Elsie May (Gourley) Spinney was born 8 May 1924 in North Devon the daughter of Clarence & Bessie (Gibbons) Gourley. She was a clerk prior to enlistment on 8 Apr. 1943 in the Canadian Army Womens Corps (CWAC), Regimental No W-7525. After service overseas she was discharged at No. 10 Depot, CWAC on 27 July 1946 at Fredericton. Elsie Gourley married Albert George Spinney (son of Ezra Spinney and Caroline Doherty) on 18 August 1962 in Woodstock, New Brunswick. Elsie died on 26 August 2000 and is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredericton.

Henry Bartlett Rainsford was the son of Andrew Rainsford who after the Revolution came to New Brunswick as a Loyalist and became the barrack master at Fredericton and the first receiver-general of the colony. He received 500 acres of land at Kingsclear and died in Fredericton at the age of 84 years in 1820. Henry Bartlett (1798-1881) married Jane Wetmore and became the deputy commissioner of crown lands under Thomas Baillie.

Thom (22 April 1931 – 23 November 2009) was born at Blerick, Holland and immigrated to Canada and served in the Royal Canadian Regiment, 2nd Battalion, from 1954 to 1973. After his military service he became the Director of Maintenance for School District 26 (later District 18), retiring in 1991. From 1986, he served as Fredericton’s town crier for 16 years. He also organized an effort to send 15,000 Christmas cards and 25,000 pocket books to Canadian Forces personnel serving in Bosnia and organized 911 celebrations honouring New Brunswick’s emergency service personnel. In 2006, he founded and was President of the NATO Veterans Organization. For this service he earned the Veteran’s Affairs Commendation Medal just before his death.

Ethel Anderson (4 Jan 1894 – 5 Feb 1972) was the daughter of William L. & Ella Sophie (Pallen) Anderson. She was born in Fredericton and was a lifelong resident of the city, graduated from UNB in 1916, and worked with J. Clark & Sons, as well as a secretary for the Lieutenant Governor, W.G. Clark. She was a member of the UNB Alumni Association, the University Women’s Club, the Anagwakade Chapter, IODE, and Christ Church -Parish Church.

Gerald George Hanson (9 May 1919 – 9 Sep 1970), son of John B. & Marjorie Hanson of Fredericton. He served with the 104th Anti Tank Battery, RCA, later the 7th Anti Tank Battery RCA from 15 July 1940 to 1945, Regimental # G5008, attaining the rank of Sergeant and saw service in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and NW Europe. Prior to the Second World War service he served in the militia from 1935 to 1940 and, post Second World War, he was employed by the Fredericton office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission and was a member of Branch 4 of the Royal Canadian Legion. He married Mae Alice Wasson on 7 Nov 1946 in Fredericton and is buried in the Soldier’s Plot, Fredericton Rural Cemetery.

Augustus Fowler was born 6 October 1868 (1871 on Military Attestation papers) in England. He married Rose Elizabeth (last name unknown) on 28 December 1904 in Maidstone, Kent, England. He served in South Africa with the Imperial Army before moving. By 1911, they had three sons, Eric George (1904, England), John Augustus (1907, England) and Ronald (1911). Arthur Fowler, Augustus’s nephew, was living with the family at the time that the census was taken. Ralph Gordon Fowler was born in 1913. At one time, the family lived on Needham Street in Fredericton.

Augustus joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in June 1915 landing in Plymouth England in August the same year. He was discharged in May 1919. Augustus died on 27 December 1932.

John Hatt was the son of Charles Hatt (1857-1918) and Annie (Gibson) Hatt (1863-1936). Charles, the son-in-law of Alexander Gibson, was Superintendent of the Marysville Cotton Mill and later mayor of Marysville. John was a horseman and worked at many race tracks in the USA.

Arthur Wilfred Coombes (26 Jan 1877 – 1954) was a native of Gibson (South Devon) and enlisted to serve in the Boer War but stayed in the area while using his medical knowledge to assist the medical corps at the temporary hospital that was set up at the Lieutenant Governor’s residence from 1898 to 1901. Afterwards he established a drug store at 79-81 St. Mary’s St. His wife, Alice, died of tuberculosis in 1929. A few years after this Wilfred turned the drug store business over to his former technician, Bill Laskey and became more active in community and political activities than he had been. He was mayor of Devon from 1932-35 and 1941-1945 amongst other civic endeavours.

Amelia Sarah Ward (4 January 1896 – 10 February 1987) came from a farming family in Burton, New Brunswick. She met her husband, William Blain, who was an engineer with the Dominion Bridge Co. working on engineering projects throughout eastern Canada, at the Stocker’s Hotel in Oromocto, New Brunswick and they married.

John A. Morrison (c 1820 – 28 May 1893) and his brother William emigrated from Belfast Ireland to St. John, New Brunswick in Sep 1843 and very shortly opened a Dry Goods Store. The business propered and John married Lucy Ann Everett (1823 – 11 July 1893), daughter of Thomas Carleton and Mary (Camber) Everett on 16 Dec 1846. Although initially expanding the business failed in 1859 and John purchased a mill and property from George Morisey in Fredericton and the family moved here in May 1860. The family consisted of five boys: Thomas “Tom” Everett (1852-), William “Willie” Parks (1854), John “Jack” Alexander (1856 – 22 Sep 1925), Frank Inches (9 Nov 1857-19 Oct 1909); Julius “Jules” Inches (1859-1933) and Stewart Luke (1861-1941). The lumber mill, which soon became known as the Phoenix Mill, was destroyed by fire on three occasions: 19 Aug 1860, 11 May 1872 and 14 Oct 1885 but John was able to rebuild and expand after each unfortunate happening. Jack went to work for his father and carried it on after his father’s death. He was also involved with log cutting operations on the upper St. John River and lived in the family home after his parents died with his wife Kate and two sons, Guy and Roy.