The house south of this one was formerly owned by William Murphy and moved from the Bradford Road. The present owner is Donald MacDonald, his wife, Marie Landry, and children Ron- ald, Faye, Jerry and Mitchell.

The next house was built by McCurdy Bell, and formerly owned by Church of Scotland, Rev. James Howe, his wife Lily grozier. The present owner is Earl MacKay, and his wife, Pauline rvmg.

The next house was built by Richard Carver, and formerly owned by Fenton Howatt. The present owner is Cook Howatt, his wife, Frances Craig, and son David.

The next house was formerly owned by Fred Bell and mov- ed to its present site. The owner is now Edward McLellan, his wife, Edith Sharkey, son Charles who is married to Lillian Heck- bert, Wesley who is married to Opal Silliker, Austin who is mar- ried to Gloria Gaudet, Leonard and Stewart. One daughter, Mary, was married to Clifford Rogers. They have four children, Deb- orah, Donald, Deanna, and Beverly, and live in a house owned by Morley Muttart which was moved from Borden and remodelled.

The farm south—west of Morley Muttart’s farm was formerly owned by Mrs. J.C. Gillespie, Elmer Francis, his wife, Mildred MacWilliams, and three sons, Arnold who is married to Marion Parker, Darryl, and Winston. The present owner is Hazen Low- ther, his wife, Helen Ahearn, and children Catherine, Charles, Leigh, Joanne, Dennis, Keith and Ricky.

Arnold Hill, son of Roy and Elizabeth Hill of Freetown, was born Feb 1924. On September, 1945 he married Eva Joyce Fras- er of North Bedeque who was born in July 1925. They moved to Carleton in August 1952 purchased and took up residence in a home owned by Leonard MacCarville. In June 1957 he purchas- ed a lot of land from Elmer Frances and moved the house on this lot. He became employed with the Canadian National Railways in 1950. To them were born five children, namely Diane, Carter, Barrie, Wayne and Bryan.

James MacDonald erected home sold it to Reginald Noonan who is married to Lucille Murphy from Vernon, they have one son Barry.

BELL HISTORY

John Bell as a young married man immigrated from Gretna, Scotland to Prince Edward Island in the year 1820. His wife was Jane Little who was born in Carlyle, England. They had six (6) sons and five (5) daughters. The Atlantic was a long and peril- ous crossing in those days and Prince Edward Island an unknown country. They took ship at Bowness, Scotland and landed at Mir- amichi, N.B., and then to Ch’town, P.E.I. The City then con— tained about sixty (60) houses and they found temporary shelter at the Windmill Hotel kept by one MacDonald. There they hired some Indians to row them up the West River. The whole family and their belongings embarked with the Indians in an open crazy craft which went adrift but finally landed them at Samuel Daw-

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