Joseph Small
The following Anderson information is conjecture and genealogy detective work from the writings of Joseph H. Small.
William Anderson, the fine old Patriarch of Upper Burgeo, married first, a daughter of Grandmother Dicks. There was no family by this marriage. He afterwards married Susannah Poole and they had a nice family. The writer knew them all. They are as follows: [Sarah, Martha Jane, Thomas, William, Joseph, and two other daughters.
As for a time frame of the Anderson family coming to Burgeo: Small was friends with the Matthews family and they new from there family history that the Matthews family arrived in Burgeo around 1800. The Andersons were already in Burgeo and believe to be the first family. Oral history from the Matthews family states the Andersons came from Burin (Peninsula) I.E. Fortune.
"Now we come to Upper Burgeo. That place was settled by Anderson's before old Mr. Matthews came here in 1796. How many of them came and when I do not know, nor have I ever heard any person say in the first years that the writer has been here. I think it is understood that this family or families came from Burin and that there were two brothers. The Great Grandsons say they were of Scotch descent."*
At this time, 1835, there were living at West Burgeo the following families: John Anderson, Frederick Cox, Thomas Anderson, John B. Cox (merchant), Samuel Cox, Henry Strickland, James Matthews, Augustus Chevalier, Robert Rose, Richard Skeard, George Dicks, George Keeping, Lambert Forward, William Anderson, Jonathan Rose, Thomas Skeard, Francis Read, Robert Harris, James Blumpied, Christopher Dicks, William (Major) Mauger, and William Meade. However, by 1861 many of these families had moved on west to LaPoile and West Point.*
So to sum up the para's above: We have two Andersons that were brothers of Scotch descent (maybe meaning their father was Scotch) and they came from Fortune to Burgeo before 1796.
Journal of the Bishop of Newfoundland's Voyage of Visitation and Discovery
On the South and West Coasts of Newfoundland and on the Labrador,
In the Church Ship "Hawk," in the year 1848.
July 20.--We started a little before ten o'clock, in two four-oared boats, for Upper Burgeo. Mr. Cunningham was inducted into this church, as yesterday at Lower Burgeo, and we held Divine Service accordingly. After the service I was met at the door of the church by most of the men of the settlement, who desired to know what stipend I should expect for the minister, and expressed themselves ready to do their duty. They appear sincere; and as they are not so dependent on the merchants as their neighbours at Lower Burgeo, they have better means. I visited old William Anderson and his wife, whose manners and appearance had pleased me so much at my former visit, three years ago. I recognised his venerable white head on my first landing, and he waited to make his obeisance. His wife, the mother in and of Israel in this settlement, greeted me with much native kindness and politeness. She was in great affliction, through the loss of a daughter, who had died soon after confinement, and left three small children. She very feelingly lamented the want of a Clergyman to read prayers at her daughter's funeral. Mr. Appleby was the nearest at that time (thirty miles off); and the risk of delay in sending and returning so far by sea prevented the attempt. For three months their church had riot been served, and they all seemed truly delighted at the prospect of again having Divine Service, and the visits of a Clergyman. Here is a good specimen of a Newfoundland planter and planter's family; easy in manner and speech, serious, and gentle; and yet their life is, or has been, of the hardest and most laborious; fishing here all the summer, and in the winter retiring to the woods. But by industry and prudence they are placed, through God's blessing, in independent circumstances, and are respected and honoured by a large circle of relations and neighbours. After this conference we returned to the Church ship by two o'clock. Prayers in the church of Lower Burgeo at half-past six o'clock.
Sunday, July 23.--Mountain still detained by adverse winds. A boat came from Upper Burgeo for one of the Clergy to hold service and celebrate the Lord's Supper. The fog was so thick, that they did not venture to come that short distance (not four miles) along the shore without a compass. Mr. Hoyles returned with them.
At half-past nine o'clock I went on shore, and catechized the children at the Sunday-school. Service commenced at half-past ten o'clock. The enlarged church nearly full; Mr. Cunningham said the prayers, Mr. Mountain read the lessons, I celebrated and preached. Thirty-three communicants, besides the Clergy. The whole congregation orderly and attentive, which circumstance I must attribute in some degree to the good arrangement of the church, and the absence of the projected gallery. I took a hasty half dinner, and started soon after two o'clock in a boat, with Mr. Cunningham and Brown, for Upper Burgeo. The same crew came for us as for Mr. Hoyles in the morning. We arrived about a quarter past three o'clock. I was pleased at finding a very nice looking set of children forming a Sunday-school. They meet every Sunday in the church, and are instructed by one of the planters, named Stickland. Cunningham said the prayers, Mr. Hoyles read the lessons, and I preached. A child who had been baptized by a planter was brought to be admitted into the Church. After service I called on my old friend, the patriarch, William Anderson, and found a house full of children and grandchildren assembled. My own boat came for me in the evening. We drank tea on board; and while we were trying to praise God "in hymnis et canticis," all being calm and still, there came a sudden squall, which whistled through the rigging with a noise like rushing water. The noise was so loud, sudden, and strange, that we ran on deck to discover the cause. It was a violent north-easter, which continued to blow all the night, and effectually cleared the sky. I looked out, according to promise, some books for the children of the Sunday-school, and a Bible for Mr. Stickland, and a few other presents of a similar sort to those who I thought would appreciate them; and so was concluded a very happy, and, I trust, not an unprofitable Sabbath.
William Anderson, the fine old Patriarch of Upper Burgeo, married first, a daughter of Grandmother Dicks. There was no family by this marriage. He afterwards married Susannah Poole and they had a nice family. The writer knew them all. They are as follows: [Sarah, Martha Jane, Thomas, William, Joseph, and two other daughters.
As for a time frame of the Anderson family coming to Burgeo: Small was friends with the Matthews family and they new from there family history that the Matthews family arrived in Burgeo around 1800. The Andersons were already in Burgeo and believe to be the first family. Oral history from the Matthews family states the Andersons came from Burin (Peninsula) I.E. Fortune.
"Now we come to Upper Burgeo. That place was settled by Anderson's before old Mr. Matthews came here in 1796. How many of them came and when I do not know, nor have I ever heard any person say in the first years that the writer has been here. I think it is understood that this family or families came from Burin and that there were two brothers. The Great Grandsons say they were of Scotch descent."*
At this time, 1835, there were living at West Burgeo the following families: John Anderson, Frederick Cox, Thomas Anderson, John B. Cox (merchant), Samuel Cox, Henry Strickland, James Matthews, Augustus Chevalier, Robert Rose, Richard Skeard, George Dicks, George Keeping, Lambert Forward, William Anderson, Jonathan Rose, Thomas Skeard, Francis Read, Robert Harris, James Blumpied, Christopher Dicks, William (Major) Mauger, and William Meade. However, by 1861 many of these families had moved on west to LaPoile and West Point.*
So to sum up the para's above: We have two Andersons that were brothers of Scotch descent (maybe meaning their father was Scotch) and they came from Fortune to Burgeo before 1796.
Journal of the Bishop of Newfoundland's Voyage of Visitation and Discovery
On the South and West Coasts of Newfoundland and on the Labrador,
In the Church Ship "Hawk," in the year 1848.
July 20.--We started a little before ten o'clock, in two four-oared boats, for Upper Burgeo. Mr. Cunningham was inducted into this church, as yesterday at Lower Burgeo, and we held Divine Service accordingly. After the service I was met at the door of the church by most of the men of the settlement, who desired to know what stipend I should expect for the minister, and expressed themselves ready to do their duty. They appear sincere; and as they are not so dependent on the merchants as their neighbours at Lower Burgeo, they have better means. I visited old William Anderson and his wife, whose manners and appearance had pleased me so much at my former visit, three years ago. I recognised his venerable white head on my first landing, and he waited to make his obeisance. His wife, the mother in and of Israel in this settlement, greeted me with much native kindness and politeness. She was in great affliction, through the loss of a daughter, who had died soon after confinement, and left three small children. She very feelingly lamented the want of a Clergyman to read prayers at her daughter's funeral. Mr. Appleby was the nearest at that time (thirty miles off); and the risk of delay in sending and returning so far by sea prevented the attempt. For three months their church had riot been served, and they all seemed truly delighted at the prospect of again having Divine Service, and the visits of a Clergyman. Here is a good specimen of a Newfoundland planter and planter's family; easy in manner and speech, serious, and gentle; and yet their life is, or has been, of the hardest and most laborious; fishing here all the summer, and in the winter retiring to the woods. But by industry and prudence they are placed, through God's blessing, in independent circumstances, and are respected and honoured by a large circle of relations and neighbours. After this conference we returned to the Church ship by two o'clock. Prayers in the church of Lower Burgeo at half-past six o'clock.
Sunday, July 23.--Mountain still detained by adverse winds. A boat came from Upper Burgeo for one of the Clergy to hold service and celebrate the Lord's Supper. The fog was so thick, that they did not venture to come that short distance (not four miles) along the shore without a compass. Mr. Hoyles returned with them.
At half-past nine o'clock I went on shore, and catechized the children at the Sunday-school. Service commenced at half-past ten o'clock. The enlarged church nearly full; Mr. Cunningham said the prayers, Mr. Mountain read the lessons, I celebrated and preached. Thirty-three communicants, besides the Clergy. The whole congregation orderly and attentive, which circumstance I must attribute in some degree to the good arrangement of the church, and the absence of the projected gallery. I took a hasty half dinner, and started soon after two o'clock in a boat, with Mr. Cunningham and Brown, for Upper Burgeo. The same crew came for us as for Mr. Hoyles in the morning. We arrived about a quarter past three o'clock. I was pleased at finding a very nice looking set of children forming a Sunday-school. They meet every Sunday in the church, and are instructed by one of the planters, named Stickland. Cunningham said the prayers, Mr. Hoyles read the lessons, and I preached. A child who had been baptized by a planter was brought to be admitted into the Church. After service I called on my old friend, the patriarch, William Anderson, and found a house full of children and grandchildren assembled. My own boat came for me in the evening. We drank tea on board; and while we were trying to praise God "in hymnis et canticis," all being calm and still, there came a sudden squall, which whistled through the rigging with a noise like rushing water. The noise was so loud, sudden, and strange, that we ran on deck to discover the cause. It was a violent north-easter, which continued to blow all the night, and effectually cleared the sky. I looked out, according to promise, some books for the children of the Sunday-school, and a Bible for Mr. Stickland, and a few other presents of a similar sort to those who I thought would appreciate them; and so was concluded a very happy, and, I trust, not an unprofitable Sabbath.
Will of William Anderson
from Newfoundland will books volume 2 pages 327-328 probate year 1858
In re
William Anderson deceased.
On the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. The last will and testament of me William Anderson of Upper Burgeo in the Island of Newfoundland. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I William Anderson being at this present (all glory be to God) of good health & memory do make and ordain my last will and testament in form and manner following. First. I do willingly and freely resign my most precious and immortal soul whensoever it shall please Him to call for it into the merciful hands of God who made it, and of His blessed Son Jesus Christ who hath redeemed it and washed it with His Blood and of the Holy Ghost who out of His infinite love and goodness has kept it under the most blissful guidance and comfort of His Grace. I die firmly assured of the grace and mercy of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ to all true penitent sinners that believe the Gospel. I am a poor miserable sinner & infinitely need mercy but I know I have a merciful God to take account of me and a Saviour who died for me to judge me and I have an humble confidence through the merits of His Blood that He will pardon all my mainfold and great offences and look favourably on my repentance and accept my poor and weak but sincere and hearty and well meant services when He comes to call me to account for them. And as for my earthly body after my last breath is expired I bequeath it to Christian burial in the place where it shall please God to call me out of this mortal life in comfortable and blessed hope of a most happy resurrection from dust and dishonour unto glory and from the chains of death to the triumphs of eternal life at the last day. And as for all my worldly estate which God hath graciously blessed me with and made me steward of my will is to dispose of it to the praise of His name and I trust to His good liking. With respect to what money is remaining in Messrs. Nicol's and Thomas' hands my desire is that a third part shall be given to my wife and the remaining two thirds to be equally divided among my children. My house and household property shall all belong to my wife Susan with the exception of the clock which shall belong to my son Edward. The stage, flakes, boat punts, nets and all the fishing gear shall belong to my two sons George and Edward Lastly according to my expectation and confidence in my said wife and children I do pray and as much as in me lieth enjoin them to continue in the true faith, to observe all acts of kindness and love one to another, and to be satisfied with this my will according to the purport thereof and the true meaning therein declared as aforesaid.
Witness my hand this 19th day of Septr in the year of our Lord
William Anderson X
We the undersigned are witnesses that the above is the mark of William Anderson made in our presence, John Cunningham, George Keeping X-
Certified correct,
D. M. Browning
Registrar
from Newfoundland will books volume 2 pages 327-328 probate year 1858
In re
William Anderson deceased.
On the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. The last will and testament of me William Anderson of Upper Burgeo in the Island of Newfoundland. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I William Anderson being at this present (all glory be to God) of good health & memory do make and ordain my last will and testament in form and manner following. First. I do willingly and freely resign my most precious and immortal soul whensoever it shall please Him to call for it into the merciful hands of God who made it, and of His blessed Son Jesus Christ who hath redeemed it and washed it with His Blood and of the Holy Ghost who out of His infinite love and goodness has kept it under the most blissful guidance and comfort of His Grace. I die firmly assured of the grace and mercy of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ to all true penitent sinners that believe the Gospel. I am a poor miserable sinner & infinitely need mercy but I know I have a merciful God to take account of me and a Saviour who died for me to judge me and I have an humble confidence through the merits of His Blood that He will pardon all my mainfold and great offences and look favourably on my repentance and accept my poor and weak but sincere and hearty and well meant services when He comes to call me to account for them. And as for my earthly body after my last breath is expired I bequeath it to Christian burial in the place where it shall please God to call me out of this mortal life in comfortable and blessed hope of a most happy resurrection from dust and dishonour unto glory and from the chains of death to the triumphs of eternal life at the last day. And as for all my worldly estate which God hath graciously blessed me with and made me steward of my will is to dispose of it to the praise of His name and I trust to His good liking. With respect to what money is remaining in Messrs. Nicol's and Thomas' hands my desire is that a third part shall be given to my wife and the remaining two thirds to be equally divided among my children. My house and household property shall all belong to my wife Susan with the exception of the clock which shall belong to my son Edward. The stage, flakes, boat punts, nets and all the fishing gear shall belong to my two sons George and Edward Lastly according to my expectation and confidence in my said wife and children I do pray and as much as in me lieth enjoin them to continue in the true faith, to observe all acts of kindness and love one to another, and to be satisfied with this my will according to the purport thereof and the true meaning therein declared as aforesaid.
Witness my hand this 19th day of Septr in the year of our Lord
William Anderson X
We the undersigned are witnesses that the above is the mark of William Anderson made in our presence, John Cunningham, George Keeping X-
Certified correct,
D. M. Browning
Registrar