Alvaretta (Berta) Hayward Estabrooks (b. 26 September 1869) and Hannah Elizabeth Estabrooks (b. 2 September 1872) were daughters of Shephard Handy Estabrooks (1838-1883) and Agnes Edgar Carter (1845-1909), of Coldstream, Carleton County, New Brunswick. Shephard and Agnes Estabrooks had 3 other children: George (b. 1865), Arthur (b. 1867), and Ellen Jane (Waters, b. 1878). Shephard Estabrooks's sister, Lucretia, was married to the Rev. Amos Hayward, a Baptist preacher, who ministered first at Coldstream and then at Florenceville.

Alvaretta Estabrooks taught music in the Coldstream area, then later studied music at Acadia Academy, Wolfville, N.S., from 1889 to 1893. After returning to New Brunswick, Alvaretta taught music for many years. She died in Hartland, Carleton County on 19 July 1941 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Hartland. Her sister, Hannah, lived on the family farm with her mother and worked in a local store. Hannah Estabrooks died at Fredericton on 28 October 1950, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

The Fish family of the greater Newcastle area - the community and surrounds of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick region - long held a respected and affluent position in the business and political arenas. James A. Fish Sr., the original owner of the Fish family's first business concern, a Blackville-Miramichi general store and smithy or blacksmith shop, was originally an American. Born in West Waterville, Maine, in 1812, when James A, Fish was 4-years-old he and his family moved to the Blackville, New Brunswick area, in what was then dubbed the "Forks". He lived within that locality for the rest of his life.

After establishing the mercantile business, James A. Fish expanded his business concerns to a large lumbering mill, as well as maintaining the family farm and lands. On 20 March 1844, he married Elizabeth McAllister, of Blissfield Parish, and they had 10 children. James Fish was a member of the Freemasons for 25 years, and maintained good standing within the Masonic order.

After James A. Fish, Sr.'s death, in 1897, his two sons, James O. Fish, Jr. and C. C. Fish, took over the family businesses. They continued the general store until the mid-1930s, when the records in possession of the Archives end. What was originally the Fish family store has, in recent years, been replaced with new stores and a new building. During the course of their various enterprises, the Fish family sons served at both the municipal and provincial levels of government, and maintained strong business and social ties to their home.

Eva May Fleet, the daughter of Ida A. Cullen (1870-1949) and Aaron Robert Fleet (1857-1925), was born on 23 April 1889 at Saint John, New Brunswick. Eva Fleet had no fewer than 6 siblings, namely, Herbert A., J. Arthur, Harold B., Robert K., Ida B., and William Raymond (1901-1922). For a number of years the family lived on Broad Street. During World War I, Eva Fleet corresponded with Walter A. Evans, of Saint John, who was serving overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He returned to Saint John, in 1919, and they were married on 27 April 1921 in Germain Street Baptist Church, Saint John. They had a son, Robert Evans (b. 1923).

Walter Allen Evans was born in Long Reach, Kings County, New Brunswick, in 1887 to George E. Evans and Harriett A. Bostwick. He had no fewer than 6 siblings, namely, Lena (b. 1876), Alice (b. 1878), Sanford (b. 1881), Alder (b. 1883), Helen (b. 1884), and Hazel G. (b. 1890). The Evans family moved to Saint John when Walter was a teenager, and he found employment with the Canadian National Railway. At the outbreak of World War I, Walter Evans joined the Second Divisional Ammunition Column as part of an artillery that was raised in Saint John. His brother, Alder, also signed on with the C.E.F. Walter Evans served overseas at the Front, beginning in September 1915. In 1917, Sergeant Evans was awarded a military medal for his efforts at Passchendaele. At the time of his discharge, he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant.

In the postwar years, Eva and Walter Evans made their home in Saint John where Walter Evans was employed as a yardmaster with the Canadian National Railway. In his spare time, he was active in the militia, joining the 15th Battery in Saint John. He was serving as quartermaster of that unit when he died on 1 June 1935, aged 48. He was buried at Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John.

Following Walter Evans' death, Eva Evans, at some point, moved to Fredericton. She was living there, as a widow, on 2 January 1949, when her mother, Ida C. Cullen Fleet, who resided with her, died. The date of Eva Evans' death is unknown.

John Flewelling and his wife Mary came to New Brunswick in August 1783 with his three sons, Thomas, Joseph and Francis and his daughter, Maplet Elizabeth (married Samuel Munro in 1813). The party included Thomas' wife and their nine children aboard the ship "Cyrus".

Thomas Flewelling (1736-1809) settled in Greenwich parish, Kings County. In 1787, he was a claimant to the British government for losses suffered in America. He was married to Elizabeth Griffin and died in Kings County in 1809.

Their children were Adam (1761-1816); Elizabeth (b.1763); Enos (1765-1837); George (b. 1767); William (b.1769); Sarah (b. 1771), who married Thomas Theale; Caleb (1773-1858); Joseph (b. 1776); Thomas Jr. (1779-1860); Jacob (b.1781), who married Sarah Second and moved to Upper Canada; and Ezekial (b. 1783).

Two other two sons of John Flewelling, Abel and Morris, followed their parents and siblings later. Morris settled at Carters Point. Abel (b. 1746) became magistrate and overseer of the poor at Greenwich. Later he moved to Maugerville where he died in 1814. He married Abigail (b. 1752).

Source:
New Brunswick Loyalists, 1983;
Family genealogy

Biographical history
Birth: 1898
Death: Apr. 17, 1917

For nearly 92 years Gladys Winifred Fowler lay in a sealed coffin in the catacombs Kensal Green Cemetery in England.

She died in an English hotel room at the age of 18 years, while her father was serving in the military. She was the daughter of then-New Brunswick MP George Fowler, at the time a lieutenant-colonel serving with the 13th Battalion Canadian Infantry during the final months of the First World War.

A death certificate lists her cause of death as a combination of heart disease and illness.

At the end of the war the family thought she had been repatriated and buried in New Brunswick, but for reasons that may never be known she was not. Only after a volunteer with the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery helped solve the mystery, that her story became known.

With the help of Air Canada offering to fly her body home and a local Funeral Home making the arrangements, she is now laid to rest with the rest of her family in the community cemetery.

Brunswick Webster Fox, the son of Fannie Fowler and George Fox, was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, 14 March 1853. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, probably in the 1880s, and they had four children: Caleb, Estella Victoria, Eva Beatrice, and Fanny Louise. Brunswick W. Fox taught in public schools for 10 years and also in a singing school. Later he moved his family to Central Kingsclear where he helped Henry Alline Palmer and Jane Douglas Cliff operate a 200-acre farm. He died at Fairville, near Saint John, N.B., on 14 December 1934.

The Fox children stayed in New Brunswick for most of their lives. Caleb Fox was a railway man and worked both in the Canadian West and on the Valley Railway in New Brunswick, between Saint John and Edmundston. He died suddenly in 1919, at age 37. Beatrice married Henry Allen Strange on 11 September 1907. Fanny and Estella Fox moved from the Palmer house at Central Kingsclear, York County to a bungalow in Silverwood, near Fredericton, in 1966, after the Mactaquac Dam was completed. Fanny died in 1971 of a stroke. Stella Fox was a school teacher, teaching primarily in the Penniac, Douglas and Fredericton areas. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Kingsclear. At the time of her death, on 2 July 1990, she was a resident of York Manor Nursing Home in Fredericton.

John McKenzie Fraser, a native of Middle River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, moved from Nova Scotia to the parish of Chatham, New Brunswick with his children and wife, Elizabeth, about 1850. He may have married a second time, to Ann Savoy, sometime after 1851. John Fraser had no fewer than 5 children, including Catherine, Alexander, David, and Albert J.

Following his arrival in the Miramichi area, John Fraser worked as a mill man; however, by 1870 he had established a small store at Black Brook (now Loggieville). He probably operated it until his death on 8 June 1884, when son Albert took over the business. In 1896 Albert opened a business in his own name, but he suffered financial losses and was bankrupt by 1901. He worked at various occupations until about 1920, when he opened a small store, which he ran with help from his daughter, Kay Fraser, until his death on 8 February 1949. Albert's son, David Fraser, operated a fox farm from at least 1935 to 1939.

In 1799 brothers Alex and John Fraser left Scotland, at very young ages, to settle in New Brunswick. Their family eventually followed. John Fraser was made captain of the local militia company in Gloucester County; Alex Fraser eventually returned to Scotland. Their descendants moved to southern New Brunswick in the 19th century.

William Frost (1751-1827) was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to Connecticut and later New York. In 1783, at the end of the American Revolutionary War, he relocated to what is now New Brunswick, eventually settling his family in the parish of Kingston, Kings County where he worked as a shoemaker. He was elected to the second vestry of Trinity Church in 1785. He and his wife Sarah Schofield (1754 -1816), the daughter of another Loyalist family, had no fewer than eight children: Henry, William, Ezra, James Scovil, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah.

Henry Frost, the son of William and Sarah Frost, was born in 1774. He and his wife Elizabeth Elevalett (1786-1861) had several children, including Hannah (1802-1842), Robert C. (1809-1880), and Henry. Henry Frost, Sr. was a schoolteacher, a shoemaker, and a merchant in Saint John, N.B. He died on 19 February 1827, predeceasing his father by four months.