NORTH ROAD THE WILLIAM AND ANNE TURNER PROPERTY The of Stanley Bridge district on the begins on a farm that was leased to William Butler on December 12, 1862. In 1865 the 34 to 35 acre property was leased to George Turner ; and on November 13, 1877, George transferred the property to his son, William Turner . William Turner married Mary Ann Mclnnis on October 19, 1875. William was born in 1851 and Mary Anne was born in 1850. William and Mary had four children: Agnes Grace was born on September 1, 1877. Grace married Clement Trainor and lived on the . Robert Bruce , William and Mary's second child was born on November 1, 1878. Laura their third child was born on December 11, 1881. She married John Redmond . They lived on the home place. Their last child, Leander was born on November 29, 1888. William and Mary took advantage of the Land Purchase Act of 1875, and purchased their prop¬ erty. On November 2, 1898, William and Mary Anne sold 34 acres of this property to Patrick Bolger for $700.00, and sold the remaining 34 acres of the farm at the same price to John Parsons . The Parsons' portion of the property was in Millvale , while the Bolger portion was in the Stanley Bridge district. Interestingly enough, William and Mary Anne Turner immediately purchased the John Thomas and Mary Ann Cosgrove property on the . John Thomas was a brother of Catherine Cosgrove Bolger, Patrick Bolger 's spouse. THE PATRICK BOLGER AND CATHERINE COSGROVE HOMESTEAD Patrick Bolger 's parents emigrated from Ireland to Newfoundland in the late 1830's. They set¬ tled in Middle Cove , and were married in St. John's Cathedral on November 11, 1839. Their eldest child, Catherine was born there on December 22, 1841. In 1842, they moved from Newfoundland to West Cape , Prince Edward Island . In West Cape , three more children, Julia, Patrick and Mary, were born. After Thomas Bolger 's death in 1858, Anastasia Bolger and her young family moved to the where she leased 48 acres of land from the Rt . Hon. Lawrence Sullivan at the rate of one shilling per acre. Although Patrick Bolger , born on June 8, 1846, was only twelve years old at the time of this move, he had to assume much of the respon¬ sibility for turning the virgin forest into arable land. He was up to the challenge, and in November 1869, the lease on the land was transferred to him by his mother who continued to live with him until her death on March 17, 1885. On January 7, 1874, he married Catherine Cosgrove , and during their lifetime they established one of the largest farm operations in the district. On January 9, 1878, Patrick took advantage of the Land Purchase Act passed in 1875 forcing the proprietors to divest themselves of their estates, and purchased the 48 acre homestead from the government for sixty dollars. He paid the purchase price in ten equal installments and had a clear title by 1887. This marked the first of the series of land purchases which greatly increased his acreage. Simultaneous with this transaction, Patrick purchased twenty-one and three quarter acres of land from Donald Ferguson the commissioner of Public Lands. This land was in Lot twenty-one and extended from the western boundary of the property to the Trout River . The purchase price was $58.97. Patrick paid for this property with four cash payments and received title to this valuable land on October 12, 1887. Before the end of the century, Patrick purchased three additional parcels of land. A farm of fifty acres on the north side of the Patrick Bolger homestead was owned by his uncle, William Cosgrove . William died in 1881, and his wife Mary Ann Cosgrove , sold the prop- 412