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Pages 26, 27 & 28 of the Journal of the House of Assembly for 1846 record:- The receipt of 3 petitions for grants in aid of making and repairing 4? Roads and Bridges:- Page 26 "A Petition from Richard Cole of Bird Island Cove, in Trinity Bay, praying for a grant of money to improve that settlement generally, and to make a road to Sandy Cove, from whence they draw their supply of manure." (TC Note - this manure was kelp used for garden fertilizer - I wonder why they called it manure!?). Page 27 "A petition of Roger Anderson and others, inhabitants of Bird Island Cove, praying for a grant of money to complete the roads leading from their locality to the main lines of roads leading to Bonavista and Catalina, and also for the internal improvement of their settlement." Page 28 "A petiton of Patrick Casey and others, inhabitants of Bird Island Cove, praying the House to grant a sum of money, in addition to what they had already received, towards completing the road connecting their settlement with the main line of road between Bonavista and Catalina, and also praying for a small grant of money for the internal improvement of their settlement." page 29 "Ordered that the said petitions to be on the table".
My notes: Richard Cole was my great grandfather, the only son of Thomas Cole (1768-1840) - his 1860 (or1856) large sandstone headdstone is in the Methodist Cemetery, Elliston. Patrick Casey was a well-known and rather disreputable settler at Elliston, where he died about 1890. He was a versifier of local events and characters. His only known child moved with her husband, Thomas Sullivan, to St. John's where their daughter married a man Keating. I have never before heard of anyone ever having lived in Elliston by the name of Anderson. NC Crewe Feby 1961.
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