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Vital Statistics from Newspapers: 1840-1870

(including Georgetown and Royalty, Boughton Island and some Three Rivers)

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

Road. (Summerside Journal, April 1 1867)

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D. "At Georgetown, on Saturday last Alfred David Kaye, third and youngest son of Thos. Owen, Esq.., 8 yrs. & 3 mos. " (Herald, May 20, 1867)

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 mos..” (Islander, May3l, 1867)

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

Irving of Cherry Valley.” (Islander, July 12, 1867)

M. “On the 3rd inst., at Trinity Church, Georgetown. PE. 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, 1867L. “At Georgetown, on

the 18th from the shipyard of Hon. Daniel Gordon, a very superior Brigantine named the ldalia, 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, after a 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 Machliams, Mr. Joseph L Symons to Isabella. daughter of Roderick Campbell, Esq., Land Surveyor, Georgetown.” (Islander, Dec. 27, 1867)

1868:

D. "Suddenly on the ninth inst. at Boughton Island, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Benjamin A. 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.”(Patn'ot, 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 Journal, Mar. 7, 1868)