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YMCA (Saint John, N.B.)

  • Corporate body
  • First established in 1854; re-established in 1867

The Young Men's Christian Association was first established in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1854. It built up a library and organized public debates until its demise in 1860 or 1861. In 1867, with the support of a coalition of evangelical churches, a branch of the international association was established in Saint John. They met in various church halls and other buildings until 1873 when they completed their own building on Charlotte Street.

Yerxa, Alfred Cliff

  • Person

Alfred Cliff Yerxa was born on March 15, 1902 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to parents Elijah Burpee Yerxa (1868-1932), a grocery merchant from Fredericton, and Emma Rose Maxwell (1874-1954) of Petitcodiac. Elijah and Emma married in 1898 in Fredericton. Emma’s parents were named James Yerxa and Letitia Kane, and Elijah’s parents were named Elijah M. and Harriet S. Yerxa. Emma and Elijah also had two other children named Harold (b. 1900) and Edith (b. 1911).
On September 5, 1928, Alfred Yerxa married a woman named Effie Barker Keirstead (1903-1992) in Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County. Effie was born in Woodstock, N.B., to parents Hattie E.S. Barker of Sheffield, Sunbury County, and Dr. Perley T. Keirstead of Steadholm, Kings County (1859-1940). Sometime after Effie was born, the Keirstead family moved to 241 Aberdeen St. in Fredericton. Dr. Keirstead got his medical education at Dartmouth Medical College in New York in 1883 and retired in 1917. His parents’ names were William and Mary Keirstead.
Hattie Barker was the daughter of Whitehead Pritchard Barker (d. 1894), who was the son of Enoch Bishop and brother of Sir Frederic Eustace Barker (1883-1915). Sir Frederic was Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Hattie’s mother was Isabella Harrison, sister of Honourable Archibald Harrison, C.B. Harrison and J and W.F. Harrison of Saint John.
An article in the Saint John Progress (June 28 1888) indicates that James Harrison and his brother Charles emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, to South Carolina in 1767. Also, according to the book titled Prominent People of New Brunswick,

Yeomans, Isobel

  • Person
  • 2005

Isobel Yeomans is the wife of the late Colby Yeomans, whose uncle, Irvine Yeomans, was the Sergeant Major of A Squadron of the 8th Canadian Hussars. Her husband Colby was a member of the Association of 8th Canadian Hussars. He served 32 years in various regiments and in varied geographic locations with the Canadian Forces and the United Nations.

Wyton, William H.

  • MS87
  • Person
  • 1907-1999

William Wyton (16 March 1907 – Apr 1999) emigrated to Canada from England in 1920 and was placed with a family at Taymouth, NB. Here he married and raised a family.

Mr. Wyton was born on 16 March 1907 in Warwickshire, England. He arrived in Canada in May 1920 as a Home Child and took up residence with John and Ethel MacBean in Taymouth. The British Child Emigration Movement occurred between 1869 and the 1930s when over a 100,000 children were sent to Canada from the British Isles. Called Home Boys and Home Girls, they were sent by churches and philanthropic organizations who wanted to give orphaned, abandoned and impoverished children a better life in rural Canada. They arrived on ships and were sent to a ‘Home’ and then to farms where they were used for farm labour and domestic help.

In the 1921 census, the MacBean household in Taymouth included John (84 years) Barbara (82 years), John H. (48 years), Ethel (32 years) and William Wyton (14 years). The MacBeans were descendant of Loyalist Angus MacBean who served with the 42nd Regiment and settled on the Nashwaak. John H. and Ethel did not have any children and Mr. Wyton eventually inherited their farm.

Mr. Wyton married Nellie Moran on 14 May 1930 and they would have five daughters and two sons. Nellie was the daughter of Ernest Moran and Hazel Gallagher. Mr. Moran was a Home Child who arrived in Canada in the 1890’s. William Wyton died on 5 April 1999 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Wyer, Thomas

  • Person
  • 1789-1848

Thomas Wyer was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1789, a son of Loyalists Thomas Wyer and Mary Pote from Falmouth, Maine. He married Sarah Tompkins in 1808. He had four children: Thomas, Joanna, Elizabeth Margaret Shidon, and Susan.

Thomas Wyer was a member of the Legislative Council, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas, a director of the Charlotte County Bank, Commissioner of Wrecks, and a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Battalion Charlotte County Militia. He was a business partner of Robert Pagan. He died in St. Andrews in 1848.

Sources: Biographical Review, Province of New Brunswick, 1900; Loyalists to Canada, 1992

Wry, Mathilda

  • Person
  • 1864-1932

Mathilda (Tillie) Wry was born on 18 December 1864 to Isaac and Mary (Fields) Wry and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick. She was engaged to a postmaster from Great Village, Nova Scotia named George who drowned at sea. Tillie never remarried, became a seamstress as a means of income and lived with her sister Mame (Mary Elsie) in a house that was built by their brother John Willard Wry. Mathilda Wry died 12 July 1932.

Wry, John Willard

  • Person
  • 1863-1937

John Willard Wry, born 9 November 1863, was the eldest son of Isaac and Mary Wry. He became a successful farmer and married Jennie Grace Snowdon (b. 15 Sep 1862, d. November 30, 1938), daughter of Obidiah Snowdon, from Wood Point, NB on 23 January 1884. Together they had 10 children. John Willard was a master carpenter, and built a house for his two sisters “Tillie” (Mathilda) and “Mame” (Mary Elsie). He died 22 August 1937.

Wry, Isaac

  • Person
  • 1816-1879

Issac Wry was born 16 April 1816, and came to Sackville as a descendent of the Yorkshire settlers, who first arrived in the region n 1772. He married his second wife, Mary (Fields) Wry of Shemogue, NB (b. 30 November 1835, d. 10 May 1916) on 1 July 1860 and together they had four children. Isaac was a ship carpenter as well as a farmer and woodsman. His wife Mary was an ardent craftswoman (needlework, weaving, etc.). She spun and carded the wool from their sheep, and wove various articles of bedding, materials for clothing. Isaac Wry died 2 November 1879.

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