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Guys and Pynns of Quirpon

Re: Guys and Pynns of Quirpon

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 4:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Melissa PYNN, had a child before she married Martin Metcalfe. His name was William John born 1877. Within his first year he was given to Henry and Sarah Jane TUCKER and was raised as a Tucker. I am descendant from William John (Pynn) TUCKER. Some years ago I traced the Metcalfe line to Glace Bay. I visited the Greenwood Cemetery but did not fine a burial site for Melissa Metcalfe. Is there one? I did find other members of her family buried there. There is a possibility that John Guy who was married to Catherine Pynn (sister of Melissa) being the father of Melissa's child William John. I have extensive family tree info of the Pynn's of Quirpon.

Re: Guys and Pynns of Quirpon

Posted: 3 May 2014 9:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Melissa and Martin metcalfe were my great grandparents .Flora Metcalfe was my grandmother she married a Mullett from Wesleyville NL. They moved to Brooklyn NY from NL where my father was born.When the depression hit there they moved back to NL via a stay in glacé bay NS where My grandmothers mother Melissa was living with her 3 sons who had moved there from NL after WW I .The boys were miners by trade at Pilleys island and then Bell Island before moving to glacé bay after the war.
Albert Edgar was a member of the first 500 Blue Puttees who saw much action at Gallipoli etc: and the Somme where Newfoundlanders were slaughtered at Beaumont Hamel on July 1 where he was wounded.His son Jack was killed by the SS while serving with the North Nova Scotia Regiment at Juno Beach during WWII

Re: Guys and Pynns of Quirpon

Posted: 3 May 2014 10:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
Melissa Metcalfe was my Great Grandmother and Alberts sister Flora was my fathers mother.I remember the day she got the call from Glacé Bay that your Great Grandfather had passed away.
He had a great military background with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and survived the slaughter of the Regiment at Beaumont Hamel France during the Somme.The Regiment and all those who served are held with the highest honor in NL.I was a guest at the official opening of the new Canadian War museum while I lived in Ottawa and was very proud when the Australian Consulate made a very special point to recognize the men of your GGrandfathers NL Regiment and how they fought side by side in the nightmare of Gallopli.
I have a copy of a telegram received by the Governor of NL from Melissa ,Newfoundland being a British Colony then and not a part of Canada till 1949, regarding the death of Martin your G G Grandfather and how the said news of his passing on New Years Day would be communicated to his son Albert who was now serving in France.This was the first occasion of any family death with the Regiment.July 1 every year in NL is Rememberance Day for the men of your GGrandfathers regiment..
Posted: 11 Nov 2014 3:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi,
Just have to reply to your post as I am a descendant of the Pynns for Quirpon. G.G.Grandfather, Sir Henry Pynn was the first of the Pynn settlers in Quirpon. He was the admiral of the royal fleet sent to protect the british fishing boundaries of the northern peninsula. He had several children. One of which is my g.grandfather, Frederick Henry Pynn. He had four wives over the course of his life and the last one, Sarah Patey, was my grandmother's mother. She was Elizabeth Pynn. There are several half brothers and sisters. One I know to be Charles Pynn and a sister, Abigael who left NL for Boston in the early 1900's or late 1800's. Charles Pynn was a decorated war hero. Trying to find more on him through RNR. The records of NL archivists are shady at best because of the fire in St. John's in 1891 - 2 that burnt the gov't buildings consisting of all vital statistics. Most of the records are now based on hearsay which can lead Sir Henry to a boy from Harbour Grace!!! (That was a rather phantom leap that I had found at one point!)
Would love to find more of the Pynns in NL.
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