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.

1. Stephen Atwood was born on 24 Nov 1822 in Barrington. [Ref, p. 126]
2. Elisha Atwood was born on 16 Jan 1825 in Barrington. [Ref, p. 126] He died in 1901. [Ref] He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Barzillai Hopkins [Ref, p. 435] and Elizabeth Kenney. [Ref] She was born on 22 Jun 1826 in Barrington and died on 30 Dec 1907. [Ref] Elisha and Elizabeth are buried in the Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [Ref]
   1. William Henry Atwood was born on 9 Nov 1853 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He died in 1918. [Ref] He married Susan Sophia Smith [Ref, p. 435] on 20 Dec 1876 in Port LaTour.
   2. Julia M. Atwood was born on 25 May 1855 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] She died on 12 Oct 1947. [Ref] She married first as his third wife Francis Johnson "Frank" Swain [Ref, p. 435] on 11 Mar 1886 in Bear Point. [Ref] She married second Joshua K. Smith [Ref, 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. [Ref]
   3. Samuel Atwood was born on 15 Sep 1859 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He died on 21 Dec 1915 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He married Anne Elizabeth Zwicker [Ref, p. 435] on 7 Feb 1885. [Ref] Anne was born on 17 May 1862 in Liverpool, N.S. and died on 26 Feb 1941 in Atwood's Brook, N.S. [Ref] Samuel and Anne are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [Ref]
      1. Bertha Maude Atwood was born on 9 Nov 1885 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] She died on 27 Jan 1970 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] She married James Garfield Atwood on 17 Nov 1904 in Barrington [Ref]
   4. Sarah Elizabeth Atwood was born on 14 Dec 1863 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] She died on 17 Jul 1940 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] She married George Dexter Miller [Ref, p. 435] on 14 Jan 1886 in Bear Point. [Ref] 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. [Ref] Sarah and George are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [Ref]
3. Henry Atwood was born on 14 May 1828 in Barrington. [Ref, p. 126] He died on 30 Oct 1884 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Myrick Swim in 1853. [Ref] Henry and Elizabeth are buried in the old Atwood's Brook Cemetery. [Ref]
   1. Jeremiah Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 18 Jul 1854 in Bear Point and died on 16 Aug 1910 in Shelburne. [Ref] He married Isabella Maria Stoddart on 30 Nov 1876 in Barrington. [Ref]
   2. Henrietta Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 21 Apr 1856 in Bear Point and died on 26 Oct 1919 in Barrington Passage. [Ref] She married William Swim on 25 Feb 1875 in Barrington. [Ref] William, the son Thomas Doane Swim and Rosilla Crowell, was born in 1853 in Barrington and died on 30 Apr 1891 in Barrington. [Ref] She married second Angus Nickerson Crowell on 12 Jul 1898 in Bear Point. [Ref] 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. [Ref]
   3. Ella Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 2 Jul 1859 in Bear Point. [Ref] She married Howard Whitman Sholds on 15 Dec 1883 in Bear Point. [Ref] Henry, the son of George Sholds and Hannah Pierce, was born on 12 Feb 1861 in Cape Negro. [Ref]
   4. Charles Edward Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 19 Sep 1861 in Barrington and died on 14 Jan 1931 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He married as her second husband Lydia Ann Goodwin on 29 Jun 1910 in Barrington. [Ref] 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. [Ref] She married first Robert Mitchell Smith on 22 Dec 1884 in Bear Point [Ref]
   5. Elizabeth Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 1863 in Bear Point and died on 12 Jan 1892 in Bear Point. [Ref] She married Joseph Lewis Devine on 28 Nov 1885 in Barrington. [Ref] 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. [Ref]
      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. [Ref]
      
   6. James Harvey Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 15 Oct 1866 in Bear Point and died on 24 Mar 1951 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref] He married Charlotte Ida Atwood on 14 Dec 1893 in Atwood's Brook. [Ref]
   7. Henry M. Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 3 Sep 1871 in Bear Point and died on 25 Oct 1946 in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Ref] He married Amy Belle d'Entremont in 1895. [Ref] 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. [Ref]
   8. Stephen Willis Atwood [Ref, p. 435] was born on 15 Nov 1875 in Bear Point and was lost at sea on 15 Mar 1939 aboard the Gale. [Ref] He married Mary Ellen McDonald on 26 Nov 1902 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. [Ref] She was born in 1875 in Mulgrave. [Ref]
      "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]
      
4. Jeremiah Atwood was born on 4 Aug 1834 in Barrington. [Ref, p. 126]
5. Maria Atwood was born on 14 Feb 1838 in Barrington. [Ref] She died on 28 Apr 1912 in Barrington Passage. [Ref] She married Edward H. Kendrick [Ref, p. 435] on 1 Jan 1863 in Barrington. [Ref] Edward, the son of Seth Kendrick [Ref, p. 435] and Ermenia Doane, was born on 14 Aug 1838 in Barrington and died on 26 Jan 1920 in Barrington Passage. [Ref]