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Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 3:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes....Gerald...I was wondering how I was related to him. He lives on the old airfield in Botwood......I went there a few years ago but never got to meet him. Grandfather Beaton (Ernest)is the same. I guess then that I am related to your Hubby.....LOL....Small world when you start looking huh

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 3:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Almost forgot, my daughter and myself just got our Indian Status cards in Jan....Poor mom (Angela, 1929) passed on 5 Oct 2009 and never got to see it....

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 6:13PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am seeking information on Mary Beaton who married James Gill in the early 1800s. Would like to know her father's and mother's name, country of birth etc.

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 11:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
hi there,

I have never been able to find out who MARY BEATON (JAMES GILL) belonged to for family.

there is lots of dates given for her birth but I think that she was probably born about 1818 when she married James. We do know that JAMES was 33 when he had his son CHARLES BEATON GILL (1833). IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR GIRLS TO MARRY OLDER MEN - THEY BEING FROM THE AGES 12-16.

Again...she was a servant in CAPTAIN PEYTONS HOUSEHOLD and it seems that even the children she had never spoke of her heritage. We are all pretty she possibly had a white father and a MI'KMAQ mother. There is nothing in the PARISH RECORDS that I could find either for the area but there should be something with some digging because PEYTON was such an important man that he might have been at their wedding. I only mention a white father because of the surname BEATON. Our BEATON LINE did not arrive in NOTRE DAME BAY until 1839. There were other BEATONS passing through and MARY easily could have come from NOVA SCOTIA where there are loads of them (BEATONS) - NOT MY LINE

whom do you belong to? There may be some readers here (me included) that might have other info for you.

My husbands family ancestors married into the GILL FAMILY (3 of them) children of ALFRED BEATON (1822) & MARY ANNE PORTER.

I would also like to have some info on MARY BEATON as she has eluded me for years! MICMAK1

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 11:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
SHELDON,

I totally hear you on your mother passing before getting the Indian.

I tried so hard to get the family history together but in those days there was nothing online for the BEATON/PAUL.

We also lost our AUNT ANGELA (FRANK'S DAUGHTER) and then an uncle on the SCHUMPH side within 2 months of each other.

I was devistated because they too would have loved to have seen all the ancestors but it took me another 6 months to complete a 6 year journey with both families.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help with info.
MICMAK1

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:31AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the response. Mary Beaton and James Gill are my great great grandparents. My great grandfather is John Henry Gill b.1837 and grandfather is Jacob Gill b.1879.
I spent a couple of hours going through the Peyton Papers recently in hopes that I would find some reference to Mary but it was without luck. I will continue to search that resource for a little while longer. Any further info that you have would be much appreciated.

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 15 Apr 2012 1:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
bstewart,

I just spent an hour looking through everything I could online and found an entry on an obscure site by TIM GILL - he stated that JAMES GILL may have fled the law in DORSET arriving with possibly a couple of brothers to newfoundland.

According to TIM GILL - JAMES GILL is listed on PEYTONS 1836 CENSUS as married with a daughter and son under the age of 14 and living in EXPLOITS BURNT ISLAND.

there is an archavist that I hire in st johns, nfld to look up info for me. Her name is jill marshall and her email is
njillmarshall@aim.com

She has an hourly rate but knows most all the families from anywhere in nfld. I have hired her and worked with her for my own stuff at the archives and she is fabulous!

If MARY BEATON was from EXPLOITS BURNT ISLANDS then it would be acceptable to believe that she was MI'KMAQ - LET US ALL KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING NEW FOR HER!

I am sure that JACOB GILL was married 3 times and had children by TRIXIE? Are you from that marriage? MICMAK1




Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 15 Apr 2012 12:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
I have this in my notes. Did not record where I got it from.
Monday, February 10, 1873 Charles Beaton GILL, widower, 40 yrs., Kite Cove, Exploits River & Sarah Elisabeth BALL, 23 yrs., Exploits Burnt Island in winter residence of groom at Wigwam Point, Exploits River by Walter R. Smith Witnesses: Frederick Jure, George Gill, Levi Baker, Elisabeth Emma Squires

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 15 Apr 2012 1:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
No I am from Jacob Gill and Dorcas Jacobs(father John Jacobs, mother, Susan Powell) yet another woman diffult to trace. Jacob and Dorcas had only two children, one of which died in infancy.

Re: pauls of wigwam point

Posted: 15 Apr 2012 5:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
hi phil!

good to hear from you. I have used things that you submitted in the past and am so appreciative of your knowlege. thanks again. MICMAK1
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