RootsChat.Com

In the 1871 Census, Abraham is newly married (Feb. 1871) and living at home with his wife, parents, and siblings, with father William born in England.  While his mother was born in New Brunswick, there is no indication she was indigenous. Their marriage in 1838 gives her maiden name as Estey.  Married the same day was a Mary Estey to a George Miller.  All in the Catholic records in Fredericton. 

The Hulda(h) who marries in 1891 is Abraham's sister, not his daughter as per the marriage record:

https://archives.gnb.ca/search/VISSE/141B7.aspx?culture=en-CA&guid=8eed1b26-755b-4613-bc33-6ec6925c22eb

1891 Census indicates Dora is a widow.  The likely answer is that Abraham's death was never registered, and the tombstone (if any) has not survived.

Hulda was indeed Abraham's daughter,her death certificate states her as such:

https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/VISSE/141C5.aspx?culture=en-CA&guid=9ae548ec-40b7-44e0-8679-d66d3298d063

Hulda's birth was in 1871,making her much too young to be his sister......


The William she was living with prior to her marriage was her maternal grandfather;why he is listed as her father in the marriage certificate,I don't know. As to Mary (Estey) Miller,she was the younger sister of Abraham's mother Jerusha.

Seeking information on death/burial records for Abraham COLLICOTT b.June 3,1845 Canterbury,York,N.B.,d.1881 (?) s/o William COLLICOTT and Jerusha ESTEY. Abraham md.Mary Theodora COULTHARD b.1847,d.1937 d/o William D. COULTHARD and Hannah DOW;2nd md.1910 Chesley HANSON. One thing to note is that there is a 29 year gap between Abraham's death and Dora's 2nd marriage,her age at that time being 63 (curious about that,too.....)

I cannot find any record of a death or burial for Abraham anywhere. For all I know,he could be buried in Canterbury but if there was a gravestone,it's not there now. Dora's death certificate on PANB lists her burial as "Dow Cemetery" (poss. Lower Meductic?),while Chesley was buried at "Douglas Municipal Cemetery". Seems the burials for both Dora and Chesley are not available either on Findagrave or PANB,so I can't tell which husband,if any,Dora would have been buried with. In 1891 she and the children were living in her father's home in Canterbury.

Abraham and Dora had five children:

1.Hulda Victoria (1871-1965);md.Roscoe DURLING
2.Edwin (Edward?) H. (1873-)
3.Ernest (1874-);md.Mary WHITE
4.Hannah Amy (1877-1959);md.Elijah JOHNSON (note:Elijah's mother Ruth was Abraham's sister,making them first cousins)
5.David (1879-)

At the moment,I want to focus on Abraham's whereabouts:when exactly he died,where he died,and possibly,but not vital at the moment,why Dora didn't remarry until 1910.

Seeking information on the history of Clarendon,Queens,N.B.,Canada. It is a small,dispersed community in New Brunswick that was mostly made up of farmers and partly expropriated by Base Gagetown (at least including the cemetery). At one time it had its own train station,a store and a small Methodist church has sat abandoned on a nearby loop road for at least forty or fifty years. There is no longer anyone alive who can shed some light on what Clarendon used to be. As I have maternal roots there,I guess I'm just looking for general information and history.

My Grandmother was a Perry from Kilkeel and there are still Perrys in Kilkeel.

There are no census records for Ireland prior to 1901 as they were destroyed in Dublin by fire in 1922 along with the Church of Ireland records. The Perrys were members of the Mourne Presbyterian Church and records were not kept before 1839/40 also the Kilkeel Presbyterian Church has no records before 1840. Civil marriage records started 1845, births and deaths 1865.
By not having these records it makes it nearly impossible to tie the various Perry families together in Kilkeel.

I have a DNA match with the McCavours (known in Kilkeel as McCaver or McAver) family of Lorneville posslibly through the McKnights or William Perry and his wife Jane Moore who also lived in Lorneville and was from Kilkeel whose daughter Elizabeth married James McCavour in 1858.

Have you read Shane Galbraith's 'The History of Lorneville and First Families?'

I have not,has it been published? I wonder if the SJ library would have a copy. When my grandfather died back in 2014,I managed to salvage some of the books from the house,one of which was Eloise Hagerman's book on Lorneville. She was a descendant of Stephen and Sarah (McKnight) McCavour;Sarah was the sister of William and d/o John and Nancy (Perry) McKnight.

Eileen,my Galbraiths were from Kilkeel. However,as Sam had said,the records are nonexistent,which is why I had to post my query here. And yes,Nancy is the one who d.April 6,1891.

Seeking information on the ancestry of three PERRY women b.in Ireland and immigrated to Lorneville,Saint John,N.B.,Canada in the early 1800s:

Agnes "Nancy" Perry b.1805 Armagh,d.April 6,1891 Lorneville;md.John McKNIGHT b.1802,d.June 5,1876 "" (also curious as to where the McKnights originated);

Jane (1811-1871);md.John STINSON/STEVENSON b.abt.1800,d.1874 "" (apparently came from Kilkeel,Co.Down);

Helen b.1802,d.April 27,1856 "";1st w/o Thomas GALBRAITH b.1798,d.December 25,1890 "". (Galbraiths are from Kilkeel but I do not yet have an indication of Thomas's parents;it's possible he could be a brother of John Galbraith who is a 5x g-grandfather).

I wonder if the three could be sisters,they all seem to be close enough in age. As of yet,Nancy is the only one for which I have found a place of birth (ref:New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics,PANB).