Volume IV

Dugald Stewart

Old Burying Ground

Dugald Stewart, of Dalhousie, New Brunswick, was for several years employed in the Crown Lands Dept., Fredericton, after which he bought out Barker House Livery Stable which business he conducted up to the time of his death in 1874.

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Descendants of Jacob Segee

Old Burying Ground

Jacob Segee of the Loyal American Regiment came to New Brunswick in 1783 with his wife Mercy and their sons John, William, Joseph, and James who became a steamboat captain on the St. John River.

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John Robinson

Old Burying Ground

This is likely the same John Robinson who is recorded in the 1871 census for Fredericton as Irish, clerk, aged 42, married to Elizabeth, 36, with four children.

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Honourable Archibald Fitz Randolph of Nova Scotia and “Frogmore”

Old Burying Ground

This lot belonged to Archibald Fitz Randolph (1833-1902), who resided at “Frogmore” in 1871. The remains of those buried and the stones were removed to the newer Forest Hill Cemetery, which was incorporated in 1873.

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Captain Andrew William Rainsford, 104th Regiment

Old Burying Ground

Captain Andrew William Rainsford was the son of Andrew Rainsford (1734-1820), Loyalist, who had a grant of 500 acres at Kingsclear. Capt. Rainsford served in the War of 1812 with two of his brothers, Charles and Bradshaw, and later settled in Upper Canada.

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Mary Jane, first wife of Samuel R. Miller

Old Burying Ground

Samuel R. Miller was a bookbinder and bookseller who owned a great deal of land in downtown Fredericton in the mid-1800s and built the original of the Van Buskirk house.

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The Robert Macklin family of St. Mary’s Parish

Old Burying Ground

The Macklins are said to have lived at Killarney Lake. They had a farm opposite Fredericton on the St. Mary’s side of the river. Gibson Memorial Church, now the United Church, Marysville, was begun in 1879 on land donated by Robert and Joseph Macklin.

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Capt. Walter Godwin Hawkins, 15th Regiment of Foot

Old Burying Ground

Walter Godwin Hawkins, Captain, Fifteenth Regiment of Foot, died in 1863 in Fredericton at the age of 27 years. His grave here is unmarked, but his brother offers erected a monument to Captain Hawkins’s memory in his parish church at St. Martins, Dorsetshire, England.

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Grosvenor and Purdie

Old Burying Ground

Samuel Grosvenor, father of William and ten others, came from Vermont about 1795. William Grosvenor kept the leading dry goods store of his day, on Queen Street opposite Officers Square. After his death, William’s widow went with her two young sons to her family in Scotland.

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Matilda George, aged 24

Old Burying Ground

Matilda was the daughter of Joseph George, who came in 1831 from the United States. He and two of his sons, Hezekiah and Joseph, were brick makers at George and Smythe Streets, Fredericton.

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