Vital Statistics From Newspapers:1840-1870 (including,Georgetown and Royalty, Boughton Island and some Three Rivers)

1867:

D. “At Sturgeon, Lot 61, on the 9th Jan. after nine days illness of inﬂammation, Mr. Bernard Kearney, age 73 years.” (Examiner, Jan, 28, 1867)

D. “At Georgetown on the 20th inst. Mr. John Renton in the 76th year of his age.” (I_slander,

Apr. 26, 1867)

M. James McDonald, Georgetown, to Catherine McEachern, St. Peter’s Road.

(Summerside Joumal,l867

D. At Halifax, N.S., on Tuesday evening, May 14th, Isabella Mary, daughter of the late Captain John A. McDonald & Mary McDonald of

Georgetown, P. E. I. (Summerside Journal, May 23, 1867)

D. “At Georgetown on Saturday last, Alfred David Kaye, third and youngest son of Thomas Owen, Esq., age 8 yrs 5 mo.” (Islander, May 31, 1867)

M. “At Charlottetown. on the 10th inst, by Rev. Alex. Falconer, Mr. George Moar of Georgetown to Miss Margaret Irving of Cherry

Valley.” (IslanderJuly 12, 1867)

M. “On the 3rd inst., at Trinity Church, Georgetown. RE. 1., by the Rev. Theo. Richey,

F.C. Harris, Esq., merchant of Cornwallis, N.S., to Mary, third daughter of His Honour John Aldous, Commissioner of Public Lands on the Island.”(Islander, July 12, 1867.)

D. “At the Lunatic Asylum, Sept.1867, William Hillman, late resident of Georgetown, age 59 years.” (Islander, Sept.13, 1867). In 1825, Hillman, who then resided at Brown’s Creek, lost three children through drowning.

M. “At Georgetown on the 18th inst. by the Rev. Alex. MacWilliam, James H. Stewart, Esq., Bermuda, to Elizabeth Ann, eldest daughter

of E. Wickwire, Esq., J.P., Georgetown.” (Islander, Sept. 20, 1867)

L. “At Georgetown, on the 18th from the shipyard of Hon. Daniel Gordon, a very superior Brigantine named the Maﬁa, tonnage 206, NM, and 308, O.M.” (Islander, Oct. 25, 1867)

M. “At St. Paul’s Church, Guysborough, N.S., on Thurs, the 17th inst, by Rev. E Gelling, M.A., Charles Owen, Esq., Georgetown, P.E.l., to Annie Alice, youngest daughter of John F. Muncey of Guysborough.” (Islander, Oct. 25, 1867)

D.“On Sunday the 15th inst, at his residence in Georgetown, aftera long illness, George Poole, Esq. and Peace Commissioner of Small Debts, at Georgetown, age 40 years.“ (Islander, Dec.20, 1867). A longer obituary in the Jan.18, 1868, \Islander.

M. “At the manse, Georgetown, on the 23rd ult., by the Rev. Alex MacWilliams, Mr. Joseph L Symons to Isabella, daughter of Roderick Campbell, Esq., Land Surveyor, Georgetown.”

(Islander, Dec.27, 1867) 1 86 8 :

D.”Suddenly on the ninth inst. at Boughton Island, Kings Co., Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Benjamin AM Allen, daughter of the late Joseph Coffin, Esq., of Bay Fortune in the 42nd year of her age, deeply and severely regretted by a loving husband and small family as also by a very large circle of friends and acquaintances.” (Patriot, Jan.23, 1868)

D. “At Georgetown on the 6th inst, after a few months illness, of consumption Andrew William LeBrocq chemist and druggist, age 29 years leaving a widow and one child to mourn the

loss.” (Summerside JoumaI, Mar.7, 1868)

D. “At Boughton Island, on the 29th March, Bartlett Allen, age 83 years.” (Examiner, Apr. 6, 1868)