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     Vital Statistics from Newspapers: 1840-1870 
     
     (including Georgetown and Royalty, 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. "On Friday last, at Georgetown, Mr. 
     
     John Kerwin, for many years a resident 
     
     of Tryon, aged 62 years." (Royal 
     
     Gazette, Apr. 21, 1840) 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. AtThree Rivers on the let ult., Mrs. 
     
     Isabelle Macdonald, relict of Andrew 
     
     Macdonald, aged 88.” (Colonial Herald, 
     
     Aug. 1, 1840) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. At Georgetown by William McKay, 
     
     Esq., J.P. Rev. Roderick MacAulay to 
     
     Susan Jane Hadley on let Dec. 1840 
     
     by Wm. McKay, Esq. JP." (Halifax 
     
     Guardian Dec.21, 1840) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     L. The Barque China. 400 tons, built & 
     
     launched at shipyard of Angus 
     
     Macdonald, Brudenell River, Nov. 1840. 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. John Adams Wood, London, Eng, 
     
     leaving a widow, Margaret Gilbert 
     
     Wood. He owned land in Georgetown. 
     
     (From Colonial Herald, Dec. 26, 1840 
     
     etc.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     1841: 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “AtGeorgetown, 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) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "At Three Rivers, on Thursday, the 
     
     24th ult., by T. Owen, Esq., Mr. 
     
     Stephen Bovyer, of Lot 48, to Miss 
     
     Catherine Norton, second daughter of 
     
     the late John Norton, Brudenell River." 
     
    
   
   
    
     (Royal Gazette, Jan. 5, 1841) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "At Three Rivers, on Thursday, the 
     
     7th inst., by the Rev. Benjamin Scott, 
     
     Mr. Alexander MacGregor, of Lot 48, 
     
     to Elizabeth, fifth daughter of Mr. Donald 
     
     Dewar, Brudenell River." (Royal 
     
     Gazette, Jan. 19, 1841) 
     
    
   
   
    
     M. "On Tuesday, the 10th inst., by the 
     
     Rev. Benjamin Scott, the Rev. John 
     
     Shaw, Three Rivers, to Charlotte, the 
     
     fifth daughter of the late William 
     
     Dockendorff, Esq., York River." 
     
     (Royal Gazette, Mar. 23, 1841). 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “At Georgetown yesterday morning. 
     
     Aretas James, infant son of W.B. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Aitken, age7 mos.” (Islander, Aug. 28, 
     
     1841) 
     
    
   
   
    
     1842: 
     
    
   
   
    
     D. “Lately at Gaspereux (gig), Three 
     
     Rivers, departed this 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 [Scotland]. 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]