James Smith was born in MacDuff, Scotland on 18 March 1793 and died in Sackville, New Brunswick on 16 August, 1865. He married Isobell Bruce in 1815 and had eight children with her, one of them being Abner Smith (1835-1904), born in Shemogue, New Brunswick. Isobell died in 1842 in Shemogue, New Brunswick. James later married Abigail Peirse in Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1845. During the first half of the 19th century, James Smith manufactured harnesses, boots, and shoes, and by the 1850s his was one of at least seven tanneries located in Middle Sackville. Abner carried on his father’s large-scale boot and shoe operation and in 1865 he established Abner Smith’s Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes in Middle Sackville, New Brunswick. The company remained active for thirty-seven years until it was purchased by the Standard Manufacturing Company organized by A. E. Wry in 1903 (renamed A. E. Wry Standard, Ltd in 1914).

Woods from Kingston

A collection of postcards sent to Alice Eliza Lawson from various family members.

Alice Eliza Lawson (Nee Stephen) was born on 6 July 1868 in Gloucester England to Andrew J Stephen and Eliza Layton. She moved to Canada with her family when she was 3 (circa 1871.) Several of her siblings were born in Canada. On 20 June 1888, she married Brunswick Arthur Lawson. They had four children, Andrew William (1889-1916) George Brunswick (1892-1916) Alice Eliza (1896-1970) Lucinda Bella (1901-1974), and Mary Delphina Florence (1908-2002.) Her sons, Andrew and George died months apart in Europe during the First World War. Alice died 20 June 1933, the 45th anniversary of her marriage to Brunswick, who outlived her passing 10 October 1942.

William Robson married Albertha Titus [daughter of John] in 1880. The had the following children; Florence Dorothy Robson [1889-197?], James Stephen [1893-1894] and Georgia Beulah [1901-].

The Robson family were in New Brunswick from England by the early 1800s.

John Robson was a merchant operating the company Salter and Robson in Northumberland County while other members of the same family settled in the centre of Saint John where they lived on Orange Street and in Carleton. They owned a summer home in Westfield, Kings County, New Brunswick. Dorothy Robson was born on May 4, 1889, her father was William Robson, an engineer working in Saint John. Miss Robson died in the 1970s at a very advanced age.

The Raymond family were Connecticut loyalists who first settled on the Kingston Peninsula and then moved to the Kennebacasis River Valley. James Smith Raymond was born in 1832 in Hampton, New Brunswick, and married Phoebe Amelia Dykeman. He purchased the Raymond farmhouse in Maugerville in 1874 from George Priestly, where his descendants lived until 2005. James and Phoebe Raymond had three children: Clifford Sewell (b. September 30, 1906), Florence Amelia (b. September 24, 1910), and Mabel Hope (b. October 28, 1914). Clifford married Lillian L. Wilson in 1944, Florence Amelia married Earl Tompkins in 1930, and Mabel Hope married Irvine Anderson in 1940.

The Hill family of Machias, Maine, Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, N.B. originated with Abner Hill, who built the first sawmill on the St. Croix River and owned ocean-going vessels. Abner married three times, first to Esther Pine, second to Mary Whitney, and third to Mary Tyler in 1832. He had eight sons and three daughters: John, Joel, William, Abner Jr., Stephen, Horatio, George Stillman, Daniel, Clarissa, Mary Elizabeth, and Aseneth. George was lawyer-trained under Ward Chipman. He sat in the New Brunswick General Assembly from 1831-1851. He married Sarah Upton in 1874. Henry E. (1848-1922) was the son of George Stillman and married Lavinia Jane Borden of Kentville in 1876. They had four daughters and two sons. Lavinia Hill taught school in the Kentville area for ten years and Henry was a merchant.

The Burpee family comes from Sheffield, N.B. They were Pre-Loyalists/Planters who came to New Brunswick in 1760 and purchased land in Nashwaaksis.

John and Jane Good lived in Carleton County. Jane was born in 1802 and had immigrated from Ireland in 1820. In 1826, George and Jane were married and lived in Burton. In 1840, they moved to Jacksonville with three sons: James, Frank (1832-1895), and Charles. Frank married Mary Elizabeth Gilmore in 1894 and they had one son named Allan W.G. Good in 1898. Allan became a doctor had a son named Allen William Good. Allen William had a nephew named Allan J. Good and a niece named Elizabeth (Good) Mulholland

Harold Kelly (5 Aug 1926 - ) was an electrician and Velma (23 Nov 1927 – ) worked at the Victoria Public Hospital but retired when the hospital closed and then came to work at the
Fredericton Region Museum (as it is now known).

The Mowat family of St. Andrews are descendants of Captain David Mowat and Mahetable Calef as well as David’s brother Captain John “Hurricane Jack” Mowat and Rachel Abrams. The name “Mowat” is said to be derived from the name “Monte-Alto”, the name of a nobleman who escaped from the wreck of a Spanish Armada when his ship from driven ashore in the north of Scotland. David Mowat was born in 1748 on Orkney Island, Scotland. After immigrating to Canada he married Mahetable Calef in 1786 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Mahetable was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts on September 13 1767. Together, the two had 12 children. Mahetable died in December 1860 and is buried in the Loyalist Burying Ground in St. Andrews, while David Mowat died at sea.

John Mowat was also born on Orkney Island in 1756. In 1799 he was given command of the armed brig “Princess Amelia” which was stationed in Halifax by Edward, the Duke of Kent. He was also made Commander-In-Chief of His Majesty’s forces in British North America during the Revolutionary War. Captain John Mowat was nicknamed “Hurricane Jack” for how he carried himself during action. As an associate of the Cape Ann Association, John Mowat was given land after the war which included the Tower Hill and Lever settlements in the parish of St. David, Charlotte County. These lands were given to him on October 1 1784. He married Rachel Abrams of New York, and together they had six children. John Mowat died in 1821.