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Keziah Oake - Fogo

Keziah Oake - Fogo

Posted: 6 Sep 2013 12:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Oake Brinson Oak
I am looking for any information on Keziah Oake, bc 1825 in Fogo and how she might be related to the Oake families in Fogo.

Keziah married Henry Brinson, also of Fogo, about 1850.

Their children included:

Julia Ann, Sarah Jane, William Joseph, Emma and Mary Charlotte. All born between 1854 and 1866 in Change Islands.

Keziah and Henry eventually moved to Pilley's Island where they passed away in 1896 and 1899 respectively.

Not sure if and how there might be a connection but Mrs. David Oake was a witness at the marriage of Keziah's g/dau and Emma's daughter, Caroline Carrie Bishop, in Glace Bay Cape Breton in 1901.

Re: Keziah Oake - Fogo

Posted: 5 Sep 2014 12:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi There, my research has shown 2 Keziah Oakes. On was bc. 1855 at Ward's Harbour, the d/o Henry & Rachel Oake and the other one was bc. 1865 at Change Islands, the d/o Thomas Oake & Mary Hodder (my GG-grandparents).

I have also found a John Brinson from Change Islands who married Ada Emily Oake (1901-1981) born i Fogo, but not much info other than that.

Best regards,
Reg Freake

Re: Keziah Oake - Fogo

Posted: 20 Oct 2014 8:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi again,

We exchanged emails last year pertaining to Keziah Oake and Henry Brinson. Recently I have found some new info which shows there's a Kezia (h) Oake in my Family Tree dating back to about the same timeframe as your Keziah. It's interesting because you noted that she was born c.1827 and my data shows she was also born in 1827. I show she was born in Change Islands and her parents were William & Amy Oake. I don't know if they are both the same person but if you are still interested lets exchange a few notes and see if we can establish (or eliminate) he from our research.

I will look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Reg

Re: Keziah Oake - Fogo

Posted: 3 Nov 2014 7:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Reg,

Thanks for your reply. I don't have any anecdotal info from my family about Keziah Oake and Henry Brinson. What I have pieced together has come mainly from on-line sources such as Ancestry and the NGB site.

I believe Henry and his younger brothers Samuel and Joseph were born in the Gander Bay area in the 1820s. Samuel and Joseph remained in the Beaver Cove/Gander Bay area to raise families, some of whom did marry and settle in Change Islands.

I don't know when they married but Henry and Keziah lived in Change Islands from at least 1853 to 1868, as their five children (that I know of) were baptized there during those years.

In Oct 1872, their eldest daughter married at Herring Neck and was still a resident of Change Islands at that time.

I haven't found any record of Henry and Keziah between 1868 and their deaths on Pilley's Islands in 1896 and 1899 respectively. They appear to have moved with their younger daughters to the Little Bay Mines area and then to Pilley's Island. One of their daughters married in Little Bay and the other on Pilley's Island. Henry's death registry entry says he born in Fogo about 1823 and Keziah's says that she was born in Fogo circa 1825, based on her age at death of 74.

I have scoured the records for the Fogo region and noted the many Oake families that resided there in the 1800s but I never could find a record for Keziah.

One thing that did catch my eye when looking at the Oake baptisms registered in Change Islands around the time Henry and Keziah were baptizing their children was the commonality of the names: Sarah Jane, I found four other Oake families who baptized a Sarah Jane between 1844 and 1875, And another coincidence I noted, Thomas and Mary Oake baptized five children in the 1860s, named them: Sarah Jane, William, Emma and Mary, the same names Henry and Keziah chose. And Thomas and Mary's fifth child was named Kezia. Made me wonder if Thomas and Keziah were closely related and using similar family names?

Well that's pretty much all the information I have on Keziah Oake and Henry Brinson. I don't have a photo of either of them.

Any info that you might have to connect our two Keziah's and shed some light on their parents/family would be interesting and much appreciated.

Regards

Gary

Re: Keziah Oake - Fogo

Posted: 3 Nov 2014 10:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Gary,

Thanks for responding to my message posting. It's not often that I get a response from my messages posted on Ancestry.com because the postings and emails are very old. There seems to be very few people listed on the message board and most of the messages are too old to consider as valid anymore. However, I took a chance that you are still using the same email address and checking-in.

Anyways, I was quite curious about your posting of Keziah Oake bc.1825 because I recently discovered a very old Oake Family bible which was originally owned by William & Amy Oake of Change Islands who are my GGG-grandparents. There are 12 children listed in the old bible of which one of them was Kezia (no "h") born 2nd Dec 1825 in Change Islands.

I cannot find any further info after her birth to William & Amy and because your notes indicated she was born in Fogo, I was somewhat dubious that she was the same person. However, you also noted she was born c.1825 and had children with Henry Brinson (Brintson, etc.) in Change Islands and their children had similar names to my ancestors so I'm wondering if there's a connection.

Just like you, most of my information has been gleaned from NLGB & NL/GenWeb, but also some from various other sources both family and PANL. I could not find any records which directly linked your Keziah & my Kezia to the same parents but there's too many common occurrences to discard the possibility they are not one and same.

Another possible way to connect them is through the verification of some/any of Kezia's siblings. If they both have a few siblings of the same name with similar births, spouses, etc. then that might get us closer to the answer. I don't know if you can verify any of your Keziah's siblings but I have the names of all of my Kezia's siblings so that would be one way to prove or disprove the connection.

The only records online that I could find recently was:

Kezia BRINTON died on 31st Jan 1899 at Seal Bay and was buried on Pilley's Island; her place of birth is listed as Fogo; she was 74 years of age at death and cause of death was recorded as "senility"; her religious denomination was listed as Church of England. The preceding data is held at PANL in the Vital Records for Register of Deaths, District of Twillingate, Book 3, Page 272, Year 1899 and posted on the NLGB Website.

On NLGB there is a Baptism Record from the Church of England records for Change Islands which states that Henry & Kezia BRINSON had a daughter, Emma, born at Change Islands, 5th March 1864; she was baptized at CE on 12th June 1864 by Rev. T. Darrell (CE), at Change Islands. Info taken from a pre-1891 Registration Record of Inter-denominational births taken from PANL, Volume 115, Years 1860-1864, Page 69.

As you probably know, although the records indicate she was born in Fogo, doesn't mean that she was in fact born there because sometimes the clergy assumed things such as "if they were born in Fogo then maybe they were also born there". There were a lot of people from Change Islands who were baptized or married at Fogo and recorded incorrectly. Just some food for thought!

On another note, my GGG-grandafther, William Oake had a brother John Oake and both of them somehow ended up in Change Islands from the South of England. They both lived in Change Islands and had their children there. My research doesn't show that they both had daughters called Kezia/h so we can rule that out. Most of John's children and some of William's ended up in Fogo and other areas of Notre Dame Bay and I'm sure that Pilley's Island may have been one of those places. Also, I believe that the surname Brinson (or Brintson, (Brinstone, etc.) are derivatives of the same name and many of them are from Change Islands.

If you want to contact me directly through my personal email, please use rfreake@gmail.com and maybe we can together solve the Kezia Puzzle"!

Look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Reg Freake
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