MacEWEN

HELEN ANN (1828 - Apr. 4, 1913) daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ramsay McEwen, Campbellton Road m. ARTHUR McEWEN d. Apr. 28, 1904, son of James and Mary Coffin McEwen, of St. Peters. In the early 1850’s, Arthur moved a house from the Campbellton Road to Stanley Bridge and located it across from the present hall. The last owners were Stanley and

Pansy Coles. The house burned in 1960. Arthur is classed as being a “night watchman” in the 1881 Census.

Their daughter, Miss Helen as she was called by those who knew her, made a living through seamstress and millinery work. She travelled to different homes to make clothes for the family members, as well as working with the A.J. McLeod & Co. store dressmaking business.

1. Thomas J.B. (1851 - Aug. 7, 1854) 2. Herbert Edward (1864 — April 10, 1893) — a school teacher 3. Mary Louise (Feb. 21, 1865 — Feb. 6, 1913) m. Capt. William A. Miller {see Rattenbury Rd.} 4. A. Helen b. Jan. 20, 1867 buried in Yarmouth, NS about 1934 5. Benjamin Arthur (Jan. 24, 1869 - 9 mo.) 6. Lucy Matilda (1870 - Feb. 25, 1878)

Herbert E. MacEwen purchased a lot of land from Dougald Henry and his wife for the sum of $80.00 on March 17, 1886. Herbert was a teacher in New London School. It would appear that he had cleared the title for the lot of land on which the home was placed - one-sixth of an acre — located across the road from the present hall. The agreement of sale was signed before J .P. for Queen’s County, Dr. R.D. McNeill and Daniel Ross.

BENNETT

FRED BENNETT, son of George Washington Bennett, who lived in the Alberton area by 1867, Fred’s father married Sarah Isabel Spinney, St. George’s, NB. Fred was one of a family of eleven children. He came to Stanley Bridge to put in the crop for Charlotte Anderson in 1900. He stayed, farmed, married Mary Anderson, and opened a fish cannery, on the site formerly known as the Henry McKie Shipyard, located to the east of the present bridge. When the Bennett fam— ily left Stanley Bridge they settled in North Lake in the early 1930’s. Most of Fred and Mary Jane Anderson’s family later moved to British Columbia. (Family burial plot - Geddie Memorial Cemetery)

FRED DARIUS BENNETT (July 1, 1880 — 1959) in 1901

m. 1. MARY JANE ANDERSON (Aug. 22, 1880 - Mar. 1, 1918) daughter of Alexander and Charlotte [Ramsay] Anderson of the Mill River Road. Fred and Mary Jane had five children.

William d. 1954 lived in BC. most of his life.

Annetta “Nellie” (1903-1948) m. Simps0n and lived in Boston, MA. Alice (1908 - July 19, 1923) lived with her sister in Boston, MA.

Hazel b. June 2, 1910 In. Brock.

Preston b. 1915. [all of these brothers and sisters moved to British Columbia about 1930]

Fred Bennett m. 2. in 1920 to Selena Gertrude Woodside (1881-1949). They had one son JAMES b. 1923, he lives in the Souris area of PEI.

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