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Baptist Church. Fredericton Baptist Church Board of Trustees

  • Corporate body
  • Organized in 1814

The first Baptist church in Fredericton was organized on 1 January 1814 by William Wilmot, John Marsh, Ebenezer Estabrooks, Theophilus Ring, Jarvis Ring, Olive Ring, Jacob Ring, Alline Hartt, Deborah Hartt, Ann Fraser, Robert Fraser, Hannah Cromwell, and Amasa Coy. They were led by the Rev. Elijah Estabrooks who was also the pastor of the Waterborough Baptist Church.

A meeting house was built along the north side of Regent Street by June 1814 and remained in use until 1840 when a new church was built on the site of the present day Brunswick Street Baptist Church. For the first 30 years the church was often without a regular minister and was served by the Rev. Estabrooks, visiting ministers and elders of the church. Despite this, the church sponsored missions to areas without a Baptist church, especially in the upper St. John River valley.

Barker family (Sheffield, Sunbury County)

  • Family
  • Branch begins in the 18th century

Brothers Joseph Barker (d. ca. 1796) and Benjamin Barker (d. ca. 1799) were living in the parish of Sheffield, Sunbury County in New Brunswick by 1785. Their family had probably arrived there with a group of Planters or pre-Loyalist settlers from New England in the 1760s. They both signed a land petition in 1792 as dissenting Protestants and they may have been Congregationalists or Puritans. Joseph married Sarah Burt and had 4 children: Jacob, Isaac, Peggy and Betty. Benjamin died in 1799 or 1800, leaving his estate to his wife Peggy and a son and daughter.

Sources: Hale, R. Wallace, Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835

Barker family (Victoria County)

  • Family
  • fl. late-19th and early-20th centuries

Brothers Arthur, Roy and Charles Barker of Victoria County, New Brunswick, operated hunting and fishing camps on the shores of Stewart Lake and the tributaries of the Tobique River near Plaster Rock, Victoria County, New Brunswick. Visitors from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Maine travelled to these camps (Riley Brook Camp, Stewart Camp, Branch Camp) as early as 1905, to hunt for moose, deer, bear, caribou, and partridge and to fish for trout and salmon. The business was operating in 1932.

Barker, Theodore Clowes

  • MS85
  • Person
  • 1891-1960

Theodore Clowes Barker, “Theo”, the son of Robert & Mary (Brown) Barker, was born at Fredericton on 6 Oct. 1891. He was a member of the Canadian militia prior to the First World War and with the outbreak of the war enlisted in the 23rd Field Battery and served overseas. In October 1915, he received a commission to serve with the Imperial Army Permanent Force and until 1920 , when he was repatriated to Canada, he saw service in many countries including Ireland, Turkey, and the Black Sea region of Russia. He married Betty Poulton while in London in 1918 and when he returned to Fredericton in 1920, began work with the New Brunswick Dept. of Public Works where he remained until his retirement in 1959. He also remained active in the military during the interwar period. On the death of his father in 1929, he took on the post as Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor that, on his death in 1960, passed to his wife, Betty. Thus for a period of over 75 years the Barker family served the Lt. Governor’s of NB as Secretary. Theo died on 9 Dec 1960.

Barlow, Thomas & Co. (firm)

  • Corporate body
  • Formed in or before 1835; closed in 1955

Barlow, Thomas & Co. was a foundry located on Pond Street in Saint John, New Brunswick. From 1835-1849, the owners were George Fleming, John Stewart and Thomas Barlow. Barlow was a carpenter, Stewart an iron moulder, and Fleming a machinist. Stewart left the firm in 1847 and Barlow in 1849. It was taken over by George Fleming and Thomas Humbert, a clerk in the firm and the name changed to Fleming and Humbert. In 1869, George Fleming purchased his partner's interest and in the following year admitted his two sons, William and James into the company and changed the name to George Fleming & Sons. When George Fleming died in 1886, James purchased the interests of the other heirs and continued the business under the name of Phoenix Foundry.

The company was inherited by his sons, G.W., H.J., and W.M. Fleming who ran it until 1932. When the foundry closed in about 1955, the owner's name was Seely.

The establishment mainly built marine and stationary engines and pipes. They also built a number of locomotives for the Intercolonial and Western Extension railways.

Thomas Barlow was the son of Thomas Barlow Sr. and a pattern maker. He was one of the organizers of the Mechanics Institute and a member of the Sons of Temperance. He died in 1864.

George Fleming was born in Dysart, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1800 and died in 1886. George emigrated to Saint John in 1832. He was one of the organizers of the Mechanics Institute. He and his wife, Barbara Massie, of Glasgow Scotland had eight children, five of whom lived to maturity; William; James; Helen J.; Captain Robert H; Charles.

Sources:
New Brunswick Biographical Review, 1900;
Saint John and Its Business, 1875;
City of Saint John, Its Facilities and Interests, 1908
Saint John City Directories

Barnhill, Alexander Perley

  • Person
  • 1863-1935

Alexander Perley Barnhill, 1863-1935, was born at Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of William and Mary E. Barnhill. He graduated from Mt. Allison University in 1885 and later received an honourary Doctor of Common Law from there in 1910. Alexander read the law with Judge C.N. Skinner, was admitted as a lawyer in 1888, called to the bar the following year and appointed King's Counsel in 1903. He had been a partner in several law firms in the city: McKeown, Barnhill & Chapman, 1895-96; a partner with Charles F. Sanford, 1900-1903; Barnhill, Ewing & Sanford, 1903-1919; and Barnhill, Sanford & Harrison which was established in 1919.

Alexander Barnhill served as director of a number of prominent business firms, among them: T.S. Simms of Saint John, N.B.; Ganong Bros., St. Stephen, N.B.; and the St. John Iron Works of Saint John, N.B. He was vice president of James Pender & Company, the Union Club, and the Avaon Coal Co. Barnhill also was president of N.B. Electrical Telegraph Co. and the Acamac Land Co. Ltd. He served as chairman of the Joint International Commission between the United States and Canada respecting the St. John River from 1908-1911. Barnhill was appointed a member of theJoint International Commission between Great Britain and the United States regarding waterways that form international boundaries in August 1911. He was president of the Saint John Law Society in 1908, a director of the CNR in 1918, and the of the Canadian Merchant Marine in 1919, a member of the Knights of Pythias, St. George's Society, and the Union Club. Alexander Barnhill was a Liberal in his politics and a Methodist by faith.

Sources: Prominent People of the Maritime Province in Business and Professional Life

Barnhill, Ewing & Sanford

  • Corporate body
  • Formed 1900

In 1900 Alexander P. Barnhill joined in partnership with Charles F. Sanford as Barnhill & Sanford, barristers-at-Law. In 1904, William A. Ewing entered the partnership and the law firm was known as Barnhill, Ewing and Sanford until 1920 when the firm became Barnhill, Sanford & Harrison.

Barr family (Saint John)

  • Family
  • b. after 1816 - d. 1881

Thomas Green Barr, (b. ca. 1821-d.1 881) was the son of William Barr who arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick, from Glasgow, Scotland. It is believed William Barr married Mary Green on 9 December 1816. Thomas carried on the ironmongery business begun by his father and grandfather. Thomas Barr was appointed surveyor of lumber for the City of Saint John in 1847. He was a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Saint John City Light Infantry in 1865 and was Captain in 1867. Thomas was a member of the Saint Andrew's Society.

Thomas was married twice. First, to Maria Louisa Haviland (b. 3 February 1820-d. 22 September 1855) on 11 January 1843. They had 3 children: William Haviland (b. ca. 1846), Maria Louisa, (b. ca. 1847) and Thomas Edward (b. ca. 1850). Thomas remarried on 11 March 1857 to Jane M. Condle (b. ca. 1847-d. 22 September 1922 at age 75) of Greenwich, Kings County, N.B. Their children were: Frederick, Annie, Edith and Elizabeth. Frederick became a travelling salesman and was married to Ida Harding. They had a daughter, Jean.

Barrett, George John

  • MS123
  • Person
  • 1876-1953

George John Barrett (son of Peter Barrett and Horteuse Langille) was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia on 21 March 1876 and died 28 December 1953, Saint John, New Brunswick. His death certificate lists him as a watchmaker. His wife, Irene Peers Langille (daughter of Christopher Langille and Lucinda Martin,)was born in River John, Nova Scotia on 24 May 1881 and died 4 February 1962, Saint John, New Brunswick. By 1901, the family had moved to Fredericton and is recorded in the census with their daughter Margaret (1900-1998), George’s sister Margaret (born 1881) and two boarders, Edgar Langille (born 1877) and Banford Langille (born 1883). The 1901 census identifies George as a bicycle maker. By the 1911 census, the family had moved to Saint John.

Margaret married Clarence B. Beatteay and lived in Saint John West. The couple had two daughters Beryl and Elizabeth.

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