Methodist Baptism and Marriage Records
Recorded in the Diary of William Marshall 1839-1842
Methodist Missionary serving Burin, Fortune Bay and the Southwest Coast
Information Compiled by Edward Chafe
| Date of Event | Place of Event | Event |
|---|---|---|
1839 |
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| 15 June 1839 | St. Lawrence | baptized two children |
| 29 June 1839 | Lawn | married a couple (cohabiting 22 years with ten surviving children) and baptised their child |
| 18 July 1839 | Hermitage Cove | baptized two children |
| 21 July 1839 | Harbour Breton | baptized George, son of Mr. John Ellis, agent for Newman, Hunt & Co. |
| 24 July 1839 | Great Harbour | baptized one child |
| 25 July 1839 | Hermitage Cove | baptized one child |
| 27 July 1839 | Furby's Cove | baptized three children |
| 28 July 1839 | Furby's Cove | baptized two sons of Mr. William Gallop |
| 28 July 1839 | Gaultois | baptized one child |
| 30 July 1839 | Piccaire | baptized one child |
| 2 August 1839 | Long Island Harbour | baptized three children |
| 4 August 1839 | Round Harbour | baptized two children |
| 5 August 1839 | Pushthrough | baptized four children |
| 6 August 1839 | Grole | baptized two children |
| 7 August 1839 | Grole | baptized two children |
| 8 August 1839 | Rencontre | baptized one child |
| 16 August 1839 | Ship Cove, Ramea | baptized Hannah, child of Mr. & Mrs. Jones |
| 18 August 1839 | Lower Burgeo | baptized two children |
| 19 August 1839 | Western Burgeo | baptized two children |
| 21 August 1839 | Sand Banks | baptized one child |
| 23 August 1839 | Hatters Point | baptized three children |
| 25 August 1839 | Grand Bruit | baptized four children |
| 26 August 1839 | Little Poile | baptized two children |
| 28 August 1839 | Garia | baptized two children |
| 2 September 1839 | Port aux Basques | baptized two children |
| 4 September 1839 | Cape Ray | baptized ten children |
| 4 September 1839 | Durant Island | baptized two children |
| 6 September 1839 | Port aux Basques | baptized two children |
| 7 September 1839 | Isle aux Morts | baptized two children at Mr. Harvey's house |
| 8 September 1839 | Burnt Islands | baptized four children |
| 8 September 1839 | Brazils | baptized two children |
| 8 September 1839 | Rose Blanche | baptized three children |
| 9 September 1839 | Rose Blanche | married Richard Sweet and Sarah Payne |
| 11 September 1839 | La Moine Bay | baptized the child of Mr. Brown |
| 11 September 1839 | Seal Island | baptized three children of Mr. Bowdridge |
| 22 September 1839 | Lower Burgeo | baptized three children |
| 24 September 1839 | Lobster Cove | baptized one child |
| 26 September 1839 | Eastern Burgeo | married James Rose and Deborah Vatcher |
| baptized one child Samuel Rose | ||
| 1 October 1839 | Ramea | baptized four children |
| 5 October 1839 | Bay Chaleur | baptized Mr. (Reuben?) Samm's child |
| 21 October 1839 | Round Harbour | buried Mrs. E. Ball and her infant |
| 23 October 1839 | Hermitage Cove | baptized two children |
| 27 October 1839 | Harbour Breton | baptized two children |
| 17 December 1839 | Bastarre Shore | baptized two children |
| 23 December 1839 | Connaigre | baptized one child |
| 26 December 1839 | Hermitage Cove | married one couple |
1840 |
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| 1 February 1840 | Dawsons Cove | baptized on child |
| 23 February 1840 | Hills | baptized one child |
| 6 March 1840 | Long Island Harbour | baptized four children of James MacDonald and three children at Thomas MacDonald's house |
| 7 March 1840 | Winter House | baptized a child at Mr. Lilly's house |
| 23 March 1840 | Belleoram | baptized John Cluett's child |
| 26 March 1840 | English Harbour | baptized four children |
| 27 March 1840 | English Harbour | married James Lookman and Mary Butler |
| 27 March 1840 | Mose Ambrose | baptized three children |
| 28 March 1840 | Coombs Cove | baptized one child |
| 12 April 1840 | Gaultois | baptized one child |
| 17 April 1840 | Moschite | baptized one child |
| 19 April 1840 | Pushthrough | baptized five children |
| 20 April 1840 | Long Island Harbour | baptized one child |
| 27 July 1840 | Isle aux Morts | baptized one child at Mr. Baker's house |
| 3 August 1840 | Durant Island | baptized three children |
| 4 August 1840 | (Grand Bay?) | baptized one child at Nicholas William's house |
| 6 August 1840 | Isle aux Morts | baptized two children at Thomas Harvey's house |
| 16 August 1840 | La Poile | baptized one child |
| 26 August 1840 | Sand Banks | baptized one child at Thomas Anderson's house |
| 27 August 1840 | Sand Banks | baptized one child at Samuel Cox's house |
| 29 August 1840 | Bay de L'Eau | baptized five children |
| 30 August 1840 | Burgeo | baptized one child |
| 4 September 1840 | Cape La Hune | married William Dorning and Charlotte Bagg |
| 6 September 1840 | Recontre | baptized three children |
| 7 September 1840 | Cul de Sac | baptized two children |
| 8 September 1840 | Richards Harbour | baptized three children |
| 10 September 1840 | Mosquito | married one couple |
| 10 September 1840 | Pushthrough | baptized one child |
| 17 September 1840 | Round Harbour | married John Ball and Jane Spencer |
| 20 September 1840 | Hermitage | baptized two children |
| 26 September 1840 | Grand Bank | married Wilson Tibbo and Charlotte Hickman |
| 27 September 1840 | Grand Bank | baptized one child, Sarah Harris |
| 28 September 1840 | Fortune | married Benjamin Snook and Priscilla Bennett |
| married George Evans and Grace Hickman | ||
| 29 September 1840 | Grand Bank | married Joseph Forsey and Harriet Patten |
| 30 September 1840 | Fortune | married George Lake and Elizabeth Poole |
| married William Bennett and Mary Ann Tuck | ||
| 1 October 1840 | Grand Bank | married William Pardy and Esther Poole |
| baptized Charles Forward and Thomas Simms | ||
| 4 October 1840 | Lamaline | baptized John Loveless, Ambrose Cains, and Caroline Purchase |
| 5 October 1840 | Island | married one couple and baptized a young person |
| 8 October 1840 | Grand Bank | baptized Lambert Forward and Christiana Tibbo |
| 16 October 1840 | Brunette | baptized Elizabeth Thornhill, Samuel Scott, and Sarah Scott |
| 19 October 1840 | Brunette Island | baptized William Organ, Sarah Dowden, and Jane Dowden |
| 25 October 1840 | Garnish | baptized two children |
| 27 October 1840 | Frenchmans Cove | baptized one child |
| 29 October 1840 | Point Enragée | baptized one child |
| 29 October 1840 | Reach | baptized one child |
| 1 November 1840 | Belleoram | baptized nine children |
| 4 November 1840 | Mose Ambrose | baptized one child |
| 24 November 1840 | Furby's Cove | buried Mr. Timothy Hatcher |
1841 |
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| 5 January 1841 | Little Bay | baptized the child of Mr. Walsh |
| 6 January 1841 | Piccaire | baptized four children |
| 10 January 1841 | Furby's Cove | baptized one child |
| 19 February 1841 | Long Island Harbour | baptized three children |
| 1 March 1841 | Capt. Gorman drank himself to death | |
| 20 March 1841 | Bonne Bay | married Matthew Lee and Lucy Chislett |
| 11 April 1841 | Hermitage Cove | baptized one child |
| 17 April 1841 | Jersey Harbour | baptized John, son of Mr. John Chapman |
| 18 April 1841 | Harbour Breton | baptized Mr. Thomas E. Gaden's son |
| 22 May 1841 | Carbonear | married a couple |
| 23 May 1841 | Carbonear | buried a corpse |
| 20 June 1841 | Fortune | baptized Ann Gillard, Amelia Bennett, and Elizabeth Anderson |
| 27 June 1841 | Grand Bank | baptized Jabez, son of William Green |
| 18 July 1841 | Grole | baptized one child |
| 19 July 1841 | Piccaire | baptized one child |
| 25 July 1841 | Pushthrough | baptized one child |
| 26 July 1841 | Bonne Bay | baptized two children |
| 4 August 1841 | Rencontre | baptized two children |
| 6 August 1841 | Cape LaHune | baptized two children |
| 8 August 1841 | Ramea | baptized one child |
| 15 August 1841 | Lower Burgeo | baptized two children |
| 15 August 1841 | Sand Banks | baptized four children |
| 1 September 1841 | Rencontre | baptized one child |
| 3 September 1841 | Cul de Sac | baptized one child |
| 9 September 1841 | Mosquito | married C.C. and L.K. |
| 9 September 1841 | Pushtrough | married J. Sutton and Miss King |
| 10 September 1841 | Grole | married a couple |
| 11 September 1841 | Grole | married a couple |
| 13 September 1841 | Piccaire | married a couple |
| 14 September 1841 | Furby's Cove | married a couple |
| 22 September 1841 | Duck Cove | married a couple |
| 23 September 1841 | Forwards Cove | married a couple |
| 24 September 1841 | Forwards Cove | married two couples |
| 6 October 1841 | Muddy Hole | baptized one child |
| 7 October 1841 | Lamaline | married Richard Bonnell and Jane Lockyer |
| 8 October 1841 | Allan's Island | married two couples |
| 17 October 1841 | Burin Bay | baptized one child |
| 27 October 1841 | Frenchmans Cove | baptized one child |
| 7 November 1841 | English Harbour | baptized two children |
| 9 November 1841 | Coombs Cove | baptized one child |
| 10 November 1841 | Millers Passage | baptized four children |
| 9 December 1841 | Pushthrough | baptized one child |
| 14 December 1841 | Gaultois | baptized Mrs. Grace Gallop's infant |
| 22 December 1841 | Furby's Cove | Mrs. Gallop died aged 28 years, 3 months, 9 days |
| 27 December 1841 | Round Harbour | married Thomas Lee |
| 28 December 1841 | Piccaire | baptized one child |
1842 |
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| 24 February 1842 | Bonne Bay | baptized Mr. Lee's child |
| 30 March 1842 | Bonne Bay | baptized one child |
| 1 April 1842 | Mosquito | baptized one child |
| 19 April 1842 | Dawsons Cove | married John Ingram and Susan Crew |
Transcribed by Edward Chafe (Summer 2019)
Page Last Updated July 03, 2026 (Craig Peterman)
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