Kings County, New Brunswick, Vol. 4: St. Stephen’s R.C. Cemetery, Norton, NB,
page 127: see also the Kings County census records.
DEVINE: William Devine born c1809 in County Tipperary, Ireland, died 24 Oct
1874, m. Mary - b. c1809 in County Tipperary, d. 23 Feb 1877: came to NB in
1840 and settled in Sussex Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) Matthew Devine b. c1835 in Ireland, d. 1916, m. Mary Ann - born 1856, died
1914:
2) John Devine born c1838, d. 1917, m. Catherine Crowe:
3) Patrick Devine b. c1841, d. 11 Apr 1888, m. Annie M. - born c1855, died 10
Mar 1886:
4) Michael Devine b. c1845, d. 26 Jan 1910:
5) Mary Devine born c1844 in NB.
Sources: MC80/1909 John R. Elliott’s Gone but not forgotten, Volume 3: Saddleback
Cemetery, Hammond Parish, Kings County, pages 314, 315: see also the Kings
County census returns which spells the surname Devan.
DEVLIN: Owen Devlin b. in Ireland, m. Julia Purel b. Newfoundland: came to NB

and settled in Saint John: the only child mentioned is Ellen Jane Devlin b. 19 Dec
1870 in NB, died 28 Nov 1920, married 11 Nov 1918 in Saint John, Harold Hayman:
settled in Saint John.

DEWAR: Peter Dewar born 1759 in Scotland, m. Elizabeth Gardie: came to NB in

1815 and first settled in Saint John: received land at Scotch Settlement, Springfield
Parish, Kings County, NB:
Children:
1) Margaret Dewar born 1793, married 1817 Alexander Duff:
2) Peter Dewar b. 1795, d. 1854, m. Rebecca Maxwell b. 1809 in Ireland:
3) Janet Dewar b. 1796, d. 1881, m. 1818 Duncan Menzies:
4) Hugh Dewar b. 1799, d. 1828.
Source: MC1/Dewar #1,2, 3 pages: Peter Sr. was an ex-army man who had spent 28
years in the 77th regiment: daughter, Margaret Dewar settled in PEI.
DEWAR: Thomas Dewar born in Scotland, d. 1824: came to NB: settled at

Gardner’s Creek, Saint Martins Parish, Saint John County: married and had issue:
Children mentioned:
1) Henry Dewar:
2) Sandy Dewar:
3) Jessie Dewar married William Forbes who came from NS: had children:
4) Margaret Dewar m. Simon Frazer and had issue:
5) Thomas Dewar Jr.
Source: MC80/180 H. McCullagh’s A short history of Fairfield, Tynemouth Creek

and Gardner’s Creek, pages 9-11.
DEWITT: Evert or Everett Dewitt b. 1732, bp. 25 Nov 1733 in Kingston, NY, d.
Nov 1801, s/o Lucas Dewitt and Catherine Roosa, m. c1751 in NY, Gertrude
Persen bp. 19 Jan 1735, d. after 1801, d/o Abraham Persen and Catrina
Schoonmaker: came from Linlithgow, Columbia County, NY to NB in 1783 as
Loyalists: they first settled at Oromocto, then in Blissville Parish, Sunbury County:
Children born in NY:

1) Lucas Dewitt born 2 Oct 1756, married 1780 in NY, Elizabeth VanLoon born on
4 Mar 1756 d/o Jacob and Catherine VanLoon: moved to Ontario:
2) Abraham Dewitt bp. 26 Dec 1757, d. before 1762:
3) John Henry Dewitt born 15 Jan 1759, d. Oct 1801, married c1781 in NY, Phoebe
Durose:
4) Henry Dewitt born 27 Dec 1760, d. 13 Apr 1830 in NY, m. 19 Nov 1796
Catherine Dumond:
5) Abraham Dewitt b. 22 Jan 1762, m. Catherine Tucker: settled near Tracy,
Gladstone Parish, Sunbury County:
6) Catherine Dewitt bp. 25 Jan 1765, died in Saint John, married 21 Mar 1785
Samuel Boone s/o William Boone and Ruth Hill:
7) Jacob Dewitt bp. 22 Oct 1768 at Coxsachie, Ulster County, NY, died 8 Jun 1827:
married (1st) Salome Tucker and had three children: m. (2nd) Abigail (Cram) Kinney
b. 1777 in Wales, d. 17 Jun 1861: moved to Ontario in 1822:
8) Peter Dewitt born 24 Mar 1770, died 1849, m. Anne - born 1770, d. 1872: to
Ontario about 1816.
Sources: MC1/Dewitt #1,2,3, 80 pages: Caroline and Salome Tucker were sisters: see
also MC80/1285 Loyalist lineages of Canada 1783 -1983, pages 191-192: see also
MC80/1286 Miriam L. Phillips’ Facts and folklore: Tracy and Little Lake areas, pg.
140: see MC80/1360 Mrs. George Webb Moffitt’s Dewitt family history 1657-1912:
see also MC80/2348 Cleadie B. Barnett et. al. Loyalist families, page 10.
DEWITT: John Henry Dewitt b. 15 Jan 1759 in Linlithgow, Columbia, NY, died
Oct 1801, s/o Evert Dewitt and Geertruy or Gertrude Persen/Paarsen, married
Phoebe Durose b. NY, d. c1806, d/o Charles Durose and - Pierce: they came to
NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at Oromocto in Burton Parish Sunbury County:
Children:
1) Abraham Persen Dewitt born 1788, died 14 Feb 1866 at Maxfield, ME, m. Nancy
Smith:
2) Mary G. Dewitt bp. 10 Mar 1788 at Maugerville, m. in 1808 John Bailey:
3) Thomas Durose Dewitt b. 9 Jan 1791, d. 23 Jun 1871 in Maine, married 8 Apr
1817 at Burton, NB, Hannah Seely:
4) John King Dewitt born 3 Apr 1793 at Gagetown, NB, died 10 Jan 1890 at
Avondale, NB, m. 16 Oct 1816 at Burton, Annie Wood born 1794 of Danish origin,
died 1889: they settled on South Branch Oromocto River and had nine children:
5) Gertrude Dewitt b. 1795, d. 1896, m. Clapman Smith born 1794, d. 1871, s/o
Clapman Smith and Susanna Bailey: first settled at Hoyt, NB: had issue: later
moved to Maine:
6) Maria Ann Dewitt b. 1797, m. 15 Oct 1818 Seth Farrow:
7) Charles Dewitt born in 1799, married Hannah Nason:
8) Luke Dewitt b. 1801, d. 2 Mar 1876, m. Mary Wood.
Sources: MC1/Dewitt #1,2,3, 80 pages: see MC80/1360 Mrs. George Webb Moffitt’s
Dewitt family history 1657-1912: see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New
Brunswick lineages, pages 138-139.
DEWOLFE: Edward DeWolfe (Dr.) born 24 Jan 1788, died Jan 1874 in St. Stephen,
NB, s/o Edward DeWolfe and Sarah Brown: m. (1st) 20 Jun 1822 Maria Pagan of
St. Andrews, NB, born c1793, died 2 Jan 1829: m. (2nd) Miss Hazen of Saint John,
NB: m. (3rd) Maria Woodward Moore b. - , died 1887: they settled at St. Andrews
and St. Stephen in Charlotte County:

1) Miss DeWolfe b. 2 May 1823, d. as infant:
2) Susan Maria Pagan DeWolfe b. - , d. 1874:
3) Robert Pagan DeWolfe:
4) George Edward DeWolfe b. 31 Dec 1828, d. 1 Jan 1829.
Sources: MC80/360 Acadiensis: Vol III, No. 3, Jul 1903, Old Burial Ground, St.
Andrews, page 208: see MC1035 DeWolfe family genealogical collection, MS1
DeWolfe genealogy 1761-1887, pages 33, 99: see also DeWolfe papers on microfilm
reels F3760, F3761 and F4249.
DEWOLFE: John B. DeWolfe of Liverpool, NS, b. 1786, s/o John DeWolfe and
Susanna Hatch: m. 23 Aug 1810 Eliza Jane Rudolph: family settled at St. Stephen,
Charlotte County in 1821:

1) John Kirkland DeWolfe b. 28 Jul 1811:
2) Mary Louisa DeWolfe born 6 Nov 1813, died 12 Sep 1890, m. 7 May 1833 in St.
Stephen, John Warren Moore born 12 Sep 1812, died 1893:
3) Edward DeWolfe: settled in St. Stephen, NB:
4) Charlotte DeWolfe:
5) Emily DeWolfe:
6) Thomas Moody DeWolfe b. 9 Mar 1816:
7) John DeWolfe:
8) James DeWolfe born 1 May 1820: lost at sea:
9) Caroline Augusta DeWolfe born 9 Apr 1822, m. (1st) Mr. Robinson, (2nd) Mr.
Foster:
10) Margaret DeWolfe m. Mr. Hamilton:
11) Eliza Jane DeWolfe born 24 Aug 1824, m. Capt. Wren of Boston, MA:
12) Charles DeWolfe b. 27 Jun 1827.
Sources: MC1/DeWolfe, 1 page: data came from a sampler found at Kings Landing:
see also MC71 Moore and DeWolfe family fonds: 1829-1945: see MC1035 DeWolfe
family genealogical collection, MS1 DeWolfe genealogy 1761-1887, pages 3, 19, 73:
there are many differences among the sources: see also DeWolfe papers on microfilm
reels F3760, F3761 and F4249.
DIAMOND: William Diamond: settled in Saint John: married Mary Eliza Cameron
born in Searletown, PEI, d/o John Cameron and Olive Duncan:

1) Annie Lucinda Diamond born 28 May 1867 in NB, died 13 Oct 1879:
2) Elizabeth Diamond b. - , d. 22 Oct 1879:
3) Margaret O. Diamond born 1871, died 14 Oct 1879.

DIBBLEE: Frederick Dibblee (Rev.) born 9 Dec 1753 at Stamford, CT, died 17 May
1826, s/o Ebenezer Dibblee and Joanna Bates: m. in 1780 at Oyster Bay, Long
Island, NY, Nancy Anna Beach b. Jul 1759 at Stratford, CT, d. 18 Apr 1838, d/o
Abel Beach and Mary Lewis: came to NB as Loyalists: they first settled at Kingston,
Kings County then at Woodstock in Carleton County:
Children:
1) John B. Dibblee born 3 Mar 1787 at Kingston, NB, d. Sep 1879, m. c1828 Phoebe
(Mott) Davidson born 1792, died 30 Nov 1871: settled at Woodstock: had four
children:
2) Elizabeth/Betsey Dibblee b. c1789, m. 22 Sep 1809 Charles Ketchum and had six
children.
3) William Fyler Dibblee b. 1790 at Woodstock, NB, died unmarried c1874:
4) Maria Jane Dibblee b. Jan 1792, d. unmarried:
5) Richard B. Dibblee b. 5 Jul 1794, d. 22 Mar 1859, married Ellen Garden born
c1791, died 17 Jan 1877, d/o William Henry Garden: had issue:
6) Frederick Beach Dibblee born Jun 1797, d. 18 Jan 1874, m. 27 Nov 1825
Elizabeth Jenkins b. 1796, d. 5 Oct 1861, d/o Lt. John Jenkins and Sarah Turner
Bradley: they settled at Woodstock, NB and had three sons:
7) George Jarvis Dibblee b. c1799, d. 22 Jan 1877, married (1st) 2 Jan 1826
Elizabeth Ketchum b. 1803, d. 22 Jun 1827, d/o Major Richard Ketchum: had two
children: m. (2nd) 13 Jun 1829 Susanna Mary Wetmore born 3 Oct 1806, d. 31 Aug
1845, d/o Hon. Thomas Wetmore and Sarah Peters: had nine children: married (3rd)
Nov 1850 Jane Peters b. 1807, d. 1 Jan 1886, d/o Charles J. Peters: had seven
children: eventually settled in Richibucto, Kent County, NB:
8) Henry Ebenezer Dibblee born 12 Jan 1802, d. 1883, married 7 Feb 1844
Charlotte Ketchum b. 16 May 1818, d. 16 May 1855, d/o Richard Ketchum and
Charlotte Upham: had issue:
9) David Lewis Dibblee b. c1804, d. unmarried c1877.
Sources: MC1/Dibblee, 17 pages: there were four additional daughters in this family:
see also MC1/Jenkins #1: see also MC1286 Volume VI Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, pgs 208-209: see also MC1156 Graves Papers: Dibblee family notes, 1
page: see MC80/117 G. Herbert Lee’s The first fifty years of the Church of England
1783-1833, pages 97-99: see also MC80/2334 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying
ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. III, pages 25-32: see also MC80/948 Alice I.D.
Conlon’s Dibblee-Perry and allied families; page 26 has data on Mary (Lewis) Beach
who came to NB; the Dibblee data starts on page 77: see MC80/998 W.O. Raymond’s
The ancestry of the family of William Odber Raymond A.D. 1630-1920, pages 193 to
212 which notes that Nancy Beach’s brothers William Beach and Lewis Beach came
to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled in Kingston, Kings County: see also MC1726
Dibblee Family Collection, MS1A1 Frederick Dibblee, on microfilm reel F13330.
DIBBLEE: Fyler Dibblee b. 18 Jan 1741 at Stamford, CT, died 6 May 1784, eldest
s/o Ebenezer Dibblee and wife Joanna Bates, married on 18 Jun 1763 Polly Jarvis
born 21 Feb 1747 at Stamford, CT, died May 1826, d/o Samuel Jarvis and Martha
Seymour and sister of Munson Jarvis: came to NB 1783 as Loyalists: first settled
Kings County, then at Woodstock, Carleton County:
Children born at Stamford, CT:

1) Walter Dibblee born 7 Feb 1764, d. 1 Jun 1817, m. 28 Apr 1784 Hannah
Beardsley b. 11 Jul 1765, eldest d/o Rev. John Beardsley: family settled at
Woodstock, NB: had children:
2) William Dibblee born 14 Jan 1766, died unmarried 1832: went to Ontario:
3) Margaret Dibblee b. 28 Nov 1767, d. 20 Apr 1853, m. c1787 John Bedell b. 9
Dec 1755 Staten Island, NY, d. 1838: had seven sons and three daughters:
4) Ralph Dibblee born 22 Oct 1769, d. 1799, married 10 Jun 1793 Elizabeth
Ketchum:
5) Sarah or Sally Munday Dibblee born 22 Nov 1774, d. 25 May 1826, m. 20 Jun
1793 John D. Beardsley born 4 Feb 1771, died 25 Jan 1852: had children:
6) Ebenezer Dibblee b. 26 Nov 1779 at Stamford, CT, d. 1858, married c1801
Elizabeth Secord of Kings County: had eleven children.
Sources: MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 480-484: see also
MC1156 Graves Papers: Dibblee family notes, 1 pg.: see also MC80/928 Ernest G.C.
Graham’s Mills, hills and early settlers of Springfield Parish, Kings County, NB,
pages 93-95: see also MC80/998 W.O. Raymond’s The ancestry of the family of
William Odber Raymond A.D. 1630-1920, pages 195-223.
DICK: Alexander Dick b. 1790 in Scotland, d. 1868, married Agnes Towers b. 1789
in Scotland: came from Pollmont, Scotland to NB in 1826 and settled in Napan,
Glenelg Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Janet Dick b. c1819, d. unmarried:
2) Agnes Dick born c1820, d. unmarried:
3) George Dick born c1822: he married Jane MacNaughton d/o Alexander
MacNaughton from Perthshire, Scotland: settled at Napan: had three children:
4) Alexander Dick born in 1823, d. 5 Apr 1896, m. Elizabeth MacNaughton born in
1827, died 14 Apr 1896, d/o Malcolm MacNaughton from Perthshire, Scotland, and
Barbara MacBeath from Sutherlandshire, Scotland: settled at Black River in Glenelg
Parish and had nine children:
5) Grace Dick born 1829: had a son.
Source: MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the NBGS, Some first families of the
Miramichi, 1 page: Alexander Dick had a brother named Robert Dick.
DICK: George Dick born Dec 1745 in Palmont, Scotland, d. 1814, m. (1st) 14 Aug
1787 Margaret Brown was born in Palmont, Scotland: he married (2nd) 28 Jan 1797
Janet Inglis: they came to NB and may have settled at Napan in Glenelg Parish,

1) William Dick b. 17 Aug 1788 in Palmont:
2) Alexander Dick b. 25 Apr 1790 in Palmont, d. 1868, m. 5 Dec 1813 Agnes
Towers: came to NB in 1826:
3) Robert Dick b. 5 Feb 1792 at Sterling, Scotland, m. at Aberdeen, Margaret Fidler
born 1780, d. 1871: settled in NB:
4) Janet Dick b. 27 Feb 1794:
5) David Dick born 21 Jan 1798:
6) William Dick born 14 Jul 1799:
7) Janet Dick (twin) born 10 Apr 1801:
8) George Dick (twin) born 10 Apr 1801:
9) Grizel Dick b. 28 Dec 1804.
Miramichi, 1 page.
DICK: James Gray Dick born 26 Jun 1819 at St. Quivox, Ayr, Scotland, died 10
May 1869, s/o Fullarton Dick (b. c1775) and Christiann Gray (b. c1780): he first
settled in Quebec then came to NB about 1848 and settled at Bathurst, Gloucester
County: m. Matilda Pritchard b. c1818 in Quebec, died Sep 1877, d/o Ralph
Pritchard:
Children:
1) Christiann Dick b. c1843 in Quebec, married William Napier:
2) Sarah Helen Dick b. c1846 in Quebec, m. Abraham F. Beevor:
3) John Montgomery Dick b. c1848 in Bathurst, NB, d. 9 Nov 1910 in Saint John,
NB, m. 5 Jul 1876 at Saint John, Elizabeth Wiggins Leavitt born 1 Feb 1852 in Saint
John, died 2 Nov 1942, d/o Edward Leavitt (b. 1 Oct 1823, died 23 Mar 1863) and
Catherine Elizabeth Robinson (b. 24 Jun 1826, d. c1918): settled in Saint John and
had eleven children:
4) Matilda Josephine Dick b. c1851, m. Vivian H. Steele:
5) Josephine Dick b. c1852:
6) Gavin Robert Dick b. c1856, m. Trudy - .
Sources: MC1749 Dick genealogy, 10 pages: also see the Gloucester County census
records.
DICK: John Dick m. Jeanie - : came to NB and settled in Saint George Parish,
Charlotte County:

1) Alexander Dick b. c1786 in NB, d. 1 Aug 1870, m. Jane Dewar: settled in Saint
George Parish and had at least ten children:
2) possibly, George Dick b. c1809, married Eliza - : settled in Saint George Parish
and had at least six children:
3) possibly, James Dick born c1814, m. Phoebe - : settled in Saint George Parish
and had at least five children:
4) Elizabeth Dick b. 1826, d. 27 Jul 1850, m. John Mahaney.
Source: MC2657 NBGS Generations Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 2001, Charlene
Beney’s Private burial plots in and around St. George, N.B., pg. 41: also see the
Charlotte County census returns.
DICKENS: William Dickens b. 1806 in England: to NB: m. 1826 Margary Loban

b. 1806 in Scotland: settled at St. Margarets, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) William Dickens b. 1829, m. Flora Dickens b. 1839:
2) Gophio Dickens born 1831:
3) Thomas Dickens born 1836:
4) Jane Dickens b. 1838, d. 1920, m. 1860 Colin C. Fraser b. 23 May 1829, died 27
Apr 1897, s/o Donald Fraser and Christina Anabella MacDonald:
5) Peter Dickens b. 1840:
6) Robert Dickens b. 1841:
7) Catharine Dickens born 1844:
8) Lydia Dickens b. 1848, m. Alex Loban:
9) Joseph Dickens b. 1849.
Source: MC1/Fraser #4, 3 pages.
DICKEY: William Dickey b. 1786 in Scotland, m. Alice - born 1787 in

Scotland: they came to NB in 1816: settled in Sackville Parish, Westmorland County:

1) John Dickey b. 1827 in NB, m. Jane - :
2) Rebecca Dickey b. 1828 in NB.

F20980; see sheet for William Dickey.
DICKIE: Hector Dickie born 1737, d. 5 May 1837, m. Sarah - b. - , died 1839 in
Ontario: they came from South Carolina to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at
Dickie Mountain, Norton Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) Jane Dickie b. 17 Dec 1776:
2) Martha Dickie b. 23 Oct 1777:
3) Robert Dickie b. 23 Jan 1780:
4) Margaret Dickie b. 13 Nov 1782:
5) Elizabeth Dickie born 10 Apr 1784:
6) William Dickie b. 11 Feb 1786: went to Ontario in 1830:
7) Hector Dickie b. 4 Sep 1787 at Jamaica, Long Island, NY, died 8 May 1875 in
Brantford, ON, m. in 1816 at Norton, NB, Ann Walker b. 1789 at Norton, died 18
May 1871 at Bishopsgate, Ontario, d/o Thomas and Mary Walker of Springfield
Parish, Kings County: they had three sons born in NB before going to Brantford, ON:
8) Sarah Dickie born 4 Feb 1789:
9) Andrew Dickie born 17 Jun 1793/1794:
10) John Dickie born 22 Oct 1795:
11) Alexander Dickie born 1797: went to Ontario in 1830:
12) James Dickie b. 16 Oct 1799:
13) Susannah Dickie b. 1801 or 31 Mar 1809: went to Ontario in 1830.
Source: MC80/1285 Loyalist lineages of Canada 1783-1983, pages 195-196: see also
MC80/2809 David G. Keirstead’s The Bloomfield area remembered, Section 7,
pages 9-10.
DICKIE: John Dickie born 1775 in Dalry, Ayr, Scotland, died 16 Aug 1850, s/o
James Dickie: m. (1st) on 5 Aug 1800 in Riccarton, Ayr, Scotland, Helena Hay b.
1780, d. 1813 in Scotland: m. (2nd) 1815 in Dalry, Ellinor - b. 1792, d. 26 Aug
1870: came to NB in 1815 and settled at Sea Side, Durham Parish, Restigouche
County:

1) John Dickie born 1802 in Dalry, d. 1851:
2) James Dickie b. 1804 in Dalry, d. 1851, m. 1837 Miss Hamilton: had at least one
son:
3) Robert Dickie born 6 Mar 1808 in Dalry, d. 22 Apr 1870 at Sea Side, NB: 4) Mary
Helen Dickie b. 1810, m. William Flemming:
5) David Dickie b. 12 Aug 1812 in Dalry, d. 14 Jul 1903 at Black Point, Restigouche
County, m. 21 Dec 1841 Ann Fauld born 1823 in Scotland, died 1909: had ten
children:

6) William Dickie born 1815 at Sea Side, NB, d. Jul 1893 at Black Point, m. 5 Nov
1857 Jane Kelso b. 1835 at Black Point d/o Archibald Kelso and Mary McMillan:
had eight children:
7) Margaret Dickie b. 1817 Beresford, Gloucester County, m. Alphus Ward: had
seven children:
8) Allen Dickie born 1822 at Beresford, d. 6 Jul 1898 at Sea Side, m. (1st) - and had
nine children, m. (2nd) Margaret Ann McCurdie born 1845, died 13 Jul 1927 at Sea
Side: had one daughter:
9) Alexander Dickie born 1824 at Beresford, d. 24 Feb 1902 Sea Side, m. (1st) 1853
Margaret Harvey b. 1828 in River Louison, Restigouche County, d. 30 Nov 1862 at
Sea Side: had four children: married (2nd) 24 Oct 1863, Margaret Chambers b. 1836,
died 1 Oct 1911 Sea Side: they had seven children.
Sources: MC80/2541 Florence Gray-Godin et. al. Gravestone inscriptions Zion

United Cemetery of New Mills, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, page 15: see
also MC1/Dryden, 11 pages.
DICKINSON: Amos Dickinson b. in NY, possible s/o James Dickinson and Sarah
Underhill of Oyster Bay, Dutchess County, NY: came from New York State to NB
1783 as a Loyalist: first settled at Maugerville in Sunbury County, then on the
Washademoak Lake in Queens County, then in Carleton County: the name of his wife
is not provided:
Children:
1) Peter Dickinson born c1770, died c1839, married Hannah Shea:
2) possibly, Darius Dickinson b. c1764, d. c1808, m. Mary Larlee:
3) possibly, Arden Dickinson born Apr 1767, m. Sarah Campbell:
4) possibly, Tertullus Dickinson b. - , d. 1824, m. Thankful Chase:
5) possibly, John Dickinson.
Source: MC1396 George Hayward genealogical fonds, MS1E, The Hayward
collection, B903, 1 page.
DICKINSON: Arden Dickinson born in Apr 1767 in NY, probably s/o Amos
Dickinson, married on 13 Sep 1792 Sally/Sarah Campbell born c1774 in NS, d. 3
Feb 1867 at Lower Brighton, NB, d/o Tamberlane Campbell and Hester Cunnabell:
family settled in Northampton Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) Rebecca Polly Dickinson b. 29 Nov 1793:
2) Maria Dickinson born 1 Aug 1796:
3) Mary Hester Dickinson born 15 Sep 1798:
4) Rosanna W. Dickinson born 30 Apr 1801:
5) James Dickinson b. c1803:
6) Arden Dickinson:
7) Huldah Dickinson.
Sources: MC1/Dickinson, 80 pages: file contains a copy of a report titled The

Loyalist Dickinsons of New York by Norris Margeson Whiston and additional
material by Robert A. Holman: Loyalists Amos Dickinson, Arden Dickinson, Darius
Dickinson, Peter Dickinson and Tertullus Dickinson all settled in Carleton County:
Daniel Dickinson settled in Westmorland County: Gilbert Dickinson and Samuel
Dickinson went to Queens County: Henry Dickinson, Isaac Dickinson and
Tertullus Dickinson settled in Saint John County: see also MC80/977 Robert A.
Holman’s Some early Carleton County Dickinson/ Dickenson settlers: see also
MC80/1123 Ernest A. Clarke’s Tamberlane, S.C. pages 1-2: see MC80/1188 Robert
A. Holman’s One man’s family history, vol 5, pages 835-838.
DICKINSON: Darius Dickinson b. May 1764 in NY, d. 1808, possibly s/o Amos
Dickinson: came from Long Island, NY to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in
Woodstock, Carleton County: married Mary Larlee:
Children:
1) Peter Dickinson b. 2 May 1788, possibly married 3 Mar 1813 in Carleton County,
Lydia Phillips b. 19 Dec 1786 in NB, died 23 Sep 1854, d/o Matthew Phillips and
perhaps Mary Ackerman: they settled in Carleton County:
2) John Duncan Dickinson born 3 Dec 1789 in Fredericton: m. 24 Jan 1824 in
Carleton County, Mrs. Sarah (Thomas) Robinson b. c1795, d/o Richard Thomas, a
Loyalist from Pennsylvania: she had four children by first husband and three by her
second:
3) Elizabeth Dickinson born 27 Nov 1791:
4) Tertullus? Dickinson b. Feb 1793:
5) Amos? Dickinson born c1794:
6) Darius? Dickinson born c1796, d. 30 Sep 1868 in NB, married 6 Sep 1820 in
Carleton County, Elizabeth Thomas b. c1805 in NB: settled in Wakefield Parish,
Carleton County and had ten children:
7) Hetty Ann Dickinson born 2 May 1798:
8) Sarah Ann Dickinson b. 16 Feb 1800:
9) Samuel Dickinson born 24 Nov 1802.
Sources: MC1/Dickinson, 80 pages: file contains a report titled The Loyalist
Dickinsons of New York by Norris M. Whiston and additional notes by Robert A.
Holman: there is data on Loyalists with Dickinson surname: Amos, Arden, Darius,
Peter and Tertullus settled in Carleton County: Daniel in Westmorland County:
Gilbert and Samuel in Queens County: Henry, Isaac and Tertullus in Saint John: see
also MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 67-71 which states that
Sarah Robinson had the following four children by her first mariage: 1) Asa
Robinson: 2) George Robinson: 3) Reuben Robinson: lived in Brighton, NB: 4)
Sarah Robinson m. William Richardson and also settled in Brighton: see
MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Volume II,
page 82 which notes that the youngest child was Duncan Dickinson and that the
widow Mary Dickinson married (2nd) Robert McLaughlan: see also MC80/977
Robert A. Holman’s Some early Carleton County Dickinson/ Dickenson settlers: see
MC80/1188 Robert A. Holman’s One man’s family history, vol. 5, pages 827-834:
see also MC1396 George Hayward genealogical fonds, MS1E, The Hayward
collection, B900- B904, 6 pages.
DICKINSON, John see under DICKISON, John
DICKINSON: Peter Dickinson born about 1776 in NY, died 1839, s/o Amos
Dickinson: came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: m. 11 Nov 1802 at Woodstock,
Carleton County, Hannah Spera Shea b. c1787: family settled in Wakefield Parish,
Carleton County: the widow Hannah married (2nd) Elisha Hatfield:
Children:
1) Peter Dickinson:
2) Samuel Dickinson:
3) William Dickinson:
4) Sarah Dickinson b. c1808:
5) Amelia Dickinson:
6) Eliza Dickinson b. c1814:
7) Ruth Ann Dickinson born 25 Dec 1816, died 1 Aug 1893:
8) Mary Ann Dickinson b. c1825:
9) Harriet Dickinson b. c1826:
10) Hannah Dickinson born c1828.
Sources: MC1/Dickinson, 80 pages: file contains a report titled The Loyalist

Dickinsons of New York by Norris Margeson Whiston and additional notes by Robert
A. Holman: there is considerable data on various individuals with the surname
Dickinson who settled in New Brunswick in 1783 as Loyalists: Amos, Arden, Darius,
Peter and Tertullus settled in Carleton County: Daniel settled in Westmorland County:
Gilbert and Samuel to Queens County: Henry, Isaac and Tertullus to Saint John
County: see also MC80/977 Robert A. Holman’s Some early Carleton County
Dickinson/Dickenson settlers: see MC80/1188 Robert A. Holman’s One man’s
family history, vol. 5, pgs 770-819: see also MC1396 George Hayward genealogical
fonds, MS1E, The Hayward collection, B908, 1 page.
DICKINSON: Samuel Dickinson born in Duchess County, NY s/o James

Dickinson: came from Fredericksburg, NY to NB in 1783 with his brother Tertullus
Dickinson and many other Loyalists: m. Polly - and settled in Waterborough,
Queens County: no children are listed.
Source: MC1156 Graves Papers: Samuel Dickinson, 1 page.
DICKINSON: Tertullus Dickinson born in NY, d. 1801 in NY: left Dutchess

County, NY and came to NB 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in Saint John County: married
Jane Huggerford born 1750, died May 1814, d/o Peter Huggerford:
Children:
1) Sarah Dickinson:
2) Charlotte Dickinson:
3) Elizabeth Dickinson:
4) Jane Dickinson: Tertullus, Jane and some of their children returned to NY about
1796 with his father-in-law Peter Huggerford.
Sources: MC1/Dickinson, 80 pages: file contains a copy of a report titled The

Loyalist Dickinsons of New York by Norris Margeson Whiston and additional notes
by Robert A. Holman: see MC80/977 Robert A. Holman’s Some early Carleton
County Dickinson/Dickenson settlers.
DICKINSON: Tertullus Dickinson of Dutchess County, NY, b. in NY, died 1824:

he came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: m. 13 Jul 1788 Gagetown, Queens County,
Rebecca or Thankful Chase: settled in Woodstock, Carleton County:
Children:
1) Henry Dickinson b. 31 Dec 1789:
2) Reuben Chase Dickinson born 10 Nov 1791, m. 1 Aug 1811 Phebe Teed:
3) Isaac Dickinson b. 30 Dec 1792, d. 14 Feb 1747 at Eel River, NB, m. Polly
Lowry: possibly married 6 Jan 1820 Mary Teed:
4) Rebecca Dickinson born 31 Jan 1794, m. 11 Apr 1825 William Johnson:
5) Son Dickinson bp. 24 Sep 1796 at Woodstock:
6) Amos Dickinson born 10 Mar 1800, married 4 Nov 1822 Hannah Teed:
7) John Dickinson (twin) born 4 Apr 1803, m. 4 Dec 1826 Hannah Dow:
8) James Dickinson (twin) b. 4 Apr 1803, married Rebecca E. - b. c1807: 9)
William Dickinson born 27 Mar 1805, married Rosannah Dow b. c1807:
10) Mary or Martha Dickinson born 20 Jun 1807, m. 15 Mar 1824 Joseph Henry
Wright:
10) Harriet Dickinson b. c1807, m. 31 Jan 1820 Jesse Teed.
Sources: MC1/Dickinson, 80 pages: file contains copy of report The Loyalist

Dickinsons of New York by Norris Margeson Whiston: see also MC80/1188 Robert
A. Holman’s One man’s family history, vol 5, pages 820-826: see also MC80/2348
Cleadie B. Barnett et. al. Loyalist families, pages 10-11.
DICKISON: John Dickison b. c1798 in Scotland, m. Agnes - b. 1798 in Scotland:

he came to NB in 1843 and settled at Kirkland, Richmond Parish, Carleton County:
Children:
1) John Dickison b. 1828 in Scotland, d. 1883, m. Matilda Laverty b. c1836 in NB,
d. 1899, d/o George Laverty and Elizabeth Brown: family settled in Kirkland: had
six children:
2) Mungal/Mungo Dickison b. c1830 in Scotland, married Helen Jane/Irene - :
settled in Kirkland and had five children:
3) Adam Dickison born c1832 in Scotland, died 30 Jan 1914, m. 27 Aug 1857
Jane/Janet Gibson born 20 Jul 1836 in Scotland, d. 7 Nov 1899, d/o Thomas and
Agnes Gibson: they settled at Kirkland, NB and had eleven children:
4) Margaret Dickison born 1834 in Scotland.

see also MC80/2655 Janet C. Rourke’s The descendants of Alexander MacDougall
and John and Adam Dickison of Carleton County, New Brunswick, pages 151-182:
also see the Carleton County census which spells the surname Dickinson.
DICKSON: David Dickson b. 1827 in Ireland, d. 29 Mar 1906: came to NB in 1848:

settled in Saint John: m. (1st) 14 Sep 1854 in Saint John, Margaret Kearns b. 1829 in
Kings County, NB, d. 9 Nov 1893, d/o Patrick Kearns: m. (2nd) Elizabeth (Milligan)
Livingstone, widow of Dr. William Livingstone:
Children of the first wife listed in a random order:

1) George Thomas Dickson born 24 Dec 1864, died Apr 1869:
2) John Dickson:
3) David Dickson:
4) Joseph Dickson:
5) Robert Dickson:
6) Annie Geneva Dickson born 5 Mar 1874, d. Dec 1875:
7) Catherine Dickson m. Francis or Frank McHale:
8) Florence Dickson born c1891, died 15 Apr 1893.

DICKSON: James Dickson or Dixon born 1770 in Scotland, d. 23 Oct 1858, m.

Jean Ross b. in Maryport, England: came from Annon near Dumfriesshire, Scotland
to NB in 1823: settled at Napan in Glenelg Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) James Dickson b. 1803, d. 1899, m. 1835 Janet Orr b. 1815, died 14 Jul 1857:
they had eleven children:
2) David Dickson: went to Ontario:
3) Elizabeth Dickson born 1809, died 1874, m. 10 Jun 1825 John J. Jardine b. 15
May 1803, d. 30 Apr 1878: settled in Upper Napan: had seven children:
4) John Dickson b. 22 Oct 1810, d. 21 Nov 1888, married 15 Dec 1837 Mary Woods
born 10 May 1817, d. 25 Dec 1900: they had ten children:
5) Robert Dickson born 1814, d. 28 May 1890, m. Mary Mitchell: had eight
children:
6) Joseph Dickson b. 1815, d. 13 Nov 1878, m. Mary Ann Brown born 1829, died
1905: had four children:
7) William Dickson b. 1819, d. 1891, m. Elizabeth Gillis b. 29 Jan 1825: had seven
children:
8) Jonathan Dickson born 1822, died 6 May 1897, m. 1849 Mary Johnston born 23
Dec 1829: they had ten children.
Miramichi, 1 page.
DICKSON: John Richard Dickson born c1804 in England, died 8 Aug 1870, came
to NB in 1826: settled in Saint John: married 4 Aug 1833 at Saint John, Mary
Clayborne born c1812 in England, d. 5 Feb 1857, d/o John Clayborne:
Children:
1) Frances Dickson born in NB:
2) John Dickson born 3 Mar 1837 in Saint John, d. 30 Jan 1918, married (1st) Phoebe
C. - b. c1836, d. 8 Nov 1876, m. (2nd) Margaret Hudson b. 1848 in Moncton,
Westmorland County, died 28 Jan 1890: family settled in Saint John:
3) Susan Dickson:
4) George Henry Dickson:
5) Marie Ann Dickson:
6) Charles Dickson born 21 Apr 1841:
7) William Dickson born 30 May 1847 in Saint John, died 5 Feb 1848.
Brunswick, page 75.
DICKSON: Joseph Dickson born 11 Apr 1750 in NY, died 30 Jan 1842, m.
Susannah Lockwood born 13 Jan 1752, d. 6 Oct 1806: came to NB in 1783 as
Loyalists and settled at Hampton, Kings County:
Children:
1) Esther Dickson m. John Oldham, a captain in Royal Navy:
2) Joseph Dickson Jr. b. 24 Jun 1777 possibly Fairfield, CT, d. 13 Apr 1849, married
Sarah M. Fairweather born 8 Jul 1784, d. 6 Mar 1868, d/o Thomas Fairweather
and Deborah Ketchum: settled at Hampton: thirteen children:
3) Samuel Lockwood Dickson married Deborah Smith:
4) William Augustus Dickson born 2 Dec 1789, died 3 Sep 1862, married 24 Jan
1815 Margaret Davis Fowler d/o Capt. D. Fowler and Johanna Wolsey: had
children:
5) Richard S. Dickson married Elizabeth Darling:
6) Maria S. Dickson married Thomas Trenholm.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: Dickson family notes, 1 page: see also MC80/338
I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 200-201 and 400-402: see MC80/2895
Donald Williams’ Fayer Weather friends: the Fairweather genealogy, page 26.
DICKSON: Thomas Dickson or Dixon born 3 May 1733 in Colchester, CT, died 8
Nov 1809, s/o William and Rebecca Dixon: he came from CT to NB in 1761 and
received land at Shepody, Hopewell Parish, Albert County: m. 9 Apr 1761 at Boston,
MA, Catherine Wethered born 1741, died 12 May 1826, d/o Samuel Wethered and
Sarah Thornton:
Children:
1) Dalton Dickson m. Miss Etter of Westmorland Point, NB: settled at River Philip,
NS:
2) Catherine Dickson born c1767, d. 10 Mar 1841, m. Titus Knapp b. 1757, died 18
Jun 1828:
3) Sarah Dickson born c1768, died c1831, m. (1st) William Allan of Halifax, NS, b. -
, died 4 Oct 1806, s/o William Allan and Isabell Maxwell: m. (2nd) 9 Jun 1811
Thomas Roach born c1768 in Cork, Ireland, d. 7 Jul 1833, s/o John Roach:
4) Thomas Law Dickson b. c1769: settled in Amherst, NS in 1809: m. Sarah Pipes
d/o Jonathan and Mary Pipes:
5) James Dickson born c1773, d. 27 Oct 1855, m. Susanna Dickson b. c1778, died
18 Jan 1850:
6) Mary Dickson born c1778 in Westmorland County, m. 27 Apr 1798 John Glenie
of Barronsfield, NS:
7) Ann/Nancy Dickson born c1785, m. 14 Sep 1809 in Westmorland County,
William Harper of Saint John:
8) Charles Dickson b. - , d. c1816: settled near Cherryfield, ME:
9) John Dickson probably married Lydia Hamilton:
10) Robert Dickson m. Rachel Peck d/o Abiel Peck and Ruth Skinner and widow
of Thomas Calhoun: settled in Albert County
Sources: MC1/Dickson #1, 10 pages: Catherine's siblings, Samuel Wethered and

Sarah (Wethered) Law and their families also came to NB and settled in
Westmorland and Albert counties: see MC3/109 Louise Walsh Throop’s Early
Settlers of Cumberland Township, Nova Scotia in National Genealogical Society
Quarterly, page 189: see also MC2673 Thomas Dickson genealogical fonds, MS1A2,
7 pages.
DICKSON: see also DIXON
DIFFIN: John M. Diffin b. 1796 in Armagh, Ireland, d. 1883 in Robbinston, ME, m.

Mary Alexander b. 1798 in Ireland, d. 1884: they settled in St. David, Charlotte
County:
Children:
1) James Diffin b. 14 Jul 1820, d. 1896 in Maine:
2) Davis C. Diffin b. 21 Aug 1822, m. 27 Sep 1847 at St. Andrews, NB, Mary Jane
McDowell b. 2 Feb 1832 in Ireland d/o Robert McDowell and Elizabeth McElrath:
3) John Diffin b. 1827:
4) Robert Diffin born 25 Mar 1829, died 6 Mar 1857:
5) Joseph Diffin born 1832:
6) Ephraim Diffin born 1834:
7) Mary Ann Diffin born c1836:
8) Rosanna Diffin b. 1838 in Maine:
9) Marie Diffin b. 2 Feb 1842, d. 21 Dec 1914, married 29 Aug 1862 Thomas
MacDonald b. 15 Feb 1836 in NB, d. 12 Feb 1925: moved to Maine in 1836.
Source: MC1/Diffin, 40 pages.
DIFFIN: Robert Diffin b. 17 Nov 1800 at Agleesh, County Armagh, Ireland, d. 17

Apr 1882 in Robbinston, ME, m. Alicia Pine b. 27 Mar 1800 in Ireland, d. 9 Dec
1863: they came to NB in 1818 and probably settled in Dumbarton, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) George Diffin b. 6 Jul 1821, d. 24 Sep 1885:
2) Thomas Diffin born 14 Feb 1827:
3) Arsdell Diffin b. 1829:
4) Alicia Diffin b. 24 Feb 1831:
5) Margaret Anne Diffin born 1832, d. 26 Apr 1907, married (2nd) 9 Jul 1859 at St
Andrews, NB, George G. Gray s/o William Gray and Ellen Ross:
6) Mathew Diffin born 1835, died 18 Aug 1883:
7) Martha M. Diffin born 1839:
8) Sarah Jennie Diffin b. 1842:
9) Esther Diffin b. 10 May 1843, d. 17 Aug 1878:
10) Mary Elizabeth Diffin b. 1845, d. 31 Jul 1886:
11) Margaret Diffin born 1853: family moved to Maine in 1839.
Source: MC1/Diffin, 40 pages: contains a copy of a report titled Descendants of John

and Robert Diffin -- Robbiston, Maine by Robert R. White.
DIGGS: Samuel Diggs born in Carolina, USA: came to NB: settled at Loch Lomond,
Simonds Parish, Saint John County: m. Mary Thompson born at Loch Lomond:
Only child mentioned was, George Diggs born 14 Aug 1842 at Loch Lomond, d. 16
Jul 1923, married 22 Oct 1872 at Saint John, Phoebe Louise Hall born 1854, d. 2 Mar
1919, d/o Stephen Hall of Saint John: had children.

DILLIHUNT: Nicholas Dillihunt b. 1796 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1816: settled

in Moncton Parish, Westmorland County: m. Catherine - b. 1805 in Ireland and
came to NB in 1812:

1) Mary Dillihunt b. 1833 in NB:
2) Bridget Dillihunt b. 1836 in NB:
3) Johanna Dillihunt b. 1837 in NB:
4) Thomas Dillihunt b. 1838 in NB:
5) Catherine Dillihunt b. 1843 in NB:

F20980; see sheet for Nicholas Dillihunt.
DILLMAN: Lewis Dillman born 1841 in Halifax County, NS, died 1906, s/o Louis
Dillman and Jane McKenzie: he came to NB and settled at Canal, Saint George
Parish, Charlotte County: married on 24 Apr 1879 at St. George, Lucy Ann/Annie
McFeters born 28 Dec 1855, d. 9 Sep 1949, d/o Elisha McFeters and Sarah Ash: the
only child mentioned was, John Elisha Dillman b. 9 Jun 1885 at St. George, NB, died
15 Mar 1949, married 7 Jul 1919 at Canal, NB, Josephine Nodding b. 15 Feb 1901 at
Beaver Harbour, NB, d. 9 Apr 1978 at Pennfield, NB, d/o Henry Nodding and
Margaret Kernighan: three children.
Source: MC80/2811 Calvin Lee Craig’s Early families of “The Mackadavy”, pages
286-292.
DILLON: Edward Dillon born 1788 at Ballymoney, Ireland, d. 14 Jan 1840 in

Calais, ME, m. Margaret - b. c1781 County Antrim, Ireland, d. 17 Jun 1862: came
to NB in Jun 1819 and settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County: moved to Calais, ME
on 5 May 1821:
Only child mentioned was, Sarah Ann Dillon b. 12 May 1825 in Calais, died after
1891, m. (1st) 4 Oct 1846 in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, James Boyd b. c1822 St.
Andrews, NB: m. (2nd) 21 Jun 1864 in Calais, James Robertson: settled in Calais,
ME.
DINGEE: Elijah Dingee born c1745 possibly s/o Robert Dingee of Cortlandt
Manor, Westchester County, NY, d. c1823: married (1st) Martha Ferris who
remained in NY with her two sons: Elijah came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in
Burton Parish, Sunbury County: Elijah m. (2nd) in NB, Lydia - :

1) Lawrence Dingee born c1765: remained in the USA:
2) David Dingee born 6 Oct 1771 remained in the USA:
3) Mary Dingee b. c1775, m. Mr. Johnston: settled in Simonds Parish, Carleton
County: had issue:

4) James Dingee b. c1790, d. 26 May 1833, m. before 1811 Mary E. - born c1784,
d. 25 Dec 1849: first settled in Burton Parish, then by 1825 they moved to Middle
Simonds, Carleton County: had children:
5) Charles Dingee born c1796, d. Apr 1860: first settled in Burton Parish, then settled
in Simonds Parish, Carleton County: may not have married.
Sources: MC80/985 Stanley Corey’s Notes on the Dingee families of New

Brunswick: Elijah may have been the brother or the uncle of Solomon Dingee: see
also MC80/1997 Harold E. Jandebeur et. al. Dingee family genealogy, pages 16-17,
27-28.
DINGEE: Solomon Dingee b. c1755 in Stephenstown, Westchester County, NY, died
18 Sep 1836, married Hannah Corey born 1758 in NY, d. 25 Dec 1828, d/o Griffin
and Sarah Corey of Cortlandt Manor, NY: came to NB and settled at Gagetown,
Queens County:
Children born in Gagetown:

1) Robert Corey Dingee born 22 Dec 1784, died 20 Oct 1862, m. (1st) 8 Mar 1812
Margaret Blizzard b. at Gagetown, buried 6 Dec 1815: married (2nd) 10 or 16 Aug
1816 Mary Black b. 31 Jul 1788 at Gagetown, died 1 Nov 1860 in Gagetown: they
had ten children:
2) Sarah Corey Dingee b. 1786, d. 1864, m. 26 Sep 1811 Ebenezer Scribner b. in
Gagetown, d. in Gagetown c1832, s/o Elias Scribner and Miss Bennett: had four
children:
3) Lewis Corey Dingee born 1788, died 4 Dec 1861, married 17 Mar 1814 at
Waterborough, NB, Amy Creighton b. 1784, d. 5 Nov 1878: had ten children: 4)
Elizabeth Corey Dingee born c1791, m. 28 Mar 1818 James Akerley born 16 May
1794 Wickham Parish, s/o James Ackerley: had at least four children:
5) Mary Hannah Dingee b. 1793, d. 14 Oct 1866, married 9 Jan 1814 George Knox
born in 1784 at Gagetown, died 21 Apr 1850, s/o John Knox: settled at Gagetown and
had six children.
Sources: MC1/Dingee, 50 pages: see also MC80/717 Stanley Corey’s The

Corey/Cory families of New Brunswick, Canada, pages 3-4 which says that Solomon
may have been born in Perth Amboy, NJ; also, there may have been two children born
before 1783 who died shortly after family arrived in NB: see MC80/985 Stanley
Corey’s Notes on the Dingee families of New Brunswick which reports that
Solomon’s sister, Sarah Dingee married John Lounsbury: Solomon may have had a
brother or uncle, Elijah Dingee who also settled in NB: Hannah Corey’s mother, her
brother, Thomas Corey, and several other brothers, and a sister came to NB in 1783
as Loyalists: see also MC80/1997 Harold E. Jandebeur et. al. Dingee family
genealogy, pages 31, 50-52.
DINGWALL: Arthur Dingwall born in Scotland, drowned 21 Dec 1814 on a voyage

to England: came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Saint John: may have m.
Elizabeth - b. c1742, died 25 Mar 1820: only child mentioned was, Elizabeth
Dingwall married 1800 in Saint John, Capt. Neal Kennedy.
Source: D.R. Jack’s Loyalist families of New Brunswick on microfilm F355, Vol II,
pages 15-16: see also MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a
bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.
DINSMORE: James Dinsmore Sr. born 1823 in Ireland, m. Ann or Agnes Devlin
born c1829 in Ireland: came to NB in 1835 and first settled in Saint David Parish,
Charlotte County, then moved to Zionville, Saint Marys Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Mary Dinsmore b. 1846:
2) Anna Dinsmore b. 1847:
3) Elizabeth Dinsmore born c1850, d. 1922, married John Barry Sr. b. 1852 at
Maugerville, NB, died 1922, s/o Patrick Barry and Julia Hayes: settled at Durham
NB and had children:
4) James Dinsmore Jr. b. c1851, d. 1941, married Bridget Sweeney b. 1857, died
1941:
5) John Dinsmore born 1860, m. Bridget McKenna b. 1867:
6) William Dinsmore born 1864:
7) Francis Dinsmore born 1866:
8) Thomas Dinsmore b. 1868, married Mary Madalena Hughes:
9) Julia Dinsmore b. 1869, married Charles McGivney born 1869.
Sources: MC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-1885, page 36:
see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 194-195: see
also the Charlotte County census.
DISBROW: Noah Disbrow b. 10 Jul 1772 probably at Norwalk, CT, died 19 Apr
1853 at Saint John: he came to NB in 1783 with his widowed mother and her Loyalist
family whose name was Stanton: he m. (1st) 2 May 1793 Isabella Chillas born 20 Jan
1779 in NY, d. 16 Feb 1825, d/o Robert and Christianna Chillas of England and
New York: married (2nd) 15 Feb 1827 Amelia Canby of Saint John born 28 Feb 1790,
died 5 Feb 1881 at Fredericton, York County, d/o Joseph and Rebecca Ruth Canby:

1) Robert Disbrow was born 18 Jan 1794, died unmarried 18 Jan 1815 at sea:
2) Mary Disbrow b. c1796, m. 1 Jul 1819 Capt. Samuel Garrison b. - , d. 6 Feb 1837
at sea: had issue:
3) Phoebe Ann Disbrow was born 28 May 1798, died unmarried 27 Jul 1833:
4) William Disbrow b. c1799, d. 27 Jun 1833:
5) Isabella Disbrow born 20 Mar 1800, d. Jun 1852, married 20 Jan 1827 as second
wife, Solomon Nicholas b. 1790, d. 20 Jun 1836:
6) Jane Disbrow born on 1 Apr 1802, m. (1st) 23 Apr 1823 William Venner Fowler
bp. 29 Dec 1801, died in Jul 1827: m. (2nd) 26 Nov 1832 Robert Ray:
7) Hannah Disbrow born 10 Mar 1804 at Saint John, d. 8 Aug 1885, m. (1st) 23 Apr
1823 Thomas Pearson Brown born 1802 at Truro, NS, died 1834, s/o Thomas
Ingersoll Brown and Rachel Pearson: had issue: married (2nd) Mr. Perkins: had
issue: settled in Saint John:
8) Noah Disbrow (Rev.) b. 20 Jan 1808, died Jun 1886, married 7 Oct 1829 Isabella
Stanton: had issue:
9) Charles Thomas Disbrow born 11 Mar 1810, d. unmarried 2 Aug 1827 at
Kingston, Jamaica:
10) James W. Disbrow (Rev.) b. c1816, d. 5 Feb 1868, m. 3 Feb 1847 Sophia Eliza
Nichols: had issue:
11) Robert Disbrow b. 9 May 1817, died Sep 1847 at sea, married 4 Jun 1846
Rebecca Reid eldest d/o Capt. Peter Reid: had one son:
Child of second wife:

12) Benjamin Disbrow b. 5 Nov 1827, d. 10 Nov 1827:
13) Caroline Amelia Disbrow born 1 Dec 1829, died 12 Oct 1910, m. 21 Jul 1859
William Brydone Jack b. 23 Nov 1819 Tinwald Parish, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, d.
23 Nov 1886 at Fredericton, York County, NB: had six children.
Sources: MC1286 Volume VIII Dictionary of Canadian Biography, pg. 224: see also
MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, page 37: also see the Saint
John County census: see MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our
first families in New Brunswick, page 76: see RS184 New Brunswick Museum
Vertical files, Deblois family: Disbrow family Bible: microfilm F11081, 1 pg: see
Jack family: Noah Disbrow, microfilm F11085, 2 pages: see also Saint John
Regional Library: David Russell Jack Bequest: Genealogy, microfilm reel F109,
page 112: Solomon Nicholas had m. (1st) 4 Feb 1824 Sophia VanDyck Barter b.
1802, d. 14 Jun 1825.
DIVES: John Dives or Deeves born c1813 in Wales, died 1875 at St. George,
Charlotte County: came to NB in Jul 1835 and settled in Elgin Parish, Albert County:
m. c1839 in Elgin Parish, Jane Gowland bp. 13 Oct 1811 Kingston-upon-Hull,
Yorkshire, England, d. 2 Oct 1878 in Elgin Parish, d/o George and Ann Gowland:
Children:
1) Margaret Dives born 1840, m. 2 Jul 1865 Charles Keillor? of Salisbury,
Westmorland County:
2) Anne Dives born 1842, married William Campbell: settled at St. George,
Charlotte County:
3) Thurwell or Thorwell Dives born 1846, m. 5 Aug 1870 Jessie E. Steeves of Elgin
Parish, b. 1851:
4) Roland Dives born in 1848, married 10 Mar 1877 Bounzilla A. Steeves of Elgin
Parish:
5) Eliza Dives b. 1852, married 19 Jun 1878 Millidge Kay of Salisbury, NB:
6) Jane Dives born 1855, m. 5 Sep 1875 Jordon J. Carey of Elgin:
7) Alice Dives b. 1856, m. Stuart Murdock of Piskahegan, ME: settled in St. George,
Charlotte County.
Source: MC80/2488 Mary D. Adams et. al. The Davidsons and related families of
Charlotte County, New Brunswick, page 176.
DIXON: Charles Dixon Sr. b. 8 Mar 1730/31 at Kirklevington, East Riding,

Yorkshire, England, died 21 Aug 1817, s/o Charles Dixon and Mary Corps: married
24 Jun 1763 Susannah Coates born 27 Mar 1737, died 13 Jun 1826: came to NB in
1772 and settled at Sackville, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Mary Dixon born 5 Jul 1764 in England, d. 22 Dec 1837, married 15 Mar 1780
William Chapman born 1757, died Mar 1844, s/o William Chapman: settled at Fort
Lawrence:
2) Charles Dixon born 10 Jan 1766 in England, d. 22 May 1854 at Davenport, Iowa,
m. (1st) 1788 Rhoda Emerson born 1 Aug 1769, died 27 Jul 1799, d/o Benjamin
Emerson: m. (2nd) 13 Oct 1799 Elizabeth Humphrey born 29 Mar 1777, died c1865:
family moved to Utah:
3) Susanna Dixon b. 24 Jul 1767 in England, died 1835, married 1784 George
Bulmer born 1759, d. 1841, s/o John Bulmer:
4) Elizabeth Dixon b. 26 Aug 1770 in England, d. 26 Jun 1859 at Richibucto, NB, m.
13 Oct 1789 Dr. Rufus Smith of Fort Cumberland b. 19 Nov 1766, d. 15 Nov 1844,
s/o Nathan and Elizabeth Smith,:
5) Ruth Dixon b. 16 Sep 1772 in NB, d. 29 Mar 1810, married 1793 Thomas Roach
born 1768 at County Cork, Ireland, died on 17 Jul 1833: they settled at Fort Lawrence,
NS:
6) Martha Dixon b. 3 Jun 1774, d. 7 Mar 1849, married 1793 Rev. Benjamin Wilson
b. 1768 in Virginia, d. 20 Sep 1824:
7) Edward Dixon born 20 Sep 1776, died 30 Jun 1861, m. 1802 Mary Smith born
c1780, died 27 Jul 1854, the third d/o John Smith of Yorkshire, England:
8) William Coates Dixon born 23 Feb 1779, died 17 Oct 1865 at Buctouche, NB,
married 1820 Matilda Beckwith b. 1803, died 1865, d/o John Steadman Beckwith.
Sources: MC1/Dixon, 100 pages: contains a copy of a one page newspaper article
Pioneer Families of New Brunswick by E.C. Wright, and additional research notes:
Susannah's sister Isabella Coates m. John Trenholm: she d. 10 Mar 1817: he died 24
Oct 1817 age 79: see also MC80/21 Martha Barto’s Passamaquoddy: Genealogies of
West Isles families, pages 62-64: see also MC1286 Volume V Dictionary of
Canadian Biography, pages 257-258: see also MC80/31 W.C. Milner’s History of
Sackville, New Brunswick, pages 141-151: see also MC1156 Graves Papers: Charles
Dickson, 2 pages: see MC80/1708 James M. Dixon’s History of Charles Dixon one
of the early English settlers of Sackville, NB: see also MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s
Early families revisited, page 87 which suggests that Charles Dixon Sr. was born on
15 May 1729: see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Issue #28, June 1986: From the
Sackville (N.B.) Town Book, page 14: see also MC2919 James D. Dixon fonds, 140
page manuscript.
DIXON: Charles Dixon Jr. born 10 Jan 1766 at Kirkleavington in Yorkshire,

England, d. 22 May 1854 Davenport, Iowa, s/o Charles Dixon and Susannah Coates:
came to NB in 1772 and settled in Sackville, Westmorland County: m. (1st) 1788
Rhoda Emerson born 1 Aug 1769, died 27 Jul 1799, m. (2nd) 13 Oct 1799 Elizabeth
Humphrey b. 29 Mar 1777 Falmouth, NS, died c1865 in Salt Lake City, Utah, d/o
William and Jane Humphrey: moved to Ohio in 1837 and then to Utah:
Children by first marriage:

1) William Dixon b. 7 Aug 1789, d. 17 Jan 1830, m. Elizabeth Weldon d/o Andrew
Weldon: family moved to Memramcook:
2) Charles Dixon born 22 Mar 1791, d. as infant:
3) Charles Dixon b. 8 Jun 1793, d. 7 Feb 1868, m. Jane Elizabeth Metcalfe born
1800, d. 3 May 1875: settled at Point de Bute, Westmorland Parish, NB: had six
children:
4) Hannah Dixon born 6 Sep 1795, d. 3 Jul 1862, m. 1815 John Barnes b. 20 Mar
1781 in Sackville, NB, d. 1854: went to Wisconsin:
5) Benjamin Dixon b. 18 Dec 1797, m. (1st) 22 Jan 1818 Mary Weldon b. 17 Mar
1796 at Dorchester, NB, d. 1 Sep 1852 at Indian Island, NB, m. (2nd) Mrs Burnham
of Lubec, ME, the widow of Thomas Burnham a Dorchester, NB: family moved to
Ohio:
Children by Charles' second wife:

6) John Dixon b. 9 Aug 1800, died on Miramichi as young man:
7) Elizabeth Dixon born 1 Jan 1803, d. Nov 1890 in Arizona, m. 11 Nov 1824 John
McKinley b. 5 Jan 1795 Yarmouth, NS: moved to Iowa:
8) Sidney Dixon born 16 Sep 1805, d. unm. 1832 in New Orleans, Louisana:
9) Leonard Dixon born 12 Jul 1807, d. 11 Apr 1875, married Eliza Robson:
10) Jane Dixon b. 13 Oct 1810, m. (1st) 1840 at Quincey, IL, George Pepper: m.
(2nd) in Utah, W.H. Rust:
11) Ruth Dixon born 4 Aug 1813, died after 1891, married Edward O’Hara:
12) Christopher Flintoff Dixon born 6 May 1816, m. at Payson, UT, Jane E.
Wightman:
13) Edward Dixon born 17 Aug 1818, m. at Payson, UT, Sarah Ann Gould:
14) Alfred Dixon b. 31 Jan 1821, d. 19 Sep 1880, m. (1st) at Sacramento, CA, Mary
Biggart:
15) Mary Dixon born 13 Jul 1823, m. at Payson, UT, Charles B. Wightman:
16) Martha Dixon born 27 Jun 1825, d. after 1894, m. at Payson, UT, Orwell
Simons.
Sources: MC1/Dixon, 1 page: see also MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection,

MS2: on microfilm reel F20987: see sheets for Charles Dixon and his sons.
DIXON: Edward Dixon born 20 Sep 1776 at Sackville, NB, died in 1861, s/o
Charles Dixon and Susannah Coates: m. 1802 Mary Smith of Parrsboro, NS born
1780, d. 27 Jul 1854, d/o John Smith of Yorkshire, England and Mary Bowser:
settled in Sackville, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Charles Dixon born 1803, died 18 Mar 1864, married 13 Apr 1827 Sarah
Boultenhouse b. 1809, d. 30 Jun 1884, youngest d/o Bedford Boultenhouse: settled
in Sackville and had eleven children:
2) Edwin Dixon born 1805, died 30 Jul 1887, m. (1st) 1827 Martha Anderson b.
1807, d. 15 Dec 1855, d/o Thomas Anderson and Jerusha Stone of Coles Island,
NB: had twelve children: m. (2nd) 1856 Jerusha J. Anderson b. 1827 at Sackville, d.
22 Jul 1913, d/o John Anderson, a neice of his first wife: had four children: first
settled at Sackville, then at Midgic, NB:
3) Elizabeth Dixon born 1806, died 22 Feb 1859, married 5 Mar 1827 James
Chubbuck a native of Maine: moved to NS:
4) Jane Bamford Dixon b. 17 Oct 1808, d. 1 Jan 1881, m. 13 Jan 1830 David Lyons
b. 13 Jan 1808 Cornwallis NS, d. 22 Oct 1865 off African coast: settled at Sackville
until moving to Australia in 1873:
5) John Dixon b. Mar 1810, d. 5 Nov 1810:
6) John Edward Dixon b. 1811, d. 19 Jun 1864: he went to Ohio:
7) William Coates Dixon b. 1814 (twin), m. (1st) Mary J. Trueman, m. (2nd) Harriet
E. Arnold:
8) George Smith Dixon b. 1814 (twin):
9) Rufus Smith Dixon born 1816, d. 1887, m. (1st) 1849 Mary A. Burnham b. - , d.
1859, d/o William Burnham of Sackville, NB, m. (2nd) Emily Baker:
10) James Dunbar Dixon born 5 Oct 1819, d. 9 Jan 1900, m. 11 Jan 1844 in
Dorchester Parish, Eunice Black born c1826 in Dorchester Parish, died 24 Jan 1916
d/o George M. Black: they settled at Sackville, NB and had six children.
Sources: MC1/Dixon, 10 pages: see also MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical

collection, MS2: on microfilm reel F20987: see sheets for Edward Dixon and his
sons.
DIXON: Henry H. Dixon: settled on Sandy Point Road, Saint John County: m. Helen
M. Lynn b. 1844 in England, d. 13 Jun 1916, d/o Henry Lynn.

DIXON: James Dixon born 1773 in USA, died 27 Oct 1855: came to NB in 1785 and
settled at or near Point de Bute, Westmorland Parish, Westmorland County: m.
Susanne - b. 1778, d. 18 Jan 1850:

1) James Dixon b. 1802, d. unm. 1881:
2) Edward Dixon b. 1809, d. 14 Jan 1848:
3) Eliza Dixon b. 1812, d. unmarried:
4) Titus K. Dixon born 1820, died 1908, m. (1st) Sarah E. Parsons born 1847, died
1875, married (2nd) 9 May 1878 Alice E. Brown b. 1846, d. 1903.
Source: MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS2: on microfilm reel

F20987: see sheet for James Dixon.
DIXON: John Richard Dixon born 1804 in England, d. 1870: came to NB in 1826
and settled in Saint John: married Mary Clayburn born 1812 in England d. 1857, d/o
John Clayburn of England who came to Saint John 1817:
Children:
1) Frances Elizabeth Dixon b. 1835:
2) John Richard Dixon b. c1837, d. 1918, m. Phoebe C. - b. 1830 in Saint John,
died 1876: settled in Saint John and had issue:
3) Susan Dixon b. 1838:
4) George Henry Dixon b. 1842:
5) Maria Ann Dixon b. 1846.

see also the Saint John County census which spells the surname Dickson.
DIXON: Joseph Dixon b. - , d. 1807, m. Elizabeth Simmonds: came to NB and

settled in Kent Parish, Carleton County: only child mentioned was, Mary Ann Dixon
b. 1804 in Carleton County, d. 1885, m. George Fields Dyer born 1799 in Carleton
County, died c1882, s/o James Dyer and Margaret Fields: they settled in Kent
Parish, Carleton County and had children.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 247-248.
DIXON: William Coates Dixon b. 23 Feb 1779 Sackville, NB, died 1865, s/o
Charles Dixon and Susannah Coates: m. 1820 Matilda Beckwith b. - , died 3 Nov
1865, d/o John Steadman Beckwith of Shediac, NB: they first settled at Sackville,
Westmorland County until 1827 then at Buctouche, Kent County:
Children:
1) Horatio Edward Dixon born 26 Jul 1821, m. (1st) 1853 Charlotte Pollard of
P.E.I., d. 1853, m. (2nd) 1865 Elizabeth Grannell: lived in Buctouche, NB:
2) Mary A. Dixon b. 9 Dec 1822, d. 1872 unmarried:
3) Lavinia Caroline Dixon b. 11 Aug 1826, d. as infant:
4) Caroline Lavinia Dixon born 8 Sep 1830, married 1870 John Smith of St.
Stephen, Charlotte County, NB:
5) John Steadman Dixon 17 Oct 1833, m. Elizabeth Buckerfield: moved to P.E.I.:
6) William James Dixon b. 27 May 1836, m. Jane Craig of P.E.I.: moved to Maine.
Sources: MC1/Dixon, 10 pages: see also MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical

collection, MS2: on microfilm F20987: see sheet for William Coates Dixon.
DIXON: see also DICKSON
DOAK: James Doak b. 17 Apr 1783 in Scotland, died 19 Feb 1861, m. Mary
Symington born 3 Oct 1782 in Scotland, d. 5 Feb 1873: settled at Doaktown,
Blissfield Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Robert Doak b. 17 Aug 1810, d. 21 Jan 1887:
2) Thomas Doak b. 21 Mar 1813:
3) Marion Doak b. 22 Aug 1815, d. Aug 1820 and buried at sea:
4) James A. Doak born 17 Aug 1820 at sea on way to NB, m. Susanna Story born
1827 at Doaktown d/o Joseph Story and Christine McDonald.
Source: MC1/Ross #2, 2 pages.
DOAK: James Doak born 1809 County Donegal, Ireland, died 16 Feb 1873: he came
to NB in June 1835: married Elizabeth Bean b. c1818 in NB: settled at Tomlinson
Settlement in Andover Parish, Victoria County:
Children:
1) Ann Jane Doak b. c1835:
2) Robert Doak b. c1839:
3) Ann Doak b. c1841:
4) William Doak b. c1844:
5) David Doak b. c1847
6) John Doak b. c1848:
7) James Doak b. 1850:
8) Andrew Doak:
9) Thomas Doak:
10) Matilda Doak:
11) Harriet Doak.
Sources: MC1/Doak #2, 9 pages: also see the Victoria County census which lists a
Robert Doak, James brother, arriving in NB in June 1847, as living with the family in
1851.
DOAK: Robert Doak b. 4 Apr 1785 at Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 5 Apr 1857, s/o Robert
Doak and Agnes Duncan: m. 3 Oct 1808 in Scotland, Jean Kirkland b. 3 Oct 1808,
d. 20 Nov 1865: came to NB in 1815 and settled at Doaktown, Blissfield Parish,
Children:
1) Margaret Doak b. 1/10 May 1810, d. 10 May 1871 at Doaktown: m. (1st) 29 Oct
1829 William Robinson, (2nd) John Wesley Robertson, (3rd) Hiram Freeze:
2) Agnes Doak b. 15 Jul 1812, d. 4 Apr 1879 at Palmyra, ME, m. 29 Oct 1829
Stephen Hilton:
3) Jean/Jane Doak b. 23 Jan 1816, d. 11 Jun 1857 at Palmyra, ME: m. (1st) 10 Dec
1835 Nathaniel Hilton, m. (2nd) John Fairbanks:
4) Robert Kirkland Doak born 1 Oct 1818 at Doaktown, died 24 Feb 1899 at
Paterson, NJ, married 1 Oct 1847 Mercy Lavinia Green born 26 Mar 1826 at
Doaktown, NB, died Sep 1872 at Dover, ME, d/o Andrew Green and Sarah
Mitchell: had eight children:
5) William Doak (Rev) b. 22 Feb 1822, d. 1890 at Sarnia, ON, m. 21 Jul 1858 Rachel
Edison, cousin of Thomas Edison:
6) James Andrew Doak b. 10 Aug 1824, m. 20 Mar 1849 Ann Harvey b. 10 Jul 1826
at Ayr, Scotland: settled at Doaktown and had issue.
Source: MC1/Doak #1, 10 pgs.: see MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of

Miramichi Biography: see MC1286 Volume VIII Dictionary of Canadian
Biography, pages 224-225: see also MC1055 Doak family fonds, MS17 A-D.
DOANE: Moses Doane b. - , d. 1 Sep 1783, married Rachel Tomlinson d/o Joseph
Tomlinson and Margaret Cook: the widow Doane came from Bucks County, PA to
NB 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in Pennfield, Charlotte County: her son Moses Doane
Jr. born 22 Jan 1781 later returned to Bucks County, married and had children.
Sources: MC80/1720 Theodore C. Holmes’ Loyalists to Canada: the 1783 settlement

of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy, pages 50-51: see also MC80/360
Acadiensis Vol VII, No. 1, January, 1907, Alfred A. Doane’s Two Pennfield Loyalists
and their Antecedents pages 58-61.
DOBBELSTEYN: Matthew Dobbelsteyn born 1869 at Margraten, Limburg,

Holland, m. 7 Jul 1896 in Maastricht, Holland, Josephine Snel b. - , d. 25 Mar 1946:
they came to NB in April 1920 and settled in Fredericton, York County had thirteen
children:
Children born at Richstaat, Wryk-Maastricht, Holland:

1) Matthew or Yeukie Dobbelsteyn b. 1897, d. 25 Dec 1906:
2) Pierre Dobbelsteyn b. 8 Jul 1898: joined Redemptorist Order:
3) Marie Dobbelsteyn b. 1900:
4) Nicholas Dobbelsteyn b. 1901:
5) Henriette Dobbelsteyn b. 1903:
7) Virginia Dobbelsteyn b. 1904:
8) Ernest Dobbelsteyn b. 1906:
9) Henry Dobbelsteyn b. 1907:
10) Louise Dobbelsteyn b. 1908:
11) Joseph Dobbelsteyn born 1910 at Maastricht, Holland, died 4 Nov 1997, married
Margaret Loretta Hay: settled in Fredericton and had eight children:
12) Matthew or Yeukie Dobbelsteyn b. 1910:
Source: MC3204 Dobbelsteyne’s Cobbler’s Bench fonds: the accession file contains a
copy of a report titled The “who”, the “What” and the “When” of the Dobbelsteyn
family, 9 pages.
DOBBIN: Wilson Dobbin of Belfast, Ireland came to NB in 1836: settled in Saint

John: married and had issue: only child mentioned was Wilson Lowry Dobbin born
15 Feb 1851, m. Sep 1883 Maggie M. Fawcett of Westmorland County: had one son
and two daughters.
Source: MC80/127 William F. Bunting’s Freemasonry in New Brunswick, page 263.
DOBSON: George Dobson bp. 18 Jun 1721 at Redcar in Yorkshire, England, d. 28

Jul 1773, s/o Richard Dobson and Margaret Watson, m. 19 Dec 1745 at Marske-by-
the-Sea, Yorkshire, Mary Baker born c1727, d. after 1816: they came to NB in
Spring 1773 and settled at Point de Bute, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Margaret Dobson bp. 3 Apr 1747 at Ingleby, Arncliffe, Yorkshire, died 13 Apr
1832, married c1767 in England, William Wells b. 1742, d. 27 Apr 1819:
2) George Dobson baptized 8 Oct 1748 at Ingleby, buried 14 Oct 1748:
3) Mary Dobson bp. 27 Oct 1749 at Ingleby, buried 17 Nov 1758:
4) George Dobson bp. 21 Jun 1751 at Ingleby, died 13 Jan 1809, m. 27 Mar 1780
Ann Christiana Somers born 1755, d. 5 Nov 1837, widow of Nathaniel Fales of
Amherst, NS settled at Point de Bute: had at least one child:
5) David Dobson bp. 29 May 1753: he first settled at Point de Bute, then in Halifax,
NS:
6) Elizabeth Dobson born 17 Jul 1754 at Thirsk, m. c1774 John Anderson:
7) Ellen Dobson b. 29 Aug 1756 at Thirsk, buried 3 Sep 1756:
8) Catherine Dobson bp. 22 Oct 1757 at Thirsk, buried 19 Feb 1758:
9) Mary Dobson bp. 25 Dec 1758 at Thirsk, died 29 Sep 1759:
10) Mary Dobson born 23 Jul 1760 at Thirsk, d. 15 Oct 1760:
11) Hannah/Mary Dobson b. 4 Aug 1761 at Thirsk, d. 19 Oct 1761:
12) Miriam Dobson b. 3 Oct 1762 at Thirsk, d. 27 Jul 1773:
13) Ann Dobson born 14 Jun 1764 at Thirsk, buried 15 Feb 1770:
14) Jane Dobson bp. 19 Nov 1765 at Thirsk, buried 23 Feb 1766:
15) Mary Dobson bp. 14 Mar 1767 at Thirsk, d. 27 Mar 1856, married c1783
William Jones:
16) Richard Dobson b. 23 Aug 1769 at Thirsk, d. 23 Aug 1856, married 22 Jun1793
at Fort Cumberland, NB, Charlotte Richardson: settled by 1795 at Cape Tormentine:
17) John Dobson born 27 Oct 1771 at Thirsk, died 8 Mar 1853 at Dover, NB, m. 26
Jun 1794 Mary/Polly Fawcett of Upper Sackville, born at Hovingham, Yorkshire,
England d/o William and Ann Fawcett: they first settled in Point de Bute, then in
Sussex, NB: had five children:
18) Abraham Dobson born 1778, d. 27 Jan 1870, m. 24 Dec 1812 Margaret
Trenholm born 1795, died 1866, d/o John Trenholm and Margaret Foster: settled
near Point de Bute: had at least four children.
Sources: MC80/5 W.M. Burns’ A history and story of Botsford, pages 66-67: George
came to NB with his brother Richard Dobson who never married: see also MC80/31
W.C. Milner’s History of Sackville, New Brunswick, pgs. 140-141: see also
MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 186-188 and 242-
245: see MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, page 88: widow Mary
(Baker) Dobson married (2nd) George Falkinther: see also MC2852 Purdy-Carter
genealogical collection, MS1A: on microfilm reel F20980; see sheet for George
Dobson: see MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS2: on microfilm reel
F20987: see sheets for George Dobson and his children.
DOBSON: Matthew Dobson b. 1807 in Londonderry or Letterkenny, Ireland, died

15 Jul 1889: his wife’s name is not provided:
Children mentioned:
1) Martha Dobson b. 1828, died 6 May 1865:
2) Eliza Dobson born c1834 in Saint John, died 21 Sep 1851:
3) Barbara Dobson b. 1837 in Saint John, d. 10 Aug 1860:
4) John Dobson b. c1842, d. 21 Apr 1850.

records of the Wesleyan burial ground, Saint John, NB, pages 63-64.
DOBSON: Richard Dobson born 20 Sep 1769 at Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, d.

1856, s/o George Dobson and Mary Baker: settled at Baysfield, Botsford Parish,
Westmorland County: m. 27 Jun 1794 Charlotte Richardson b. 1776 in Sackville,
NB, d/o John Richardson and Mary Flintoff:
Children:
1) George Dobson:
2) Elizabeth Dobson:
3) Richard Dobson:
4) David Dobson b. 1800, m. Hannah Peacock born 1810: settled at Cape
Tormentine, Botsford Parish, Westmorland County: had fourteen children:
5) Mary Dobson born 1807, d. 1877, m. Gilbert Wall b. c1793: settled at Malden NB
had issue:
6) Joseph Dobson:
7) Charlotte Dobson:
8) Maurice Dobson:
9) Hannah Dobson:
10) Nelson Dobson b. 9 May 1811 in Botsford Parish, m. Louisa - : settled at Cape
Tormentine and had at least three children:
11) Eliza Dobson b. 21 Jun 1813:
12) Job Dobson b. 29 Nov 1816, m. Eliza - .
Sources: MC80/1023 Louise R. Young’s The Yorkshire antecedents and American

descendants of William H.A. Richardson family of Sackville, New Brunswick,
Canada and Reading, Massachusetts, page 6: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s
New Brunswick lineages, pages 136-137, 244-245 which says Mary Dobson b. 1798,
m. Matthew Allen b. 1816 at Baie Verte, NB, s/o Benjamin Allen and Sarah
Somers: see MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS2: on microfilm reel
F20987: see sheets for David and Nelson Dobson.
DOBSON: Robert William Dobson b. 23 Apr 1806, d. 20 Jul 1869, s/o John
Dobson and Mary Fawcett: m. (1st) 14 Oct 1824 Ann Burnham born c1807, died 23
Jan 1836, d/o Jonathan Burnham and Mary Cornforth of Sackville: m. (2nd) in Dec
1837 Caroline McMonagle d/o Hugh McMonagle: settled in North River, Salisbury
Parish, Westmorland County:
Children by the first wife:

1) Jonathon Burnham Dobson:
2) Arthur McNutt Dobson:
3) Eliza Jane Dobson:
4) William Burnham Dobson:
5) Joseph Wells Dobson:
Children by the second wife:

6) John Hiram Dobson:
7) Amanda Bethinda Caroline Dobson:
8) Frances Jane Dobson:
9) Peter Sleep Dobson:
10) Elizabeth Dobson:
11) Robert Truskett Dobson:
12) Phoebe Catherine Dobson:
13) George R. Dobson born 1854, d. 1930.
Source: MC1/Dobson, 2 pages: file contains a copy of Some account of early settlers
in Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County, NB by J.E. Humphreys: Robert Dobson’s
grandfather was George Dobson b. in Yorkshire, England, d. 1773, who settled at
Chignecto: his son John Dobson was b. 1771, m. 26 Jun 1794 Mary Fawcett: Robert
William was their 7th child: see also MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection,
MS2: on microfilm reel F20987: see sheet for Robert William Dobson.
DODDS: William A. Dodds b. 2 Mar 1822 in East Lothian, Scotland, d. 3 May 1866,
s/o Andrew Dodds and Isabelle Carlyle of Measton, Ormiston Parish: he came to NB
by 1847 and settled at Taymouth, Saint Marys Parish, York County: m. 31 Jul 1860
Jane Hossack born 10 Sep 1829, died 1904, d/o Donald Findlay Hossack and
Margaret MacKay of Scotch Settlement in Stanley Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Margaret Isabelle Dodds born 1861, married Walter Craigs s/o Thomas and
Margaret Craigs: settled in Red Rock, NB and had eight children:
2) Elizabeth Ann Dodds born 1863, died 1955, m. Robert Evans born 1855 at
Woodlands, NB, d. 1954: went to Fall River, MA: had four children:
3) Andrew William Dodds b. 11 May 1865, d. 21 Feb 1955, m. 15 Jun 1887 Loretta
Stewart born 6 Jun 1865 at Taymouth, d. 11 Mar 1933, d/o Charles Stewart and
Sarah Bamford: they settled at Taymouth and had ten children.
Sources: MC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-1885, page 36:
see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 218-219:
see also MC80/1767 Dodds family history.
DODGE: Benjamin Dodge b. 17 Apr 1787 in Annapolis, NS, d. 30 Apr 1849, m. 7
Nov 1813 Elizabeth Ruloffson b. 3 Oct 1788, d. 19 Jul 1886, d/o Rulof Ruloffson
and Mehitable Phinney: they settled at Hampton in Kings County:
Children are listed in a random order:

1) Rulof Dodge b. 23 Feb 1815, d. 19 Feb 1879, m. Sarah Bailey and had six
children:
2) Eliza Dodge b. 3 Dec 1816, d. 31 Oct 1869, m. David Prince and had six children:
3) Isaac Allen Dodge b. 15 Mar 1818, d. 2 Feb 1871, m. Charlotte Barnard Upham
and had nine children: they settled in Saint John:
4) Charles Alfred Dodge b 25 Aug 1819, d. 13 Dec 1880, married Margaret Dixon
born 30 Jan 1822, d. 5 Jan 1909:
6) William Willett Dodge b. 12 May 1821, m. 7 Jan 1846 Sarah Ann Fowler d/o
Joseph Fowler and Esther Matilda DeForest: they had fifteen children:
7) Mary Anne Melick Dodge b. 25 Sep 1822, d. 17 Nov 1891, married John Ganter:
no issue:
8) Amy Amelia Dodge b. 12 Oct 1824, d. 17 Jul 1913, m. Daniel Clark and had
seven children:
9) James Benjamin Dodge b. 26 Jul 1826, m. Agusta DeForest: had seven children:
10) Maria Wesley Dodge b. 22 Jun 1828, d. 31 May 1912, m. John Mercer:
11) Bayard Dodge b. 5 Feb 1830, m. Eunice Sharp and had eleven children.
Source: MC1/Dodge, 3 pgs: see also MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review,
page 574: see RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Dodge family: Sketch
of the descendants of the Dodge family: microfilm F11081, 6 pages.
DOHERTY: Bernard (Brian) Doherty b. c1795 in Ireland, m. Mary - born c1801

in Ireland: they came to NB in 1826 and settled on Shepody Road, Alma Parish,
Albert County:
Children:
1) Margaret Doherty born c1819, married John Hogan of Shepody: settled at
Bennett Lake and had ten children:
2) Michael Doherty b. 1822, d. 1892, m. Sarah Sweeney of Hastings, Alma Parish,
d/o Edward and Eleanor Sweeney: settled at Hastings: ten children:
3) John Doherty b. c1826, m. Mary - : had four children:
4) Bernard Doherty b. 1830, d. 1854:
5) Elizabeth Doherty b. c1836, d. 1882, m. Edward Rossiter: ten children.
Source: MC80/2759 Ann Breault and Winnie Smith’s Of the Country: The story of
the McKinley family, pages 92-102.
DOHERTY: Bernard Doherty born c1791 in County Tyrone, Ireland, died 4 Mar
1875: came to NB in 1820: settled at New Ireland in Alma Parish, Albert County: m.
31 Aug 1830 at Memramcook in Westmorland County, Elizabeth Kincade born
c1801 in Ireland, died on 10 Oct 1870: she came to NB in 1823:
Children:
1) James Doherty b. c1826 in NB, d. 28 Dec 1897, m. c1856 Ellen Sweeney b. - ,
died 8 Aug 1895: settled in New Ireland, Alma Parish: had nine children:
2) George Doherty b. c1828:
3) Mary Doherty b. c1830:
4) Frances/Fanny Doherty born 1832, m. 27 Nov 1871 James Morrisey s/o Thomas
Morrisey and Amelia Pettis of New Ireland:
5) Brian/Bernard Doherty b. c1834, d. 2 Sep 1911 at Glenwood, BC, married c1865
Mary - born c1833, died 11 Feb 1900: settled in Harvey Parish: had one daughter:
6) Nancy/Ann Doherty born c1836:
7) Patrick Doherty born c1840:
8) Hugh Doherty b. 1842: went to BC.
Sources: MC80/1617 Cemetery transcriptions: Kings-Albert counties: see the Albert

County census: see also MC80/2014 Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish
Catholic settlers of Albert County, New Brunswick, page 49-51.
DOHERTY: Edward Doherty b. 1791 in Ireland, m. Sarah - born 1791 in

Ireland: came to NB and settled in Dorchester Parish, Westmorland County:

1) Edward Doherty b. 1824 in NB:
2) Bridget Doherty b. 1831 in NB:
3) John Doherty b. 1833 in NB:
4) Patrick Doherty b. 1834 in NB:

F20980; see sheet for Edward Doherty.
DOHERTY: Hugh Doherty b. c1804 in Ireland, m. Mary - : came to NB in 1840

and settled in Albert County:
Children:
1) Patrick Doherty b. c1841:
2) Hugh Doherty b. c1843:
3) Mary Doherty b. c1845.
Albert County, New Brunswick, page 56.
DOHERTY: James Doherty born c1793 in Ireland, d. before 1881, m. Ann Travers
b. in Ireland, d. before 1871: came to NB in 1826 and settled at New Ireland, Alma
Parish, Albert County:
Children:
1) Ellen Doherty born c1822 in Ireland, m. 26 Nov 1838 John O’Connor s/o Daniel
O’Connor and Bridget Donovan:
2) Bernard Doherty born c1826 in NB, married Sarah - : had at least two
children: left the area after 1861:
3) James Doherty b. c1829, m. c1854 Ann Dornan d/o Dennis Dornan and Lily
McCleary: settled at New Ireland and had ten children:
4) Ann Doherty born c1832:
5) Bridget Doherty b. c1834:
6) Mary Doherty born c1836, married c1856 Lawrence Dornan s/o Dennis Dornan
and Lily McCleary:
7) Francis Doherty born c1838, d. c1918, married 13 Sep 1871 Rose Dornan b. - , d.
5 Jun 1900, d/o John Dornan and Susan Doherty: they settled at New Ireland and
had ten children:
8) Henry Doherty b. c1840.
Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 51-56: James Doherty may have been brother
of Bernard Doherty who married Elizabeth Kincade.
DOHERTY: James Doherty b. c1836, d. 1912: settled in Saint John: married Sophia
McFadden born c1838 in NS, died 1908, d/o William McFadden and Sarah
Campbell: only child mentioned was, Joseph Stephen Doherty born 1878 at Saint
John, d. 1960, m. Eleanor Mae Logan born c1880 at Saint John, died 1929, d/o
William Logan and Charlotte Matilda Logan: settled in Saint John and had issue.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pgs 45-46.
DOHERTY: John Doherty born c1821 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1830 and settled
in Alma Parish, Albert County: m. Mary - born c1829 in NB:
Children:
1) Susanna Doherty b. c1845:
2) Lucinda Doherty b. c1847:
3) James Doherty born c1849, m. Harriet Bishop:
4) Robert C. Doherty born c1852:
5) Mary E. Doherty born c1855:
6) John Doherty born c1857:
7) Henry F. Doherty b. c1860:
8) Sarah E. Doherty b. c1864.
DOHERTY: Michael Doherty born c1807 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1814 and

settled in Hopewell Hill, Hopewell Parish, Albert County: m. 3 Sep 1835 Phoebe
Hoar of Hopewell Parish b. c1811, d. 12 Dec 1893:
Children:
1) George Doherty born c1836:
2) Lois Doherty b. c1838, d. 1858:
3) James Doherty b. c1843:
4) Eunice Doherty b. c1845:
5) Clarissa Doherty b. c1849, d. 1926, m. Dec 1874 George Hoar: had one child
before George died.
DOHERTY: Owen Doherty b. 1806 in Ireland, m. Mary - born 1806 in Ireland:

came to NB in 1847: settled in Moncton Parish, Westmorland County:

1) Thomas Doherty b. 1831 in Ireland:
2) Owen Doherty b. 1836 in Ireland:
3) John Doherty b. 1840:
4) Philip Doherty b. 1842.

F20980; see sheet for Owen Doherty.
DOHERTY: Patrick Doherty b. c1791 in Ireland, m. in Ireland and widowed before

1851: came to NB in 1844 and settled in Alma Parish in Albert County:
Children:
1) Mary Doherty b. c1821 in Ireland:
2) Michael Doherty born c1824, died 3 May 1892, m. c1852 Sarah Sweeney d/o
Edward and Eleanor Sweeney: they settled at Salmon River, Alma Parish and had
ten children.
DOHERTY: Patrick Doherty b. 1806 in County Donegal, Ireland, died 6 Apr 1894:
he came to NB in 1818 and settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County: he married
Harriet J. - b. 1808 in Saint John, NB, d. 29 Apr 1883:
Children:
1) Jane Doherty b. 1830:
2) John Doherty b. 1832:
3) Sarah Ann Doherty b. 1834, d. 28 Feb 1910, m. Frank Densmore b. 1826, d. 29
Jul 1903:
4) Harriet Doherty b. 1836:
5) Catherine Doherty b. 30 May 1838, died 16 Feb 1923, m. at Belmont, MA, John
Loughran:
5) Patrick Doherty born 1840, died 13 Jun 1872:
6) Mary Doherty born 1842:
7) Matilda Ann Doherty b. 1843, d. 10 Oct 1865:
7) James Doherty b. 1846:
8) George Doherty born 1848.
Cemetery & Interment Records: also see the Charlotte County census returns where
the surname is spelled “Dougherty”.
DOHERTY: William Doherty born and died in Ireland, s/o Isaac Doherty: married
in Ireland, Marjorie Fetters b. 1770 in Ireland, d. 27 Oct 1841: after his death, his
widow left Parish of Rag, County Donegal, Ireland and with her children came to NB
about 1820: they first settled in Saint John, then in Nova Scotia, then in Kent County,
NB:

1) Isaac Doherty born in Ireland, died c1832: he came to NB about five years before
his mother and siblings: m. Cynthia Wells and settled near Bay Verte, Westmorland
County:
2) Grizelda Doherty, eldest daughter, b. 1795, d. 13 Jan 1846, married 18 Dec 1821
John Reid b. 1789, d. c1862: settled at Mill Branch, Kent County, NB:
3) Mary Doherty b. 1802, d. 15 Feb 1849, married George Spencer b. 1804, d. 3 Apr
1868: eventually settled at Mill Branch, NB:
4) Jane Doherty b. c1804, m. 25 Jul 1823 Richard Jones of Point de Bute, b. 1801:
settled in Kent County:
5) William Doherty b. 25 Dec 1805 at Labadish, County Donegal, Ireland, d. 11 Sep
1874, m. 17 Oct 1830 Agnes/Nancy McLeland of Halifax, NS, b. 2 Apr 1802, d. 15
Feb 1878 at Welford, NB: eventually settled at Richibucto, Kent County, NB: had six
children:
6) Joseph Doherty b. c1807, d. c1885, m. Polly Wells b. - , d. c1885: he first settled
at Buctouche, NB, then at Campbellton, Restigouche County.
Sources: MC80/45 Howard Trueman’s The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers,
pages 265-266: William Doherty’s aunt, Mrs. John McGregor, lived in Richibucto,
NB and was a sister to Mrs Joseph Irvin of Point de Bute, NB: see also MC1198
Isaac William Doherty fonds, MS1A, MS1B.
DOHERTY: William Doherty born c1801 in Ireland, died 5 Feb 1882: came to NB
about 1826 and settled at New Ireland in Alma Parish, Albert County: m. Catherine
- b. - , d. before 1851:
Children:
1) William Doherty b. c1826, d. unm. Apr 1881: settled at New Ireland:
2) James Doherty b. c1828, married c1849 Bridget - : had one child:
3) Mary Doherty b. c1830, d. 27 Mar 1912 at Brookton, NB:
4) John Doherty born c1832, d. 8 Apr 1863:
5) George Doherty b. c1834, m. Margaret Daley d/o Thomas and Mary Daley:
settled at New Ireland and had twelve children:
6) Jane Doherty b. c1837:
7) Paul Doherty b. c1839, died unmarried 10 Dec 1903.
DOHERTY: William Doherty b. in County Tyrone, Ireland, m. Sarah Carle born in
County Tyrone: came to NB and settled in Saint John: had ten children:
Children alive in 1900:

1) John Doherty: settled in Saint John:
2) Margaret Doherty m. Patrick Lynch of Saint John:
3) Charles Doherty:
4) Bridget Doherty m. James Cain of Saint John:
5) William Doherty born 1845 in Saint John, married 1878 Katie Mahoney d/o John
Mahoney, a native of Ireland: had five children.
Source: MC80/338 I. Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, page 573.
DOHERTY: see also DOUGHERTY
DOIG: David Barrie Doig b. 18 Sep 1846 at Kirriemuir, Scotland, d. 27 Jun 1926,
s/o David Doig and Katherine Barrie married 14 Jun 1867 at Dundee, Scotland,
Elizabeth Frances Beckwith born 18 Mar 1849 at Dundee, d. 22 Nov 1912, d/o
George Francis Beckwith and Elizabeth Rattray: they came to NB in 1873 and
settled in Saint John:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Beckwith Doig b. 6 Jun 1868 at Dundee, d. unmarried Mar 1955 in Saint
John:
2) George Francis Doig b. 18 Oct 1870 Dundee, d. 16 May 1956 at Brandon,
Manitoba, m. 31 Aug 1899 at Kincardine, ON, Jessie Gilbert Robertson: had two
children:
3) Charles Hutchison Doig born 18 Nov 1873, died 6 Dec 1881 at Saint John:
4) Frederick Doig b. 6 Aug 1875 at Saint John, died 7 Sep 1949 at Saint John,
married 23 Aug 1906 Jennet McKechnie b. 9 Oct 1877, d. 16 Sep 1915, d/o John
Rothesay McKechnie (1841-1920) and Mary C. Sharpe (1851-1927) of Saint John:
had four children:
5) David Doig b. 13 May 1877, d. 31 Dec 1878:
6) Gilbert Murdoch Doig b. 3 Apr 1883, d. 18 Oct 1885:
7) Allen Edward Doig b. 16 Feb 1885, d. in Montreal, QC: m. 26 Nov 1913 at
Brighton, ON, Edna Catherine Gunyo: had two children:
8) Henry Doig (twin) b. 29 Jun 1888, d. 14 Aug 1888:
9) Male Doig (twin) b. and d. 29 Jun 1888.
Sources: MC80/2314 J.F. Doig’s Family of David Barrie Doig who with his wife
Elizabeth Frances Beckwith came from Dundee, Scotland to Saint John, NB in
1873: George Francis Beckwith and Elizabeth Rattray came to NB and settled in Saint
John: see also MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 118-
119.
DOIRON: François Doiron born 1738 at Beaubassin, NS, s/o Pierre Doiron and
Anne Forest, m. 14 Sep 1782 Geneviève Vautour d/o Pierre Vautour and Marie
Vanier: came to NB about 1789 and settled at Saint-Anselme in Moncton Parish,
Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Urbain Doiron born 11 Jan 1784, died in 1860, m. 1812 Marie Fournier:
2) Laurent Doiron b. 25 Jul 1785:
3) Isidore Doiron born 3 Jan 1787, died 1856, m. 1810 Marceline Cormier:
4) Anastasie Doiron born c1788, buried 22 Nov 1871 at Memramcook, NB, m. 11
Jan 1814 at Memramcook, NB, Alexis Saulnier s/o Pierre Saulnier and Marie
Donelle:
5) François Doiron born c1792, died 29 Apr 1816, buried at Menoudie, NS:
6) Esther Doiron b. c1806, d. 9 Mar 1872, m. 18 Nov 1823 Joseph Landry s/o
Alexis Landry and Anastasie Dupuis: settled at Memramcook, NB:
8) Louis Doiron m. Eleonore Crawford.
Source: MC80/1984 Allen Doiron and Fidèle Thériault’s La famille Doiron (Gould).
DOIRON: Louis Doiron born c1739 at Beaubassin, NS, d. 19 Apr 1809, s/o Pierre
Doiron and Anne Forest of Menoudie, NS: married 9 Jul 1777 Marie Bonnevie of
Beaumont born c1756, d. 8 Oct 1836, d/o Jacques Bonnevie and Anne Melanson:
they came to NB about 1800 and settled at Tracadie-Sheila in Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Henriette Doiron born 4 May 1778, buried 18 Oct 1867, m. c1802 Jean Noiles dit
Holmes s/o George Noiles and Madeleine Doiron: they settled at Neguac, NB and
had issue:
2) Louis dit Louison Doiron born 4 Mar 1779, d. 1842, married (1st) Marie
Robichaud, m. (2nd) 1824 Euphrosine Saulier:
3) Barbara Doiron born 4 May 1780:
4) Perpétue or Rosanna Doiron b. 15 Feb 1782, died 17 Feb 1849, married Alexis
Vautour s/o Joseph Vautour and Marie Moleur: family settled at Memramcook,
NB:
5) Euphrosine or Sophie Doiron born 1784, d. 6 Dec 1863, m. 26 Jan 1808 at
Memramcook, Étienne Cormier s/o Pierre Cormier and Marie Godin:
6) Théotiste Doiron born c1785, d. 3 Nov 1823, married (1st) 22 Feb 1808 at
Tracadie, NB, Charlemagne Bastarache s/o Michel Bastarache and Marie Gaudet:
married (2nd) 14 Mar 1822 at Tracadie, François Vienneau s/o Jean Vienneau and
Rosalie Comeau:
7) Hélène Doiron born 15 Feb 1787, m. 25 Oct 1814 at Memramcook, Pierre Légère
s/o Charles Légère and Marie Gautreau:
8) Moise Doiron born c1788, married 1812 Brigitte Saulnier:
9) Paul Doiron born c1791, d. 1841, m. 1815 Henriette Fournier:
10) Olivier Doiron born c1793, d. 1883, m. (1st) 1822 Marguerite Comeau, m. (2nd)
1846 Euphémie Cormier:
11) Marie Doiron b. c1798, d. 4 Oct 1845, m. 18 Jan 1813 at Caraquet, NB, Charles
Vienneau s/o Jean Vienneau and Rosalie Comeau of Neguac, NB.
DOIRON: Pierre dit Pitre Doiron born in Mar 1734 at Beaubassin, NS, died on 7 Jul
1825, s/o Pierre Doiron and Anne Forest of Menoudie, NS: married 1761
Marguerite Léger b. 1733, d. 1 Jan 1826, d/o Jacques Léger and Anne Admirault:
he came from Nappan, NS to NB about 1788 and settled at Saint-Anselme in Moncton
Parish, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Joseph Amable Doiron b. 30 Jan 1762, d. c1863, married 1786 Catherine
Donelle:
2) Jean-Baptiste Doiron dit Gros Jean born 11 Mar 1764, d. 1855, m. 1786
Marguerite Donelle:
3) Jean-François Doiron b. c1765:
4) Pierre Doiron b. 9 Jul 1767, d. 1848, married 1790 Marguerite Surette:
5) Marie Doiron b. 14 Apr 1770, married c1790 Jean-Baptiste Vautour s/o Pierre
Vautour and Marie-Joseph Vanier:
6) Louise Doiron born 2 Aug 1772, died 26 Nov 1828, m. Louis Gauvin d/o Jacques
Gauvin and Marguerite Castonguay:
7) Marie-Joseph Josette Doiron born 3 Sep 1775, died 29 Dec 1866, m. (1st) Joseph
LeBlanc dit Têtu s/o Firmin LeBlanc and Ludivine Dupuis: m. (2nd) Jean Donelle
s/o Jean Donelle and Marguerite Haché.
DOIRON: Zacharie Doiron born about 1744, died 28 Apr 1816, s/o Charles Doiron
and Madeleine Thibodeau of Port-Royal, NS, married c1770 Anne LeVicaire d/o
Pierre LeVicaire and Françoise Rousseau b. c1757, d. 26 Dec 1827: came to NB by
1784 and settled at Caraquet, Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Madeleine Doiron b. c1772, d. 9 Mar 1812 at Bonaventure, QC, m. (1st) 28 Nov
1793 at Bonaventure, QC, Jean-Baptiste Lavache s/o Honoré Lavache and
Madeleine Daigle: m. (2nd) 7 Jan 1811 at Bonaventure, Michel Poirier:
2) Marie Doiron born c1774, married (1st) 23 Jun 1792 François Duguay s/o
François Duguay and Madeleine Chapadeau: m. (2nd) 11 Sep 1826 Joseph
Comeau, widower of Geneviève Thibideau of Tracadie:
3) Charles Doiron born c1776, died 10 Feb 1864, married c1800 Angélique
Bouthillier d/o René Bouthillier and Geneviève Chiasson: they settled at Caraquet
and had ten children:
4) Claire Doiron b. 31 Aug 1780 at Caraquet, m. (1st) c1800 Joseph Duguay s/o
François Duguay and Madeleine Chapadeau: m. (2nd) 2 Oct 1816 Simon
Arsenault, widower of Marie Melanson of Bathurst:
5) Isabelle Doiron born 1782, died 25 Mar 1816, married 11 Oct 1897 Jacques
Loiselle s/o Robert-Julien Loiselle and Julienne Péra of Paspébiac, QC:
6) Jean-Baptiste Doiron born 25 Oct 1784, m. 13 Jan 1812 Rose Bouthillier the
sister of Angélique: they settled at Caraquet and had twelve children:
7) Rosalie Doiron b. 26 Nov 1786, married c1804 Basile Gallien s/o Adrien Gallien
and Marguerite Duguay:
8) Marie Ursule Doiron born 3 Oct 1788, died 16 Nov 1869, m. 3 Nov 1813 Luc
Godin s/o Jean-Baptiste Godin and Rosalie Thériault:
9) Hilaire Doiron born 4 Feb 1791, d. 5 Apr 1850, married (1st) 22 Nov 1814 Marie
Chiasson d/o Pierre Chiasson and Marguerite Duguay: m. (2nd) 30 Jan 1818 Marie
Lanteigne d/o Louis Lanteigne and Luce LeBrasseur:
10) Isaac Doiron born 30 Mar 1793, died 19 Jan 1861, married 22 Nov 1814
Marguerite Lanteigne, sister of Marie Lanteigne.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pg 120-134.
DOLAN: Charles Dolan born c1790 County Longford, Ireland, died after 25 Apr
1852, s/o Philip Dolan and Mary Higgins: came to NB before 1824: they settled at
Sunny Corner, North Esk Parish, Northumberland County: m. 25 Oct 1824 Mary
McCormick b. in County Cavan, Ireland d/o Patrick McCormick and Anne
McGovern:
Children:
1) Mary Dolan b. 1825, m. Laurence Gain:
2) Charles Dolan born Jul 1828, died unm. Oct 1893: settled at Sunny Corner:
3) Anne Dolan born 1830, d. 14 Dec 1908, m. Cornelius Crowe born c1830, died 26
Mar 1904 s/o William and Catherine Crowe:
4) Catherine Dolan b. Oct 1832, m. Bartholomew Connell:
5) James Dolan b. Dec 1834, d. 17 Feb 1920, m. Bridget Murphy born Aug 1837, d.
23 Oct 1883, d/o John Murphy and Mary Quigley.
DOLAN: John Dolan or Dowling b. in Ireland, d. before 1851, married Mary

Bridget Delano b. 1792 in Ireland, d. after 1851: they came to NB in 1830 and first
settled on Bearbears Island in Derby Parish, then moved to Nelson Parish,
Northumberland County,
Children:
1) possible son, Patrick Dolan b. c1811 in Ireland, m. Bridget - b. c1820 Ireland:
settled in Nelson Parish and had children:
2) possible son, Thomas Dolan born c1818 Ireland, m. Eliza - : settled in Nelson
Parish and had issue:
3) John Dolan born c1819 in Ireland, d. 1890, m. 1 Sep 1850 Julia Bohan of
Semiwagon Ridge, NB, b. c1825 in Ireland, d. 1910, d/o William Bohan and Mary
Splane: settled in Nelson Parish: had at least nine children.
Source: MC80/1844 Louise Werstiuk’s The Dolan-Desmond family: see also the
Northumberland County census: the surname is also spelt Dooling, Dooly and
Dowling.
DOLAN: Michael Dolan born 1820 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1825 and settled at
Red Bank, South Esk Parish in Northumberland County: moved to Stillwater, MN in
1880’s: m. 26 Jul 1846 at Red Bank, Flora Gillis born 23 May 1822 d/o Jonathan
Gillis and Mary Woods:
Children:
1) Mary Dolan b. 1847:
2) Ellen Dolan born 1847, m. 1869 James Delano of Derby, NB: settled at Boom
Road:
3) Thomas Dolan b. c1850, died 17 Mar 1939, m. Mary Donalds: went to
Minnesota, then moved to Washington State:
4) Jane Dolan b. Nov 1852:
5) Elizabeth Dolan b. Apr 1854, m. 1872 Alexander Clarke of Derby, NB:
6) Mary Ann Dolan born Jul 1856, m. William Taylor of Derby, NB as his second
wife:
7) Jonathan Dolan b. c1857, d. after 1900, m. Francina Mullin b. 1855, d. 22 May
1900, d/o John Mullin and Annabella McKendrick: to Stillwater, MN:
8) Margaret Dolan b. c1858:
9) Sarah Ann Dolan born c1860, married 1878 William Loch McKenzie of
Newcastle:
10) James Edward Dolan born Oct 1862: went to Stillwater, MN:
11) William Michael Dolan born 20 Jun 1865: to Stillwater, MN.
Source: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, pages 120-121: also
see the Northumberland County census returns.
DOLE: Enoch Dole came from the USA: settled at Dutch Valley, Sussex Parish,
Kings County: m. Magdalene Snyder and had a number of children, mentioned were
Mary Dole married William Aiton: George Dole married Ruth Humphreys: Daniel
Dole.
Source: MC80/1 Grace Aiton’s The story of Sussex and vicinity page 62: Enoch’s
brother, Mark Dole also came to NB: he settled in Saint John.
DOLLARD: Peter Dollard b. c1794 in County Kilkenny, Ireland, d. 2 Jan 1855:

came to Nova Scotia about 1816, then to PEI, then to NB about 1845 and settled at
Buctouche, Kent County: m. c1816 at Monastery, NS, Sophie Petipas b. c1790
Tracadie, NS, d/o Jean Petitpas and Genevieve Bonnevie:
Children:
1) Marguerite Dollard born 30 Nov 1817 at Tracadie, NS, m. 2 Nov 1838 at
Miscouche, PEI, Michel Maillet: they had ten children in Tignish, PEI and at
Buctouche, NB:
2) Pierre Dollard born 30 Apr 1819 at Tracadie, NS, died 28 Feb 1869, m. 27 Oct
1845 at Buctouche, NB, Domitilde Goguen: settled in Buctouche and had eleven
children:
3) Isaie Dollard born 23 May 1821 at Tracadie, NS:
4) Cesar-Augustin Dollard b. 17 Oct 1822 at Tracadie, NS, d. 5 Aug 1914, m. 1 Oct
1850 Henriette LeBlanc: settled in Bouctouche, then Ste-Marie, NB and had eleven
children:
5) Frederic Dollard b. 1827 at Tracadie, NS, d. 4 Feb 1894 at Ste-Marie, NB, m. 7
Nov 1848 Buctouche, Henriette Bastarache b. 7 Feb 1829 at Richibucto-Village d/o
Thaddee Bastarache and Genevieve Thibodeau: they first settled in Buctouche, then
at Ste-Marie: had thirteen children:
6) Helene Dollard born 25 Feb 1825 at Tracadie, NS, married 7 Nov 1848 at
Buctouche, Olivier Desroches:
7) Marie Dollard b. 17 Jun 1832 at Egmont Bay, PEI, married 3 May 1852 at
Buctouche, Nicholas Bastarache:
8) Judith Dollard born 19 Jul 1833 at Egmont Bay, PEI, married 1 Oct 1850
Alexandre Bastarache:
9) Marcelline Dollard born at Tignish, PEI, m. 24 Nov 1862 Etienne Leger.
Source: MC80/1700 Sister Anita Dollard’s The Dollard genealogy.
DOMINIC: Joseph Dominic born c1821, d. after 1900, married 1840 Mary
Anastasia Yeouse or Wecuse: family settled at Red Bank in Southesk Parish,
Children:
1) Mary Theotiste Dominic bp. Jun 1844:
2) Stephen Dominic baptized in Mar 1846:
3) Clare Josepha Dominic born Feb 1848:
4) Isabella Dominic b. c1850:
5) Angelique Dominic b. 15 Jun 1852:
6) Mitchell Dominic b. Dec 1858:
7) Moses Dominic born Jun 1861:
8) Noel Joseph Dominic b. 23 Jul 1863:
9) Peter Dominic born Aug 1865.
Source: MC80/1233 W.D. Hamilton’s The Julian tribe, page 72.
DOMINIC: Thomas Dominic b. c1839, d. after 1881, m. (1st) Mary Rosalie Cain,
m. (2nd) 1867 Magdalene Joe: they settled at Indiantown or Eel Ground, North Esk
Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Angelique Dominic born Nov 1860:
2) Michael Dominic born Jul 1864:
3) Mary Jane Dominic born Feb 1872:
4) Susan Dominic born Mar 1874:
5) Angelique Dominic b. 11 Mar 1876:
6) Joseph Dominic b. 26 Oct 1881.
Source: MC80/1233 W.D. Hamilton’s The Julian tribe, page 72.
DOMVILLE: James Domville b. 29 Nov 1842 at Belize, British Honduras, BWI, s/o
James William Domville and wife Frances Usher, d. 30 Jul 1921 at Rothesay, NB:
came to NB in 1866 and settled in Saint John: m. 1867 Isabella Anne Scovil born
1846 d/o William Henry Scovil of Saint John, died 21 Nov 1937:
Children:
1) James William Domville b. 10 Dec 1869: went to Montreal, PQ:
2) Henry Domville: went to Oaxaca, Mexico:
3) Edward Domville: went to Montreal, PQ:
4) Isobel Domville b. - , d. 26 Sep 1948, m. W.S. Earle of Saint John, NB:
5) Miss Domville m. John W. Davidson of Rothesay, NB:
6) Fanny Domville:
7) Mary L. Domville: went to Montreal, PQ.
Source: MC1156 Graves Papers: James Domville, 1 page.
DONAHOE: John Donahoe b. 1798 in Ireland, m. Mary Donovan b. c1800 in

Ireland: came to NB in 1845 and settled at Cork in Manners Sutton Parish, York
County:
Children:
1) Cornelius Donahoe b. 1831 in Ireland:
2) Catherine Donahoe b. 1833 in Ireland:
3) Julia Donahoe b. 1835 in Ireland:
4) John Donahoe b. 1839 in Ireland:
5) Thomas Donahoe b. 1841 in Ireland:
6) Michael Donahoe born on 28 Oct 1846 at Cork, NB, died on 8 Feb 1935 at
Fredericton: married 10 Jun 1873 at Fredericton, Ellen Theresa McGinn b. 1 Jun
1849 at Kingsley, Douglas Parish, York County, d. 20 Mar 1940 at Boston, MA, d/o
Michael McGinn and Roseanne McCann: family settled at Harvey, NB: had ten
children.
Source: MC80/2758 Frances R. McGinn’s The story of Michael McGinn (1813-

1904) and Patrick McGinn (1831-1920) York County, New Brunswick, Canada and
connected families, pages 59-81.
DONAHUE: James Donahue born 1811 in Ireland: came to NB in 1833 and settled
in St. Andrews, Charlotte County: m. Elizabeth - b. 1816 in Ireland:
Children:
1) Bartholomew Donahue b. 1833 in Ireland, married Catherine Driscoll and had
issue:
2) Catherine Donahue b. 1838, d. 17 Sep 1886:
3) Elizabeth Donahue b. 1842:
4) Patrick Donahue b. 1844:
5) Joseph Donahue b. 1846.
Cemetery & Interment Records: also see the Charlotte County census.
DONAHUE: Patrick Donahue b. c1806 in Ireland: came to NB in May 1831 and

settled in Irishtown, Moncton Parish, Westmorland County: m. Susannah - born in
Ireland:
Children:
1) John Donahue born c1833:
2) Mary Donahue b. c1835, m. 13 Jan 1857 Michael Cronin:
3) Edward Donahue born c1837, married Mary McQuade:
4) Ellen Donahue b. c1839, m. 1 Feb 1860 John Larracey:
5) James Donahue born c1841, married Ellen Mulroney:
6) Alice Donahue b. c1845.
Source: MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, page 89.
DONALD: Andrew Donald born 21 Dec 1804 at Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire,

Scotland, d. 19 Feb 1891: came to NB in 1844 and settled in Hampton, Kings County:
m. (1st) 1 Sep 1842 Mary Jane McGill born 11 Jan 1821, d. 20 May 1845 daughter of
William McGill of Shelburne, NS: m. (2nd) on 2 Mar 1848 Margaret Scott b. 1819,
d. 5 May 1885:

1) Robert Crozier Donald born 11 May 1845, d. 1 Jun 1930, married Susan
Campbell: settled in Sunny Brae, Moncton Parish, Westmorland County: had six
children:
2) Mary Marion Donald born 18 Sep 1843, d. 12 Jul 1921, married Mariner
Blakeney born on 3 Oct 1841 at North River in Salisbury Parish, Westmorland
County, d. 1918, s/o Charles Blakeney and Sarah Anne Colpitts:
Child of second marriage

3) Lucy Meikle Donald b. 22 May 1855, d. 2 Mar 1878 Campbell Settlement.
Sources: MC80/2326 John R. Elliott’s Gone but not forgotten: cemetery inscriptions
of Kings County, New Brunswick, Volume 4: Old Presbyterian Cemetery,
Bloomfield, NB, page 77: see MC80/709 Ronald G. Blakeney’s Blakeney family,
page 68: Margaret’s brother Archibald Scott also settled in NB: see also MC80/2631
E. Arthur Betts’ Our fathers in the faith, page 32: see also MC633 John Prince
genealogical collection, MS1D5 The Prince family in New Brunswick, Vol IV,
Appendix 11, 7 pages; MS2H Rev. Andrew Donald family 1806-1973, 6 pages.
DONALD: James Donald or Donaldson b. 1764 in Scotland, m. 10 Jul 1783 at

Glasgow, Scotland, Grace Ireland b. - , d. 12 Nov 1837: came to NB and by 1785
had settled at Quarryville, Derby Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Jany Donald b. 10 Apr 1784 in Scotland:
2) Ann Donald b. 15 Jul 1789 in NB:
3) James Donald born 17 Jul 1791, died 31 May 1875, married 1824 Eunice
Ingraham born 1809, died 29 Apr 1873, d/o Abijah Ingraham, a Loyalist at
Woodstock, NB:
4) John Ireland Donald b. 2 Jun 1793, d. 20 Sep 1873, married 26 Mar 1823
Hannah Mooers b. Mar 1806 d/o David Mooers, d. 15 Dec 1886: moved to Maine
about 1849:
5) Margaret Donald born 22 Jun 1795:
6) Elizabeth Donald born 8 Mar 1798, married Elijah Fowler born in 1790, died 24
Feb 1865:
7) George Donald born 22 Feb 1800, married 5 Nov 1833 Mary Ann Wright born
1811, d. 1858:
8) Isabella Donald born 23 May 1804, d. 1892, m. (1st) 28 Nov 1821 Nathan Ritchey
of Newcastle b. - , died 1834, married (2nd) widower Robert Dunphy.
Source: MC1/Donald #2, 4 pages: file contains Miramichi 'Donald' family
newsletter, 1986, by Mel Donald.
DONALD: James Donald: was born in Scotland: came to United States with five
brothers and fought on the American side in the War of 1812: his brothers were killed
during the war and James caught malaria at New Orleans: went to Long Island, NY
and m. Margaret Galey of NB: moved north about 1820 and settled at Summer Hill
in Petersville Parish, Queens County near her relatives: only child mentioned was,
Jane Donald married John Armstrong s/o John Armstrong and Mary Ann
Corbett: settled at Summer Hill and had issue.
Source: MC80/2773 Richard Corbett’s Summer Hill, Dunn’s Corner: gone but not
forgotten, pages 26, 47.
DONALD: Joseph Donald bp. 22 Oct 1806 at Workington in Cumberland County,

England, d. 25 Feb 1900, s/o William Donald and Mary Jane Bell: came to NB in
1824 and settled at Ledge, Dufferin Parish, Charlotte County: m. 10 Dec 1829 Mary
Elizabeth Thornton born 25 May 1808 at Oak Point d/o Matthew Thornton:
Children:
1) Robert T. Donald b. - , died 24 Jan 1915, m. and had issue:
2) William Donald, died young:
3) Joseph Donald m. 4 Oct 1871 Mary Elizabeth Hannah b. 8 Feb 1856 at Pomeroy
Ridge: family went to BC:
4) Elizabeth Donald m. James Neeland: went to Oakland, CA:
5) Sarah Jane Donald m. Mr. Neeland: went to Oakland, CA:
6) Charlotte Donald married Dr. Hendershott:
7) Isabella Amelia Donald m. William Brown.
Source: MC1/ Donald #1, 20 pages: Joseph's wife Mary was a descendant of
Matthew Thornton, a Loyalist: see MC1156 Graves Papers: Joseph Donald, 1 page:
see also MC80/1005 June D. Houston’s John Donald, Englishman (1811-1890).
DONALD: William Donald born 1754 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, d. 22 Jun 1828:

he came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Saint John: married Isabella - b.
1770, died 16 May 1824:
Children:
1) William Donald born 1798, d. 3 Oct 1834, married and had one child:
2) Isabella Donald m. 15 Apr 1816 Capt. Hugh Piper of 104th Regiment:
3) George Donald was a merchant in Saint John.
Source: MC80/467 David R. Jack’s History of Saint Andrew’s Church, Saint John,
NB, pages 319-320.
DONALD: William Donald (Rev.) born 6 Jun 1807 at Edingight Grange in

Banffshire, Scotland, d. 20 Feb 1871, s/o John Donald and Janet McHattie: m. (1st)
23 Apr 1839 at Huntly, Scotland Anne Milne b. - , d. 3 Mar 1850: had three children
before coming to NB in 1849: m. (2nd) 29 Jun 1852in Saint John, Louisa Agnes
Wilson, born c1828 in Edinburgh, died 1892, d/o Hugh Wilson of Saint John: had
nine children:

1) Catherine Donald b. 1840:
2) William Donald b. 1842:
3) Louisa Donald b. 1844.
Sources: MC80/451 I. Allen Jack’s History of St. Andrews’s Society of Saint John,
NB, pages 77-80: see also MC80/2631 E. Arthur Betts’ Our fathers in the faith, page
32: see MC80/2793 W.K. Reynolds’ The Rev William Donald, D.D. of St. Andrew’s
Church, St. John, NB: a sketch of his life…, 84 pages.
DONALDSON: James Donaldson b. 6 Jul 1781, bp. 8 Jul 1781 at Grange in

Banffshire, Scotland, s/o Thomas Donaldson and Elspet McIntosh, m. 6 Oct 1811
on PEI, Mary Urquhart born c1791 in Scotland: came to NB and settled in Northesk
Parish, Northumberland County: they later moved to Maine:
Children:
1) John Thomas Donaldson b. 25 Sep 1812 at Dartmouth, NS, married 1849 Susan
Bamford Mooers:
2) Alexander Campbell Donaldson born 26 Mar 1815 at Dartmouth, NS, m. Ellen
Matthews:
3) William Greenfield Donaldson b. 6 Oct 1816 at Miramichi:
4) Louisa Donaldson b. 10 Dec 1818 Northesk, NB, m. 16 Aug 1852 Jacob Silliker:
5) Major Hooper Donaldson b. 2 Apr 1821, d. 31 May 1900 at Presque Isle, ME, m.
Charlotte Elmira Mooers:
6) Jane Agnes Donaldson b. c1825, died before 1864, m. 20 Jul 1848 Samuel
Mooers: they went to Ludlow, ME: had seven children:
7) William Donaldson born 10 Dec 1827:
8) Eliza Donaldson born 3 May 1833 at Ellsworth, ME:
9) Charles Donaldson born 11 Aug 1837 at Ellsworth, Maine.
Source: MC80/2001 Marguerite Holmes’ Warman families from Kent, England to

Kent, Canada to Aroostook County, Maine, pages 25-26.
DONALDSON, James see DONALD, James (m. Grace Ireland)
DONALDSON: Lauchlan Donaldson born c1785 in south of Scotland, died 22 Apr

1873, s/o James Donaldson and Sarah Shaw: he came to NB in 1804 and settled in
Saint John: m. Alexandrina Sophia Gilbert b. - , died 1867, d/o Francis Gilbert of
Saint John: had one son and three daughters.
NB, pages 85-88: see also MC80/467 David R. Jack’s History of Saint Andrew’s
Church, Saint John, NB, pages 320-320.
DONEY: Charles Doney b. 1804 at Shelburne, NS, d. 1884: came to NB and settled
in Johnston Parish, Queeens County: married Mary Cowan born 1808 at Donegal,
Ireland, d. 1900:
Children:
1) Mary Jane Doney b. 1832, d. 1920, m. Thomas R. Jones and had eleven children:
2) Esther Doney m. Mr. Reynolds:
3) Martha Doney b. - , d. 1917, married R.M. Stevens and had one daughter:
4) Julia Doney b. 1840, died 1920, married Mr. Butler and had five children:
5) Loretta Augusta Doney born 1842, d. 1921, m. 1864 George R. Cody and had
three children:
6) William Harrison Edward More Doney b. 1847:
7) Charles Henry Doney born 1852.
Source: MC80/672 Ted Jones’ All the days of his life: a biography of Archdeacon
H.A. Cody, pages 15 and 430.
DONOVAN: Cornelius Donovan b. 1793 in Ireland, d. 14 Nov 1867, married

Johanna Barrett b. c1798 in Ireland, d. 5 Feb 1875: they came to NB in 1818
possibly from County Limerick: first settled in Pokemouche, NB and then by 1834
settled in Renous, Blackville Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) John Donovan b. 8 Jul 1820, d. young:
2) Michael C. Donovan born 4 Dec 1823, d. 22 Jun 1891, m. c1851 Johanna Breen
b. c1827, d. 14 Mar 1887: had eleven children:
3) Mary Donovan born 20 Nov 1825, possibly m. William or John Costigan: 4)
John C. Donovan b. Dec 1827 in Northumberland County, d. 21 May 1890, married
28 Jul 1856 Ann O’Shea of Barnaby, River, b. 12 Feb 1834, d. 20 Jan 1909, d/o
Patrick O’Shea and Ann Eleanor Keary: family settled at Renous:
5) Cornelius Donovan b. 6 Oct 1829, d. 7 Dec 1854:
6) Johanna Donovan:
7) Catherine Donovan.
Source: MC80/1339 Gerald F. McDonald’s The ancestors and descendants of Aaron

Joseph Donovan of Renous, New Brunswick & Annie Grace Whalen of Boiestown,
New Brunswick.
DONOVAN: James Donovan b. c1809 in Ireland: came to NB before 1838: settled at

Enniskillen, Petersville Parish, Queens County: m. Eunice Lynch b. c1819 in Ireland:
Children born at Enniskillen, NB:

1) Dennis Donovan b. c1841:
2) Daniel Donovan b. c1843:
3) Andrew Donovan b. c1847:
4) Eunice Donovan b. c1848:
5) Timothy Donovan b. c1850:
6) John Donovan b. c1852:
7) Mary Jane Donovan b. c1854:
8) Bridget Donovan b. c1856:
9) James Donovan:
10) Patrick Donovan b. c1859, m. Anne O’Neill and had seven children.
Sources: MC80/2780 Suzanne McCann’s Enniskillen: golden memories, pgs. 114-

115: also see the Queens County census records.
DONOVAN: John Donovan born c1796 in Ireland, d. before 1881: he came to NB in

1826: m. 30 Apr 1830 Ann Walsh born c1811 in Ireland, died after 1881: she came to
NB in 1831: the family settled at Renous, Blackville Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Patrick Donovan b. 1831, d. young:
2) Bridget Donovan born 1833, d. after 1851:
3) Margaret Donovan b. 1834, d. after 1851:
4) Michael Donovan b. 1836, possibly m. Anastasia - and had at least two
children:
5) Dennis Donovan b. c1838, d. after 1881:
6) Judy Donovan b. c1842, d. after 1881:
7) Patrick Donovan b. c1844, died before 1881:
8) John Donovan born c1847, d. after 1881:
9) Ann Donovan b. c1849, died after 1871: may have married 1877 Edward
Singleton:
10) Martin Donovan b. c1851, d. c1913, m. Margaret - and had at least two
children.
Source: MC80/1339 Gerald McDonald’s The ancestors and descendants of Aaron

New Brunswick, pages 22.
DONOVAN: John Donovan b. 1820 in Ireland, m. Mary - born 1827 in Ireland:

came to NB in 1842: settled in Botsford Parish, Westmorland County: only child
mentioned was, Johanna Donovan b. 1850.

F20980; see sheet for John Donovan.
DONOVAN: John Florence Donovan born c1788 in County Cork, Ireland, m.

Margaret O’Reilly b. c1790 in County Monahan, Ireland: came to NB Jun 1842 and
settled at Grande Digue, Dundas Parish, Kent County:
Children:
1) Florence Donovan born c1811 County Cork, d. c1908, m. 20 Apr 1846 at Cape
Pele, NB, Johanna Carroll b. 1821, died 1882, d/o James Carroll and Elizabeth
Swift: settled in Irishtown, NB and had nine children:
2) Norah Donovan b. c1815 County Cork, m. 16 Nov 1841 at Grande Digue,
William Hogan:
3) possibly, Daniel Donovan born c1819 at County Cork, died 10 Sep 1885, m. Mary
Wiseman b. - , d. 13 Dec 1884: settled at Grande Digue and had five children:
4) Michael Donovan b. 1825 in County Cork, d. 23 Apr 1891, m. Mary Jane
Hennessey: settled at Irishtown, NB: had eight children.
Source: MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, pages 90-91.
DONOVAN: Michael Donovan born c1799 in Ireland, died on 31 Oct 1883, m.

Ellen Butler b. c1807 in Ireland, d. 1881: came to NB in 1831 and settled in Renous,
Blackville Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Jeremiah Donovan born 1832, d. after 1881, m. possibly, Johanna - and had
four children:
2) Catherine Donovan b. 1835, d. after 1851, possibly m. between 1851 and 1861:
3) John M. Donovan b. c1837, died after 1881, m. Mary Ann Hogan and had four
children:
4) Michael Donovan born c1840, died 18 Dec 1900, m. Catherine - : went to
Stillwater, MN:
5) Cornelius Donovan born c1843, d. 5 Oct 1909, m. Catherine Whalen and had at
least one child:
6) Timothy Donovan born c1844: may have married and moved to Stillwater: 7)
Ellen Donovan born c1846, married John Doyle and had seven children:
8) James Donovan b. c1848, m. Margaret McCormack: had nine children:
9) Honorah Donovan (twin) b. c1850, m. 22 Sep 1875 Michael Fitzgerald: had five
children:
10) Mary A. Donovan (twin) born c1850, d. c1885, m. Bartholomew Gillis: had five
children.

New Brunswick, pages 12, 21.
DONOVAN: Timothy Donovan b. c1777 in Ireland, d. before 1871, m. Ellen

Barrett b. c1783 in Ireland, d. before 1861: came to NB in 1824 and settled at Renous
in Blackville Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Michael T. Donovan b. c1815 Ireland, d. 15 Aug 1884, m Mary Hallahan: settled
in Renous, NB and had nine children:
2) Jeremiah Donovan born c1819 in Ireland, d. 27 Jul 1894, m. 1846 Bridget Hayes
b. c1823, died 27 Mar 1889: went to Stilwater, MN in 1868: had issue: 3) Ann
Donovan b. 1826.

New Brunswick, pages 12, 21.
DONOVAN: Timothy Donovan b. c1797 in Ireland, d. c1871: m. in Ireland, Eliza
Callaghan b. - , d. c1861: came from County Cork, Ireland to NB about 1841 and
settled at Strathadam, North Esk Parish in Northumberland County:
Children:
1) Johanna Donovan born c1838 in Ireland:
2) Daniel Donovan b. c1840 in Ireland, died 16 Feb 1907, m. Nov 1871 Julia
Sullivan born c1840, d. 18 Apr 1924 d/o Michael Sullivan and Alice Green of
Williamstown, NB: they settled at Strathadam and had issue:
3) John Donovan born Aug 1843, d. Feb 1902, m. c1871 Elizabeth Charlotte
Sullivan b. 16 Jan 1852, d. 24 Sep 1915: sister of Julia: settled at Strathadam and had
children:
4) Jeremiah Donovan b. c1845:
5) Edward Donovan (adopted) born c1862.
Sources: MC1/Donovan, 12 pages: contains copy of a report titled Timothy Donovan

& Eliza Callaghan of Ireland and New Brunswick, Canada by Edwin G. Donovan,
1988: see also MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, page 122: also
see Northumberland County census returns.
DOOGAN: Owen Doogan born in Ireland, died 8 Feb 1861, m. 22 Oct 1845 in Saint
John, NB, Mary McQuade born 1825 in Ireland: the family settled at Enniskillen,
Petersville Parish, Queens County:
Children:
1) Bernard Doogan b. Jun 1847:
2) John Doogan b. Apr 1851, d. 12 Jan 1915, m. Catherine Sullivan:
3) Hugh Doogan b. Aug 1852:
4) Mary Jane Doogan born Aug 1854, d. 9 Feb 1937, married 1 July 1893 Thomas
McCann:
5) Catherine Doogan.
Source: MC1/Eicher, 1 page: surname is also spelt Dougan and Duggan.
DOOGAN: see also DOUGAN
DOOLEY: William Dooley b. c1812 in County Tipperary, Ireland, died 1887, m.

Johanna O’Mahoney born c1815 in County Cork, Ireland, died 1901: they came to
NB and settled in Saint Stephen Parish, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) James Dooley b. c1849 in NB:
2) Daniel Dooley b. c1850:
3) Philip Dooley b. c1852:
4) Julia Ellen Dooley b. 1856, d. 1931, m. John W. Hinds b. 1851, d. 1892, s/o
James Hinds and Catherine McGahey: settled in Saint Stephen Parish and had issue:
5) William Dooley b. c1856.
also see the Charlotte County census records.
DORAN: John Doran b. c1796 at Liverpool, England, m. Mary Carnegie Gordon

born Sep 1808 at Maryport, Scotland: came to NB: first settled at Chatham,
Northumberland County, then on Shippagan Island, Gloucester County by 1829:
Children mentioned:
1) Jonathan Doran born c1833, d. unmarried at Shippagan:
2) John R. Doran b. c1835, m. Harriett - and had issue: settled at Nelson,
3) Mary Ann Doran born c1836, married 26 Feb 1867 William Taylor:
4) Eliza Gordon Doran b. 21 Apr 1837, died 9 Apr 1930, married 7 Feb 1860 James
G.C. Blackhall of Caraquet:
5) Mathilda Doran born c1840, m. 19 Jan 1864 at Shippagan, James Young of
Caraquet:
6) Isabella Doran born c1842, died 7 Jun 1900 unmarried at Shippagan:
7) Louisa Doran born c1846, died unmarried:
8) Albert Doran b. c1847, d. 1937 at Shippagan:
9) Susan Doran b. c1849, d. unmarried at Caraquet, NB.

pages 359-361.
DORCUS: Aaron Dorcus b. 1774 in Ireland, d. Sep 1853, m. Jane - born 1774, d.
15 Apr 1855: came to NB and first settled on Sugar Island in Saint John River: then
moved to Manners Sutton Parish in York County in 1846: then settled in Stanley,
York County:
Children:
1) Andrew Thomas Dorcus b. 1819 in Ireland, d. Jun 1862, m. (1st) Isabell Wishart:
had six children: m. (2nd) Mary Virtue born 1821 in Ireland: settled in Manners
Sutton Parish and had ten children:
2) John Dorcus m. Margaret Craig d/o James Craig and Mary Carmichael they
settled in Stanley and had seven children:
3) James Dorcus b. 1829, m. (1st) Miss Hood: m. (2nd) Miss Buchanan: they settled
in Stanley and had children:
4) William Dorcus m. Isabell Craig d/o James Craig and Mary Carmichael they
settled in Stanley and had eight children:
5) Aaron Dorcus Jr. born 1836, d. before 1901, married Elizabeth Blizzard of
Morrisons Mills in York County born 16 Jun 1841: they had ten children:
6) Sarah Dorcus m. Mr. Coombes:
7) Mary Anne Dorcus m. Mr. Rankin:
8) Elizabeth Dorcus married John Hay:
9) George Dorcus m. Elizabeth Craig d/o James Craig and Mary Hume: they
settled in Stanley and had seven children.
Sources: MC80/818 Rev. William Randall’s History of Harvey Settlement, pages 2,

27-29, 87-91: see also MC80/2504 Jocelean S. Hall et. al. Harvey Settlement
Cemetery 1837-1999, pages 43, 49.
DORE: Richard Dore b. 1807 at Highworth, Wiltshire, England, d. 28 May 1882:

came to NB about 1853: settled in Southampton Parish, York County: married Jane
Jones b. 1810, d. 22 Sep 1890 at Highworth, England:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Dore b. 15 May 1840 in Wiltshire, d. 25 Sep 1899, m. Abraham B.
Cronkhite born 6 Dec 1827, d. 27 May 1899: had children:
2) Richard Dore b. 1841, d. 6 Aug 1900, m. Jerusha Farnham born 11 Feb 1843,
died Jan 1929: had two children:
3) Jane Dore b. 1843, d. 27 May 1893:
4) John William Dore born 19 Dec 1846, d. 16 Jan 1917, married Charlotte
Caroline Oldham b. 23 Oct 1864, d. 23 Apr 1941: had issue:
5) Mary Dore b. 9 Jul 1851, died 27 Sep 1890, m. Aaron Wilmot Lenentine born 19
Aug 1857, d. 29 Mar 1917: had children:
6) Alice Dore m. William Ross born 1837: had issue.
Source: MC80/1671 Marie R. Colwell’s The Dore history.
DORITHY: Joseph Dorithy b. 1794 in Ireland, m. Margaret - b. 1798 in

Ireland: came to NB in 1837: settled in Sackville Parish, Westmorland County:

1) William S. Dorithy b. 1823 in Ireland, m. Matilda - b. in Ireland:
2) Hugh Dorithy born 1830 in Ireland:
3) Mary J. Dorithy b. 1833 in Ireland.

F20980; see sheet for Joseph Dorithy.
DORMADY: Patrick Dormady born 1818 in Ireland: came to NB in 1836: settled in

Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County: m. Mary - b. 1822 in NB:

1) Eleanor Dormady b. 1841:
2) William Dormady b. 1845:
3) Patrick Dormady b. 1848:
4) Richard Dormady b. 1850.

F20980; see sheet for Patrick Dormady.
DORMAN: John Dorman born c1777 in Scotland, died 21 Aug 1851: came to NB in
1818: settled in Saint John: m. (1st) Elizabeth - b. c1787, d. 1819: m. (2nd) 19 Jun
1819 Mary Ann Allison of Saint John born c1795, died 1 Mar 1830, d/o William
Allison and Ann Hughes: married (3rd) Jane Morrison b. c1798, d. 2 Nov 1841 at
Saint John: possibly married (4th) Mrs. Sally Chittick, widow of William Chittick of
Central Millstream, Kings County:

1) Marguerite Dorman m. George Satchwell from Boston, MA: had issue:

2) Mary Ann Dorman b. 1820:
3) John V. Dorman b. 1822, d. 2 Jan 1892, married (1st) Mary Simon, (2nd)
Elizabeth Moffatt: moved to Victoria, BC:
4) William Henry Dorman b. 6 Mar 1825, d. 1891: moved to Victoria, BC:
Children of third wife:

5) David Christopher Dorman born 10 Feb 1827, d. 16 Feb 1908: settled in Saint
John:
6) Mary Jane Dorman b. 20 Aug 1828:
7) James Henry Dorman b. 10 Apr 1830:
8) Margaret Eliza Dorman b. 11 Feb 1832:
9) Esther Ann Dorman b. 11 Sep 1834:
10) Frederick Weldon Dorman b. 31 Aug 1836 Saint John, died 19 Oct 1923 in
Moncton, NB: m. Mary Ann Brooks b. 10 Nov 1838 in Weymouth, NS, d. 3 Jan
1915 in Saint John:
11) Charlotte Rebecca Dorman b. 30 Apr 1840.
Source: MC1/Dorman, 2 pages: see RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files,
Dorman family: microfilm F11081, 4 pages.
DORNAN: Dennis Dornan b. 1786 at Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, m. (1st)

in Ireland - , m. (2nd) in Ireland, Lillian McLeary or McCleary born c1791 in
Ireland: they came to NB in 1826 and settled in Harvey Parish, Albert County:
Child of first marriage:

1) John Dornan b. c1820 in County Antrim, d. 26 Sep 1896, m. 12 Aug 1845 in Saint
John, Susannah Doherty of Dutch Valley, Kings County, b. c1814 in County Derry,
Ireland, d. 6 Aug 1890: settled in Harvey Parish and had seven children:

2) Rose Dornan born c1825, married 4 Aug 1844 Manus McFadden born in Ireland
s/o David and Sarah McFadden of Harvey Parish:
3) Sarah Dornan b. c1826, m. 8 May 1849 John Long s/o Thomas Long of Sussex
Parish, Kings County:
4) Lawrence Dornan born c1830 in NB, d. 1911 at Campbellton, NB, m. 8 May 1849
Mary Doherty b. 1836, d. 1926 at Edmonton, Alberta, d/o James Doherty and Ann
Travers: settled in New Ireland and had seven children:
5) Ann/Nancy Dornan b. c1832, married c1854 James Doherty s/o James Doherty
and Ann Travers of New Ireland:
6) Dennis Dornan b. c1834, m. Mary - :
7) Patrick Dornan born c1838.
MC80/2014 Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish Catholic settlers of Albert
County, New Brunswick, pages 63-67.
DORNAN: John Dornan b. c1819 in County Antrim, Ireland, d. 26 Sep 1896: came
to NB in 1826 and settled in or near New Ireland in Alma Parish, Albert County:
married Ann or Susan - born c1814 in Ireland, d. 6 Aug 1890: she came to NB in
1841:
Children:
1) Rose Dornan b. c1846:
2) Sarah Dornan b. c1848:
3) Mary Ann Dornan b. c1849:
4) Margaret Dornan born 1851.
Sources: MC80/1617 Cemetery transcriptions: Kings-Albert counties: also see the

Albert County census records: the surname was also spelled as Dornin and possibly
Durning.
DORNAN: William Dornan or Durning b. c1791 in County Louth, Ireland, d. 1863,

m. in Ireland Rose Ginnety b. 17 Mar 1798 in Ardee, County Louth, d. 1 Dec 1875:
came to NB in 1832: settled on Salmon River near New Ireland in Alma Parish, Albert
County:
Children:
1) Patrick Dornan b. c1824 in Ireland, d. 27 Jan 1860:
2) Edward or Edwin Dornan b. c1826 in Ardee, County Louth, d. unmarried Feb
1904:
3) Mary Dornan b. c1828 in Ireland, d. 4 Sep 1894:
4) Rosanna Dornan b. c1830 in Ireland:
5) Judith Dornan b. c1832 in NB, d. 9 May 1889 in Moncton, NB, married 29 Sep
1868 in New Ireland, Capt. Michael Parkinson of Alma Parish, b. Kilrush Parish,
County Clare, Ireland, d. 7 Jan 1872:
6) James Dornan b. c1834 in NB, d. 8 Dec 1917 in Saint John, married c1866 Ellen
Hennessey born c1845 in NB, died 12 Nov 1892: they had five children: 7) Bridget
Dornan b. c1838, d. Apr 1906 in Moncton, married 18 Nov 1867 at New Ireland,
James Lawlor of Albert Mines, NB, born in Ireland, died 3 Jan 1915: settled in
Moncton, NB
MC80/1617 Cemetery transcriptions: Kings-Albert counties: also see Albert County
census records: surname was also spelled as Durning and Dornin: see MC80/2014
Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish Catholic settlers of Albert County, New
Brunswick, pages 88-91 where surname is spelt Durning: widower James Lawlor
married (2nd) 30 Jun 1909 at Memramcook, NB, Helen Hayes of Cape Tormentine,
NB, b. - , d. 13 May 1918 Moncton, d/o Patrick Hayes and Mary Savage.
DORRINGTON: Michael Dorrington born in Ireland, d. after 1845: came to NB

before 1825: settled in Upper Halcomb, North Esk Parish, Northumberland County:
married Catherine Grady:
Children:
1) Catherine Dorrington married Nicholas McCarthy: to Minnesota in 1849:
2) Michael Dorrington born c1814, married Esther Sherwood born 1813 d/o
William Sherwood: they settled in Whitney and had seven children:
3) Bridget Dorrington born c1816, m. 7 Jul 1845 Patrick O’Brien:
4) John Dorrington born Jul 1828.
DOTEN: Joseph Johnson Doten b. 14 Jan 1817 at Yarmouth, ME, d. 24 May 1879,
s/o Samuel Doten and Deborah Hurley: settled in NB: m. 23 Oct 1840 Phebe
Bradford d/o Benjamin Bradford and Lucy Russell of St Andrews, NB: this family
settled at Oak Bay, Saint David Parish, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) a daughter who was born and died 25 Dec 1841:
2) Lucy Russell Doten born 2 Aug 1843 in Prince William, York County, NB, died
Jan 1924, married David Smith of Oak Bay: had two children:
3) Orrin Bradford Doten b. 5 Apr 1845 in Saint David Parish, d. 9 Feb 1924, m. 7
Feb 1888 Annie Blanche Morrell b. 29 Aug 1868 at Oak Bay, d. 6 Nov 1952: had
five children:
4) Deborah Bucknam Doten b. 18 Mar 1847 in Saint David Parish, d. 1922, m.
Wesley Robinson of Oak Bay: had three children:
5) Lydia Perkins Doten born 14 Jan 1849 in Saint David Parish, m. Harding
Rideout: moved to Kenora, Ontario:
6) Josephine Johnson Doten b. 27 Oct 1850, d. 4 May 1855:
7) Maria Garcelon Doten b. 8 Jul 1853 at Oak Bay, d. 14 Oct 1924, m. 1885 George
S. Morrell of Oak Bay: they settled at Oak Bay and had four children:
8) Russell Johnson Doten born 6 Oct 1855 at Oak Bay, died 8 Dec 1915, m. 1885
Emily Markee of St. Stephen, Charlotte County: settled at Oak Bay: had four
children.
Source: MC1/Doten, 23 pages: file contains a copy of a report titled The Doty-Doten
Family 1620-1970 compiled by O. Chester Doten: see also MC2733 F.E. McConvey:
Inlaws, outlaws and kin folk, 14 and 21 Mar 1990, 2 pages.
DOTTEN: Joshua Dotten b. 9 Jun 1783 probably at NY, d. 1862, s/o James Dotten
and Abigail Odell: came to NS and settled at Wallace Bay: married (1st) c1805 Sarah
Beebe, m. (2nd) c1842 Nancy Ann Connelly b. 1803, buried 20 Dec 1892:
The following children settled in NB:

1) Sarah Dotten born 13 Sep 1806 in NS, daughter of Sarah, d. 1892: came to NB and
settled at Point de Bute, Westmorland County: she m. (1st) Capt. John Carney born in
North Ireland, lost at sea: m. (2nd) 9 Nov 1837 Ralph Dobson born 22 Feb 1816 at
Point de Bute:
2) James Stuart Dotten b. 1812 at Falmouth, NS, son of Sarah, d. 1898: came to NB
by 1837 and settled in Saint John: m. Sarah Rebecca Knowles b. 1815 in NS, d.
1893, sister of Edward Knowles of Saint John: this family moved to Brooklyn, NY
by 1865:
3) Thomas Patterson Dotten b. 26 Sep 1845 in Sackville, NB, son of Nancy, buried
18 Mar 1932 in Winchester, MA: came to NB and settled in Sackville, Westmorland
County: m. c1864 at Sackville, Sarah Jameson b. in Sackville, d. c1865: married
(2nd) 26 Sep 1865 at Sackville, Amanda Margaret Oulton b. 1842 in Scotland, d. 23
Nov 1892: m. (3rd) 9 Dec 1893 at Winchester, MA, Lavonia Taylor b. 2 Jul 1853 at
New Portland, ME:
4) Daniel Ted Dotten b. 15 Jan 1846 at Wallace, NS, son of Nancy, d. 4 Aug 1934:
came to NB: settled at Dorchester, Westmorland County: m. (1st) Dec 1866 at
Amherst, NS, Mary Elizabeth Bowser b. 1839 at Sackville, NB, d. 31 Oct 1897:
married (2nd) c1897 at Dorchester, Catherine Hayes b. - , d. c1907.
Source: MC80/502 William L. Dutton’s The Dotten family, pages 1-7.
DOUCET: Charles Doucet born 1722 or 1725, d. 14 Sep 1798, s/o François Doucet
and Marie Poirier: married 10 Jan 1746 at Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Anne Arsenault
d/o François Arsenault and Marguerite Bernard: came to NB in 1772 and settled at
Bathurst, Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Madeleine Doucet b. 1748, m. 22 Jun 1772 at Bathurst, Joseph Haché s/o Charles
Haché and Geneviève Lavergne:
2) Pierre Doucet b. c1751, married (1st) 10 Sep 1773 at Miscou, NB, Marie Haché-
Gallant, d/o Jacques Haché-Gallant and Josette Boudreau, widow of Joseph
Arseneau: six children: m. (2nd) 30 May 1814 Rosalie Thériault, widow of Jean-
Baptiste Godin:
3) Michel Doucet b. c1754, married 12 Sep 1776 Anne Boudreau d/o Joseph
Boudreau and Anne Haché: had eighteen children:
4) Joseph Doucet born c1756, died 17 Apr 1830, married (1st) 26 Apr 1779 at
Bonaventure, Québec, Victoire Bujold d/o Charles Bujold and Marguerite
Cormier: had ten children: married (2nd) 15 Oct 1809 at Bathurst, Catherine
Vienneau d/o Jean-Baptiste Vienneau and Madeleine Lejeune: they had five
children:
5) Charles Doucet b. c1758, m. 3 May 1790 at Bathurst, Marie Arseneau d/o Joseph
Arseneau and Marie Haché: had seven children:
6) Modeste Doucet b. c1760, m. c1777 Joseph LeBlanc s/o Joseph LeBlanc and
Marie-Joseph Daigle:
7) Anastasie Doucet b. P.E.I. 2 Oct 1761:
8) Rosalie Doucet b. 26 Sep 1765:
9) Jacques Doucet b. on P.E.I. 26 Jul 1768:
10) Théotiste Doucet m. Joseph Hébert s/o Simon and Anne Caissie.
Sources: MC80/781 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. II,
page 575: see MC80/814 Rosaline Guitard’s Nouvelles génélogiques & historiques
(Petit-Rocher) Vol 1, #3, pages 2-7: see also MC80/1552 Irma Doucet’s Génealogie
des familles Doucet & Vautour: nos premier’s ancêtres - our first ancestors.
DOUCET: Charles Doucet b. 16 Feb 1780 in Bonaventure, QC s/o Michel Doucet

and Marie-Anne Boudreau: m. 7 Oct 1800 at Bathurst, Gloucester County, Marie-
Pélagie Lejeune d/o Joseph Lejeune and Marie Messière: first settled at Bathurst,
then at Petit-Rocher, Gloucester County in 1797:
Children :
1) Pélagie Doucet b. 1802 and probably died young:
2) Aimé Doucet b. 27 Sep 1803, married 21 Feb 1832 at Petit-Rocher, Marie Roy d/o
Jean-Baptiste Roy and Marie Grant:
3) Fabien Doucet born 20 Oct 1805, m. 15 Nov 1825 Reine Roy d/o Joseph Roy and
Judithe Boudreau:
4) Marie Lucie Doucet b. 8 Dec 1809, d. unmarried:
5) Marie Doucet b. 1812 and probably died young:
6) Emilie Doucet born 1816, m. 15 Sep 1834 at Bonaventure, Québec, Jules Glazier
s/o André Glazier and Françoise Bouré:
7) Marcel Doucet born c1821, married 3 Feb 1842 Sara Frenette d/o Alexis
Frenette and Marguerite Boudreau:
8) Pierre Doucet born 16 Oct 1825, m. 26 Jan 1846 Louise-Arca Boudreau d/o Isaie
Boudreau and Rose Boudreau.
Source: MC80/1814 Rosaline Guitard’s Nouvelles génélogiques & historiques (Petit-

Rocher) Vol 1, #1, page 5; Vol 1, #7, page 11; Vol 1, #12, page 16.
DOUCET: Étienne Doucet b. c1779, d. 8 Jul 1863, m. c1803 Marie Landry d/o
Pierre Landry and Marguerite Allain: they came from Sainte-Anne-du-Bocage, QC
to NB and settled in Caraquet, Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Marie Doucet b. c1805, d. 25 Feb 1807:
2) Étienne dit Stephen Doucet born 3 May 1806, died c1857, married 18 Feb 1833
Marthe Witzell d/o William Witzell and Marie-Mathilde Topham of Shippagan:
settled in Shippagan and had eight children: widow Marthe married (2nd) 23 Nov 1868
Hubert Mallet widower of Susanne Leclerc:
3) Marie Vénérande Doucet b. 20 Feb 1808:
4) Marie-Claire Doucet born 3 Apr 1810, d. 22 Aug 1877, m. c1849 Joachim
Thériault s/o Victor Thériault, and widower of Claire Gauvin:
5) Joseph Urbain Doucet born 19 Apr 1812, d. 29 Jan 1870, married 15 Apr 1835
Marie Cormier d/o Ambroise Cormier and Olive Thériault: had eight children:
6) Raymond Auguste Doucet b. 3 Feb 1814:
7) Pierre Lévi Doucet b. 20 Mar 1816:
8) Bernard Doucet b. 29 Jan 1820, d. 25 Apr 1895, m. c1848 Célina Allain b. - , d.
10 Apr 1859, d/o Louis Allain and Marguerite Cooke of Néguac: settled in Caraquet
and had ten children.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pgs 134-41.
DOUCET: Michel Doucet born c1753, d. 16 Apr 1813, s/o Charles Doucet and
Anne Arsenault: m. 12 Sep 1776 at Miscou Island, Gloucester County, Marie-Anne
Boudreau d/o Joseph Boudreau and Anne Haché: the family settled at Nipisiquit
(Bathurst West) in Gloucester County:

1) Hubert Doucet b. 1777, m. Marie Haché:
2) Cyprien Doucet b. 1778, m. Suzanne LeJeune:
3) Jules Doucet born 1779, married Monique Pitre:
4) Sylvain Doucet born 1780, m. Rosalie Arseneau:
5) Laurent Doucet b. 1781, married Marie LeJeune:
6) Joseph Doucet b. 1782, married 6 Jan 1826 Melanie Pitre:
7) Pierre Doucet b. 1783, m. 5 Oct 1828 Constance Landry:
8) Charles Doucet married Marie Pelagie LeJeune:
9) Jean-Baptiste Doucet b. 18 Sep 1792:
10) Augustin Doucet born 4 Sep 1796:
11) Marie Doucet born 20 Jul 1798:
12) Gilbert Doucet b. 8 Dec 1799:
13) François Doucet b. 25 Aug 1803:
14) Marguerite Doucet b. 8 Dec 1804:
15) Agnes Doucet m. Pierre Laplante:
16) Tharsile Doucet m. 20 Sep 1840 Timothy Roy.
Source: MC80/1552 Irma Doucet’s Génealogie des familles Doucet & Vautour: nos
premier’s ancêtres- our first ancestors.
DOUCETTE: Cyril Doucette (Rev.) born on 14 Nov 1814 at Wedgeport, NS, died 7
Aug 1876 at Knowlesville: m. (1st) Mary Parfitt b. 1819 in Sheffield, England, d. 16
May 1872, d/o Thomas Parfitt: m. (2nd) 26 Dec 1872 Lucinda E. Leemon of
Fredericton: the family settled in various communities including Knowlesville,
Aberdeen Parish, Carleton County:
Children by first wife:

1) Jacob Doucette:
2) Henry Doucette b. 1841, d. 1921, m. (1st) Jerusha Jones, (2nd) Dora Gray Jones:
family settled at Knowlesville:
3) Amanda Jane Doucette born c1842, died 1864, married Amos Woodcock:
4) Georgia Doucette born 1843, d. Aug 1916, married Rev. Caleb T. Phillips born
1841, died 1911:
5) Walter Doucette born 1845, d. 1922, m. Mary Hobbs:
6) Maria A. Doucette born 1847, died 1872, m. 1870 Capt. Vince McLeod: 7) Mary
S. Doucette, born Oct 1849, m. Charles Lewin of Glassville, NB:
8) Leonard B. Doucette born 1852, died 1917, married 26 Oct 1873, Adrah A.
Whitehouse:
Children by second wife:

9) Stephen Doucette born 1873, d. 1908 in Fredericton:
10) Viola Doucette.
Sources: MC1/Doucette #1, 2 pages: family joined the United Baptist Church on
Grand Manan in 1851 and Cyril became a minister in 1854: see MC80/465 Annie
Dyer et al. History of Argyle and vicinity, page 5.
DOUGAL: William Dougal b. 1797 in Ireland, d. 31 Aug 1886: came to NB and

settled in Saint John: m. Isabel Gunn or Isabel Glenn born 1789 in Saint John, died 1
Jun 1873:
Children:
1) Eliza/Elizabeth Dougal b. 10 Mar 1815 in Saint John, d. 1884 in Chicago, IL, m.
19 Sep 1843 at Portland, NB, John Heuston born in Saint John, d. 18 Dec 1862:
settled in Saint John: had issue:
2) Mary Dougal m. Joseph Batchelor:
3) Margaret Dougal born 23 Dec 1823, married Andrew Inches.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pgs 216-217: see
also MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New
Brunswick, pg. 77.
DOUGAN: John Hunter Dougan b. 1819 in Ireland, d. 1896, married Rachel

Wooden born 1827 in Ireland, d. 1911: may have settled in Blissville Parish, Sunbury
County: only child mentioned was, Margaret C. Dougan born 1854 in NB, died
1908, married Thomas B. Charlton b. 1842 in NB, s/o Charles Augustus Charlton
and Lanah Golden: settled in Blissville and had issue.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pgs 165-6.
DOUGAN: see also DOOGAN
DOUGHERTY: Benjamin Dougherty of County Down, Ireland, born 1796, died

1882, m. Sarah Anne Anderson of Londonderry, Ireland, b. 1806, d. 20 Jun 1875:
family came to NB when daughter Annie was eight years old and settled in Limestone,
near Debec, Carleton County:
Children:
1) Elizabeth Dougherty m. Mr. Brown: settled in the Glassville, NB region:
2) Isaac Dougherty:
3) Thomas Dougherty:
4) Joseph Dougherty:
5) John Dougherty married Miss McDougal, sister of Mark McDougal of Eel River
area: had six children:
6) James Dougherty married Bessie - and had at least three children:
7) Gusty Dougherty:
8) Julia Dougherty:
9) Annie Hyde Dougherty b. in Ireland, m. 1854 John Laverty b. c1826 in
Maugerville, d. 1897, s/o George Laverty and Elizabeth Brown: settled at
Speerville, NB: had ten children:
10) Hugh Dougherty.
Source: MC80/546 C.A. Laverty’s The New Brunswick Lavertys, pages 11, 65-66.
DOUGHERTY: Joseph Dougherty b. 1806 in Ireland: came to NB in 1820 and

settled in Fredericton, York County: m. Elizabeth - b. 1811 in Ireland and came to
NB in 1829:
Children:
1) George Dougherty b. Apr 1835, d. 1 Mar 1835:
2) Mary Dougherty born 1835 in NB, d. 3 Jul 1867:
3) Joseph Dougherty b. 1838 in NB:
4) George Dougherty born 1840:
5) Elizabeth Dougherty b. 1844:
6) Sarah Dougherty b. Jun 1847, d. 23 Jun 1847.
Source: MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. I,
pages 235-236: also see the York County census records.
DOUGHERTY: see also DOHERTY
DOUGHTY: Joseph Doughty was son of James Doughty probably of South

Carolina who came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled at St. Andrews in Charlotte
County: Joseph died by 1840: his wife’s name is not provided: the family eventually
settled on Deer Island, West Isles Parish, Charlotte County:
Children;
1) James Doughty born 1796, died by 1843, m. 4 Dec 1814 Margaret Conley born
1798, died 1854:
2) John Doughty born 1805, died 1872, m. Rebecca Card d/o Henry Card: settled
at Leonardville on Deer Island:
3) Fatima Patience Doughty b. 1809, d. after 1851, m. 26 Apr 1826 George Cline b.
1802, d. after 1851:
4) David Doughty m. 21 Dec 1826 Martha Lord:
5) William Doughty b. 1815, m. Margaret Flinn born 1823:
6) Robert Doughty m. c1839 Susan Wilson of Campobello Island: there were
probably additional children.
Source: MC80/21 Martha Barto’s Passamaquoddy: Genealogies of West Isles

families, pages 65-68.
DOUGLAS: Daniel Douglas born 1811 in Scotland: came to NB: settled near
Jerusalem, Hampstead Parish, Queens County: married Margaret Dunn born 1811 in
Scotland:
Children:
1) William Douglas born 1836 in NB, married Anna Stetson and moved to the USA:
2) Robert Douglas born 1840, m. Charlotte Williams: settled in Jerusalem and had
issue:
3) Christina Douglas born 1843: moved to USA:
4) Eleanor Douglas born in 1845, married John Dunn: settled in Jerusalem:
5) Daniel Douglas b. 1847, m. Emmeline Smith and settled in Rothesay, NB: 6)
John Douglas born 1850, married and settled at Hampstead:
7) Annie Douglas married and moved to the USA:
8) Bruce Douglas married his cousin, Margaret Douglas: family settled at Jerusalem:
had two children.
Source: MC80/823 Annie E. Elder’s History of New Jerusalem, pages 53-54.
DOUGLAS: Henry Douglas b. 1787, d. 1867: came to NB before 1819 and settled in
Saint John: m. Margaret Thompson:

1) James Douglas b. 1819 in Saint John, m. 1847 Ann Lockhart: had seven children:
2) Robert Douglas b. - , m. Sarah Ann - and had issue:
3) Frances Douglas b. - , m. 1856 Alexander Lockhart: had four children:
4) Samuel Douglas b. 1826, m. Isabella Arbuthnot:
5) Mary Jane Douglas b. - , m. 1851 William Lockhart and had six children:
6) Margaret Douglas b. - , m. 1842 Moses Adair and had nine children.
Source: MC2824 Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Douglas, 2 pages.
DOUGLAS: James Douglas born 1819 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, died 24 Jul 1851
at Partridge Island, NB: came to NB and settled in Saint John: m. 20 May 1846
Eleanor McKee, second d/o George McKee.

DOUGLAS: John Douglas born 1816 in England, d. 1891, s/o John Douglas and
Isabel Wilson: married Ann Pringle born 1820 in England d/o William Pringle and
Margaret Appleby: they came to NB: settled in Stanley Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Thomas Douglas born 1846:
2) Jane Douglas born 1848:
3) Margaret A. Douglas born 1849:
4) John Douglas b. 1851, d. 1937, m. Margaret McKinnon b. 1862, d. 1940, d/o
Neil McKinnon and Phoebe Boulter: settled in Stanley and had children:
5) William Douglas b. 1853:
6) Ann Douglas born 1855:
7) Isabella Douglas b. 1857:
8) Mary A. Douglas b. 1859:
9) David Douglas b. 1861.
Sources: MC1/Jarvis #2, 2 pages: William Pringle b. 1790, d. 1854, Margaret

Appleby born 1792, died 1840: see also MC80/53 Frank Baird’s History of the
Parish of Stanley, page 134: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick
lineages, page 159: also see the York County census records.
DOUGLAS: Robert Douglas b. c1813 in Londonderry, Ireland: came to NB c1832

and settled at Bouctouche in Wellington Parish, Kent County: married Betsey Ann
Smith of Shediac, NB, born c1810:
Children:
1) Matilda Douglas b. c1846:
2) Cordelia Ann Douglas born c1847:
3) Henrietta Douglas born c1848:
4) Eliza Douglas born 1849:
5) Charles Knowlton S. Douglas b. 1850, m. 4 Sep 1888 Mary Ann Porter b. - , d.
1939: had four children.
Sources: MC80/273 Marguerite Michaud’s La reconstruction françoise au Nouveau-

Brunswick: Bouctouche Paroisse-type, page 185: also see the 1861 Kent County
census records: the surname is also spelled as Douglass: see also MC244 Charles
Douglass fonds.
DOUGLAS: Thomas Douglas (Capt.): settled in Saint John: m. 4 Aug 1827 in Saint
John, Jane Frost, second d/o Henry Frost: only child mentioned, Charles Turner
Douglas born 1835, died 23 Apr 1849.

DOW: David Dow born 25 Dec 1714 in Massachusetts, d. c1783, s/o Stephen Dow
and Mary Hutchins: m. (1st) 28 Jan 1736 in Salem, MA, Abigail Kelley b. - , died 1
Jan 1743, married (2nd) 10 Apr 1744 at Salem, Mary Brown born 9 Jan 1725 d/o
Caleb and Elizabeth Brown: they first settled at Maugerville in Sunbury County then
about 1770 moved to Dow Settlement in Canterbury Parish, York County:
Children born in Salem, MA:

1) Abigail Dow b. 12 Sep 1737, d. 29 Dec 1743:
2) Hannah Dow b. 4 Sep 1740:
3) Mary Dow b. 17 Dec 1743, d. young:
Children by second wife:
4) Enoch Dow b. 26 Nov 1744, m. Ruth Norton:
5) Nith Dow born 20 Mar 1748: to NB in 1770: returned to the U.S. in 1803:
6) Mary Dow b. 3 Oct 1749:
7) Elizabeth Dow b. 20 Apr 1753.
Source: MC1/Dow: file contains an excerpt from The Book of Dow by Robert P.
Dow: data on David Dow and family is on pages 688-690: David Dow was the first
Dow to come to New Brunswick.
DOW: Enoch Dow b. 26 Nov 1744 at Salem, MA, d. 23 Sep 1813, s/o David Dow
and Mary Brown: m. Ruth Norton: came to NB about 1700: first settled at
Maugerville then in 1803 moved to Dow Settlement in Canterbury Parish, York
County:
Childrenn are listed in an estimated order:

1) John Dow b. 1770, d. 1832, m. Hannah Brooks:
2) Jesse Dow b. 1772, d. 1867, married c1802 Mary Teed born 25 Mar 1782, died 27
Mar 1869:
3) David Dow b. 1773, d. 1794 unmarried:
4) Amos Dow m. Anna Teed, sister of Jesse's wife Mary:
5) Enoch Dow born 1777, died 1845, m. Basha Cronkite:
6) Mary Dow b. 1778 or 29 Mar 1781, d. 1843, m. Amos Brooks:
7) Enoch Dow born 7 Jul 1783, m. Mary Lucretia Phillips born c1802 in NB, d. 18
Oct 1875, d/o Robert Phillips and Elizabeth Lydecker: they settled in Meductic,
York County area and had six children:
8) Rhoda Dow b. 14 Nov 1785, d. 1877, m. John Porter:
9) Ruth Dow born 1 Dec 1787, married Abraham Estey:
10) Hannah Dow born 19 Dec 1793, m. David Phillips.
11) Esther Dow m. William Watson:
Sources: MC1/Dow: contains a copy of an excerpt from The Book of Dow by Robert
P. Dow: data on Enoch Dow and family is on pages 690 to 700: Ruth Norton was
sister of John Norton of Dow Settlement: see MC1396 George Hayward
genealogical fonds, MS1C The Hayward collection, A893, A894, 3 pages.
DOW: John Dow born 12 Jan 1783 in Amesbury, MA, died 21 Apr 1852, s/o Joseph
Dow and Judith Butman: came from Southport, ME to NB in 1803: was a
lumberman and shipbuilder at Oromocto, Sunbury County: married 1809 Phoebe
Smith b. 30 Aug 1793 in Queens County, NB, d. 27 Nov 1841: family moved to
Maine in 1835:

1) Eliza Ann Dow b. 1 Feb 1810, m. Henry Bonnell and went to Digby, NS: 2) John
Emery Dow b. 13 Apr 1811, d. 6 Apr 1893, m. 12 Jul 1834 Sophia Jane Barlow b.
27 Jun 1810 in Saint John: family first settled in Sheffield, NB then moved to Maine:
3) Henry Dow born 14 Jan 1812, m. Jane Hathaway of Sheffield, NB: family moved
to Woodstock, NB:
4) George Dow b. 7 Mar 1814, d. 2 Oct 1815:
5) (twin) b. 18 Apr 1815, d. 19 Apr 1815:
6) (twin) born 18 Apr 1815, died 19 Apr 1815:
7) Mary Frances Dow b. 11 Jun 1816, d. unmarried:
8) Elijah Smith Dow b. 11 Feb 1818: moved to Maine:
9) Absolom Smith Dow b. 27 May 1819, d. 12 Nov 1901: moved to Maine: 10)
Phoebe Amanda Dow born 25 Mar 1821: moved to Maine:
11) Eleanor Amelia Dow b. 11 Feb 1823:
12) Margaret Taylor Dow b. 12 Jan 1825:
13) Oliver Smith Dow born 3 Dec 1827:
14) Arthur Dow b. 5 May 1829, d. 6 May 1829:
15) Catherine Leonard Dow b. 5 Apr 1830, d. young:
16) Catherine Annie Dow b. 1 Mar 1835 in New Limerick, ME.
Source: MC1/Dow: file contains a photocopy of an excerpt from The Book of Dow by
Robert P. Dow: data on John Dow is on pages 561-564.
DOW: Joseph Dow b. Amesbury, MA s/o Joseph Dow and Judith Butman: m. (1st)
10 Apr 1768 Judith Emery, whose sister m. Joseph's brother Henry: Joseph m. (2nd)
Eliza Ann Emery: first settled in Haverhill, MA, then went to Southport, ME where
he was a shipbuilder: he moved to Oromocto, Sunbury County about 1810 to establish
a shipbuilding business:
Children of first marriage:

1) Thomas Dow: stayed at Southport, ME:
2) Joseph Dow: came to NB and received land grant in 1810:
3) John Dow b. 12 Jan 1783, m. Phoebe Smith:
4) William Dow:
5) Daniel Dow:
Children of second marriage:

6) Henry Dow m. Mary McMonegal: became a shipbuilder at Oromocto:
7) Absalom Dow:
8) Eunice Dow.
Source: MC1/Dow: the file contains an excerpt from The Book of Dow by Robert P.
Dow: data on Joseph Dow and his family is on pages 558 to 565.
DOWD: James Dowd born c1809 in County Londonderry, Ireland, d. 15 Nov 1861:
he came to NB in Jun 1833 and settled at Black River in Simonds Parish, Saint John
County: m. 9 Nov 1835 Roseanna McWade b. in Ireland and came to NB in 1833:
Children:
1) Charles Dowd b. c1836:
2) Margaret Dowd b. c1838:
3) Ann Dowd b. c1841, d. 11 Mar 1867:
4) James Dowd b. c1846.
Source: MC80/2933 Mary M. Bedford’s John McLeod Shipbuilding Company,

Black River, NB, page 80.
DOWER: John Dower b. c1782 in Ireland: came to NB before 1800: settled in

Nelson area of Northumberland County: m. 1820 Mary Brown born 1787:
Children:
1) Thomas Dower b. 1822, m. 8 May 1849 Margaret Clarkson b. 1825: they may
have moved to the USA:
2) James Dower b. 1824, m. Jane Sullivan b. 1828 d/o Michael Sullivan and
Barbara Peters: they had five children:
3) John Dower (twin) born 1830, d. 22 Mar 1889, married 1856 Maria Ann
(Wallace) Givan, a widow, born 1815, d. 1884: they had four children:
4) Mary Dower (twin) b. 1830, married 1878 Archibald Wood:
5) Howard Dower m. Constance Regan.
Miramichi, 1 page.
DOWLING: John Dowling came to NB with a wife and one child in 1783 as
Loyalists: they settled in Saint Andrews Parish, Charlotte County.
Source: MC2657 NBGS Newsletter Issue #13, September 1982: Sharon M. Debeau’s
Charlotte County Loyalists, page 9.
DOWLING: Lawrence Dowling b. 1740 in Ireland, d. 27 Jul 1820: he came to NB in

1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Saint John: he m. Eleanor Bean d/o Thomas Bean.

DOWNEY: Abraham Downey born c1759: he came to NB as a Loyalist and

received land on Belleisle Bay in Kars Parish, Kings County: married c1785 Mary
Glover b. c1768: only child mentioned was, Susannah Downey born c1785, married
1802 Jeremiah Mabee born 1780, died 1864: had children.
Source: MC80/2119 Gail B Pipes’ Loyalists all: stories about New Brunswick
Loyalists and their descendants, page 178.
DOWNEY: James Downey born 1811 in Dublin, Ireland, died 26 Oct 1874, m. (1st)
Miss Morrow? b. and died in Ireland, m. (2nd) 19 Nov 1832 Margaret Morrow b.
1819 in Ireland, d. c1875: sister of first wife: they came to NB and settled in
Lorneville/Pisarinco, Saint John County:

1) Infant Downey b. c1830 in Ire, d. c1831 in Toronto, ON:
Children born at Lorneville, NB of second wife:

2) Mary Ann Downey b. 1839, d. c1872, m. (1st) Daniel MacDonald b. 1836 in Cape
Breton, NS: m. (2nd) c1870 in Saint John or Boston, MA, Maurice Landers: first
settled at Lorneville and had children:
3) Susan Downey b. 1841, d. 9 Jan 1904 at Saint John, married 1 Jun 1859 at
Carleton, Saint John County, Edward Cunnabel Woodworth b. 21 Feb 1837 at Saint
John, d. 21 Jul 1916 in Saint John:
4) John Downey born 18 Apr 1843, died 16 Oct 1912 at Saint John, m. 2 Feb 1871 in
Saint John, Eliza Jane Pierce b. 1848, d. 17 Sep 1923 at Saint John: 5) William
George Downey b. 1844, died 14 Sep 1917 Saint John, m. 20 Nov 1878 at Saint John,
Matilda Ann Ferguson born 25 Mar 1859 at Lorneville, d. 31 Oct 1921 at Lorneville:
6) Margaret Downey born c1846, d. c1876, m. 20 Oct 1863 at Carleton, Saint John,
John M. Christopher born c1841:
7) Andrew Downey born 1854, died 1883 at Lorneville:
8) Ellen A. (Nell) Downey b. 1861, died 1941 at Fairville, Saint John County, m. 19
Nov 1884 at Saint John, John W. Baird b. 1856 at Lorneville, died 15 Jul 1938 at
Fairville, NB:
9) Robert Downey b. - , died in infancy.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pgs. 209 to 210:
see also MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in
New Brunswick, pages 77-78.
DOWNEY: John Downey b. 1809 in Ireland: came to NB in 1834: settled in

Botsford Parish, Westmorland County: m. Mary - born 1824 in Ireland:

1) William Downey b. 1848:
2) Elizabeth Downey b. 1851.

F20980; see sheet for John Downey.
DOWNEY: John Downey born 1819 in Ireland, d. 1893: came to NB in 1841 and
settled in Brighton Parish in Carleton County: m. Susan Moriah Britton b. 1826 in
NB, d. 1893, d/o Stephen Britton and Lydia Shaw:
Children:
1) William Downey born 1845, m. Matilda - and had issue:
2) Francis Downey b. 1848.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 71-72: also
see the Carleton County census records.
DOWNING: David Downing born c1723 in County Cork, Ireland, d. 7 Oct 1802, s/o
John Downing and Margaret O'Donnell: he was in NB during the Seven Years War
1756-1763: m. 15 Jul 1754 at Port Lajoie, PEI, Dorothy Boudrot b. - , d. 7 Oct 1802
at Franklin Manor, Nappan Parish, Cumberland County, NS: came to NB: settled at
Dover, Dorchester Parish, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) John Downing born 25 Oct 1755 at Port Lajoie, m. 13 Sep 1780 Margaret Haché
of Westcock, NB:
2) Michel Downing b. 19 Jul 1757 at Port Lajoie, died young:
3) Madelaine Marie Downing b. 16 Oct 1759 at Port Lajoie, m. 1780 Pierre
Saulnier of Memramcook, NB:
4) Marie Downing:
5) Ann Downing b. 6 Jan 1764 in NS, married 17 Sep 1781 Isidore Doiron: 6) David
Downing born 22 Feb 1766 at Franklin Manor, NS, m. (1st) 24 Mar 1785 Rose
McCrum of Amherst, NS, (2nd) Rose Niles:
7) Margaret Downing born 20 Jan 1768 at Franklin Manor, m. 7 Aug 1786 John
Gould s/o Peter Gould and Margaret Leger:
8) Catherine Downing born 14 Aug 1769 at Franklin Manor, NS, m. 7 Aug 1786
Joseph Gould s/o Peter Gould and Margaret Leger:
9) Magdelene Downing born on 20 Nov 1770 at Franklin Manor, m. Joseph
Petitpas: settled in Shediac, NB:
10) Bridget Downing born 20 Jan 1772 at Franklin Manor, m. Peter Noyles:
11) Thomas Downing b. 18 Mar 1776 at Franklin Manor, NS, m. Miss Berry:
12) Modeste Downing born on 14 Jun 1779 at Franklin Manor, m. Sylvestre Brun:
13) Michael Downing born 15 Oct 1782 at Franklin Manor, m. (1st) 13 Nov 1805 at
Dorchester, NB, Mary Stultz d/o Henry and Elizabeth Stultz and had eight children:
married (2nd) 25 Mar 1845 at Moncton, NB, Elizabeth Allen: they had no children.
Sources: MC1/Downing, 16 pages: see also MC80/1199 Charles F. Putnam’s The
Beckwith family, pages 153-187: see MC80/1685 Charles F. Putnam’s John and
Margaret (O”Donnell) Downing: one line of descendants through their grandson,
John Downing Sr.
DOYLE: Edward Doyle born c1816 in Waterford, Ireland, died before 1881: came to
NB in 1837 and settled at New Ireland, Alma Parish, Albert County: m. 15 May 1842
at Saint John, Eliza Sweeney b. - , d. c1893, d/o Edward and Ellen Sweeney:
Children:
1) Francis Doyle b. May 1843:
2) David Doyle born 1845, d. 1939, married 27 Aug 1879 Rosanna Doherty of New
Ireland b. - , died 1933, d/o James Doherty and Ann Dornan: settled at Kerry, NB,
then at Carsonville, Kings County: they had five children:
3) James Doyle bp. 17 Oct 1847, d. 21 Aug 1932 at Bath, ME, m. 21 Jul 1886 at New
Ireland, Agatha Doherty b. - , d. 11 Jun 1934 at Bath, ME, d/o James Doherty and
Ann Dornan: first settled at Kerry, NB, then moved to the USA: had seven children:
4) Catherine Doyle born c1849:
5) Sophia Doyle b. c1854:
6) John Doyle b. c1856:
7) Mary Doyle b. c1858:
8) Elizabeth Doyle b. 20 Jun1859:
9) Hugh Doyle b. 1861, died 8 Nov 1930, m. 18 Jun 1888 Lily Doherty b. - , died
1929, d/o James Doherty and Ann Dornan: first settled in Albert County then in
1927 went to Head of Millstream, NB: they had seven children.
DOYLE: Hugh Doyle b. 1794 at Trout Creek, Sussex Parish, Kings County, d.
c1824, m. Nancy or Ann Sheck?: family settled at Sussex, Kings County:
Children listed in Hugh's will:

1) William Doyle married 16 Jun 1818 Sarah Pickle:
2) Samuel (Moses?) Doyle m. 3 Dec 1819 Hannah Brown of Kingston Parish:
3) Hugh Doyle:
4) John Doyle:
5) Robert Doyle married 6 Dec 1827 Catherine Sheck:
6) Jacob Doyle:
7) Malachi Doyle:
8) Richard Doyle:
9) Patrick Doyle:
10) Charles Edward Doyle married (1st) on 24 Feb 1835 Elizabeth Helms, married
(2nd) on 30 Aug 1842 Nancy Herrington:
11) Rachel Doyle m. Edward Burgess:
12) Elizabeth Doyle:
13) Ann Doyle m. William Bowen of Sussex, NB:
14) Margaret Doyle:
15) Lydia Doyle m. 10 Dec 1856 John F. Cougle:
16) Mary Doyle.
Source: MC1/Doyle, 5 pages.
DOYLE: James Doyle b. 1801 in Ireland, m. Margaret - born 1806 in Ireland:

came to NB in 1848: settled in Moncton Parish, Westmorland County:

1) Mary Doyle b. 1833:
2) James Doyle b. 1835:
3) Patrick Doyle b. 1841:
4) Catherine Doyle b. 1844:
5) David Doyle b. 1847.

F20980; see sheet for James Doyle.
DOYLE: James Augustus Doyle b. c1762 in County Kilkenny, Ireland, d. c1838:

came to Quebec about 1776: moved to NB about 1790 and settled at Jacquet River,
Durham Parish, Restigouche County: m. c1790 Marie Savoie born c1760, widow of
Eustache Arsenault by whom she had six children:
Children of James and Marie:

1) Mary Lucretia Doyle born c1791, died 1877 at Clarks Point near Pomeroy Ridge,
Charlotte County, m. c1812 Richard Clarke born c1772 New Milford, CT: had
fourteen children:
2) James Doyle born c1793, d. 1886, m. 19 Oct 1818 Rose Arsenault b. 1786, d.
1860’s d/o Jean Pierre Arsenault and Rose Mignot: they had six children:
3) Miss Doyle born c1795, m. Benjamin Trefeatherin of Jacquet River:
4) Ann Doyle born c1798, married William Fowler and had eight children:
5) William Doyle born c1801, married 6 Oct 1826 Marie Arsenault b. c1795, died
1890, d/o Joseph Arsenault and Marguerite Bujold: had six children.
Source: MC80/2394 Carole Roberts’ Doyles from County Kilkenny, Ireland to

Jacquet River, New Brunswick, Canada 1776-1840.
DOYLE: John Doyle born c1770 in Ireland, died 1858, m. c1800 Ellen Shea b.
c1770, died 1838: came to NB in 1821 and settled at Jacquet River, Durham Parish,
Restigouche County:
Children born in County Kilkenny, Ireland:

1) Patrick Doyle born c1801, d. 1889 at Jacquet River: came to NB in 1821: married
24 Aug 1824 at Bathurst, NB, Bridget Daly b. c1804, d/o Patrick Daly and Bridget
Roach: they had ten children:
2) Michael Doyle b. c1804, died 1887: came to NB in May 1825, m. c1837 possibly
in Carleton, QC, Margaret Casey of Miguasha, QC, born c1817 in Ireland, d. 1899:
had twelve children:
3) John Doyle born c1808, d. 4 Feb 1880, buried at Belledune: came to NB in May
1825, married 26 Jun 1834 Bridget Devereaux born 1818, d. 1896, d/o Paul
Devereaux and Margaret Nielson: they had thirteen children:
4) Richard Doyle bp. 26 Apr 1809 in Gowran Parish, County Kilkenny, died 27 Oct
1893: came to NB 1831: m. 15 Jul 1845 Mary Lawlor and had twelve children:
5) Margaret Doyle bp. 12 Sep 1811 Gowran Parish: came to NB about 1831, m. 27
Jun 1832 Petit Rocher, Beresford Parish, Gloucester County, Roderick McNeil, s/o
Donald McNeil and Effy McIntyre of PEI: had seven children:
6) Nicholas Doyle bp. 9 Jun 1814 in Gowan Parish, d. 15 Feb 1877, buried at
Belledune, NB: came to NB about 1831: m. (1st) 24 Oct 1844 at Ste Anne de
Restigouche, QC, Ann Fitzgerald, d/o James Fitzgerald and Julie Shannon: had
three children: married (2nd) 18 Aug 1857 at Douglastown, QC, Elizabeth Fingleton,
d/o William Fingleton and Margaret Graham: had 7 children.

Jacquet River, New Brunswick, Canada 1776-1840, pages 13-20.
DOYLE: John Edward Doyle b. c1851 in NS, d. 28 Sep 1897, s/o Edward John
Doyle and Mary Anne (Dillon) McWilliams of Granville, Annapolis County, NS:
came to NB about 1863 and settled in Saint John: m. (1st) 15 Sep 1870 in Saint John,
Catherine Josephine Hawkes born Aug 1840 at Black River in Simonds Parish,
Saint John County, died 9 Feb 1882, d/o William Hawkes and Anne Carney: married
(2nd) 31 Aug 1885 in Saint John, Mary McConnell b. c1866:
Children born in Saint John of first wife:

1) William T.E. Doyle born 4 Jul 1871, died 5 Nov 1897 at Saint John, NB:
2) John Hawkes Doyle born 1875, died 9 Sep 1960, m. 4 Jun 1901 Alice E. Fegan
born 1875 at Saint John, died 14 Aug 1959: they settled in Saint John:
3) Frederick Doyle b. and d. age two weeks at Saint John:
4) Charles Walter Doyle born 6 Sep 1878, d. 2 Nov 1937 in NY, m. (1st) 13 Jul 1904
Teresa Frances Boudreau born 6 Oct 1877 at Bathurst, Gloucester County, died 8
Nov 1918 at Saint John: m. (2nd) Margaret - :

5) Joseph Edward Doyle b. 10 Oct 1886, died 1888:
6) Arthur Gregory Doyle b. 12 Mar 1889, d. 1981, m. at Saint John, Barbara
Morris:
7) Florence Mabel Doyle b. 3 Oct 1891, m. Bruce Harbell:
8) Leonard Doyle born in Nov 1894, died 1919 at Saint John:
9) Wilfred Doyle b. 10 Sep 1897, d. Dec 1973 Saint John, m. Frances Boyce.
Brunswick, page 78.
DOYLE: Maurice Doyle b. c1807 in Ireland, d. 12 Apr 1862: came to NB in 1827

and settled in Renous, Blackville Parish, Northumberland County: m. 2 Oct 1836 in
NB, Catherine Mary Walsh b. c1816 in Kilkenny, Ireland, died after 1891:
Children:
1) Thomas Doyle born 1838, married 29 Apr 1874 Ann Singleton: had five children:
2) Patrick Doyle b. c1839:
3) John Allan Doyle born c1840, d. 29 Jun 1927, married 23 Sep 1869 Ellen
Donovan: they had ten children:
4) Margaret Doyle b. c1841:
5) Frances Doyle born 1844, m. 1866 John Hackett:
6) Michael Doyle b. Feb 1848:
7) Hanna Doyle b. Jun 1856:
8) Catherine Doyle b. Feb 1852.
Miramichi, 1 page.
DOYLE: Thomas Doyle born in Ireland, m. Grace Dunphy: they came to NB in

1832 and settled at Jacquet River, Durham Parish, Restigouche County:

1) James Doyle b. c1797, died unmarried 11 Apr 1876, buried at Nash Creek:
2) Miss Doyle possibly m. Laurence Shea b. - , d. 1889 Knockroe Townland,
Rathbeagh Pariah, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland: had one daughter:
3) Patrick Doyle born c1806, died unmarried in 1885, buried at Nash Creek:
4) Catherine Doyle bp. 4 Mar 1810 at Gowran Parish in County Kilkenny, m. 12 Jul
1844 Kyran Nolan of Gowran Parish: came to NB in 1868 and settled at Nash Creek,
Durham Parish, Restigouche County:
5) possibly, Ann/Honorah Doyle baptized 1813 Gowran Parish, d. unm. 1899 at
Pointe La Nim, Restigouche County:
6) Sarah/Sally Doyle baptized 14 Oct 1817 in Gowran Parish: came to NB in 1839,
m. 1841 Thomas Hayes born 1812, died 1907: they had nine children.

Jacquet River, New Brunswick, Canada 1776-1840, pages 10-12.
DOYLE: William Doyle b. c1810 in Ireland, married Mary - b. c1819 in Ireland,

d. 12 Jan 1876 in Calais, ME: came to NB and settled in St. Stephen, Charlotte
County: went to Calais, ME by 1840:
Children born in St. Stephen, NB:

1) Caroline/Carrie A. Doyle (twin) born c1838, m. 31 Dec 1859 in Calais, Charles
Stackpole born 15 Feb 1835 in Durham, ME, died on 3 Dec 1913:
2) William Doyle (twin) born c1838, died 25 May 1864 at Andersonville, GA during
Civil War: m. 1861 Adelaide Cleaves: four more children were born in Calais, ME.
DRAKE: Benjamin Drake was probably born in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ,
d. c1786: married and had children: family came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and were
allotted land at Beaver Harbour, Pennfield Parish, Charlotte County:
Children:
1) Mary Drake who married Mr. Frazer, an American:
2) Rachel Drake m. Peter Holton who was a Loyalist:
3) William Drake: later settled on Staten Island, NY.

of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy, pages 51-52.
DRAKE: Francis Drake born c1755 in East Chester, NY, s/o Joseph Drake, died 28
Feb 1836 in Queensbury Parish, York County, m. Catherine Tobias b. c1765, died 7
Aug 1841, d/o Christian Tobias and Catherine Filkin: came to NB in 1783 as
Loyalists: settled first in Burton Parish, Sunbury County then at Upper Queensbury,
Queensbury Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Mary Drake b. c1785, died after 1871, married John Tapley and settled in
Andover, Victoria County, NB: had four children:
2) Joseph Tobias Drake b. c1786, d. 22 Sep 1862 at Houlton, ME, m. 13 Aug 1814
in York County, Susan Rockwell b. c1794, died 28 Feb 1871 at Houlton, ME, d/o
Benjamin Rockwell and Susan Tapley: settled at Upper Waterville, NB: later moved
to Houlton, ME: had eleven children:
3) William Hubbell Drake bp. 22 Jun 1788, d. young:
4) James Drake b. 25 Sep 1789, d. 2 Apr 1868, m. (1st) Mary Ann Kinney b. 1804,
d. 9 Mar 1827 at Fredericton, d/o Israel Kinney and Abigail Cram: had four
children: m. (2nd) 15 Feb 1828 at Fredericton, Harriet S. Harris b. c1808, d. 7 Jan
1834 Grand Manan Island, Charlotte County, d/o Rev. David Harris of Cornwallis,
NS: they had three children: m. (3rd) 7 Jul 1835 at Eastport, ME, Elizabeth B. Harris
b. 1810, d. 21 Jan 1864, d/o Rev. David Harris: had four children: eventually settled
in Fredericton, York County:
5) Francis Drake b. c1791, m. 12 Jul 1827 in York County, Anne Hazelton: had no
issue:
6) Hannah Drake born c1792, bp. 20 May 1792, d. 4 Aug 1846, m. (1st) Mr. Small,
(2nd) John Parent born 1783 s/o Daniel Parent from Westchester, NY, d. 21 Mar
1823, m. (3rd) John H. Ryan of Grand Falls, NB: had two children:
7) Sarah Ann Drake b. 1794, bp. 24 Aug 1794, died 8 Feb 1868, m. Samuel
Rockwell b. c1789 probably Sunbury County, d. 30 Mar 1868, s/o Benjamin
Rockwell and Susan Tapley: settled at Upper Waterville, Wakefield Parish, Carleton
County and had eleven children:
8) Warren B. Drake born c1797 or c1805, d. 22 May 1870, m. 4 Jan 1823 in York
County, Mary Parlee or Mary A. Oliver born c1807, died 29 Jun 1874: first settled
in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County and had eight children: later moved to Caribou,
ME:
9) Phoebe Drake bp. 14 Jan 1798, m. 19 Nov 1815 in York County, Thomas
Thornton born c1793: settled in Queensbury Parish, York County: had seven
children:
10) Catherine Drake bp. 14 Jan 1798, married 6 Aug 1817 in York County,
Nathaniel Tapley:
11) Jane Ann Drake born c1803, d. 24 Nov 1879, m. 7 Nov 1821 in Prince William,
York County, Elijah Rockwell b. 20 Jul 1800 probably in Sunbury County, d. 21 Jul
1888: settled at Jacksontown in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County: had eleven
children.
Sources: MC1/Drake #1, 50 pages: file contains a report titled The family of Francis
Drake of Eastchester, NY: see also MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying
ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. I, pgs. 318-322: see also MC1396 George Hayward
genealogical fonds, MS1C The Hayward collection, A533-A538, 9 pages; A544, 2
pages: see MC1396 George Hayward genealogical fonds, MS1J, Francis Drake,
Loyalist, 35 pages: see also D.R. Jack’s Loyalist families of New Brunswick on
microfilm F355, Volume II, pages 20-21 which says Francis was the s/o Josiah
Drake.
DRAKE: Peter Drake b. 16 Jun 1739 in England, d. 1798, m. 14 Jun 1766 in Jersey
City, Abigail Woolsey b. 6 Apr 1747 in NY, died 18 Mar 1837: came from
Westchester County, NY to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: settled on Belleisle Bay,
Springfield Parish, Kings County: seven children came with them, a son and a
daughter were left with friends in New York:
Children:
1) Jeremiah Drake b. 1766, died 1846, married Catherine Mabee born 1772, died 2
Feb 1835: had five sons and five daughters:
2) Ann Drake b. 1768, d. 12 Sep 1845, m. David Hatfield born 25 May 1763, died 1
Dec 1843:
3) Uriah Drake born 1769, died 2 May 1832, m. Marjory Fowler born 1769, died
Feb 1834: they settled in Saint John and had eight sons and five daughters:
4) Elizabeth Drake born 1771, died 4 Oct 1821, m. Elijah Spragg born 1768, died 9
Nov 1837:
5) John Drake: remained in USA:
6) Jacob Drake: settled in Savanah, Georgia: married and had three children:
7) Sarah Drake b. 1777, d. 29 May 1829, married Joshua Hughson b. 1769, died 5
Jul 1845:
8) Abigail Drake m. Thomas MacDonald:
9) Miss Drake: remained in USA.
Brunswick, pgs. 78-79: see also MC2961 Hilda Margaret Shaw fonds, Peter Drake’s
family, 11 pages: see also MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a
bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.
DRAKE: Samuel Drake b. 1816 in NB, d. - , m. Rebecca - born 1817 in Ireland:

came to NB in 1834: settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County area:

1) William K. Drake b. 1845, died 18 Nov 1849:
2) Rebecca Drake born 1849.
Sources: MC80/360 Acadiensis Volume VII, No. 3, July, 1907 St. Andrews Epitaphs:
Old Methodist Grave- yard (Greenock Presbyterian Church), page 197: also see the
Charlotte County census records.
DRAKE: Uriah Drake b. 1762 in NY, d. 1832, m. Marjorie Fowler b. 1770, d. 8
Feb 1834: came to NB 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in Carleton, Saint John:
Children:
1) Rachel Drake m. 1812 Joseph Ponsford:
2) Abigail Drake m. 1809 George Buchanan:
3) Sarah Drake m. William Trecartin:
4) Walter Drake m. Sarah Stackhouse: they had one son and six daughters:
5) John Drake:
6) Uriah Drake m. 13 Oct 1837 Salome Littlehale, d/o John C. Littlehale of
Carleton, Saint John:
7) Aaron Drake born 1802: ship captain: d. 31 Jul 1826 at Kingston, Jamaica:
8) William Drake: married and died in the USA:
9) Peter Drake m. Elizabeth/Betsy Ann Brothers born 19 Oct 1809, d. 3 Feb 1873,
probably d/o Joseph Brothers:
10) Samuel Drake married Rebecca Brown:
11) Elizabeth Drake m. William Thompson:
12) Mary Drake m. Smith Ogden or m. 1812 Daniel Smith.
Sources: MC2961 Hilda Margaret Shaw fonds, Genealogical record of the Drake
family by Hilda Shaw, 3 pages; Peter Drake’s family, 11 pages: see also MC80/2902
Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.
DRAPER: James Draper born 22 May 1781 in County Cork, Ireland: came to USA
and settled in Massachusetts, then came to NB: married 22 Oct 1814 in York County,
Elizabeth Homan b. 1789, d. 1872: family settled at Campbell Settlement in
Southampton Parish, York County:
Children:
1) Isaac Draper b. 1815:
2) Humphrey Draper b. c1817:
3) James Draper b. 1819, m. (1st) in 1851 Catherine Schriver and had two children:
he married (2nd) in 1869 Sarah Jane Gartley and had four children:
4) John Homan Draper born 1822, d. 1872, m. 1857 Mary Jane Ingraham of
Southampton, NB, d/o Emanuel Ingraham:
5) Elizabeth Draper b. in 1825:
6) George Draper b. 1829, married 1857 Johanna Schriver: they settled at Campbell
Settlement and had five children:
7) Mary Jane Draper b. c1833 in NB.
Sources: MC80/1493 Patricia M. Lawson et. al. The Nackawic Bend: 200 years of
history, pages 89-90: see also MC80/1494 Temperance Vale: the people and times of
a New Brunswick settlement, page 61.
DREW: John Drew born c1773 at Cherryfield, ME, d. 20 Dec 1834: he came to NB:
settled in Springfield Parish, Kings County: m. before 1803 Charlotte Gray born
c1784, died on 8 Apr 1846, d/o William Gray and Lavinia Purdy:
Children:
1) Susanna Drew born 16 Sep 1803, died 8 May 1880, married 28 Mar 1837 in Kings
County, Thomas Gray b. 21 May 1797, d. 24 Feb 1872, s/o Justus Gray and Jane
Walker:
2) David Drew b. 1805, m. 14 Jun 1838 in Springfield Parish, Hannah Gray:
3) Mary Drew b. c1807:
4) Jeremiah Drew born c1809:
5) Amelia Drew b. c1812:
6) Moses Drew b. c1814:
7) John Drew:
8) Lavinia Drew m. Caleb Spragg:
9) Eliza Drew:
10) Elizabeth Drew b. c1820.
Source: MC80/2531 John L. Stevens’ The Grand Manan Morse family of Charlotte
County, New Brunswick, Canada, page 145.
DREW: Joseph Drew born in Scotland, died Apr 1808 in Saint John, married Mary
- b. c1746, d. 7 Dec 1818: first settled in Georgia, then went to South Carolina: came
to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled on Belleisle Bay in Kars Parish, Kings County:
Children:
1) Mary Drew born c1767, d. 10 Feb 1853, m. Daniel Jenkins b. - , d. 29 Jul 1827 or
married Aaron Jenkins:
2) Elizabeth Drew b. c1771, d. Mar 1848, m. 16 May 1790 Luke Keirstead b. 24 Jun
1768, died May 1846:
3) John Drew b. c1773, d. 20 Dec 1834, m. Charlotte Gray b. 1784, d. 8 Apr 1846,
d/o William Gray and Lavinia Purdy: settled in Kings County and had ten children:
4) Christiana Drew b. c1773, d. after 1851, m. Martin Reicker b. - , d. Nov 1826:
5) David Drew:
6) James Drew married 22 Dec 1819 Mary Anne Appleby:
7) Lavinia Drew m. Caleb Spragg:
6) possibly, Zeruiah Drew m. on 23 Jun 1812 Robert Helmsley.
Brunswick, pages 79-80: see also MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick
Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.
DRISCOLL: Patrick Driscoll born c1828 in Ireland, d. 1901: came to NB in 1848

and settled in Elgin Parish, Albert County: m. c1855 Mary Watters born c1828 in
County Cork, Ireland and came to NB in 1851: she died 24 Sep 1909:
Children:
1) Jeremiah Driscoll b. c1856: moved to Maine:
2) Mary Ann Driscoll b. 1858, m. 3 May 1898 John Carty s/o Patrick Carty and
Bridget Conlon:
3) John Driscoll bp. Sep 1860, d. 8 Aug 1946, m. 29 Apr 1914 at Saint John,
Elizabeth Galbraith baptized Mar 1870, died 20 Nov 1944, d/o George and
Margaret Galbraith: settled in Saint John:
4) Ellen Driscoll born c1864, d. 31 Mar 1948 at Fort Fairfield, ME, m. 3 Jun 1886
probably in South Branch, NB, John McHugh of Houlton, ME: settled in Maine.
DROST: Charles Drost born c1816 in NB, d. before 15 May 1902, married Mary
- born 24 May 1818 in Ireland: settled at Salmon River, Chipman Parish, Queens
County:
Children:
1) Edward Drost born 14 Mar 1846 in NB, m. Martha Thompson born 14 Nov 1844
in NB: settled in Chipman Parish and had six children:
2) Charles Drost b. c1847:
3) Daniel Drost b. c1851:
4) Alexander Drost b. 7 Jul 1851 at Salmon River, married Caroline Amelia
Stackhouse b. 11 Mar 1853 in NB: settled at Woodstock, Carleton County and had
seven children:
5) Mary Ann Drost born c1854:
6) Margaret Drost born c1857:
7) Samuel Drost born 20 Dec 1862, married 15 May 1902 in Chipman Parish, Anne
Fudge born c1864 in Chipman Parish:
8) George H. Drost b. 4 Jul 1873.
Source: MC80/2432 Dale L. Wilcox’s Descendants of Peter Drost the Loyalist, pages
305-311.
DROST: Peter Drost b. - , died after 4 Nov 1815: came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist:
first settled in Saint John then at Jemseg, Cambridge Parish, Queens County: m. Mary
- b. - , d. after 1815:
Children:
1) Richard Drost born c1783 in NB, d. c1857, m. 27 Feb 1806 at Gagetown, Queens
County, Elizabeth Sparks born c1783 in NB, d. 1868: first settled at Gagetown then
in Wicklow Parish, Carleton County and had seven children:
2) John Drost born c1785 in Saint John, d. before 22 Fec 1815 in Saint John, m. 22
Jun 1807 in Sunbury County, Sophia Briggs born c1790, d. 6 Jul 1848: settled on
Grand Lake in Queens County: had four children:
3) Peter Drost Jr. b. c1790 in NB, d. after 1851, m. 1866 at Gagetown, Mary Sparks
b. c1803 in NB: first settled at Jemseg then moved to Wicklow Parish in Carleton
County: had seven children:
4) James William Durost (note spelling of surname) b. c1800, married Jane Sparks
born c1815 in Queens County: settled at Whites Cove in Cambridge Parish, Queens
County and had twelve children:
5) Agnes Ann Drost born c1804, married 20 Feb 1825 in Wickham Parish, Queens
County, Jacob Mullin b. 1802 in NB, d. 18 Oct 1887 at North Esk, Northumberland
County: they had thirteen children.
Sources: MC80/2377 Dale Wilcox’s Notes on the ancestry of Gail Vertaline

(Sullivan) Wilcox, pages 163-170 and 220-221: see also MC80/2432 Dale L.
Wilcox’s Descendants of Peter Drost the Loyalist: the widow Sophia (Briggs) Drost
married (2nd) John Ford.
DRUGAN: William C. Drugan b. c1817 Termoine, County Tyrone, Ireland, d. 10

Jul 1865: came to NB in 1836: settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County: moved to
Calais, ME in 1837: m. 8 Aug 1835 in St. Andrews, NB, Nancy Ann Topping born
c1820 on Atlantic Ocean, died on 25 Apr 1892 at Milltown, NB, d/o Robert Topping
and Martha Fales of Ireland and St. Stephen, NB:
Children born in Calais, ME:

1) John Drugan b. 20 Jun 1837, d. before 1865:
2) William C. Drugan born 17 May 1839, died after 1865: m. and had issue:
3) James Drugan born 3 May 1841, died 1 Jun 1857 in Calais:
4) Rebecca Annie Drugan born 20 Jun 1843: m. (1st) 20 Sep 1865 in Calais, George
C. McAllister of St. Stephen, Charlotte County, NB, m. (2nd) 24 Nov 1879 in Calais,
Norman Cox:
5) Martha or Mattie Drugan b. 7 Oct 1847, d. 29 Dec 1887 in Milltown, NB,
married Mr. Potter:
6) Matilda Jane Drugan born Apr 1850, m. 16 May 1869 in St. Stephen, NB, Albion
K.P. Rich b. c1839.
DRUMMOND: Donald McGregor Drummond b. 12 Sep 1713 at Balhadie,

Dunblane, Scotland, died c1784, eleventh and youngest child of Alexander
McGregor VII and Margaret Cameron of Scotland and Poughkeepsie, NY: Donald
changed his name to Drummond when he came to the United States and settled at
Poughkeepsie: married 8 Dec 1755 in NY, Ann Grosbeck of NY, bp. 17 Nov 1734 at
New Amsterdam, NY, d. after 1785, d/o Johannes Groesbeck and Anna Bajeux: the
widow Ann brought her three daughters to NB as Loyalists and settled with her son on
Nashwaak River at the mouth of the Tay River in Saint Marys Parish, York County:

1) Jacobina Drummond born c1756, m. Dugald Campbell born 1757, died 1810:
had five children:
2) Margaret Drummond b. c1757, d. unm:
3) Mary Drummond b. c1757, m. 25 Dec 1780 in NY, a cousin, Alexander
McGregor of Balhaldie, b. 18 Oct 1758, died 1794: family moved to Scotland: 4)
Ann Drummond born c1759, m. David MacGibbon born c1745, d. 11 Dec 1825:
settled on Nashwaak and had five children:
5) Susan Drummond b. c1760 or 1770, d. 1858, m. Archibald McLean born 1758,
d. 1830, a widower: had one son: they had five children:
6) Dr. Alexander Drummond b. c1761: settled on Tay River: did not marry.
Source: MC1/MacGibbon, 6 pages: surname also spelled MacGregor: see also

MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Volume I,
pages 74-75: see also MC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-
1885, page 37: see MC80/2714 Paul D. Kilburn’s Fathers and Mothers: history and
genealogy of Kilburn and Graham, pages 157 to 171: see MC300 York-Sunbury
Historical Society Collection, MS2/121 Susan K. Squires’ The Drummond or
MacGregor family, 4 pages; also, MS2/120 Susan K. Squires’ Descendants of the
MacGregors of Balhaldie, 13 pages.
DRURY: Charles Drury born 1783, d. 24 Oct 1836: he was an officer in the British
Army: came to NB and settled in Saint John.
Source: MC80/110 J.W Lawrence’s Foot-prints, or incidents in early history of NB,

page 40.
DRYDEN: William Dryden born 1753 in Nova Scotia, d. 1832 in Cincinnati, OH,
s/o John and Margaret Dryden of Londonderry, Ireland, and Horton, NS: m. (1st)
Amanda - , b. c1751, d. 1821: had four children: m. (2nd) 1803 at Moncton, Lydia
Jester b. 1786, d. 1846: first settled at Hillsborough, Albert County, then at Moncton,
Westmorland County, then went to USA:
Children mentioned:
1) William Dryden Jr. b. 1783 in Moncton:
2) Abraham Dryden born 1787 in Moncton, d. 1861, married 25 Jul 1816 at
Hillsborough, Ann Leeman b. 1789, d. 1861, d/o Robert and Ann Leeman: settled in
Hillsborough: had nine children:
3) Henry Dryden born 1796 in Moncton, died before 1861, m. Eliza Leeman b.
1793, died 1861, sister of Ann: settled in Moncton and had eleven children:
4) Lydia Dryden b. in 1810 at St. Louis, MO, m. 1830 Edmund Chapman.
Source: MC1/Dryden, 40 pages.
DUBE: Germain Dube b. 11 Jul 1770 s/o Jean Dube and Marie Ann Ayot, d. 22
Mar 1852, m. (1st) 21 Feb 1797 Marie Genevieve Bourgoin d/o Jean Baptiste
Bourgoin and Marie Genevieve Lavesseur, and widow of Simon Martin: m. (2nd)
1806 Marguerite Roy-Deny: they settled at Grand Falls in Victoria County and in
Madawaska County: had children.
Sources: MC1/Dube, 7 pages: see MC80/1933 Bicentenaire de la Grande-Rivière
Saint-Léonard et Saint-Léonard-Parent, 1789-1989, page 73.
DUCLOS: Pierre Duclos possibly s/o Pierre Duclos of Longue Pointe, QC: married
c1789 at Bonaventure, QC, Marguerite Richard b. 2 Jul 1770 at St-Servan, Brittany,
France: arrived in 1774 in Bonaventure, d/o Pierre Richard, an Acadian born at
Grand Pré, NS: Marguerite d. 26 Jun 1812: settled first at Bonaventure, QC until
1796, then at Nepisiguit, NB until 1802, then moved to Shippagan, Gloucester
County:
Children:
1) Marguerite Duclos born 12 May 1792 at Bonaventure, QC, d. May 1850 at
Laméque, NB:
2) Claire Duclos b. 7 Aug 1793 Bonaventure, m. 4 Nov 1816 at Bonaventure,
Benjamin Grenier s/o Pierre-François and Marie (David) Grenier:
3) Pierre-Hubert Duclos born 25 Feb 1796 at Bonaventure, m. 16 May 1825 at
Newport, QC, Béatrice Blais d/o Joseph Blais and Louise Bob St-Fill:
4) Anne-Rose Duclos born 26 Aug 1798 at Nipisiguit, NB, died 12 Apr 1802:
5) Marie-Hélène Duclos born 21 Aug 1800 at Nipisiguit, married 2 Nov 1829 at
Caraquet, Joseph Chiasson of Shippagan, NB s/o Jean Chiasson and Anne Daigle:
6) Jean-Éloy Duclos born 5 Apr 1802 at Nipisiguit:
7) Jean-Flavien Duclos born 20 Feb 1806 at Shippagan: m. (1st) 26 Nov 1827 at
Caraquet, Angèle Savoie d/o Édouard Savoie and Charlotte Robichaud, married
(2nd) 7 Jan 1862 at Shippagan, Procule Guignard d/o Pierre-Michel Guignard and
Madeleine Robichaud of Laméque, NB:
8) Marie-Rose Duclos b. 14 Nov 1808 at Shippagan:
9) Pélagie Duclos b. 9 Aug 1810 at Shippagan, married 16 Nov 1828 Jacques Noel
s/o Jean Noel and Geneviève Côtè:
10) Rufine Duclos b. 27 Jun 1812 at Shippagan, NB, married 14 Feb 1830 at
Shippagan, Paul Noel s/o Jean Noel and Geneviève Côtè.
Sources: MC80/286 Donat Robichaud’s Le grand Chipagan: histoire de Shippagan,

pages 328-329: see also MC80/99 William F. Ganong’s The history of Shippegan,
pages 151-152.
DUDGEON: John Dudgeon b. c1767, d. 27 Aug 1839 in Ohio: was a ship captain:
came from Londonderry, Nova Scotia to NB in 1801 and purchased land in Hopewell
Cape, Albert County: he married and had only daughters.
Source: MC80/691 Maimie Steeves’ Fundy folklore, pages 27-28: see also MC2657
NBGS Generations Issue #53, Autumn 1992: David Christopher’s Extracts from
“Cemeteries of Albert County” persons born elsewhere, page 65.
DUDLEY: John C. Dudley born 1814 in Maine: came to NB in 1815: settled in

Ludlow Parish, Northumberland County: married Abigail Porter b. 1815 in Ludlow,
NB, d/o William Porter and Christina McLellan:
Children:
1) Caroline Dudley b. 1838 in NB:
2) Mary S. Dudley b. 1841:
3) Rosanna Dudley b. 1843:
4) Isaac Dudley b. 1845:
5) Sanford Samuel Dudley born 1846, died 1882, m. Sarah Jane Clowater b. 1845
at Ludlow, d. 1919, d/o John Clowater and Nancy Young: settled at Porter Cove and
had issue:
6) John C. Dudley born 1848:
7) James W. Dudley b. 1850.

also see the Northumberland County census records.
DUEY: Hugh Duey b. 1800 in Ireland, m. Mary - born 1811 in Ireland: came
to NB about 1847 and settled in Sackville Parish, Westmorland County:
1) Alexander Duey b. 1833 in Ireland:
2) Thomas Duey b. 1838 in Ireland:
3) William Duey b. 1842 in Ireland:
4) John Duey b. 1848 in NB:
5) Peter Duey b. 1851 in NB.

F20980; see sheet for Hugh Duey.
DUFF: Alexander Duff b. 1779 in Scotland, m. Margaret - born 1796 in

Scotland: came to NB in 1815 and settled in Shediac Parish, Westmorland County:

1) Alexander Duff b. 1819:
2) Donald Duff b. 1826:
3) John Duff b. 1828:
4) Mary Duff b. 1834:
5) Iefre Duff b. 1835.

F20980; see sheet for Alexander Duff.
DUFF: Alexander Duff b. - , m. 26 Oct 1817 Margaret Dewar: they settled in Saint
John, Saint John County:
Children:
1) Christan Duff b. 29 Jun 1819:
2) Elizabeth Duff born 21 Oct 1821:
3) Margaret Duff born 26 Apr 1824:
4) Robert Duff born 27 Apr 1826:
5) Catherine Duff b. 8 Aug 1828:
6) Belle Duff b. 26 Apr 1830:
7) Alexander Duff b. 7 May 1832.
Source: MC1/Duff #1, 20 pages: file contains a copy of a letter about an 1886 visit to
Scotland to locate relatives.
DUFF: Arthur Duff b. 1802 in NS, d. 30 Nov 1884: came to NB and settled at
Kirkland in Richmond Parish, Carleton County: m. Jane/Jean MacDougall b. 3 Nov
1818 at Braid, Scotland, d. 14 Jun 1898, d/o Alexander MacDougall and Mary
MacDougall,
Children:
1) Mary Duff b. 20 Feb 1844, died 14 Aug 1908, m. W. Cass: to Boston, MA:
2) James Duff b. 1846, d. Feb 1853:
3) Margaret Duff born 1848, married Abner Hatfield: had at least one child:
4) Elizabeth Duff bp. 4 Apr 1849, m. Clinton Dickerson from Tennessee and had
two children:
5) Damie/Deadame Duff bp. Jul 1852, d. unmarried:
6) Jane/Jennie Duff born 3 Feb 1854, m. Richard Kennedy b. Mar 1843: had six
children:
7) Arthur Duff b. 9 Jan 1856, d. 1932:
8) Christina Duff b. c1858:
9) Frances Duff born 1860:
10) George A. Duff b. 17 Nov 1862 at Woodstock, NB, died 11 Nov 1933, m. 1889
Boston, MA, Anna Brennan born c1864 in County Sligo, Ireland, d. Jul 1899 at
Marysville, MT: had four children: m. (2nd) Sarah Oliva Davis: settled in Boston,
MA.
Source: MC80/2655 Janet C. Rourke’s The descendants of Alexander MacDougall

and John and Adam Dickison of Carleton County, New Brunswick, pages 34-55.
DUFF: Charles Duff b. 5 Jun 1770 at Mains of Kinaird, Perthshire, Scotland, s/o
Charles Duff and Isobel Robertson, died 20 Feb 1829: he came to NB in 1801 and
settled on the Miramichi River in Northumberland County, then moved to Marysville
in York County: m. 21 Feb 1801 Barbara Reid b. 1780 at Balnaguard, Perthshire,
Scotland, died 8 Apr 1836, d/o John Reid: the first three children were born in
Northumberland County and the rest were born on the Nashwaak River in York
County:
Children:
1) Peter Duff born 16 Feb 1802, d. 13 Sep 1869, m. 10 Jul 1835 at Saint John,
Elizabeth Jane Marter b. 10 Jul 1816 Isle of Guernsey, d. 3 Jul 1882: family moved
to Pennsylvania:
2) Christy Ann Duff b. 1804 in Northumberland County, died 7 Mar 1867, m. c1832
Alexander McLaggan a widower, born 1793, died 1871: they settled in Blackville
and had five children:
3) Daniel Duff born 1807, died 8 Apr 1874, m. 28 Mar 1837 Susan Hooper b. 14
Mar 1814 New Sharon, ME, d/o Nehemiah and Susanna Hooper: settled in Presque
Isle, Maine and had six children:
4) Jane Duff born 13 Jun 1811 at Nashwaak, NB, died after 1882, married 24 Feb
1838 Nehemiah S. Hooper born 1806 in Maine, died on 3 Feb 1869, s/o Nehemiah
and Susanna Hooper: settled in Fredericton: had eight children:
5) Charlotte Duff born c1814, died after 1882, married 1 Jun 1850 Murdoch
McKinnon: they went to P.E.I.:
6) Charles Duff b. 3 Jul 1817, d. unmarried 20 Dec 1882:
7) Margaret Duff born 1819, d. 20 Oct 1822.
Sources: MC1/Duff #2, 4 pages: see also MC80/1027 William R. MacKinnon Jr.’s
Over the portage: early history of the Upper Miramichi (revised), pg 78, and the
index: two of Charles’ brothers also came to NB by 1801 and settled on the Miramichi
River: Peter Duff born 4 Aug 1772 at Mains of Kinaird, died after 1851: Daniel Duff
b. 10 Feb 1777 at Balnaguard, died before Oct 1810: see MC80/1176 R.B.
Kitzmiller’s The family encyclopedia: vol 2, pgs. 32-75.
DUFFUS: Charles Duffus b. 1749, d. 10 Mar 1818: came to NB in 1783 as a

Loyalist and settled in Saint John: the name of his wife is not provided:
Possible children:
1) Peter Duffus b. 1780, d. 1831:
2) Isabel Duffus b. - , m. 1816 James Grundy.

DUFFY: Bernard Duffy born about 1796 in Ireland, died 1 Oct 1874, married
Margaret - b. in Ireland, d. 13 Nov 1856: came to NB in 1827 and settled in New
Ireland, Alma Parish, Albert County:
Children:
1) Bridget Duffy b. c1827 in Ireland, buried 8 Sep 1871, m. c1864 John Rice born in
Ireland: settled in Harvey Parish and had three children:
2) John Duffy b. c1829 in New Ireland, m. 22 Jun 1863 at Wards Creek, NB, Ellen
Long b. - , d. 1 Apr 1920, d/o Timothy Long and Eleanor McGlone of New Ireland:
settled at Barretsholme, NB and had eight children:
3) Patrick Duffy born c1831, d. 6 Sep 1900, m. 13 Feb 1871 in New Ireland, Ann
Long b. - , died 12 Sep 1936 at Mechanic Settlement, d/o Timothy Long and Eleanor
McGlone: settled in New Ireland and had four children:
4) Ann Duffy b. c1833, m. in 1860’s John Morrissey s/o Thomas Morrissey and
Amelia Pettis of New Ireland:
5) Bernard Duffy born c1835: went to Albertville, MN:
6) James Duffy born c1839, m. c1861 Catherine Kent d/o John and Mary Kent of
New Ireland: settled at Barretsholme, NB and had thirteen children:
7) Margaret Duffy b. c1842, d. c1855.
Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 74-82: the widower John Rice married (2nd) 20
Jun 1872 Margaret McFadden d/o Manus and Rose McFadden.
DUFFY: Edward Duffy born c1806 in County Donegal, Ireland, died 27 Mar 1876:
came to NB in 1821 and settled in Hillsborough Parish, Albert County: m. 30 Oct
1833 in Coverdale Parish, Amy Peck b. 23 Oct 1805 in Hopewell Parish, died 5 Apr
1876, d/o Elisha Peck and Sarah Akerley or d/o Thomas Peck and Anna Brewster:
Children:
1) Sarah Bennett Duffy b. c1827, m. 9 Sep 1855 James Rogers born c1823:
2) Catherine Duffy born 9 Jan 1835, d. 1919, m. Abel Gaskin or m. Millage
Cameron:
3) James Duffy b. 28 Nov 1836, m. Ann Wright:
4) Humphrey Duffy born 17 Feb 1839, died 15 Jan 1894, married 4 Jun 1864
Margaret S. Gross:
5) Edward Duffy b. 10 Aug 1841, d. unmarried 1909:
6) Elisha Duffy b. 28 Feb 1844, m. Jane Workman:
7) Amy Duffy b. 10 Mar 1847, d. unmarried 1909, buried at Lower Coverdale:
8) Johiel Duffy born 30 Jan 1849 in Lower Coverdale, NB, died 27 Feb 1936 in
Lower Coverdale, m. 7 Feb 1888 Martha Jane Jonah b. 1870, died 1941:
9) Nathaniel Duffy b. 27 Jun 1852, d. 28 May 1902, m. (1st) Laura Reid, d. in
childbirth along with twin boys: m. (2nd) Edith Coonan.
MC80/2014 Heather Long’s Good green hope: the Irish Catholic settlers of Albert
County, New Brunswick, pages 74-82: the widower John Rice married (2nd) 20 Jun
1872 Margaret McFadden d/o Manus and Rose McFadden: see also
MC1/McQuinn: contains Judy McQuinn’s Ancestors of J. McQuinn, pages 8-9.
DUFFY: Felix Duffy b. c1806 in Ireland, married (1st) Mary - born c1807 in
Ireland, died in 1850’s, m. (2nd) Rosanna - b. c1813: family came to NB in 1831
and first settled in Germantown, Harvey Parish, Albert County, then settled at New
Ireland in Alma Parish:

1) John Duffy born c1834:
2) Ann Duffy born c1837:
3) Patrick Duffy b. c1840:
4) Mary Duffy born c1842.
DUFFY: John Duffy b. 1808 in Ireland, d. 10 Dec 1868: came to NB in 1815 and
settled in Hampton Parish, Kings County: m. 1 Dec 1836 Louisa Munger born on 17
Feb 1811, died 1 Jul 1899, d/o William Munger and Mary Ford:
Children:
1) Mary Victoria Duffy b. 3 Oct 1837, d. unmarried 5 Feb 1921:
2) Susan Duffy born 24 Jan 1840, died 22 May 1915, m. 16 Mar 1869 Martin M.
Watson b. 1841, d. 1909: settled in Lorne Parish, Victoria County and had three
children:
3) James William Duffy baptized 24 Apr 1842, died unmarried 16 Jun 1864:
4) John Edwin Duffy b. 24 Jun 1844, d. 13 Mar 1929, m. 25 Nov 1874 Agnes Sprott
Porter b. 21 Sep 1846 in Dalbeattie, Scotland, d. 4 Jun 1940: had two children:
5) Charles Allen Duffy bp. 27 Dec 1846, buried 13 Aug 1864:
6) Isabella Duffy b. 1848, bp. 30 Jul 1848, d. unm. 26 Jul 1868:
7) Albert Augustus Duffy born 1852, bp. 27 Feb 1853, d. 5 Aug 1925, m. 20 Jan
1887 Annie Roberts b. c1865, died 28 Jun 1906: settled in Saint John and had three
children.
Source: MC80/2138 Louise Bourgoyne’s Descendants of Captain John Ford and

Alida Alcha Prall.
DUFFY: William Duffy b. 1778 in County Donegal, Ireland, d. 4 Sep 1845: came
from Ireland to Rhode Island, then to NB by 1798 and settled in Salem, Hillsborough
Parish, Albert County: married 11 May 1810 Katharine Steeves b. 3 Mar 1790, d.
1827, d/o John Steeves and Margaret Lutz:
Children:
1) John Duffy b. 1811, d. 1868, m. 6 May 1834 Margaret Duffy b. 1809, d/o Dennis
Duffy and Margaret Clark who came from Ireland to NB in 1821: had issue:
2) James Duffy b. 11 Nov 1811, d. 16 Feb 1884, married Katherine Mitton b. 5 Nov
1826, d. 30 Mar 1871, d/o Ralph Mitton and Catherine Trites:
3) Hugh Duffy b. 1812, d. 25 Dec 1884 Wolverton, ON, m. Jane Elizabeth Derry b.
c1818 at Hopewell, NB, d. 10 May 1888 at Brigden, ON: had issue:
4) Michael Duffy born 15 Aug 1814, m. Elizabeth Steeves b. 5 Feb 1817: had five
children:
5) Dennis Duffy b. 1816, d. 1876, m. 1 Apr 1849 Margaret Wilmot b. 1829, died
1880:
6) William Duffy b. 1818:
7) Henry Duffy b. 1819, d. 1864, m. Olivia Colpitts d/o John Colpitts and
Seraphina Fillmore:
8) Peter Duffy born 7 Nov 1821, died 13 Apr 1895: m. 7 Jan 1847 Elizabeth Steeves
born 20 Dec 1828, d. 19 Aug 1870: had children:
9) William Duffy born 1823, d. 1874:
10) David Duffy b. 1826, d. unmarried 1889.
Source: MC80/590 Esther C. Wright’s The Steeves Descendants, pgs 243-53.
DUFOUR: Henri dit Honoré Dufour born c1837 in France, married Marie
D’Aiguilleau dit Guillot b. c1833, d. 19 Aug 1900: they came from Picardie, France
to Isle of Jersey, then moved to NB about 1866 and settled at Caraquet, Gloucester
County:
Children:
1) Léontine Dufour b. c1859 Isle of Jersey, d. 7 Mar 1918, married Honoré Duguay
s/o Octave Duguay and Clotilde Albert:
2) Rosalie Dufour born c1861 Isle of Jersey, died unmarried 16 Oct 1902:
3) Louise Dufour born 17 Nov 1865, m. 6 Jul 1885 at Lameque, Joeffrey Robichaud
s/o Jean-Louis Robichaud and Marie Duke of Lameque, NB:
4) Virginie Dufour born 20 Feb 1867:
5) Marie Archange Dufour b. 3 Aug 1868, d. 27 Sep 1868:
6) Marie Éléonore Dufour born 17 Oct 1869:
7) Henri Charles Dufour b. 14 Sep 1871, d. 5 Apr 1873:
8) Jean Lucien Dufour born 17 Apr 1873, died unmarried:
9) Marie Hélène Agnès Dufour b. 15 Jan 1875, buried 2 Apr 1875.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pages 141-2.
DUGAN: see DOOGAN and DOUGAN
DUGAS: Joseph Dugas b. c1741 at Grand-Pré, NS, bp. 14 Sep 1742, d. 4 Jun 1821,
s/o Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc of Carleton, QC: married c1770 Agathe
Landry born c1748 at Beaubassin, NS, died 28 Apr1820 at Caraquet, d/o Alexis
Landry and Marie Thériault: moved from Carleton, QC to NB: settled at Caraquet in
Gloucester County:
Children born at Caraquet:
1) Barbe Dugas b. c1771, m. 8 Jul 1793 at Caraquet, Pierre Pinet born 9 Jun 1770 on
the River Saint John, s/o Pierre Pinet and Marie Vienneau:
2) Hypolite Dugas born 15 Sep 1773, m. c1797 Geneviève Pinet d/o Pierre Pinet
and Marie Vienneau:
3) Joseph Amable Dugas born c1775, died unmarried:
4) Bruno Dugas born c1777, buried 14 Mar 1837, m. c1803 at Néguac, NB, Judith
Allain b. at Néguac, d. 22 Nov 1857, d/o Michel Allain and Josephte Savoie of
Néguac:
5) Anastasie Dugas born 8 Oct 1779 at Carleton, QC, died 14 Apr 1827 at Caraquet,
married c1800 Firmin Thériault b. c1779, s/o Joseph Thériault and Marie-Joseph
Girouard:
6) Laurent Dugas b. 17 Feb 1782 at Carleton, QC, d. 6 Nov 1859 at Caraquet, m. 29
Jul 1806 at Néguac, Marie Allain d/o Michel Allain and Josette Savoie:
7) Amand Constant Dugas born 6 Apr 1784 at Carleton, QC, d. 1 Apr 1860, m. 18
Aug 1813 Françoise Thériault born 17 Dec 1795, died 22 Feb 1869 at Caraquet, d/o
Pierre Thériault and Marguerite Pinet:
8) Hilaire Dugas born 24 Jun 1786, died unmarried, buried 21 Jun 1813 at French
Village, Mactaquac, NB:
9) Blanche Dugas b. c1788, married 10 Jan 1814 Léon Robichaud b. 19 Sep 1789 at
Bonaventure, QC, s/o Jean-Baptiste Robichaud and Félicité Cyr of Shippagan.
Sources: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pages 142-159: see
MC80/2242 Blanche Dugas’ Dugas: une des familles fondatrices de Caraquet.
DUGUAY: François Duguay born c1740 at Pabos (Chandler) QC, s/o René
Duguay, a Norman settler, and wife Marguerite LeBreton of Paspébiac, QC: married
4 May 1761 in Restigouche County, NB, Madeleine Chapados born c1737, d. 24 Jun
1814, d/o Jean Chapados and Catherine Larocque, Norman settlers living on north
side of Bay: the Duguay family settled at Shippagan in Gloucester County in 1791:
Children:
1) Joseph Duguay b. 1773 at Paspébiac, d. Aug 1813, m. Claire Doiron born c1773,
d. Apr 1814, d/o Zacharie Doiron and Anne Vicaire of Caraquet, NB: they settled in
Nipisiguit, Restigouche County: had issue:
2) Judith Duguay born 1776 at Paspébiac:
3) Raymond Duguay b. 1778 at Paspébiac, m. (1st) 30 Jan 1815 at Caraquet, Ursule
Morais born - , died 17 May 1814, d/o Jacques Morais and Agnès Bouthillier: m.
(2nd) 30 Jan 1815 Marie Poulin of Caraquet, d/o Louis Poulin and Hélène Chaisson:
had children:
4) Pierre Bonaventure Duguay b. 11 Jul 1784 at Paspébiac, m. (1st) 18 Nov 1806 at
Shippagan, Rosalie Chaisson d/o Nicolas Chaisson and Geneviève Gionais, married
(2nd) 30 Jan 1832 at Shippagan, Suzanne Roussel, widow of Joseph Savoie of
Shippagan: had issue:
5) Véronique Duguay married 8 Jun 1793 at Caraquet, NB, Jean Gionais s/o
François Gionais and Marie Vicaire:
6) François Duguay m. 25 Jun 1792 at Caraquet, Marie Doiron d/o Zacharie
Doiron and Anne Vicaire of Caraquet: settled in Shippagan and had children:
7) Jean-Baptiste Duguay m. 1 Jul 1793 at Caraquet, Marie Louise (Goulet) Boulet
d/o François Goulet and Françoise Rousseau: settled at Lamèque:
8) Louise Devine Duguay married (1st) Patrick Bulger, m. (2nd) 24 Nov 1824 at
Shippagan, Julien LeBreton s/o Julien LeBreton and Marie Gionais of Tracadie,
NB:
9) Marguerite Duguay m. 1788 at Paspébiac, Pierre Chaisson s/o Joseph Chaisson
and Anne Haché:
10) Urbain Duguay born c1799 at Shippagan, died 7 Oct 1876, married (1st)
Adélaide Breau, married (2nd) on 9 Nov 1830 Vénérande Mallet d/o Joseph Mallet
and Félicité Gionais: had children.
Sources: MC80/286 Donat Robichaud’s Le grand chipagan: histoire de Shippagan,

pages 281-293: see MC80/99 William F. Ganong’s The history of Shippegan, pages
149 to 150: a brother Jacques Duguay married Veronique Chapados, sister of
Madeleine and also settled at Shippagan Village: a brother Jean-Marie Duguay
married Anne Tareau of Quebec: a sister Marie Joseph Duguay m. c1746 Jean
Mallet s/o François Mallet of Bouillon, d’Avranche, Normandy and his wife Marie
Magdeleine Larocque: settled at Shippagan Village: see also MC80/2354 Saint John
Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 80.
DUHAN: Hugh Duhan b. c1805 in Ireland, d. after 1881, m. Margaret - b. c1807

in Ireland, d. 7 Dec 1877: they came to NB in 1828 and settled at Point Wolfe in Alma
Parish, Albert County:
Children:
1) James Duhan b. c1830:
2) Hugh Duhan b. c1833:
3) Dennis Duhan b. c1835, d. after 1881, m. c1859 Mary Ann Davis: settled at Point
Wolfe and had two children:
4) Mary Ann Duhan born c1837, died 8 Jan 1897, married 5 Nov 1869, as his third
wife, John Kinnie of Alma Parish, b. - , died 8 Aug 1893 at Minneapolis, MN, s/o
James Kinnie and Narcissa Pearson: they had four children:
5) Patrick Duhan born c1841: in 1881 the family moved to Shell Lake, Wisc.
Albert County, New Brunswick, pages 85-86 John Kinnie m. (1st) Lucinda Stevens
and (2nd) Margaret Akerly.
DUHY: James Duhy and wife Margaret McLaughlan came to NB before 1828 and
settled at Shepody in Hopewell Parish, Albert County:
Only child mentioned:

Matthew Duhy m. (1st) 12 Sep 1828 at Memramcook,Westmorland County,
Elizabeth McAlman d/o James McAlman and Isabella Teakles: had two children:
m. (2nd) 6 Jun 1836 at Memramcook, Mary Ann Falvey, widow of William Foley of
Shepody: they had one child: settled in Shepody, NB.
DUKE: Jepson Duke born 1790 in County Fermanagh, Ireland: spent twenty-five
years in the British Navy: m. Elizabeth - : came to NB around 1841 and probably
settled in Saint John:
Children:
1) William Beresford Duke b. 1808 in County Fermanagh: they came to NB in the
1840’s: first settled in Saint John then at Pleasington, Blissville Parish, Sunbury
County: married Anne Elliott born Aug 1816 in County Fermanagh, died 1882: had
three children:
2) Jepson Jones Duke born c1815, died 28 Jan 1890 at Saint John.
Source: MC80/2109 Donald F. Alerdice’s The Charters family of New Brunswick,

Canada, page 433: Jepson Duke’s brother James Duke and wife Elizabeth and their
youngest son, Jepson Jones Duke moved to NB before 1841 and settled in Saint
John.
DUMARESQ: Perry Dumaresq born c1789 in Jersey Islands, died 13 Mar 1839:
came to NB in 1818 with his wife and five children: they first settled at Nepisiguit,
then at Bathurst, then at Dalhousie, Restigouche County: m. (1st) Louise - , m.
(2nd) 6 Aug 1833 at Dalhousie, Mary Stewart d/o Charles Stewart originally of
Princetown, PEI:
Only child mentioned was son, Perry John Newton Dumaresq born c1809, married
Delphine Arseneau b. c1804 d/o Joseph Arseneau of Petit-Rocher, NB: they settled
at Shippagan, Gloucester County and had children.

pages 346-349.
DUNBAR: Alexander Dunbar born 4 Apr 1839 in Aberdeen, Scotland s/o James
Dunbar and Helen Davidson: he came to NB in 1872 and settled in Woodstock,
Carleton County: m. Matilda McAdam d/o John McAdam of Aberdeen, Scotland:
Children:
1) Ellen Dunbar married Richard Murphy:
2) Alexander Dunbar Jr.:
3) Andrew Dunbar:
4) Matilda Dunbar:
5) William Dunbar:
6) Agnes Dunbar:
7) Henry Dunbar:
8) John Dunbar:
9) George Dunbar:
10) Kathleen Dunbar:
11) Robert Dunbar.
DUNBAR: John Dunbar b. 1797 Northern Ireland, d. Jan 1883: he came to NB and
settled in Pennfield, Charlotte County: m. Ann/Nancy - b. c1803 in Northern
Ireland, d. Jul 1864:
Only child mentioned was, James Dunbar b. 25 Feb 1841, d. 4 Jun 1921, m. 19 Dec
1871 Rebecca Reid born 15 Aug 1853 at Bocabec, NB, d. 5 Feb 1939, d/o James
Reid and Nancy/Agnes - : they had children.
Source: MC1/McKay #3, 1 page: James Reid was born about 1809 in County Derry,
Ireland: he died 12 Apr 1878 at Bocabec, NB: his wife Nancy or Agnes was born
about 1814 in County Derry, Ireland.
DUNBRACK: Thomas Dunbrack married 2 Dec 1836 at Halifax, NS, Mary

Woodill b. c1815, d. 18 Oct 1841, second d/o William Woodill: they settled in Saint
John and had two children.

DUNCAN: Alexander Duncan born c1766 in Scotland, died after 1851: came to NB
about 1784: settled in Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County: may have married
Mary Wortman:
Children:
1) George Duncan born c1794, died 1 Oct 1844, m. 1 Mar 1833 Ann Taylor born
c1811:
2) Robert Duncan born 1796, died 19 Sep 1854, m. 10 Apr 1833 Catherine Broom
born c1814, d. 28 Mar 1889, d/o John and Harriet Broom: settled in Salisbury Parish
had seven children:
3) possibly, Barbara Duncan b. c1800, m. 10 Dec 1823 William Bleakney:
4) Maria Duncan b. c1801, m. 10 Jan 1832 John Hope:
4) Elizabeth Duncan born c1803, married 5 Apr 1832 William James McFee b. - , d.
after 1851:
5) William A. Duncan born 1806, d. 17 Apr 1890, m. (1st) 20 Feb 1834 Jane Mills b.
c1816, d. 8 Jan 1862: had at least seven children: m. (2nd) 23 Sep 1871 Rosanna
Gaskin b. - , died 9 Apr 1902, the widow of Peter MacFarland and Pierce Kinnie:
they settled at Lewis Mountain, NB:
6) John Duncan born c1830, d. 1890.
Sources: MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, pages 95-97: see also
MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS2: on microfilm reel F20987: see
sheet for Alexander Duncan.
DUNCAN: Andrew Duncan born c1824 in Glasgow, Scotland, died 18 Dec 1872:
came to NB: settled at Fredericton in York County and married: had at least one child,
Robert Duncan born c1856, died 12 Aug 1862.
Source: MC80/132 Lillian M.B. Maxwell’s The old grave-yard, page 123.
DUNCAN: George Duncan: came from Banff, Scotland to New Carlisle, QC, then to
NB in 1848 with his children: they settled at Little Shemogue, Botsford Parish,
Westmorland County:
Children:
1) William Duncan married Jane Ross of Pictou, NS and settled at Little Shemogue,
NB:
2) James Duncan: went to Ohio:
3) Jane Duncan.
Source: MC80/5 W.M. Burns’ A history and story of Botsford, pages 67-68: George
Duncan’s sister Jane Duncan also came to NB and settled with his family.
DUNCAN: John Duncan b. in Scotland: came to NB in 1773 with his father, David
Duncan who had been sent to develop a fishing business for Shoolbred and Smith in
Restigouche County: David returned to Scotland leaving John in charge of the fishery:
John m. at age 33 to Elizabeth Morrison of Nepisiquit.
Source: RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Adams family: Peter Adams:
microfilm F11077, 1 paragraph.
DUNCAN: John Duncan b. c1785 at Creetown, Kircudbrightshire, Scotland, died 4

Mar 1854: he came from Scotland to NS in 1814, then to NB in 1829: settled in Saint
John: m. Lavinia - born c1792 in Scotland, d. 16 Jan 1862:
Children:
1) Annie Duncan:
2) John Duncan.

DUNCAN: John Duncan b. 9 Jan 1797 in Meldrum, Scotland, 17 miles from

Aberdeen, d. 31 Jan 1869: came to NB in 1821 and settled in the northern part of the
province: went to Saint John in 1824: had several children.
NB, pages 56-58: see also MC80/467 David R. Jack’s History of Saint Andrew’s
Church, Saint John, NB, pages 323-325.
DUNCAN: Stephen Duncan born 1832 in Scotland, d. 7 Feb 1905, s/o John Duncan
of Scotland: came to NB and settled in Saint John: m. 8 May 1858 in Saint John,
Mary Jane Reed.
records of the Wesleyan burial ground, Saint John, NB, pages 65-66.
DUNCAN: William Duncan born c1790, d. before 1870: he came to NB and settled
in Charlotte County by 1837: moved to Calais, ME by 1840: m. before 1833 Amelia
Grace - b. c1798 in NB, d. 24 Oct 1881 in Calais, ME:
Children:
1) Margaret A. Duncan born c1834 in NB, died 8 Sep 1876 in Boston, MA:
2) David Duncan b. 16 Jul 1837 in Calais, d. 10 Apr 1878 in Calais, married 4 Dec
1864 in Calais, Mrs. Jennie C. Wrenton born in St. Stephen, NB: settled in Calais:
3) Charles Duncan born 21 Feb 1839, d. 16 Jan 1840 in Calais, ME:
4) Frederick Duncan b. 18 Nov 1840 in Calais, d. about 19 Jan 1926.
DUNCAN: William James Duncan born 24 Dec 1859 in County Antrim, Ireland, d.
12 Feb 1943, s/o W.J. Duncan, m. Mary McGuire of Halifax: came to NB and
settled first in Fredericton, York County, then in Chatham, Northumberland County:
William and Mary had seven children, two of which remained in Chatham.
Source: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography.
DUNDAS: Thomas Dundas b. 1838 in Fermanagh, Ireland, d. 13 Jan 1871: came to

NB in 1849 and settled at Harvey in Manners Sutton Parish, York County: m. 20 Jul
1859 Janet Marshall: had six daughters:

1) Barbara Dundas b. 4 Dec 1861, d. 11 Jun 1915, m. William J. Reynolds born 24
Feb 1854, d. 6 Feb 1921, s/o John Reynolds: settled in Harvey area and had issue:
2) Agnes Dundas b. 1869, d. 20 Nov 1871.
Sources: MC80/2504 Jocelean S. Hall et. al. Harvey Settlement Cemetery 1837-1999,
pages 23, 26, 76: Thomas Dundas’ sisters Barbara Dundas m. John Reynolds,
Margaret Dundas m. Alfred Thomas, and Elizabeth Dundas (b. 1840, d. unm. 29
Aug 1889) all settled in NB: the widow Janet (Marshall) Dundas married (2nd) 26 Aug
1872 Nathan Mosher.
DUNFIELD: Michael Dunfield b. - , d. before 1851: came to NB in 1783 as a

Loyalist: eventually settled at Upper Settlement, Sussex Parish, Kings County: his
wife died after 1851.

DUNHAM: Daniel Dunham born 1730 Woodbridge, NJ, died 1781, m. 1752
Catherine Campbell b. 1734, died 1816: came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled
in Lancaster, Saint John County:
Children born in NJ:

1) Lewis Dunham b. 1753, d. 1816: lived in Fredericton:
2) John Dunham b. c1755:
3) Sarah Dunham b. c1757, d. in Saint John:
4) Campbell Dunham b. 1759, married Catherine Wright:
5) David Allston Dunham b. 1762, m. Mary Ann Cathline:
6) Jonathan Dunham born 1768:
7) Seth Dunham born 1769:
8) Asher? Dunham:
9) Isaac? Dunham:
10) Joseph? Dunham.
Sources: MC1/Dunham, 4 pages: Daniel Dunham’s brothers and sons came with him
to NB in 1783: see MC167 Dunham Collection: see also MC300 York-Sunbury
Historical Society Collection, MS3/95, 1 page.
DUNHAM: David Allston Dunham born 1762 in NJ, died 13 Mar 1845 at
Indiantown, Saint John, s/o Daniel Dunham and Catherine Campbell of
Woodbridge, NJ: he came to NB and settled in Lancaster, Saint John County: married
1795 Mary Ann Cathline b. 1775, d. 3 Oct 1851 in Saint John, d/o Philip Keithland:
Children:
1) Joseph Dunham b. 1797, m. Ann Logan born 1799:
2) Samuel Dunham bp. 5 Sep 1799, m. 22 Jul 1834 Mary Ann London of Kingston
Parish:
3) Catherine Dunham bp. 16 Jun 1800, m. Mr. Stockford or Mr. Mason:
4) John Dunham born 1802:
5) Ann Dunham b. c1804, m. James Gault b. c1807, d. 1894: three children:
6) Eliza Dunham born 1809, married 24 Dec 1840 William Armstrong of Lancaster
Parish:
7) Elizabeth Dunham b. 1811, married 6 Jun 1839 William W. Williams of
Lancaster Parish:
8) David Dunham born 1812, d. 3 Feb 1880, m. (1st) - m. (2nd) Elizabeth B.
White:
9) William H. Dunham born 1815, d. 13 Aug 1899, m. Ann - : had at least four
children:
10) George Comely Dunham born 12 Jan 1820, d. 11 Feb 1876 in Saint John, m.
Phoebe T. McLellan and had eight children.
Source: MC1/Dunham #1, 14 pages: see also MC167 Dunham Collection: see also
MC2824 Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Dunham, 1 page which says David Sr is s/o Isaac
Dunham and Anna Gach.
DUNHAM: David Elson/Alston Dunham born c1760 probably at Middlesex, NJ, d.

13 Mar 1843, s/o Isaac Dunham and Ann Gash: married c1796 Mary Dunn: settled
at Saint John:
Only child mentioned was, Samuel Dunham born 5 Sep 1799, d. 21 Jan 1878, m. (1st)
after 1825, Mary Ann Briggs b. - , died 23 Aug 1870: they had nine children: m.
(2nd) after 1870 Mrs. Rebecca (Thorne) Fowler b. c1816, d. 10 Feb 1882: settled in
Wickham, Queens County.
Source: MC80/1913 Kenneth R. Dunham’s Dunham-Singletary genealogy.
DUNHAM: Isaac Dunham b. c1737 at Woodbridge, Middlesex County, NJ, m. 22

Aug or 22 Sep 1759 at Woodbridge, NJ, Ann Gash d/o Thomas Gash: came to NB in
1783 as Loyalists: settled in Westfield Parish, Kings County:
Children of first marriage:

1) David Elson/Alston Dunham born c1760 probably at Middlesex, NJ, died on 13
Mar 1843: married c1796 Mary Dunn: settled at Saint John: had nine children:
2) John Dunham:
3) Thomas Dunham born c1763 at Woodbridge, NJ: moved to Ontario.
Sources: MC80/1285 Loyalist lineages of Canada 1783-1983, pages 203-204: see also
MC80/1913 Kenneth R. Dunham’s Dunham-Singletary genealogy.
DUNHAM: Samuel Dunham born 26 Mar 1792 at Vinal Haven, Fox Island, ME,
died Oct 1863, s/o James Dunham and Elizabeth Robbins: came to NB in 1814 and
settled at Tower Hill, Saint David Parish, Charlotte County: m. 22 Sep 1816 at St.
Stephen, NB, Susan Foster b. Apr 1794 at Machias, ME, died 1873, d/o Benjamin
Foster and Ruth Scott:
Children:
1) Justus Dunham born 29 Apr 1817, d. 29 Nov 1876, m. 3 Jan 1844 Hannah Fox b.
- , died 29 Nov 1876: settled at Campbell Settlement, York County and had three
children:
2) Caroline Dunham b. 22 Dec 1818, d. 20 Nov 1902, m. 22 Oct 1845 James
Ludgate born c1815 at Fort Hill, Eastport, ME, died 24 Aug 1903, s/o Robert
Ludgate and Catherine Cameron: settled at Tower Hill and had five children:
3) Perez Dunham born 12 Apr 1820, d. 27 Feb 1892 at Hopewell Cape, Albert
County: m. Zena - and had four children:
4) Catherine Dunham born 1 Jun 1822, died unm. 1842 at Presque Isle, ME:
5) Cornelius Dunham born 12 Mar 1824, b. 1900 at Otter Tail County, MN: married
and had six children:
6) Ruth Frances Dunham b. 22 Dec 1825, died 1 Apr 1908 at Moores Mills, NB, m.
1852 at Presque Isle, ME, Dr. Edwin W. Dibblee s/o Walter Dibblee: had four
children:
7) Elizabeth Robbins Dunham born 17 Jul 1827, d. 19 Jan 1912, married 20 Dec
1850 Simeon Moore b. 1819 at Moores Mills, NB, d. 1874, s/o Tristam Moore and
Thankful Foster: they had two children:
8) Letitia Dunham b. 18 May 1829, d. 25 May 1830:
9) James Dunham born 3 Sep 1831, died 7 Jun 1832:
10) James Dunham b. 23 Feb 1835, died 19 Oct 1898 at Macon County, MO,
married Nancy Eleanor Hughes b. 14 Feb 1846 in Missouri: had six children:
11) Letitia Dunham b. 6 May 1837, died Aug 1895, married Ezra Merrill b. 1839 at
Tower Hill, NB, died 1909: settled at Gorham, NH: had six children.
Sources: MC1/Dunham #2, 315 pages: see MC80/2626 Marian D. Elkinton’s Family
lines: the lineages of Thomas Benton Dunham, pages 10-12.
DUNLAP: James Dunlap b. 1811 in Ireland: m. (1st) - : m. (2nd) Rebecca - b.

1830 in Ireland: came to NB 1848: settled in Fredericton, York County:
Children:
1) James Dunlap b. 1840 in Ireland:
2) William Dunlap b. 1847 in Ireland:
3) Jane Dunlap b. 1849 in NB:
4) John Dunlap b. 1852 in NB:
5) Elizabeth Dunlap b. 1858:
6) Henry Dunlap b. 1860.
Sources: MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. I,
pages 22-23: also see the York County census records.
DUNLOP: John Dunlop b. - , d. before 1845: came to NB 1783 as a Loyalist: settled

in Northampton Parish, Carleton County: married 1795 in Northampton Parish,
Martha Colby b. c1778, d. after 1845:

1) John King Dunlop b. 1796:
2) Elizabeth Dunlop b. 1798:
3) Mary Ann Dunlop bp. 1804:
4) James McFarlane Dunlop bp. 1804:

DUNLOP: John Dunlop or Dunlap b. c1791 County Armagh, Ireland, d. 18 Mar

1865: came to NB in 1836 and settled at Greer, Saint Martins Parish, Saint John
County: m. c1830 Elizabeth Greer born c1806 County Armagh, Ireland, died 30 Jan
1881, d/o Henry and Mary Greer:
Children:
1) Mary Dunlop born c1829 in Ireland, died 4 May 1913, m. 31 Dec 1846 or 1848
Alfred Porter b. - , d. 5 Sep 1913:
2) John Dunlop b. c1831 in Ireland, d. 22 Jan 1908, m. 28 Dec 1860 Mary Ann
Richardson born c1839, d. 2 Dec 1913:
3) James Dunlop b c1833 Ireland, d. 12 Jul 1900:
4) Louisa Dunlop b. c1837 in NB, d. 5 Aug 1927, married (1st) 20 Oct 1854
Alexander Marshall: (2nd) 14 Nov 1872 James Charlton born 1847, died 1 Dec
1914, s/o Robert Charlton and Mary Greer:
5) Elizabeth Dunlop b. c1839, died 2 Aug 1912, married 6 Feb 1860 Robert
Richardson of Waterford, Kings County, born c1835, died 14 Oct 1888, s/o Joseph
Richardson and Maria Parlee: settled at Waterford and had children:
6) Sarah Dunlop born 1842, died 13 Dec 1908, married 6 May 1871 George
Richardson b. c1843, d. 17 Jun 1917:
7) Rebecca Jane Dunlop born 25 Jan 1844, d. 14 Feb 1917, m. 30 Apr 1870 Isaac
Charlton born c1844, died on 19 Feb 1896, s/o Robert Charlton and Mary Greer:
8) Henry Dunlop born 6 Sep 1846, d. c1920, married 8 Apr 1873 Mary Ann
Charlton b. 13 Sep 1850, d. 16 Apr 1913:
9) Robert Dunlop b. 24 May 1852, m. 11 May 1881 Anne Isabella Victoria Beals.
Sources: MC1/Greer, 10 pages: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick

lineages, pages 89-90: see also MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99:
our first families in New Brunswick, pages 80-81.
DUNLOP: Samuel Dunlop: settled in Saint John: married on 16 Sep 1846 in Saint
John, Eleanor Horsfield:
Children mentioned:
1) Charles Nicholas Dunlop b. 1847, died 3 Aug 1848:
2) Albert Dunlop b. 1849, d. 22 Sep 1849:
3) Edward D. Dunlop b. 1852, died 28 Oct 1880 in Boston, MA:
4) George Horsfield Dunlop born 1854, d. 10 Jan 1855:
5) Henry Dunlop born 1855, died 22 Jan 1859.

DUNLOP: Samuel Dunlop b. - , d. 19 Nov 1864: settled in Saint John: m. 2 May

1842 in Saint John, Agnes/Ann Fowler:
Children mentioned:
1) Margaret Dunlop born 1845:
2) Sarah Ann Dunlop b. 1849:
3) Martha Dunlop born 1850:
4) Elizabeth Dunlop b. 1853:
5) Lucy Dunlop:
6) Samuel Dunlop b. 1857.

DUNN: Benjamin Dunn probably born at Piscataway in Middlesex County, NJ, may
have d. by 1787, m. Mary - : came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and first settled at
Beaver Harbour, Pennfield Parish, Charlotte County: later went to Campobello Island:
had two children.

of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy, pages 52-53: Jonathan Dunn and
Jeremiah Dunn also settled on Campobello Island.
DUNN: Charles Dunn born in NS: came to NB and settled in Saint John: his wife’s
name is not provided:

1) Henry Dunn born 1840 at Digby, NS died 8 May 1917, m. 31 Oct 1864 at Saint
John, Mary McFarlane born on 29 Apr 1842 at St, Martins, Saint John County, d. 17
Jan 1922, second d/o George McFarlane of Ireland and Saint John and Marion
Brown of Scotland: they settled in Saint John: had issue:
2) John S. Dunn b. 1847 in Digby, NS, d. 4 Mar 1897, m. 9 Aug 1872 in Saint John,
Jennie Rolston: had issue.

DUNN: Daniel Dunn born c1754 at Westchester County, NY, d. c1823: came to NB
in 1783 as a Loyalist: by 1785 moved to Red Bank in South Esk Parish,
Northumberland: married Barbara Rogers and had ten children by 1785:

1) Clare Dunn b. - , m. 17 Jul 1806 Andrew Ivory born c1770 in Ireland, died 20 Jul
1810:
2) John Dunn born c1787, m. 2 Sep 1810 or 21 Nov 1811 Bridget Power d/o John
Power and Mary McCarthy?: they settled at Red Bank, NB:
3) Daniel Dunn b. c1792: settled at Red Bank:
4) Mary Dunn b. c1796, m. Gilbert Young b. c1796, d. after 1851.
Sources: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, pages 125 to 126: see
also MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the NBGS, Some first families of the
Miramichi, 1 page.
DUNN: Dennis Dunn b. - , d. -, m. (1st) Jane - born 1820, died 8 Jan 1841: married
(2nd) Julia - : settled at or near St. Andrews, Charlotte County: only child
mentioned was, Theresa R. Dunn born 1850, died 3 Apr 1853.
Source: MC80/360 Acadiensis Vol VII, No. 3, Jul, 1907 Old Roman Catholic
Graveyard at St. Andrews, pages 198-199.
DUNN: Elbridge Gerry Dunn b. 1812 at Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, ME, s/o
Peter Dunn and Dorothy Bartlett: came to NB in April 1833: first settled in
Fredericton, York County, then in Saint John: m. 1845 Louisa M. Brackett born in
Albion, ME, died Sep 1896, d/o Joseph Brackett:
Children:
1) Caroline Shaw Dunn b. - , died 1897, married Nathaniel M. Jewett of Boston,
MA:
2) George Bancroft Dunn: settled in Aroostook, ME:
3) Mary Dunn married E.J. Johnson of Boston, MA:
4) Elbridge Gerry Dunn Jr.: settled in Aroostook, ME.
DUNN: James Dunn born c1777 in Scotland, died after 1861, m. in Scotland,
Christiana - b. c1781 in Scotland, d. after 1867: came from Stirlingshire,
Edinburgh, Scotland to NB in early 1820’s: settled near Jerusalem, Hampstead Parish,
Queens County:

1) George Dunn born c1805, d. 1877, m. Frances Ann Stewart d/o Andrew Stewart
and Margaret Hamilton: settled in Dunns Corner, Petersville Parish, Queens County:
had seven children:
2) William Dunn born 1807 in Scotland, married Mrs. Margaret Hughson or
Hasson, a widow, b. 1815 in NB: settled at Hampstead: five children are listed in the
1861 census:
3) Andrew Dunn married Mary Stewart d/o Andrew Stewart and Margaret
Hamilton: settled in Saint John and had two sons:
4) John R. Dunn b. - , d. 1924, married Mary A. - :
5) David Dunn m. Mary Douglas, a sister of Daniel Douglas: moved to New
Hampshire: had two daughters:
6) Hugh Dunn:
7) Margaret Dunn m. 27 Nov 1834 in Hampstead Parish, Daniel Douglas: had issue:
8) James Dunn b. c1815 County Stirling, Scotland, d. 6 May 1874 in Queens County,
m. 11 Dec 1833 in Queens County, Margaret or Betsey McLaughlin b. c1815 in
Dumfrieshire, Scotland: d. 31 Aug 1896 in Queens County: settled in Jerusalem: eight
children are mentioned in the 1861 census.
Sources: MC80/823 Annie E. Elder’s History of New Jerusalem, pages 54-55. Mary
(Stewart) Dunn returned to Jerusalem following her husband’s death and married (2nd)
John Selfridge: Margaret Hughson/Hasson had a son Alexander Hasson born 1841
in NB: see MC80/2249 Verna M. Hoffman’s Christopher McConchie family, section
#5, pages 19 to 20: see also MC80/2773 Richard Corbett’s Summer Hill, Dunn’s
Corner: gone but not forgotten, pg 80-82, 95.
DUNN: John Dunn born c1753, died 14 Apr 1829: he came from NY to NB in 1783
as a Loyalist and settled at St. Andrews in Charlotte County: married Elizabeth - b.
1762, d. 11 Jan 1835: only child mentioned was son, Thomas Dunn born 1784, d. 9
Jan 1845, m. Mary - b. 1792, d. 8 May 1821: had at least two children.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: John Dunn, 1 page: see also MC80/360
Acadiensis: Vol III, No. 3, Jul 1903, Old Burial Ground, St. Andrews, pages 208 to
209: see also MC80/360 Acadiensis Vol VII, No. 3, Jul, 1907, M.N. Cockburn’s The
Town of Saint Andrews: some of its early history, page 225.
DUNN: John Dunn born 1804 in County Derry, Ireland, d. 1889, s/o Robert Dunn:
came to NB in 1818: settled in Saint John: m. Martha Gould b. 1811, died 1878, d/o
Charles Gould of Somersetshire, England and Sussex, Kings County:
Children:
1) Miss Dunn m. S.J. Parkin:
2) R.C. John Dunn:
3) J.J. Dunn: he went to California:
4) Albert T. Dunn b. 6 Feb 1842, d. unm. 30 Apr 1916:
5) Thomas A.W. Dunn:
6): Frederick B. Dunn: settled at Musquash, Saint John County:
7) Eleanor T. Dunn m. Mr. C.C. Church.
Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: Albert T. Dunn, 1 page: see also MC80/338 I.
Allen Jack’s Biographical Review, pages 87-88, 285-286 which states that John’s
brother James Dunn also settled in Saint John.
DUNN: John Dunn born 1812 in Ireland, d. 11 Dec 1881: possibly came form
County Wexford, Ireland to NB in 1831 and settled at Barnaby River in Nelson Parish,
Northumberland County: m. Anne Kane b. 1821, d. 10 Apr 1876:
Children born at Barnaby River:

1) Thomas Dunn born 18 Jan 1845, died 17 Sep 1926, m. 1878 in Wisconsin, Anne
- :
2) Patrick Dunn b. 20 Dec 1846, d. 19 Jan 1884:
3) Catherine Dunn b. 18 Jun 1849 at Barnaby River, died 4 Oct 1920: m. Jul 1879 in
Chatham, NB, James McCarthy:
4) John Dunn b. 3 Jan 1852, d. 10 Nov 1927, m. 7 Oct 1884 Mary Monahan:
5) Margaret Anne Dunn b. 8 Jun 1857, d. 7 Dec 1947, m. 14 Nov 1882 John
Maloney:
6) William Francis Dunn b. 9 Dec 1860, d. 17 Jan 1944, married 24 Apr 1888 Mary
Ann Coyle.
Miramichi, 1 page.
DUNN: John Dunn born c1819 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, d. 3 Mar 1871, m. 1847
Jane Irving b. 1828, d. 8 Apr 1858, d/o George Irving and Jane Stitt: they settled at
Beersville in Weldford Parish, Kent County:
Children:
1) John Dunn b. 1848, d. 28 Aug 1915, m. Phoebe Beers b. 1857, d. 7 Apr 1934: had
thirteen children:
2) Thomas Dunn b. 16 Aug 1850, died 27 Jan 1933, m. 19 Jun 1872 Rachel Reid
born 5 Apr 1851, died 13 Apr 1911, d/o Robert and Ruth Reid:
3) George Dunn b. 1852, d. 1874:
4) Jane Dunn born 1854, d. 1874:
5) Richard Dunn b. 1858, d. 1938, m. Jessie A. Armstrong b. 1860, d. 1945.
Sources: MC1/Dunn, 20 pages: contains a copy of a report titled Descendants of

John Dunn of Lanarkshire, Scotland by Mrs. Stanley H. Long: see also MC80/1464
Mary Long’s Descendants of John Dunn of Lanarkshire, Scotland.
DUNN: Richard Dunn b. c1793 in USA: came to NB in 1815 and settled in

Fredericton, York County: m. (1st) Sarah Lamb born c1800, d. 17 Apr 1827, d/o
James H. and Harriet Lamb: had at least one child: m. (2nd) Sophronia Lombard
born 1813 in USA, d/o Ephraim Lombard of Maine and NB: she came to NB in
1830:
Child of first marriage:

1) Son, died as infant:

2) Charles Melville Dunn b. 1836, d. 16 Nov 1836:
3) Richard Dunn b. c1837:
4) Ephraim Dunn b. 1843:
5) Margaret Dunn b. 1846.
MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. II, pages
92 to 94: Sophronia Lombard’s sister Catherine Lombard m. William Watts; her
sister Margaret Lombard married Francis Beverly.
DUNN: Robert Dunn b. 1798 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, d. 1863: he came to NB in

1817 and first settled in Richibucto, Kent County: in 1846 he moved to Gaspereau in
Chipman Parish, Queens County: married Janet Armstrong:
Children:
1) George Dunn m. Susan P. Quint:
2) Robert Dunn Jr.: d. unmarried:
3) David Dunn m. Sarah Davis:
4) Samuel Dunn m. Charlotte A. Chase:
5) Andrew Dunn m. Jane Quint:
6) Margaret Dunn married Benjamin Richardson:
7) Jessie Dunn married Isaiah Langan.
Source: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, page 24.
DUNN: Thomas Dunn born c1784 in Ireland, died 9 Jan 1845, probably the nephew
of John Dunn: married in Ireland Mary - b. 1792, d. 8 May 1821: family came to
NB about 1810 and settled in St. Andrews, Charlotte County:
Children mentioned:
1) John Dunn (Rev.) b. Feb 1809 in Ireland, d. 12 Jan 1849 at Douglas, York County,
NB, m. 24 May 1832 at Windsor, NS, Anne Rachel Carter b. 15 Nov 1810, d. 31
May 1868 London, England, d/o Francis Carter and Eliza Pike: had three children:
2) Eleanor Dunn born Nov 1810 in Ireland, d. Oct 1884 at St. Andrews, NB:
3) Eliza Dunn born 2 May 1812 at St. Andrews, NB, died 2 Apr 1823:
4) Thomas Dunn b. 7 Jul 1814 at St. Andrews, died 11 Feb 1876 at NY, m. 19 Dec
1838 at Boston, MA, Sarah Jennison d/o William Jennison and Mary Pike:
5) Judith/Julia Dunn b. 1 Apr 1816, d. 20 Apr 1901, m. 25 Aug 1842 James Henry
Whitlock of St. Andrews, born 20 Mar 1803, m. 25 Aug 1842 at Grand Manan, NB:
settled at Milltown, St. Stephen Parish, Charlotte County and had seven children:
6) James Dunn b. 16 Feb 1818, d. 20 May 1829.
Sources: MC80/360 Acadiensis: Vol III, No. 3, Jul 1903, Old Burial Ground, St.
Andrews, pages 208-209: see also Saint John Regional Library: David Russell Jack
Bequest: Genealogy, microfilm reel F109, page 98: see also D.R. Jack’s Loyalist
families of New Brunswick on microfilm F355, Volume II, pages 22-25.
DUNN: William Dunn b. c1802 in Ireland, d. after 1861: came to NB in July 1825
and settled at Red Bank, South Esk Parish, Northumberland County: m. Bridget
Findlay born in Ireland:
Children:
1) Martin Dunn b. c1825, d. May 1902: settled at Red Bank:
2) John Dunn born 1829, died 22 Apr 1910, m. 1871 Joanna Nowlan b. 1851 d/o
John Nowlan and Mary Matchett: settled at Red Bank:
3) Catherine Dunn b. c1831, m. Patrick Gillis b. 19 Mar 1827, d. Nov 1914 s/o
John Angus Gillis and Mary McGovern:
4) Elizabeth Dunn born 26 Jan 1834, died on 5 Mar 1919, m. Joseph Chaplin born
1834, d. 6 Sep 1899 s/o William Chaplin and Helen Walsh of Cassilis:
5) William Dunn b. c1836, d. 1877, m. 1872 Ellen Keys b. 1847, died 14 Jun 1924,
d/o Patrick Keys and Ann Harrigan: settled at Red Bank.
DUNNE: Patrick William Dunne b. 1772, d. 20 Sep 1839, married Amelia

Marcella Malone born 1783, d. 1860: parents and eleven children came from
Stradbally, Queens County, Ireland to NB in 1825 to join family and friends in
Chatham, Northumberland County:
Children mentioned:
1) Michael Dunne b. 1802, d. 16 Sep 1853: went to Chicago:
2) Catherine Dunne b. c1805:
3) John Dunne born 1807, d. 2 Feb 1826:
4) Bridget Dunne b. 1808, d. 20 Sep 1825:
5) Peter Dunne born c1811: wentto Chicago:
6) William Dunne b. May 1815: to Chicago:
7) Patrick Dunne b. 1816:
8) Mary Dunne born 1819, m. 4 Jul 1839 Matthew Riordan from Kinsale, County
Cork, Ireland: they returned to Ireland in the 1840’s, then to Chicago:
9) Edward Dunne born 3 Jan 1821: went to PEI in 1842, married Mary Finn of
Souris, PEI: first settled in Chatham, NB, then moved to Chicago:
10) Elizabeth Dunne born 1823, married 27 Aug 1843 William Dowling of County
Wexford, Ireland who came to Chatham, NB in 1838: first settled in Chatham then
moved to Chicago:
11) Dennis Dunne b. 10 Feb 1824:
12) Bridget Dunne b. Jun 1827 in NB.
Source: MC80/1447 Len Hilts’ The Dunnes of New Brunswick and Chicago.
DUNNETT: John Dunnett born about 1797 in Scotland, died c1871, m. Ann
Nicholson born in Scotland: migrated to NB in 1823 and settled at Big Hole in North
Esk Parish, Northumberland County:
Children:
1) William Dunnett born 21 Nov 1821 in Scotland: he remained in Scotland:
2) Catherine Dunnett born 20 Feb 1823 in Scotland, d. 1856, married 22 Jul 1845
John S. Tozer b. c1820, d. 7 Oct 1892, s/o Elson Tozer and Mehetable Roome of
Whitney, NB: had seven children:
3) John Dunnett born 25 Dec 1824, d. 10 Oct 1864, m. 23 Jul 1857, m. Nancy
Mitchell Mullin born c1835, died 19 Mar 1910, d/o Robert Mullin and Sally
Shannon of Wayerton: settled at Trout Brook and had three children:
4) Marjorie Dunnett b. 26 Mar 1827, d. 1 Feb 1903, m. 19 Feb 1852 William
Dawson Curtis born 14 May 1828, died 4 Nov 1907, s/o William Curtis and
Susannah Travis of Whitney, NB: settled in Whitney and had seven children:
5) James Dunnett b. 10 Jul 1829, d. 13 Jun 1895, m. 27 Mar 1860 Christina
Sutherland b. 25 Oct 1830, d. 1901, d/o Alexander and Jane Sutherland of Upper
Halcomb: settled at Whitney and had eight children:
6) Ann Nicholson Dunnett b. 21 May 1831, d. 16 Oct 1922, m. 26 Jul 1855 William
Hare born c1830, died 3 Dec 1908, s/o Alexander Hare and Jane Allison: they had
ten children:
7) Margaret Dunnett b. 14 Jul 1833, d. 1901, m. 7 May 1857 Peter Russell born
c1834, d. after 1915, s/o John Russell and Margaret Hutchison: settled in Whitney
and had three children:
8) David Dunnett b. 10 Sep 1835, d. 12 Mar 1894, married 1 Apr 1858 Mary
Isabella Sutherland b. 28 Oct 1828, d. 21 Aug 1906, d/o Alexander and Jane
Sutherland: settled at Whitney and had seven children:
9) Edward Williston Dunnett b. 14 Aug 1838, d. 8 Jul 1887, m. 14 Sep 1859 Jane
Forsyth born c1840, d. 11 Jun 1918 d/o Robert Forsyth and Margaret McKinnon:
settled at Whitney and had seven children.
Sources: MC1/Dunnett, 2 pages: see MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk:
Revised, pages 127-130: see also MC80/2689 Miramichi Branch of the NBGS, Some
first families of the Miramichi, 1 page.
DUNPHY: Joseph Dunphy born 23 Apr 1766, died 2 Feb 1853, s/o Joseph and
Mary Dunphy m. Mehitible or Hetty Wheeler born 7 Mar 1774, d. 22 Dec 1838:
settled in Douglas, York County:
Children:
1) Thomas Dunphy born 22 Jan 1798, d. 8 May 1881, married 1 Mar 1821 at
Kingsclear, York County, Prudence E. Wheeler b. 1798, d. 12 Apr 1874, d/o
Edward Wheeler: settled at Kingsclear and had five children:
2) Mehitible Dunphy b. 21 Oct 1799, m. Frederick Phillips:
3) Joseph Dunphy (twin) born 16 Jul 1801, d. 20 Apr 1875, married 11 Nov 1824 at
Kingsclear, Jerusha Coburn or Burden b. 1808, d. 17 Jan 1881: they settled at
Douglas and had four children:
4) Andrew Dunphy (twin) born 16 Jul 1801, d. 15 Apr 1877, married 20 Dec 1822 at
Douglas, Ruth Burden born 1804, d. 17 Dec 1880, d/o Thomas and Sarah Burden:
settled at Douglas and had thirteen children:
5) William D. Dunphy born 25 Jun 1803, d. 5 Feb 1892, m. Mary Ann Ross born
1807, died 19 Mar 1883: settled in Nashwaak Village: had at least eight children:
6) George A. Dunphy b. 31 Jul 1805, m. Levina - b. 1810: seven children:
7) Mahala Ann Dunphy b. 5 Mar 1809, d. 26 Jan 1881, m. Stephen Carlisle b. 1804,
d. 2 May 1892: settled at Douglas and had eleven children:
8) Jonathan Dunphy b. 1 Mar 1811, d. 10 Nov 1849, m. 6 Apr 1836 Caroline Ross
born 1817, d. 21 Jul 1898: settled at Douglas and had two children:
9) Susan Dunphy born 31 Mar 1814, m. William McKeen b. 1811, d. 1887, s/o
William McKeen: they settled in York County and had eight children:
10) Joanna Dunphy b. 16 Apr 1816, m. Zebedee Estey b. 1806: had at least two
children:
11) Charles Dunphy b. 3 Mar 1819, d. 1902, married 24 Dec 1839 Abigail West
Clark born 1821, died in 1900: settled in York County: had at least six children.
Source: MC80/1302 Linwood S. Dunphy’s A genealogy of American and Canadian

Dunphy’s of Irish Origin.
DUNPHY: Thomas Dunphy b. - , died after 1821: he came to NB by 1787 and

settled on the Miramichi River in Northumberland County: married c1795 Elizabeth
- :
Children:
1) Thomas Dunphy b. 1796, m. 1827 Margaret Green d/o Andrew Green: 2)
possibly, Robert Dunphy b. 1804, married (1st) 1830 Phebe Green, (2nd) Isabella
Donald:
3) possibly, Jacob Dunphy b. 1806:
4) Mary Dunphy: plus others.
Source: MC80/1027 William R. MacKinnon Jr.’s Over the portage: early history of
the Upper Miramichi (revised), page 79, and the index.
DUPLISEA: Joseph Duplisea born 1755 at Kamouraska, Quebec, d. c1818, s/o

Joseph Sirois dit Duplessis and Marie Ann-Louise Levasseur: married (1st) 18 Jun
1787 Marie Francoise Chouinard b. c1768 in Quebec d/o Jean Francois
Chouinard and Marie Madeleine Morin: m. (2nd) Mary Frances or Marie Chasse:
settled at Bay du Vin, Hardwicke Parish, Northumberland County but by 1810 had
moved to the Hoyt area in Blissville Parish, Sunbury County:
Children listed in an estimated order:

1) Stephen Duplisea b. c1788, m. Margaret - :
2) Pascal Duplisea b. May 1789, d. 3 Mar 1891, married Phobe Eliza Mills:
3) Joseph Duplisea married 30 Sep 1818 Sarah Buckingham:
4) Charles Duplisea born c1798, d. 29 Oct 1884, m. 12 Oct 1819 in Sunbury County,
Elizabeth Thomas born 1803, d. 10 May 1888, d/o Joshua Thomas of Burton, NB:
settled in Blissville Parish and had ten children:
5) John Duplisea born in 1801, died 28 Aug 1879, married Susanna Parsons:
6) Benjamin Duplisea m. Scholastique Hebert:
7) Sarah Duplisea:
8) William Duplisea married Eliza Louise McIntyre:
9) Edward Duplisea:
10) Francoise Duplisea born Jan 1806:
11) Oliver Duplisea born c1809, married 22 Sep 1838 Lucille Lagace:
12) David Duplisea married 6 Oct 1836 at Blissville, NB, Sarah Howe:
13) Thomas Duplisea:
14) Calvin Duplisea b. 1811:
15) Peter Duplisea.
Sources: MC1/Duplisea, 7 pages: surname is also spelled Duplessis: see also

MC80/1373 Alton L. Harris’ Harris genealogy, pgs 407-410: see MC80/1769
Kenneth A. Clark’s The Duplisea family of New Brunswick and Maine: see also
MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New
Brunswick, page 81: see also MC1396 George Hayward genealogical fonds, MS1C
The Hayward collection, A503, 2 pages.
DUPUIS: Cyprien Dupuis b. 1733, s/o Pierre Dupuis and Jeanne Richard: m. on 2
Jun 1760 at Sainte-Anne de Ristigouche, Québec, Françoise-Rosalie Préjean, d/o
Jean-Baptiste Préjean and Marie Gaudet: they came to NB by 1768 and settled on
the Saint John River, by 1780 they went to Memramcook, Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Marie-Appoline Dupuis b. 1761, married c1792 at Memramcook, Joseph
Belliveau, widower of Marie Gaudet:
2) Anne-Marguerite Dupuis b. 1762:
3) Joseph-Fréderic Dupuis born 1764:
4) Pierre Dupuis born 1766, died 6 Jun 1853, married Modeste Bourque d/o
François Bourque and Isabelle Broussard of Cobequid: the family settled at
Memramcook.
Sources: MC80/781 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. I,

page 399: see MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens,
Vol. 2, pages 541, 542.
DUPUIS: Michel Dupuis born in 1720 s/o Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard: married
20 Jan 1744 at Port-Royal, NS, Marie-Josephe Savoie d/o Germain Savoie and
Geneviève Babineau: the family came to NB in 1770 and settled in Memramcook,
Westmorland County:
Children:
1) Marie-Josephe Dupuis b. 1748:
2) Ludivine Dupuis born 1752.
Source: MC80/781 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. I,

page 399.
DUPUIS: Michel Dupuis born 1723 s/o Pierre Dupuis and Jeanne Richard: m. 23
Oct 1747 at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia, Anne Gaudet d/o Pierre Gaudet and Marie
Belliveau: came to NB and settled at Memramcook, Westmorland County.
Source: MC80/781 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. I,

page 399.
DURANT: William Durant b. 1779, d. 28 Jan 1832: came to NB as an infant with

his Loyalist parents and settled in Saint John.
Source: MC80/127 William F. Bunting’s Freemasonry in New Brunswick, page 227.
DURKEE: Capt. Amasa Durkee born 1811 in Yarmouth, NS, died 1894, s/o Capt.
John Durkee and Hannah Davis: married Mary Killam born in 1817 at Yarmouth,
NS, died 1868, d/o John Killam and Sarah Allen: came to NB and settled in Saint
John:
Only child mentioned, Amelia Killam Durkee born 1850 in Yarmouth, died 1937,
married LeBaron Vaughan born 1848 in Saint John, died in 1894, s/o Capt. Henry
Vaughan and Hannah Moran: settled in Saint John: had issue.
Source: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pg 209-10.
DURLING: James Ross Durling or Durland b. 20 Aug 1867 in NS, d. 6 Jul 1923,
s/o John Durland and Harriet Durland: m. c1891 Huldah Victoria Collicott b. 15
Dec 1871, d. 5 Jun 1965: came to NB and settled at Meductic, Canterbury Parish,
York County:
Children:
1) Arlie Durling born 24 Apr 1892, died 3 May 1909:
2) Hazel Durling b. 10 Jan 1894, m. Wallace Wright:
3) Inez Durling b. 25 Aug 1895, d. 2 Jun 1965, m. Wilds Porter:
4) Russell Durling b. c1897, d. 6 Mar 1925:
5) Fulton Durling b. 29 Nov 1899, m. Barbara Dow d. 25 Aug 1977:
6) George Durling born 1904, died 18 Oct 1908:
7) Belle Durling b. 11 Jun 1906, m. (1st) Lawrence Marston, (2nd) Allison Slaney:
8) Roscoe Durling born 9 Feb 1908, married Evelyn Pawsey:
9) Harry Durling b. 22 Apr 1912, m. Catherine McGahan:
10) Sheldon Durling born 5 May 1914, died 10 May 1998, m. 15 Sep 1943 Helen
Henry:
11) Evelyn Durling b. 23 Jun 1918, m. Scott Ingersoll.
Source: MC1/Durland/Durling, 8 pages from Records of the Dorland family in

America by John Dorland Cremer, 1898.
DURNING: see under DORNAN

DUTCH: Alexander Dutch born near Dundee in Fifeshire, Scotland, d. 1844:
married in Scotland, Margaret Allan: Alexander, his wife and two daughters came to
NB in 1826: settled on Heron Island, Addington Parish, Restigouche County: he was a
shipbuilder: Alexander died in 1844 leaving three sons and three daughters:
Children mentioned:
1) George Dutch born 1821 in Dundee, Scotland, d. 30 Jul 1901, remained in
Scotland to attend school: he came to NB in 1843, m. Margaret Connacher b. c1829,
d. 15 Jul 1893: had eleven children:
2) Miss Dutch b. c1824 in Scotland:
3) Miss Dutch b. 1826 in Scotland:
4) John Dutch born 1828, died unmarried 1916: settled on Heron Island:
5) Alexander Dutch, youngest son, died unmarried 1882 in Eureka, CA.
Sources: MC1/Dutch, 2 pages: see MC80/2541 Florence Gray-Godin et. al.

Gravestone inscriptions Zion United Cemetery of New Mills, Restigouche County,
New Brunswick, page 18: see also MC2942 Robert C. Dutch fonds, 22 pages:
Alexander came to NB in 1826 with his brother George Dutch who went back to
Scotland in 1832.
DUTCH: John Parsons Dutch b. 30 Jul 1819 in Eastport, ME, d. 4 Sep 1860 in
Calais, ME, s/o John Califf Dutch and Margaret Todd, married c1843 in Calais,
Amanda J. Hall born c1824 at St. Stephen in Charlotte County, NB, died 8 Jul 1876
in Calais: they settled in Calais and had two children.
Source: MC80/2711 Thelma Eye Brooks’ Calais Maine families, page 46: widow,
Amanda J. (Hall) Dutch m. (2nd) 24 Dec 1863 at Milltown, Charlotte County, NB,
James Whitney of Milltown, ME.
DUTCHER: John Dutcher was possibly born in Dutchess County, NY, a descendant
of John Dutcher from Holland, d. 1807 at Fredericton: he was a Loyalist soldier who
came to NB in 1783: first settled in Fredericton, York County, then moved to
Newcastle Parish, Northumberland County: m. 1790 Anna Horton d/o James Horton
of Rye, NY, Loyalist:

1) John Dutcher born in Fredericton, d. before 1851, married Margaret - : settled
in Bay du Vin, NB where the Hortons had settled: had nine children:
2) James Dutcher: settled at Sheffield, Sunbury County:
3) Mary Dutcher b. - , m. 1828 William Horton.
Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, page 35: see also
MC80/1790 Ken Kanner’s Early families revisited, page 98: see also MC300 York-
Sunbury Historical Society Collection, MS15/9, page 137: see also MC80/2961 Helen
P. Symes Brooks’ Symes & Brown: a little of the past, pages 42-44.
DUTCHER: Thomas Dutcher married Sarah Fowler: came to NB in 1783 as
Loyalists and settled in Sunbury County: only child mentioned was James Dutcher
who m. (1st) 1825 Sarah Plummer b. - , d. 1836, (2nd) Isabella - : had one son Rev.
Charles Dutcher.
Source: MC80/2961 Helen P. Symes Brooks’ Symes & Brown: a little of the past,
page 42.
DUTTON: Thomas Dutton born 1790, died 17 Sep 1842 at Montreal, QC: paymaster
of the 71st Regt: married Mary - born 1778, died 8 Jun 1840:
Children mentioned:
1) Thomas Dutton born 1812, d. 2 Jun 1838:
2) Mary Dutton: she married Samuel Jordan.

DUVAL: Edmund Hillyer Duval born 8 Feb 1805 at Houndsditch, London, England,
d. 19 Sep 1878, s/o Peter Duval and Elizabeth Wood: married 28 Sep 1828 at
Aldgate, London, Sarah Turner b. - , d. 20 Dec 1840 in London, d/o John Turner
and Mary Lamb: came to NB in 1844: settled at Saint John: he was a school
inspector:
Children:
1) Stillborn born 5 Jul 1829, d. 5 Jul 1829:
2) Elizabeth Duval born 13 Feb 1831, died Apr 1833:
3) Edmund Hillyer Duval b. 10 Jul 1832, d. 18 Feb 1907, m. at Iberville, QC,
Matilda Jane MacDonald born in Nov 1843, died 20 Sep 1900 at Lewis, QC: had
eight children:
4) Sarah Duval b. 19 Jan 1834, d. 30 May 1835:
5) Mary Ann Duval born 11 May 1836, d. 1923, m. (1st) John George Lewis Wilson
and had one son: married (2nd) Charles Allen and had one daughter:
6) Amelia Duval b. 28 Mar 1838, d. unmarried 13 Sep 1906 at Saint John:
7) Sarah Kewell Duval b. 11 Nov 1839, d. 25 Dec 1840:
7) Eliza Lucy Duval born 16 Dec 1840, d. 15 May 1928 at Saint John, m. Jun 1870
William F. Burditt b. in Scotland, d. 7 Nov 1931: settled in Crouchville, Saint John
and had eight children.
Sources: MC1/Souther, 10 pages: see also MC1286 Volume X, Dictionary of

Canadian Biography, p. 268: see also MC80/1602 Precott Craft’s Genealogy and
history of a branch of the Duval family: see also MC80/2734 Anna Mary Burditt’s
Your affectionate father: letters to William F. Burditt and John 1868-1880 from
Rev. Thomas Burditt.
DUVAL: George Duval born 22 Aug 1817 at Houndsditch, London, England, died 6
Oct 1904, s/o Peter Duval and Elizabeth Wood: married 25 Dec 1838 Bermondsey,
London, England, Charlotte Foster born c1821 at Newbury in Berkshire, England, d.
16 May 1898: they came to NB in 1855 and settled at Saint John:
Children:
1) George Edmund Duval born on 8 Oct 1839 at Bethel Green in Middlesex,
London, d. Apr 1843 in London:
2) Mary Elizabeth Duval born 11 Nov 1841 at Middlesex, London, d. 2 Nov 1925,
m. at Halifax, NS, William Poole born 18 Dec 1843 at Leeds, England, died 2 Nov
1925: settled in Saint John and had eleven children:
3) Jonathan Peter Duval b. 3 Feb1844 Stepney, Middlesex, London, d. 2 Feb 1915,
married 13 Jan 1869 at Saint John, Annie Fletcher: settled in Saint John and had
seven children:
4) Elizabeth Jane Duval born 24 Jun 1846 at Houndsditch, d. 17 Dec 1860 in Saint
John:
5) Charlotte Foster Duval b. 20 Jan 1850 in Middlesex County, died 19 Feb 1887 at
Chelsea, MA, married John Gottlieb Hoffman and had one child:
6) Emily Ann Eves Duval b. 20 Jan 1853 in Middlesex County, d. unmarried 13 Dec
1915 at Boston, MA:
6) Edmund Hillyer Duval b. 20 Mar 1855 in Middlesex County, died 17 Dec 1918
Saint John, m. 2 Mar 1886 Emma Edith Hetherington: had one child: 7) Henrietta
Feller Duval born 1 Jul 1857 at Saint John, died on 9 Feb 1933 at Belmont, MA, m.
(1st) Alexander Ross Craft and had one child: m. (2nd) Charles Henry Hyde: had no
children:
8) Joseph William Duval born 14 Jan 1860 at Saint John, died 17 Jul 1925 in Revere,
MA, married Irene Victoria Strong and had two children:
9) Annie C. Duval born Oct 1871, died 27 Mar 1877:
10) Jessie Duval b. Jun 1877, d. 30 Jul 1877.
Sources: MC1/Souther, 10 pages: see MC80/1602 Precott Craft’s Genealogy and

history of a branch of the Duval family, page 64: see also MC80/2592 Graeme F.
Somerville’s A library of stone pages and other records of the Wesleyan burial
ground, Saint John, NB, page 69 which says that George Wilkenson Duval m. (2nd)
24 Jun 1858 in Saint John, Mary Foster Battles, fourth d/o Capt. Battles of Saint
John: they had a son, George Robert Duval b. c1860, d. 8 Aug 1862.
DUVAL: Georges Duval born 30 Jun 1843, died in 1903 at Bathurst, NB, s/o
Philippe Duval and Jeanne Rouet of Saint-Pierre, Isle of Jersey: came to NB: first
settled at Caraquet: later to Bathurst, Gloucester County: m. 14 Jan 1882 Véronique
Paulin d/o François-D’Assise Paulin and Véronique Haché:
Children:
1) Jane Esther Duval born 17 Aug 1882, died 3 Nov 1967 in Mexico, Maime, m. 21
Oct 1913 Jean-Louis dit John Poirier s/o Agapit Poirier and Priscille Albert:
2) Georges Henri Duval b. 4 May 1888, married 14 Jun 1921 Ida Dugas d/o
William Dugas and Marguerite Normandeau:
3) Adda Anna Duval b. 13 Jan 1891, d. 13 Jun 1891:
4) Mayda Duval b. 16 May 1893 at Bathurst, NB, m. 9 Oct 1917 J.A. Pinault.
Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pages 162-163:

Georges brother’s John Duval b. 23 Feb 1845, d. 18 Jun 1905 came to NB, married
Élisabeth LeCouteur d/o Jean LeCouteur and Marie Blanche Chiasson and Philip
Duval b. 15 Jan 1840, d. 15 Sep 1921, m. 18 Oct 1866 Suzanne Cormier d/o Amand
Cormier and Charlotte LeBreton: settled for a time in Caraquet before moving to
Quebec.
DUVAL: John Wood Duval b. 7 Mar 1807 Aldgate Parish, London, England, d. 29
Jul 1894, s/o Peter Duval and Elizabeth Wood: m. (1st) c1832 at Hull, Yorkshire,
England, Grace Wilkinson born in England, d. c1834 in England, d/o George W.
Wilkinson: m. (2nd) c1842 at Hull, Mary Ann Mayfield born in England, died 1882:
came to NB in 1855: settled at Pollett River, Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County:

1) George Wilkinson Duval born 10 Aug 1833 at Hull, died 20 Feb 1913 at Chelsea,
MA, m. c1858 at Saint John, Mary Foster Battles b. 8 Jan 1836 in Saint John, died 6
Feb 1923 in Chelsea, MA, d/o Capt. Joseph P. Battles of Rockland, ME: had four
children: went to MA in 1866:

2) Mary Ann Duval born Apr 1841 at Hull, d. 1935, m. Botsford Goddard: first
settled in Springdale, then at Penobsquis, Kings County, NB: had issue:
3) Annie Elizabeth Duval b. 9 Jul 1843, d. Aug 1924, m. Thomas Cochrane: settled
at Pollett River and had eleven children:
4) John Mayfield Shircliffe Duval b. 1845, d. 4 Sep 1923 at Lynn Creek, BC: moved
to Vancouver, BC.
Source: MC80/1602 Precott Craft’s Genealogy and history of a branch of the Duval
family.
DUYE: Alexander Duye b. 1813 in Ireland: came to NB in 1840 and settled in

Sackville Parish, Westmorland County: m. Elizabeth - b. 1826 in NB:

1) Mary Duye b. 1847 in NB:
2) Martha Duye b. 1850 in NB.
F20980; see sheet for Alexander Duye.
DWYER: Edward Dwyer b. c1800 in Ireland, m. c1820 probably at Cutler, ME,

Mary Colville born c1800, probably d/o Alexander Augustus Colville and Sophie
Houel: came to NB and settled at St. Stephen, Charlotte County:

1) Edward Dwyer b. 17 Mar 1826 at St. Stephen, died 28 May 1894 at Orient, ME,
married 3 Apr 1852 at St. Stephen, Sarah A. Duplisea born Aug 1832 at Miramichi,
NB, d. 4 May 1909 at Orient, ME, d/o William Duplisea and Eliza Louise McIntyre
of Miramichi and Glenelg, NB and Princeton, ME: settled in Maine and had eleven
children:
2) Catherine Dwyer.
Source: MC80/1770 Kenneth A. Clark’s Descendants of Edward Dwyer of St.
Stephen, New Brunswick: see MC2733 F.E. McConvey: Inlaws, outlaws and kin
folk, Apr 1989 which says Edward’s wife was Mary Colwell of Kennebec, ME.
DWYER: James Dwyer: he came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in

Northampton Parish, Carleton County: married 1798 in Northampton Parish,
Margaret Field:
Children mentioned:
1) George Fields Dwyer b. 1799:
2) James Dwyer born 1801:
3) Catherine Dwyer b. 1803:
4) Charles Dwyer born 1810.

DWYER: Jonas Dwyer came from Machias, ME to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and

settled at Digdeguash, Saint Patrick Parish, Charlotte County: the name of his wife is
not provided:

1) James Dwyer:
2) Jonas Dwyer:
3) Nathan Dwyer:
4) Miss Dwyer m. Thomas Hill:
5) Miss Dwyer m. Mr. Jackson:
6) Miss Dwyer m. Henry Knight.

DWYER: Thomas Dwyer, b. - , d. c1812: was a Sergeant in Queens Rangers: came

to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: settled in Douglastown, Newcastle Parish,
Northumberland County: married 1794 in Newcastle Parish, Mary Yeoman.
Sources: MC80/359 W.D. Hamilton’s Old North Esk: Revised, page 130: see MC216
Kathleen Willis Williston fonds, MS 1B5 Biographies and notes on early settlers
written by Mrs. Williston in 1947, 2 pages: see entry for Thomas Dwyer.
DYER: James Dyer born 1789 in Ireland: came to NB in 1815 and settled in
Westmorland County: m. Bridget - born 1787 in NB of English descent:

1) Ralph Dyer b. 1824:
2) Aille Dyer b. 1827.
F20980; see sheet for James Dyer.
DYER: Michael Dyer born 1797 in County Wexford, Ireland, d. 7 Sep 1838: came
from County Cork, Ireland to NB and settled at Elmsville, Saint Patrick Parish,
Charlotte County: m. Jessie Sutherland, d/o Alexander Sutherland and Margaret
Merrill:
Children are listed in an estimated order: all born at Elmsville:

1) Richard Dyer b. 8 Oct 1819 in County Cork, Ireland, died 9 Jun 1907, m. Martha
McKinney b. 1826 in Ireland, d. May 1903, d/o Josias and Matilda McKinney: had
eight children:
2) John Dyer b. 1822, d. 5 Nov 1844:
3) Charlotte Dyer m. Daniel Crerar and had a son:
4) Sarah Jane Dyer b. 1826, died 1918, m. John Boyd born 1826, died 1910, s/o
William Boyd and Mary Davidson of Saint Patrick Parish: they settled in Charlotte
County and had six children:
5) Mary Jessie Dyer b. 1829, d. unm. 20 Feb 1915:
6) Isabel Dyer b. 1831, d. 10 Sep 1841:
7) Alexander Dyer married and had two children:
8) Michael Edwin Dyer born 27 Sep 1834, died 27 May 1919, m. 2 Oct 1862 Mary
Ellen Kildae of Elmsville, NB: had ten children:
9) Helen Eleanor Dyer m. Mr. Moss:
10) Margaret Ann Dyer b. - , d. age 26.

also see Michael’s obituary notice: see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Vol. 23, No.
4, Winter 2001, Joan McLeod’s McKinney family, pages 29-30.
DYKEMAN: Garret Dykeman b. 4 Mar 1741 at White Plains, Westchester County,

NY, d. 19 Jun 1813, s/o Jacob Dykeman and Rebecca Vermilyea of Tarrytown, NY,
married c1766 at White Plains, Eunice Ann Hatfield born 9 Nov 1740, d. 16 Nov
1808, d/o Gilbert Hatfield and Tamer Brundage: they came to NB in 1783 as
Loyalists: first settled in Waterborough Parish, then at Gagetown in Queens County:
Children:
1) Rebecca Dykeman born 25 Dec 1767, died 1819, married Richard Currie s/o
Joshua Currie and Eunice Travis:
2) Gilbert Hatfield Dykeman born 17 May 1769, died 1 Oct 1851, m. 10 Jul 1794
Dorcas Manzer born 28 Mar 1777, d. 1 Aug 1862: had a large family:
3) Jacob Wiggins Dykeman b. 4 Mar 1771, d. 16 Apr 1855, m. 27 Jul 1796 Statira
Camp born c1783, died 13 Feb 1858: they moved to Ontario:
4) Moses A. Dykeman b. 31 Dec 1772, died 7 Apr 1850, m. 13 Feb 1798 at
Gagetown, Eunice Phoebe Curry of Upper Gagetown, born 1780, d. 30 Nov 1845,
d/o Joshua Curry, a Loyalist: they had large family:
5) Tamar Dykeman born c1779, d. c1783:
6) Isaac Dykeman born c1783, died c1783:
7) Eunice Ann/Nancy Dykeman b. 25 Nov 1785 at Gagetown, NB, d. 24 Sep 1859,
m. 3 Jan 1809 James J. Colwell born 16 Jul 1816, died 4 Feb 1902, s/o William
Colwell:
8) Joseph Hatfield Dykeman born 30 Mar 1788, d. 16 Dec 1855, m. Hannah
Flaglor: had no children.
Sources: MC1/Dykeman #2, 40 pages: William Colwell b. 1789, d. 1809: see

MC80/330 Walter R. Greenwood’s The early Baptists of Cambridge Parish, pages
72-73: see MC80/497 Beauford W. Chapman’s Chapman Genealogy, pedigree chart
# 4: see also MC80/525 Abraham Hatfield’s The Hatfields of Westchester, pgs 55-56:
see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 147-148 and
273-274: see also MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first
families in New Brunswick, page 82.
DYKEMAN: Gilbert Hatfield Dykeman born 17 May 1769 near Tarrytown, NY, d.
1 Oct 1851, s/o Garret Dykeman and Eunice Hatfield, m. (1st) 10 Jul 1794 Dorcas
Manzer born 28 Mar 1777, d. 1 Aug 1862, d/o Barnet Manzer and Mary Lester,
Loyalists from Waterborough Parish in Queens County:
Children:
1) Jacob Dykeman born 21 Sep 1795, died 8 Nov 1827, married 15 Jul 1819
Johanna Springer:
2) Mary Dykeman born 10 Apr 1797, married 24 Mar 1815 Vincent White:
3) Eunice Dykeman b. 17 Feb 1799, married 5 Oct 1820 Abraham Gunter:
4) Rebecca Dykeman born 2 Oct 1800, married Joshua Calkin:
5) Tamar R. Dykeman born 2 Aug 1802, d. 1857, m. (1st) Henry Springer: 6)
Elizabeth Dykeman born 23 Jul 1805, married 15 Jan 1823 Charles Titus:
7) Barnet Manzer Dykeman born 5 Apr 1807, d. 27 Sep 1880, m. 2 Feb 1830
Sophia Belyea born 18 May 1808:
8) Ann Dykeman born 25 Aug 1809, d. 1904, married 13 Jun 1830 Zebulon
Southard Davies or Davis born 1811 at Springfield, NB, died 1894, s/o John Davis
and Elizabeth Fowler: settled in Springfield and had children:
9) Phoebe Dykeman born on 9 Sep 1811, married 21 Jul 1830 William Titus: 10)
Gilbert Hatfield Dykeman born 19 May 1814, died 1884, married 17 Sep 1835
Frances R. Curry born 1823, died 1911:
11) Joseph James Hatfield Dykeman born 23 Mar 1815:
12) Priscilla Jane Dykeman born 9 Oct 1818, m. 16 Jan 1838 James Upham.
Sources: MC1/ Dykeman #2, 41 pgs: there is additional data in MC1/Brown #14, 80
pages: contains a copy of R.W. Manzer’s Honor thy father and thy mother: A
genealogy of sorts: see pg 51: see MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick
lineages, pages 147-148: see also MC80/2119 Gail B. Pipes’ Loyalists all: stories
about New Brunswick Loyalists and their descendants, pages 28 to 30.
DYKEMAN: Jacob Dykeman born 4 Mar 1774 in NY, d. 16 Apr 1855, s/o Garret
Dykeman and Eunice Hatfield: m. (1st) 27 Jul 1796 Statira Camp d/o Abiathar
Camp Jr.: m. (2nd) Mary Fleet b. 9 Jul 1780, d. 13 Feb 1858: may have lived in
Carleton, Saint John County:
Children:
1) Lyman Dykeman b. 10 Apr 1797:
2) Daniel Lyman Dykeman born 16 Mar 1798, died 2 May 1878, m. 18 Oct 1821
Mary Vail:
3) Eunice Dykeman born 25 Mar 1800, d. 30 Jul 1803:
4) Mary Dykeman b. 12 Mar 1802:
5) Ann Dykeman b. 3 Feb 1804, d. 9 Dec 1807:
6) Garret Dykeman b. 17 Feb 1806, d. 9 Dec 1807:
7) John James Dykeman b. 19 Jun 1808, d. 3 Jan 1868, married 19 Jul 1838
Phileanor Jane Vail:
8) Rebecca Dykeman b. 8 Aug 1811:
9) Statira Dykeman b. 1813:
10) George Joseph Hatfield Dykeman born 2 Feb 1814, died 11 Apr 1894:
11) Jacob Abiathar Dykeman b. 9 Apr 1816:
12) Moses William Dykeman b. 25 Jul 1818, d. 7 Apr 1850:
13) Sarah M.J. Dykeman born 28 Mar 1822, d. 24 Apr 1880.
Source: MC1/Dykeman #2, 40 pages: this family moved to Ontario.
DYSART: Ezekiel Dysart born in Ireland, d. before 1851, married in Ireland Sarah
- b. 1777 in Ireland, d. after 1851: came to NB in 1839 and settled in Sussex Parish,
Kings County: the only child mentioned was Ezekiel Dysart b. 1816 in Ireland, d.
c1871, m. Isabella Douglas b. 1827 in NB: settled in Saint John and had twelve
children.
Source: RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Dysart family: Ezekiel
Dysart: microfilm F11082, 4 pages.
DYSART: Robert Dysart came from Dysart, Fife, Scotland to NB about 1824:
settled at Cocagne, Dundas Parish in Kent County: he married and had issue.
Source: MC1156 Graves Papers: Dysart family notes, 1 page.
DYSART: William Dysart b. c1790 in Ireland: came to NB in 1821: settled in

Sussex Parish, Kings County: m. Martha A. - b. 1811 in Ireland: to NB in 1829:

1) George Dysart b. 1834:
2) Hope Dysart born 1836:
3) Samuel M. Dysart b. 1838 :
4) Harriet A. Dysart born 1841:
5) William Dysart b. 1845:
6) Gosiah Dysart (female) b. 1847.
Source: RS184 New Brunswick Museum Vertical files, Dysart family: microfilm
F11082, 1 page.
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D’AVRAY: Joseph Marshall D’Avray b. 30 Nov 1811 probably at Burleigh House,

DABEY: Matthew Dabey b. 1805 in Ireland: he came to NB in 1823: settled in

Only children mentioned:

Source: MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS1A: on microfilm reel

DAGGETT: Mark Daggett or Doggett b. 28 Aug 1768 at Middleboro, MA, d. 23

Sources: Grand Manan Museum: Manuscripts, Genealogies: Cheney family,

Child of first wife:

Children of second wife:

Source: MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 3,

Children are listed in an estimated order:

Source: MC80/1862 Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. 3,

Children born in the St. Stephen:

DALEY and DALY are interfiled

Children born in Ireland:

Sources: MC80/2818 Wade Daley’s Ancestors and descendants of Chester R. Daley

DALEY: Owen Daley b. c1801 in Ireland: came to NB in 1825 and settled in

Source: MC1/Daly, 1 page: Ursula's brother Robert Patterson settled at Great

DALEY see also Daly

DALGLESH: George Berwick Dalglesh born 1826 in England, possibly on Isle of

Source: MC80/2038 Edgar Christie’s John Christie and descendants 1815-1894,

DALLING: John Dalling b. 1801 in England, d. 1875: came to NB in 1820: m. 20

DALY is interfiled with DALEY

DALTON: Edward Dalton b. 1792 in Ireland, m. Anastasia - b. 1802 in

Only children mentioned:

Source: MC2852 Purdy-Carter genealogical collection, MS1A: on microfilm reel

Source: MC80/2592 Graeme F. Somerville’s A library of stone pages and other

Source: MC80/2592 Graeme F. Somerville’s A library of stone pages and other

DANIEL: Thomas Wilder Daniel b. 26 Jun 1818 at Bedfordshire, England s/o

DANIEL: Timothy Daniel: he came from Westchester County, NY to NB in 1783 as

Source: MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial

DANIEL: William Alban Daniel b. 23 Jul 1843 at Manchester, Lancashire, England,

Sources: MC1/Daniels #2, 1 page: see also MC80/1720 Theodore C. Holmes’

Source: MC80/450 Charlotte Robinson’s Pioneer Profiles of New Brunswick

DARLINGTON: John Darlington came from Orange County, NY to NB in 1783 as

Source: MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial

DARRAH: Cunningham Darrah born c1808 at Strabane in County Tyrone, Ireland,

Children born in NB of first wife:

Children of second wife:

DARRAH: Thomas Darrah b. c1793 in Ireland, m. in Ireland, Margaret - b.

Children born in NB:

Source: MC2824 Julia Walker fonds, MS1, Darrah, file 2, 2 pages.

DAVENPORT: Gabriel Davenport b. c1750, d. Oct 1843: he came from NY to NB

Only children mentioned:

Source: MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial

Source: MC80/1100 Fidèle Thériault’s Les familles de Caraquet, pgs 118-19.

DAVIDSON: George Davidson born and d. in England, m. Elizabeth - b. 1763,

DAVIDSON: James Davidson born c1763 in Banffshire, Scotland, d. 22 Mar 1824:

Only children mentioned:

Sources: MC80/2184 W.D. Hamilton’s Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, pg. 95:

DAVIDSON: James Davidson b. c1768 at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 11 Jul 1852

DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. 1740, d. 13 May 1810: he came from New

Only children mentioned:

Source: MC1156 Graves Papers: John Davidson, 1 page.

Children are listed in an estimated order:

Sources: MC80/1397 Daniel F. Johnson’s New Brunswick lineages, pages 235-236:

DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. 1799 in England, d. 1868, m. Ann Harvey: came

Source: MC80/2038 Edgar Christie’s John Christie and descendants 1815-1894,

DAVIDSON: John Davidson b. c1825 in Scotland, d. 1908, m. 20 Aug 1853 at

DAVIDSON: Robert Davidson: came to NB in 1832 and settled in Saint John:

Source: MC80/2592 Graeme F. Somerville’s A library of stone pages and other