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located up the Bradshaw branch of the Dunk River. He also did work on the Burns Mills at Freetown and the McWilliams Mills at West Cape. In 1860, he built a flour mill for William Barclay near the other mills in Bideford. These mills were bought by John England Jr. who later sold them to Joseph Cannon. John England was born November 3, 1837 (son of John England Sr. who came from England as an apprentice to William Ellis and who married William’s daughter, Sarah, later known as Sally). John Jr. married Margaret Seaman Of Cape Tormentine, NB. One of their sons, Aldred, worked with his father in the mills.

Edward England, the youngest son of John England Sr., was born May 24, 1845. He married Mary A. Hayes (1852—1937). Mary was known as POLLY. Their home and 139 acre farm in Bideford was referred to as THE POLLY PLACE and their woodland was called THE POLLY WOODS. Edward was a competent carpenter. He built the Bideford Methodist Church in 1888—89. It is recorded in the church history that at the occasion of its dedication in 1890, it was said—There is not in all our Island home a church so beautiful, so convenient, and so comfortable.... That church is the present Bideford United Church. Edward and Polly had one daugh- ter, Edith, born July 20, 1875. When author L.M. Montgomery came to Bideford in 1894 to teach school, Edith and her fiancee, Bayfield Williams met Maud at the Ellerslie train station. During the year, Edith and Maud became very close friends. There is a picture of the Edward England home in THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY-VOLUME I. The property was later sold to Beecher and Edith MacDougall. That house burned around 1931 and another house was built in its place. Beecher and Edith MacDougall lived there for many years, followed by Earl and Doris Maynard. Wayne and Janice Trowsdale now operate a Bed and Breakfast business there.

Edith England married Bayfield Williams, son of Albert and Mary (nee Hopgood) Williams of Bideford and grandson of Edward and Sarah (nee Ellis) Williams. After teaching school in Bideford in 1892—93, Bayfield Studied Law. In 1901 he was admitted to the Bar as an Attorney and in I902 as a Barrister. Edith died as a result of a boating accident in Alberta 011 August 9, 1916. They had no children.

Bayfield’s brother, Beecher Williams, was Private Secretary for Senator John Yeo in Port Hill.

When John Barlow came from England in 1832, he built a house by the mill site in Bideford. It is told that when the house was being hauled from

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