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According to the Slade and Co. records, in 1825 there were more than 200 people living in Bird Island Cove (Elliston): Listed as planters were: Chalk & Barnes John Chalk (Sr) & sons Thomas Clouter Thomas Cole Richard Cole George Crew Thomas Flinn & father- mother James Hill John, William and Robert Hobbs & father - mother Menchener & Stead John Miles Nebuchadnezzar Tucker White & Cole (IE COLES). Slade agent's comments 1825 Chalk & Barnes - Will not, I fear, be able to maintain their families these times. [This is William Chalk who eventually moved to Little Catalina & William Barnes was married to his sister. TC]. John Chalk & sons - Do not see that they can make it out if they don't have credit for winter diet. [This is John Chalk, Sr. TC.] Thomas Cole - In independent circumstances. Thomas Clouter - In good circumstances and I consider him a better dealer than Cole because he has a large family and is a considerable consumer of goods. [This is Thomas Cole's son-in-law. TC.] Richard Cole - Is very well off and I consider him a good trader. [This is Thomas Cole's son. TC.] George Crew - Bad with him as the rest, but I consider that he deals fairly and I hold him in favourable consideration. Thomas Flinn & father & mother - No idea that he will be able to pay under the winter supplying system. John, Robert and William Hobbs & father & mother - Have a little better opinion of these than of the former but not much. James Hill - Have the same opinion of and hold him in the same estimation as George Crew. Nebuchadnezzar Tucker - Ditto. White & Cole (NOTE IE COLES) - Bad with them now, but have a favourable opinion of their industry and honesty. [This is William White and George or John Coles? TC.]
Servants at Bird Island Cove (Elliston) 1825. From Slade Ledgers. PANL REF P7/ A/ 54. Abbott Stephen Abbott John Auglum James Baker William, Sr. Brine Robert Brown Peter Chant John Chard Mark Clark James Crew Robert, Sr. Crew Robert, Jr. Cox Elizabeth Dunphy Philip Elliott John Faulkner Jasper Faulkner John Gale William Goldsworthy George Gough John Hollaghan John Hayes Cornelius Hardy Edward Hayward Benjamin Hobbs Thomas Jones John Keating John Lemon Henry Linthorne George, Jr. Mackie Edward Martin Joseph Minty William Murphy William Pladwell Thomas Purcell William Rendell Richard Rowe Henry Rowe Jane Sanger Charles Shelly Patrick Stead Thomas Talbot Thomas Tremblett David Tremblett Joshua Way Philip Weeks Sarah White Edward Wiltshire William, Sr.
Nimshi Crew Notes 3/10/1958: Some of the name listings on the Slade 1825 Dealers List have no connection with my family tree -- therefore I have not undertaken to identify these from the registers - Others have, but as I already know the identities, no need to formally put them down in Slade 1825 Identification Memos, as they are amply clear in existing genealogical memos in the respective files. These are: Thomas Cole 2 souls Richard Cole 6 " Mark Chard 3 " William Wiltshire 3 " George Coles 12 souls i.e. the "Cole", correctly COLES, of White & Cole, Thomas Clouter 7 souls George Crew 8 souls John Goff 4 souls For the others in the list, I have undertaken identification- see Identification Memos in respective files. These name- listings, with the outcome at present, are shown following: James Hill 9 souls identified John, Robt. & Wm. Hobbs 11 souls " Thomas Hobbs 1 soul " Thomas Flinn 7 souls " Chalk & Barnes 7 souls (Wm.Chalk & Wm.Barnes) " John Chalk Senr. 14 souls " William Baker Senr. 6 souls Not firmly identified as yet. If senr. were not on the name, I could easily identify them as William Baker and his wife nee Mary Ryder and children. But they were only a young married couple. Very probably, his parents, William & Hannah Baker, were still alive. But I feel sure that they did not have four single children in 1825. Also, I am not sure that this couple ever lived in BIC. Of course, they might have been there for some time, the elderly man being only a shareman as listed, and later left. Study COE Deaths Register at Bonavista before deciding. NC Crewe 3/10/58. Nimshi Crewe notes, 1958. The earliest nominal list I have seen of BIC inhabitants is the Slade 1825 Dealers List which I bought about 1935 from the family of the late H. F. Shortis, historical writer. Tracing backward from all the families existing there in my own day (say 1920) and from my own general knowledge of the place's history, it is amply obvious that - (A) This Slade 1825 List includes all the adult male family heads there in 1825, except perhaps two or three, and all the other adult males also there from whose later marriages families also sprang, except again perhaps two or three. Only exceptions I can think of: Trask (certain); Hollohan; Patrick Casey (perhaps late - comer). (B) All the families existing in my day have their ancestors in the List, except two or three. The exceptions: Goodland, Tilly, Sinyard, Burt, Dalton (late-comer), Oldford. (C) The List includes surnames and persons of whom I had never heard (save a few of them listed in Lench's Bonavista Methodism) as being BIC residents. Examples: Hayes, Stacey, Elliott, Talbot, Robert Crew Sr. Some of these persons and/or surnames, I have recently found, appear in the Bonavista church registers of either BIC or Bonavista, up to about 1840. Examples: Gale, Plaidwell, Auglum, Heywood, Rowe. (D) The List includes family surnames and persons whom are well known to have once lived there but by 1920 died out or removed. Examples: Flinn, Miles, Minchenton, Barnes (Bearnes), Wiltshire, Brown, Dunphy, Lemon. (E) Omissions. The only surname or person I know to have been resident there as adult in 1825 but who is not in the List is: Fielden. Hence it is obvious that Slade had practically all the settlers as dealers, and I should say (esp. as I have never heard of any other) Slade was the only supplying merchant there--- having no doubt a summer shop run by a clerk from Catalina house, eg. was Patrick Diggins one? I doubt there was a year-round shop in the place. NC Crewe 1958.
Lench, Charles, The Story of Methodism in Bonavista, (1919) St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications Limited, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. rep 1985. Members of Bird Island Cove (Elliston) Methodist Classes 1825. Baker William Baker Mary Burt Cornelius Cole Richard Cole Mary Coles George Coles Ann Crew George Crew Elizabeth Crew Mary Crew Sarah Crew Joseph Crew Robert Crew Robert. These two Roberts listed in two different classes Crew Mary Duncombe Richard Dunn William Faulkner John Faulkner Sarah Faulkner Mary Fielding Joseph Follett James Flinn Jane Gough John Gough Sarah Hill James Hill Jane Hill Ann Hobbs Robert Hobbs Frances Hobbs Robert Hobbs William Hobbs James Hobbs Thomas Hobbs John Martin Joseph Miles John Miles Elizabeth Miles Lucy Miles Mary Minchenes Thomas Minty William Pilcher John Porter Thomas Porter James Porter Susan Rowe Henry Rowe Jane Sanger Charles Sanger Elizabeth Stead William Stead Hannah Stead John Stead Thomas Stead James Stead Mary Trask Hannah Tremblett Joshua Tremblett Sarah Tremblett Henry Tucker Nebiken Tucker Jane Tucker Joseph Tucker Mary Way Philip White William White Mary White James White William Williams George
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