NBGS MIRAMICHI BRANCH NEWS LETTER NOVEMBER 2009 Volume IV, Issue No. 5 Inside : •President’s Message •Books for Sale •Our Family Tree •Branch News •Articles from Old Newspapers •Strays •Editor’s Perspective • Queries MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT BRANCH NEWS Welcome back after a busy summer of vacations, IRISH FESTIVAL research, and genealogy fairs! We had a successful two days at the Community College during the Irish Festival this summer. I would like to With winter approaching, many of us settle down to thank all the members and non-members who helped organize photos, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. out. They did a super job. I would also like to thank These items can be of great value to genealogists. Leigh Ann Bennici of the Irish Festival, who was very Consider making copies to send to our branch for helpful to us, ands for the invitation to participate in the inclusion in our collection of resources and family Irish Festival activities. We appreciate when we are histories. invited to partake in events as it gives us the opportunity to show the public the research materials we have, and Photos and obituaries can be placed on our website, we also help visitors with questions they may have about whereas scrapbook items can be published in our their family tree. It is a great opportunity to meet new newsletters, and family histories can be placed in our people. private cupboard for easy access by members and friends. NOW AVAILABLE Some people might think of scrapbooks as temporary BIRTH STATS OF NORTHUMBERLAND diversions for housebound individuals. In fact, for one COUNTY family I was researching years ago, a long lost branch (compiled by Anna MacDonald) was found in Kansas City, USA, after one son took his mother from New Brunswick to live with him there. An old obituary sent to the family in New Brunswick was SET OF FIVE BOOKS ($30.00 each = $150.00) carefully placed in a scrapbook where it was discovered by a relative one hundred years after the mother‘s death. 1 – By child‘s name (A-L); 476 pages and over 7,000 The scrapbook was, thoughtfully, donated to a local entries library for all to see. 2 – By child‘s name (M-Z); 445 pages and over 6,500 entries We never know how important our individual 3 – By father‘s name (A-L); 417 pages and over 6,000 endeavours can become! What some might label a waste entries of time might prove to be invaluable to others. 4 – By father‘s name (M-Z); 386 pages and over 5,700 Remember that the jigsaw puzzle we are working on will entries never be completed but will continue to grow with our 5 – By mother‘s name (A-Z); 318 pages and over 4,700 help! entries Carolyn Harris Our thanks to local member, Anna MacDonald, who spent three years compiling the often-requested © NBGS-Miramichi Branch - 1 - November 2009 information. The books, five separate volumes in alphabetical order, have been divided into three sections We have a limited supply of NBGS tshirts. for easy researching (by child, by father and by mother). Golf style short sleeve tshirt; men‘s cut; 100 % They are finally ready to be used and enjoyed by our preshrunk cotton members and the general public alike, and we know Sizes M –XL you‘ll be impressed with the amount of valuable material Sand in color with forest green stitched NBGS logo made available for you to use at your leisure in your own on left side of chest; home. $30.00 plus shipping and handling ($10-$15) Each book contains birth notices and birthday depending on location announcements, mostly taken from several local To order, email: [email protected] newspapers, spanning over 35 years (1970-2007). As well as birth dates, entries often include place of birth, residence; grandparents; spouse; sibling names and more. Often, links are made to siblings with different surnames. This is a valuable genealogical resource that any serious family researcher won‘t want to be without. Because these books contain recent personal data on those listed, they will not be published on our Website, OUR FAMILY TREE with the exception of those born before 1926. They are available in hard copy only through NBGS-Miramichi Submitted by Edna Thompson Branch. Adolphus McIntosh 1795 to Oct.7,1861 and Ann Don‘t forget – many other publications are also available (McIntosh) McIntosh 1809/ 1810 to Jan 22, 1891. to you. For more details, check out our Website at: www.nbgsmiramichi.org Both are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Tabusintac, N.B. From childhood I was always interested to learn about For further information or to order contact: my ancestors and how they lived their lives. This was in NBGS-Miramichi the days before computers and the answers to questions Attention: Publications Committee from my parents was always the same – they didn‘t P.O. Box 403 know, except they had been in Canada a long time and Miramichi NB, Canada E1N 3A8 were Scottish and Irish. So, when I retired about 6 years OR: ago I moved back to Kent County, N.B. where my father Email Dianne at: [email protected] grew up. I purchased a computer and joined the Miramichi Branch of N.B.G.S. to research my roots. Additions to NBGS Library: My mother was Kathryn MacIntosh, born 1916 in The Neighbourhood: Black River Bridge circa 1939 by Tabusintac, N.B. and her greatgrandparents had lived in Donald E. M. Glendenning Lower Neguac next to the wharf. In the 1851 Boom Road: Your Story by Lena Mullin & Bernice Northumberland County census I found the family, Johnstone which was a big one – 12 children. Then I found 2 Descendants of John Bailey & Phoebe Stymiest by more. Duncan , the eldest born 1831 and Adolphus, the Carmen Williston youngest born 1852. Wow, 14 children whose lives I Carrolls of Bartibog (2007 edition) by Joseph Carroll have been tracing. For those who wish to purchase any of the above, email I wanted to start with their parents and I found a lot of [email protected] for more details. records about Adolphus McIntosh. He was a shipbuilder. He was a shipcarpenter firstly in T Shirts for Sale Richibucto, Kent Co., N.B. for John Jardine from 1826 © NBGS-Miramichi Branch - 2 - November 2009 to 1840s and then moved to Neguac and built ships with Parents Thompson, Earl and Kathryn his sons. Petitioned for land in St. Andrews, Charlotte (MacIntosh) Co., N.B. in 1824. Grandparents McIntosh, Duncan and Annie The only recollection I had about where they lived was (Murray) back in the 1950s on a trip from Moncton, N.B. (my home growing up) to Tabusintac to visit my Ggrandparents McIntosh, Charles and Janet grandparents, Duncan and Annie (Murray) McIntosh. I (McWilliam) asked my mum if we could stop in Neguac on the drive home so I could see the house where the old McIntoshes GGgrandparents McIntosh, Adolphus and Ann lived. She pointed out a big 2 storey house. I etched (McIntosh) that memory in my head and I didn‘t get to return for I am still trying to find proof of where Adolphus was over 50 years. One day on a visit to Tabusintac with my born and who his parents were. Recently I made contact mother in 2006 we spent some time with her best with McIntoshes in England and Wales who descend teenage friend, Marg Stymeist. I asked her if she would from the eldest child Duncan, born in 1831 in like to go for a drive with us to Neguac and show us Richibucto, N.B. According to them he got on a ship in where the old homestead had been. All we saw were Richibucto at age 14 in 1845 and run away to Liverpool, trees and a hint of a lane, which I later learned had been England where he became a ships carpenter in Liverpool called McIntosh Lane. To see nothing there but trees and eventually married. Today his descendents and I are made me feel empty and I decided I was going back corresponding trying to figure out who was Adolphus. another time on my own to check neighbours and find The story handed down to one of them was he was out who now owned the property. What an interesting born in Scotland, Maine. I was stunned to learn there visit that turned out to be. was a Scotland, Maine named by a Duncan McIntosh The present owner is Bob Savoy. We have become and his wife who came from Scotland to Portland, Maine friends and he is such a wonderful story teller and knows in the late 1700s and purchased property outside a lot of the old history of the area. He built a house on Portland and settled on it and called it Scotland. Today the land closer to the water and eventually he had to tear it is the city of Windham. There were also other down the remains of the big house and another small McIntoshes in that area of Maine at that time so now I one, which when he was growing up was called the will be researching to see if there might be a sheep pen. He thinks it may have been the first connection. McIntosh structure they lived in because the inside was I would be pleased to hear from anyone who may have finished with plaster. He told me the big house was all information related to this family.