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Saunders family
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20 pp. of textual records
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Biographical history
Thomas Saunders was born in Wales in 1800, and emigrated to New Brunswick in 1819 or 1820, settling at Cardigan, in the parish of Douglas, York County. This community was created in 1819 by Welsh families from Cardiganshire, who arrived in New Brunswick aboard the brig "Albion." Saunders remained at Cardigan from 1827 to 1833. He was baptized by immersion in 1825. In 1833 he married Sarah Thomas (1811 or 1812-1875), and they had at least nine children: David S. (b.1834), Rachel (1835-1894), Samuel (b. 1838), Elizabeth (1840-1870), Thomas G. (1842-1907), James Alexander (b. 1845), Mariann (b. 1847), Benjamin (1849-1903), and Joshua Mills (1852-1891).
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Scope and content
This fonds consists of several handwritten pages. Two leaves were removed from the back of a Bible, the back page recording a brief list of the important dates in Thomas Saunders' life. There are also 20 handwritten leaves removed from a bound volume, containing arithmetic exercises with the answers, probably intended as a textbook for Saunders' students. On the final leaf is a list of family births and deaths, 1834-1907.
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Professor Peter Thomas of the University of New Brunswick and author of Strangers from a Secret Land: The Voyages of the Brig Albion and the Founding of the First Welsh Settlements in Canada, donated this fonds to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick in 1980.
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