Vital Statistics From Newspapers: 1840-1870 (including, Georgetown and , Boughton Island and some Three Rivers ) 1840: M. "On the 18th Feb. last by the Rev. R. Macaulay , Mr. James Hamilton , Three Rivers , to Miss Nancy Stewart , Lot 48. On the 10th of March by the same, Mr. Anthony Buchanan , Belfast , to Miss Jane Kennedy , Three Rivers ." (Colonial Herald. Apr. 4, 1840) D. At Three Rivers on the 21st ult, Mrs. Isabelle Macdonald , relict of Andrew Macdonald , aged 88." (Colonial Herald. Aug.l, 1840) M. At Georgetown by William McKay , Esq., J.P. Rev. Roderick MacAulay to Susan Jane Hadley on 21st Dec. 1840 by Wm. McKay, Esq. J.P ." ( Halifax Guardian. Dec.21.1840) 1841: D. "At Georgetown , on Sunday the 22nd ult., Mr. Philip LeBrocq in the 49th year of his age, leaving a wife and two small children." (Colonial Herald. Jan.2, 1841) D. "At Georgetown yesterday morning, Aretas James , infant son of W.B. Aitken , age 7 mo."( Islander , Aug.28, 1841) 1842: D. "Lately at Gaspereux (sic), Three Rivers , departedthis life the venerable Mrs. Steel , at the extreme age of one hundred six years. Mrs. Steel came to this colony in 1802 with her family, consisting of her sons Philip and John. They were from Long Island , near Boisdale [Scodand]. This aged lady enjoyed an almost uninterrupted state of health, was a stranger to medicine and never confined to bed two successive days. She was an early riser, abstemious, industrious, cheerful — qualities and acquirements conducive to the extension of the thread of human life. During the rebellion [1745] she remembered becoming alarmed at the appearance of the soldiery and hiding from them. The two days preceding her decease, Mrs. Steel , in the absence of her family who were in the fields securing the potato crop, got up, dressed herself, and took her customary seat by the fireside. Mr. John Steel survives his mother." (The [Presbyterian] Guardian. Feb. 9, 1842, Halifax ,) [Mrs., Steel was an ancestor of Mrs. Seymour Knight of Georgetown .] M. "At Halifax , Nov. 15, 1842, by the Rev. William Burton , Mr. Robert Cameron , merchant, of Georgetown, P.E.I , to Mary, 2nd daughter of the late Mr. Donald McVean " (Guardian. Halifax ) M. "At Georgetown on Monday the 21st ult., by the Rev. J.F. MacDonald , Mr. Donald McAulay , merchant, to Miss Ellen , daughter of Mr. Archibald MacDonald , Panmure island." (Colonial Herald. Dec. 2, 1842) 1843: M. "On Tuesday the 17th inst. at Georgetown by the Rev. Mr. Ross , Mr. John B. Hadley of Georgetown to Elizabeth, third daughter of Mr. Archibald Campbell of the same place." ( Islander . Jan.20, 1843) M. "At St. Andrew's Point, P.E.I. , on Tuesday the 28th February, 1843, by the Rev. Hugh Ross , Mr. Murdock McLeod to Miss Eunice Allen [ Boughton Island !."(Guardian. Halifax ) D. "At Dublin, Ireland, in June last, Margaret, 3rd daughter of the late William Stevens , Esq. . Top- Hill, , Scotland , and wife of Mr. John Arbuckle , Master of the Grammar School, Georgetown ." ( Islander . Feb. 10, 1843).[He later taught in Charlottetown and other places and became official School Visitor. Arbuckle married Anne Stewart of Nova Scotia in Trinity Church, Georgetown , in Aug. 1843. She died in 1869.] M. Mar . 17, John Renton , joiner, Georgetown to Catherine MacDonald (St. James, Ch'town, Parish Records) D. "At Leominster, Mass, 11 July 1843, Mr. Rufus Shattuck , formerly a resident of Halifax and later of Georgetown, P.E.I. " (Guardian. Halifax , 1843)