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Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Re: Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:32AM GMT
Classification: Query
You're welcome. You might see me over there one day.

Re: Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 12:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
Not sure if this will become a dupe post as Ancestry.com is having all kinds of problems today.

If I can find the time I would love to get up there again this spring. You are correct about the older generation passing away and the stories going with them. That is why I would like to get in contact with more folks there to find out what they remember. I don’t know how many are still alive from Cains River that would remember my family. They would have to be in their 70’s at least. I believe that David and Maggie O’Connell may have lived in Doaktown later on in their lives before they went up to the hospital in Chatham. This would be in the late 1950’s - early 1960’s. They still had the Muzzeral brook land and also a former James Porter lot on the Cains river up between Shinnickburn and Howards. The original lot at Six mile brook was owned by their uncle Edmund and was probably sold off in the late 1920’s? …not sure.
I have considered doing family trees for some of the early inhabitants of Cains River here on Ancestry.com. Part of it out of interest in the area and part to help others out who may be looking for where they came from. I have done this with a few families from the area already. (Carroll family from Blackville, Connell family from Bartibog and also another Connell family from Dougklasfield.) The Sullivan family and Colfords would be good ones to do as well as Mahoneys, Kervins and Shinnicks.

Re: Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 2:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Do you know how Shinnickburn got its name? I was told that there was a sawmill and it burned. Perhaps it belonged to the Shinnicks. Do you know if this is true? I think George Wilkins told me this.

The Shinnicks were Irish I think.

Jim Sullivan apparently has passed away too. He was living next to his fathers store and camps. Jim has a brother who may still be alive.

Re: Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Posted: 7 Jan 2013 1:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
Shinnickburn was named after the Shinnicks. Not sure of the "burn" part has anything to do with a fire but I guess it could. The Shinnicks were most likely from Co. Cork, Ireland. I started a family tree for them last night here on Ancestry.com. At some point around 1860-1870 most of them either died or left the area. Perhaps the women married into other families but the records are hard to search on this website primarily due to miss-recording of thier name and hard to read parish records. Does anyone know where they all went to? David Shinnick seems to have stayed untill around 1900 with his family. Then most of them went to Houlton, Maine.
I also made a family tree for the Mahony family from Cains River/ Blackville, NB. It gets a little hard to follow as there was another family of Mahonys living in Blackville who may have been related but I can't tell. Perhaps some locals would know of a link as it probably goes back to Ireland.

Re: Kervin/Shinnick/Colford/Cashens of Cains River

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 11:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Kervin, Colford, Shinnick
Hello cbkervin,
My grandmother was Bessie Kervin, sister of Horace, Everette & Edward. raised on the Cains River. She married John Colford.
I don't have much info for you, but I do know that John's father, John's lst wife was a Shinnick. They had about four boys. After she died, my grgrandfather married Eliza Hogan.
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