Some Descendants of Stephen
Atwood (Joseph, Joshua,
Joseph, Stephen,
Stephen) and Sarah
Hopkins of Barrington
Places in Nova Scotia: Atwood's Brook, Barrington Passage,
Bear Point, Cape Negro, Port LaTour and Shag Harbour
are communities in Barrington. Cape Sable
Island is an island. Clark's Harbour is a town on Sable Island. Pubnico
and Yarmouth are towns in Yarmouth county. Shelburne is a town
in Shelburne county. Liverpool is a community in Queens county.
- Stephen Atwood
was born on 24 Nov 1822 in Barrington. [BAVR,
p. 126]
- Elisha Atwood was
born on 16 Jan 1825 in Barrington. [BAVR,
p. 126] He died in 1901. [TS] He married Elizabeth,
the daughter of Barzillai Hopkins [HBT,
p. 435] and Elizabeth Kenney. [TS] She was
born on 22 Jun 1826 in Barrington and died on 30 Dec 1907. [TS]
Elisha and Elizabeth are buried in the Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [TS]
- William Henry
Atwood was born on 9 Nov 1853 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
He died in 1918. [TS] He married Susan
Sophia Smith [HBT, p.
435] on 20 Dec 1876 in Port LaTour.
- Julia M.
Atwood was born on 25 May 1855 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
She died on 12 Oct 1947. [TS] She married
first as his third wife Francis
Johnson "Frank" Swain [HBT,
p. 435] on 11 Mar 1886 in Bear Point. [TS]
She married second Joshua K. Smith [HBT,
p. 435] on 5 Sep 1897 in Cape Negro. Joshua, the son of Thomas Smith and
Sophia Newell, was born on 6 May 1841 in Cape Sable Island and died on
17 Sep 1903 in Cape Sable Island. [TS]
- Samuel Atwood
was born on 15 Sep 1859 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
He died on 21 Dec 1915 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
He married Anne Elizabeth Zwicker [HBT,
p. 435] on 7 Feb 1885. [TS] Anne was born
on 17 May 1862 in Liverpool, N.S. and died on 26 Feb 1941 in Atwood's
Brook, N.S. [TS] Samuel and Anne are buried
in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [TS]
- Bertha
Maude Atwood was born on 9 Nov 1885 in Atwood's Brook.
[TS] She died on 27 Jan 1970 in Atwood's
Brook. [TS] She married James
Garfield Atwood on 17 Nov 1904 in Barrington [TS]
- Sarah Elizabeth
Atwood was born on 14 Dec 1863 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
She died on 17 Jul 1940 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
She married George Dexter Miller [HBT,
p. 435] on 14 Jan 1886 in Bear Point. [TS]
George, the son of John George Miller and Lydia Ann Swaine, was born on
16 Nov 1862 in Shag Harbour and died on 10 Feb 1922 in Shelburne. [TS]
Sarah and George are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [TS]
- Henry Atwood was
born on 14 May 1828 in Barrington. [BAVR,
p. 126] He died on 30 Oct 1884 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
He married Elizabeth
Myrick Swim in 1853. [TS] Henry and Elizabeth
are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [TS]
- Jeremiah
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 18 Jul 1854 in Bear Point and died on 16 Aug 1910
in Shelburne. [TS] He married Isabella
Maria Stoddart on 30 Nov 1876 in Barrington. [TS]
- Henrietta
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 21 Apr 1856 in Bear Point and died on 26 Oct 1919
in Barrington Passage. [TS] She married
William Swim on 25 Feb 1875 in Barrington. [TS]
William, the son Thomas Doane Swim and Rosilla Crowell, was born in 1853
in Barrington and died on 30 Apr 1891 in Barrington. [TS]
She married second Angus Nickerson Crowell on 12 Jul 1898 in Bear Point.
[TS] Angus, the son of William Myrick Crowell
and Sophia Nickerson, was born on 25 Jun 1856 in Barrington and died on
15 Aug 1919 in Barrington Passage. [TS]
- Ella Atwood
[HBT, p. 435] was born on
2 Jul 1859 in Bear Point. [TS] She married
Howard Whitman Sholds on 15 Dec 1883 in Bear Point. [TS]
Henry, the son of George Sholds and Hannah Pierce, was born on 12 Feb
1861 in Cape Negro. [TS]
- Charles Edward
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 19 Sep 1861 in Barrington and died on 14 Jan 1931
in Atwood's Brook. [TS] He married as her
second husband Lydia Ann Goodwin on 29 Jun 1910 in Barrington. [TS]
Lydia, the daughter of Jeremiah I Goodwin and Mercy Jane Pinkney, was
born on 8 Feb 1867 in Pubnico and died on 29 Sep 1957 in Atwood's Brook.
[TS] She married first Robert Mitchell
Smith on 22 Dec 1884 in Bear Point [TS]
- Elizabeth
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 1863 in Bear Point and died on 12 Jan 1892 in Bear
Point. [TS] She married Joseph Lewis Devine
on 28 Nov 1885 in Barrington. [TS] Joseph,
the son of Joseph Devine and Mary Wilson, was born in 1861 in Pubnico
and was lost at sea on 21 Jan 1911 aboard the Ella M. Goodwin.
[TS]
The schooner Ella M. Goodwin foundered on the passage from Newfoundland
with a cargo of frozen herring probably in a gale on 21 Jan 1911. Among
her ten-man crew was the mate Capt. Lewis Devine, a 48-year-old native
of Barrington who left a widow. [OG]
- James Harvey
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 15 Oct 1866 in Bear Point and died on 24 Mar 1951
in Atwood's Brook. [TS] He married Charlotte
Ida Atwood on 14 Dec 1893 in Atwood's Brook. [TS]
- Henry M. Atwood
[HBT, p. 435] was born on
3 Sep 1871 in Bear Point and died on 25 Oct 1946 in Arlington, Massachusetts.
[TS] He married Amy Belle d'Entremont in
1895. [TS] Amy, the daughter of Timothy
d'Entremont and Rachel D. Robbins, was born on 11 Jun 1873 in Pubnico
and died on 15 Apr 1949 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. [TS]
- Stephen Willis
Atwood [HBT,
p. 435] was born on 15 Nov 1875 in Bear Point and was lost at sea on 15
Mar 1939 aboard the Gale. [TS] He
married Mary Ellen McDonald on 26 Nov 1902 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
[TS] She was born in 1875 in Mulgrave.
[TS]
"Seaman Dies From Fractured Skull: Stephen Atwood, native of Barrington,
N.S., died in hospital here on Wednesday from a skull fracture he received
when he fell into the hold of the American fishing trawler Gale,
of which he was a crew member. The accident occurred while on the Banks
fishing. He was rushed to port in a serious condition and taken to hospital
where he failed to respond to treatment." [Ref]
- Jeremiah Atwood
was born on 4 Aug 1834 in Barrington. [BAVR,
p. 126]
- Maria Atwood
was born on 14 Feb 1838 in Barrington. [TS]
She died on 28 Apr 1912 in Barrington Passage. [TS]
She married Edward H. Kendrick [HBT,
p. 435] on 1 Jan 1863 in Barrington. [TS] Edward,
the son of Seth Kendrick [HBT,
p. 435] and Ermenia Doane, was born on 14 Aug 1838 in Barrington and died
on 26 Jan 1920 in Barrington Passage. [TS]
References
HBT |
Crowell, Edwin, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne
County, Nova Scotia, 1604-1870, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, unknown. |
BAVR |
No Author, Barrington & Argyle, Nova Scotia Vital Records, Online
Database, AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society,
2011. |
OG |
Out of Gloucester: The Ella M. Goodwin |
TS |
Smith, Tom, Public member story posted by tomsmith140 on ancestry.com. (well referenced with photos of tombstones) |
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