Volume IV

John Collins, tailor

Old Burying Ground

John Collins, tailor, and his wife, Margaret Keefe, had seven children living in 1871. Their eldest son, born 1851, was baptised in the Kirk but the family seem to have been Methodist.

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Abraham Henry Clark, builder

Old Burying Ground

Abraham Henry Clark, born 19 May 1807, was the eldest son of Samuel Clark and his wife Abigail Jewett. He was born on the farm at Keswick Ridge and became a house builder in Fredericton and was one of the best.

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The Campbells of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, and Kingsclear, New Brunswick

Old Burying Ground

James A. Campbell was born in Kirkcudbrightshire. He married Christianna Mitchell of Scotch Lake, NB, and the couple raised six children on a farm in Kingsclear. One son, John Alexander Campbell, was elected to the Legislative Assembly and did much to promote agricultural development in the province.

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Cameron and Rutter

Old Burying Ground

In Lot #67, measuring 13 x 14 feet, surrounded by a cast iron ornamental fence, are five graves of the Cameron family. Lot #68 contains the graves of Thomas Rutter, cabinetmaker, and his wife, Martha, daughter of Nathaniel and Martha (Agnew) Cameron.

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William T. Atherton, Lizzie Chestnut, and Little Jentie

Old Burying Ground

Atherton’s hotel, the Brayley House, offered the Travelling Public of the 1860s “superior accommodations, and a table affording all the luxuries of the season” at a convenient location for “concert and other troupes, being opposite the Exhibition Hall” on Queen Street, Fredericton.

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Frederick A. Adams, lumberman

Old Burying Ground

Frederick A. Adams was a lumberer of New Maryland who lived for a time in King Street near Northumberland Street, Fredericton. A “tender and affectionate husband” to two wives, he died in 1886.

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The family of Edward Yardy, King’s Printer

Old Burying Ground

Edward Yardy, born 1814, came to Fredericton from Ireland with his parents, Mary and William, in 1821. A “veteran printer,” he worked at newspapers in Saint John, then entered the office of the King’s Printer in 1837 and was foreman of the Royal Gazette for many years. His son and at least two of his daughters removed to Boston, Massachusetts.

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John Williams and John C. Williams, carpenters

Old Burying Ground

John C. Williams, a carpenter, is buried here with Eliza, his mother. In 1871, the widow Eliza Williams and her children, John, Henry, Emma, and Fanny, shared a house with the family of her son-in-law, John Robinson.

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Leonard Weeks and family

Old Burying Ground

Leonard Weeks was in the hardware business on York Street. He built and lived in what later became the rectory of the Parish Church, and “departed this life February 16, 1882, aged 62 years,” six years before his wife, Margaret Anne Chaney.

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Julia Anna Hanford, first wife of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

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Julia Anna was the youngest daughter of James T. Hanford of Saint John, and the first wife of Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, a father of Confederation. They were married in 1843 and had a large family.

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