Good evening! My email has changed to
psluchia@gmail.com. It has been awhile since we corresponded but I am not related to Catherine or Hugh. My great-great-grandparents, Charles and Catherine (Sargent) Nicolle lived at Fox Bay, Anticosti Island from approx. 1874 - 1880.
I would like to gather information about the first group of Newfoundland fisherman that were enticed to settle at Fox Bay in 1874. It was a tough time and not prepared for winter, some sailed for help and never returned. My great grandmother's first husband, George Francis, was "lost at sea" and I often wonder if he was one of the settlers that sailed for help in the fall of 1874. She later married Charles Nicolle when he arrived at Fox Bay approx 1875. Charles helped raise her three sons, George, John and Eli and together they had two daughters, Emily and Fanny and a son, Douglas, while residing at Fox Bay.