www.nbgs.ca website:
BAILEY: Benjamin Bailey born in England: came to the USA, then to NB in 1783
as a Loyalist: married Susannah Wanty d/o Judge Wanty of Saint John, and sister of
BenjaminWanty of the Royal Navy: first settled at Oromocto in Sunbury County,
then at Fanjoys Point on Grand Lake in Queens County:
Children are listed in an approximate order:
1) Susanna Bailey born c1774, died 1856, married Clapham Smith b. c1761: settled
in Blissville Parish, Sunbury County:
2) Sarah Bailey b. c1777 at Blissville, married 17 Sep 1794 Levi Parsons of
Maugerville, NB:
3) Joseph Bailey born 1790, m. 9 Feb 1815 at Waterborough, Sarah Corey of
Gagetown, NB: settled in Lincoln, Sunbury County and had three children:
4) John Bailey born 26 Nov 1785 in Blissville, NB, died 16 Mar 1868, m. (1
st
) 27
Nov 1807 Mary DeWitt born 22 Jan 1782 and had eight children: m. (2
nd
) Mrs.
Elizabeth (Duncan) Perley d/o John Duncan and Charlotte Hamilton of Miramichi
area in Northumberland County, and widow of William Perley b. 1 Jan 1781, d. 2
Aug 1825: had one child: they settled at Newcastle Bridge, Queens County:
5) James Bailey born 23 Mar 1791 at Lincoln, NB, died 15 Dec 1870, married
Margaret or Mary Wilson? born in 1808: they first settled at Lincoln, then at
McKenzie Corner in Richmond Parish, Carleton County: they had ten children:
6) Mary Bailey b. - , m. Edward Philips:
7) Phoebe A. Bailey:
8) William Bailey:
9) Esther Bailey.
Sources: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, pgs 11-12: see
MC1156 Graves Papers: Gideon Dore Bailey, 1 page: see also MC80/572 M.V.B. Perley’s History and genealogy of the Perley family, page 217: see MC80/1467
Carrie C. Gibson’s Bailey-Banks-Gibson-Gilmore Connections: see MC80/2248
Herbert Richardson’s Central Blissville: a brief historical sketch, pages 31-33.
This link below has a ton of NB cemetery's listed many with photos of gravestones.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~damery/