Old Burying Ground

The goal of this project is to make available online the legacy of Isabel Louise Hill (1901-1996), librarian and author of numerous books on the United Empire Loyalists and other early families of Fredericton, New Brunswick. We begin with Volume IV of The Old Burying Ground, which was still very much a work in progress at the time of Miss Hill’s death. The torch passed into the hands of Mrs. Katherine LeButt, who, assisted by Rebecca Leaman, undertook to complete Miss Hill’s labour of love.

Mary, wife of William Ryan

Old Burying Ground

Lovell’s Directory 1871 lists William Ryan, mason, on King Street in Fredericton. William and his wife Mary shared a home with John Ryan, his father.

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Agnes Strachan Partelow, wife of Henry J. Robinson

Old Burying Ground

Henry J. Robinson of H.M. 76th Regiment of Foot was a well-connected Irishman who remained in Fredericton when his regiment departed. He married first Agnes Strachan Partelow, daughter of the Honourable John R. Partelow, and secondly Sarah Black. There were no children.

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Lillie Bell Phillips, aged 5 months

Old Burying Ground

Schoolteacher, hotel keeper and stage coach proprietor Joseph Phillips (1828-1905), father of little Lillie Bell, was a son of Zophar Phillips and his wife Mehitable Dunphy. The Phillips family and the Sinclairs, whose burial plot is adjoining, settled on the Rusagonis River.

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Martha Braine, wife of Alexander McKilligan

Old Burying Ground

Alexander McKilligan, baker and later City Marshall, had emigrated to New Brunswick from Forres, Scotland. He married Martha Braine, housekeeper to the Lieutenant Governor, in 1844. After Martha’s death, he remarried and moved to his farm at Tay Creek, York County, NB.

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James McAlpine, Quartermaster Sergeant, Royal Regiment

Old Burying Ground

When James McAlpine retired from the army he was gazetted ensign, 1st Battalion York County Militia on 11 January 1860. He was appointed Commissioner of the Alms House and later appointed clerk of the deputy treasurer’s office.

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Hon. Charles MacPherson and family

Old Burying Ground

Charles MacPherson was a lumber merchant, his Fredericton place of business in Regent Street near the wharf. He was a member of the Legislature for York County continuously from January 1851 until 1861, and elected again in 1870.

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Captain John Hewitt, 52nd Regiment

Old Burying Ground

Captain John Hewitt, of His Majesty’s 52nd Regiment of Light Infantry, died 25 August 1825 aged 33 years, “after a short illness and deeply lamented by his brother officers.” He was a relative of Sir George Hewett.

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The William Joseph Heron family

Old Burying Ground

Lieutenant Heron was in Fredericton with the 74th Regiment in 1818, and in 1824 Joe and Mary Heron had a farm on Heron’s Lake that was a show place in its day, and when the Prince of Wales came to New Brunswick in 1860 he was taken to Heron’s Lake for fishing.

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The family of George Harding, Maugerville Loyalist

Old Burying Ground

George Harding deeded his slave Sippeo to his son John, “to be his property and his heirs and successors during the life of the said negro….” John Harding in turn willed his slaves to his sister, Elizabeth, second wife of the Loyalist Captain Elijah Miles. Sippeo became the verger of Christ Church, Maugerville.

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James Frost Gordon

Old Burying Ground

James Frost Gordon was a retired English soldier. He taught school in Kings County in 1861 and at the time of his death, in 1867, was an English and Writing Master at the Collegiate School in Fredericton.

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