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