Blackhead, Newfoundland Colony One Place Study

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Location: Blackhead, St. John's, Newfoundland
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Canada Newfoundland_Colony

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Contents 1 Blackhead, Newfoundland Colony One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.4 Population 2 Sources

Blackhead, Newfoundland Colony One Place Study

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Name

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: Canada

Province: Newfoundland Colony

District: Bay de Verde

GPS Coordinates: 47.52551014653488, -52.657276564645876

Elevation: 7.0 m or 23.0 feet

The name Blackhead comes from outcropping on the coast first used for navigation and, then, to designate the settlement there that later became Blackhead and Broad Cove. Mulley's Cove and even Small Point were sometimes included as well although Mulley's Cove was sometimes also referred to as "Little Blackhead".

History

1700 to 1750

• Gill: James Gill is recorded in the Colonial Office Secretary Book in September 1753 as as a resident of Blackhead. It is not clear if this is Blackhead Northshore of the Blackhead near St John's.

• Moores: Thomas Moores is the start of the Moores family line in Blackhead Newfoundland. He had a fishing Room in Blackhead where he was recorded in the summer of 1708 (CO Newfoundland Fishing census for 1708). His winter residence was likely Freshwater where he had a plantation. Both the Blackhead and Freshwater properties are noted in his will of 1754 in the Wimborne Court records. He gave his plantation in Freshwater to his son John and his Blackhead property to his son Jonathan. Thomas returned to Wimborne Dorset after 1722 (last date Thomas was supplied by Boston Merchant, Thomas Ruck, see Ruck fonds, Newfoundland Archives, The Rooms) where he lived on King St (also noted in his will). Jonathan is the first Moores in Blackhead. Family link: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Moores-327

• Nicole (Nicholle): Noe (Noah) Nicole had married, Ann Thistle, the widow of William Thacker of Western Bay. They were in Blackhead before 1734. That year Noe was coming back from Jersey and wrote a will naming his wife, who was still in Newfoundland as executor. They had no children together. The will states that he had a plantation in Blackhead. The will was not proved until 1742 when Ann sent it to Jersey to be probated. What happened to the property in Blackhead? Ann remarried Richard Mullens after Noe's death and moved to the Thacker property she had inherited in Western Bay. At this time, Blackhead included the communities we now know as Broad Cove and Mulley's Cove and perhaps Adam's Cove. Since we do not know for sure where his plantation was, the family is included in the Blackhead one place study. Noe's profile starts here. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicolle-461 In the 19th Century an Edward Nichole and wife Margaret were living in Blackhead. The link between the early Nicholes and Edward is not known Edwards profile is here https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Nichole-13&errcode=new_profile

• Pippy: The first Pippy in Blackhead may have been Philip Pippy Sr. A Philip Pippy was at the bedside of John LeGrow in 1773. He may have been in Blackhead as early as 1754 when Mary and Edward Janes named their second son Philip P(ippy?). Janes. Philip would have been in the same generation as George Pippy of Harbor Grace who was born about 1739 and died there possibly 1790. The Blackhead Pippys and the Harbour Grace Pippys may have been related. Perhaps Philip and George were brothers. While birth and death records confirm there were two families, they are often jumbled together into one. For example the Blackhead Peter Peter who was born in 1783 and died there in 1859 is confused with the Peter Pippy born 1758 and died at Harbour Grace in 1832. The Blackhead Pippy profile begins with Philip Pippy Sr. of Blackhead. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pippy-49

Thacker: A William Thacker was in Carbornear about 1685. And on Little Belle Island about 1703 where he was stationed to defend Carbonear against the French. William and his brother Thomas fished out of Blackhead. William may have met Ann Thistle there where the Thistles had a large plantation in Little Blackhead (later Mulley's Cove). They married in the early 1700s. After William died about 1730 Ann next married Noe Nicolle of Blackhead and then Richard Mullens of Western Bay. Ann moved to Western Bay to Richards plantation. Ann and Richard had no children and Ann's children by William Thacker inherited the Western Bay plantation. Williams brother, Thomas, seems to have remained in Blackhead into the 1750s where he and his wife, Ann Boudier Thacker were recorded as living in Feb 1759 in records held by the Cour du Samedi of Jersey (pages 421-422). The Thacker profiles start here. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thacker-2649

1750-1800

• Brehaut: (Breho): Henry Brehaut was in Blackhead by 1761 when he cleared land. His son, Henry, and family moved to PEI. In Blackhead there is a branch of the Moores family that is referred to as the Moores / Brehos Suggesting a Brehaut daughter may have married a Moores son. The porfile starts with Henry Brehaut Sr. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brehaut-39
• Butts: Thomas Butt was likely born in Broad Cove, the son of William who arrived there in 1750. He moved to Blackhead after he had married a Blackhead girl and received property from his mother-in-law. Thomas' brother-in-law, Edward Lawrence shared the property with him. Thomas also leased property from Augustin Le Rossignol. The family information can be found at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butt-455
• Hudson: Matthew Hudson settled in Blackhead and inherited property there from his father. This branch of the Hudsons likely stems from the Adam's Cove Hudsons
• Lawrence: Edward Lawrence moved to Blackhead when he married a Blackhead girl and received property from his mother-in-law. Edward's brother-in-law, Thomas Butt shared the property with him. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lawrence-19820
• Le Rossignol: Augustin Le Rossignol of Jersey was on the Northshore by the 1720s and held properties in Western Bay and Blackhead. Before 1761 when he cleared land in Blackhead, he may have lived in Western Bay. We know that members of Augustin's family were in Newfoundland before 1768 when his son Edward appears in court records. By the time of the Plantation Book there is little evidence that the family lived permanently in Newfoundland. However, Augustin's sons Augustin Jr, Phillipe and Edward were ship captains that regularly carried goods between Jersey and Newfoundland. Details on the family can be found at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/LeRossignol-2
• Moran: John Moran married a local girl and got property from his mother-in-law in 1806. However he was likely in Blackhead before this date. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Moran-6373&errcode=new_profile
• Mulley: John Mulley (Mollet) moved to Blackhead from Mulley's Cove when he got a plantation there from his father-in-law after he married before 1776. The John Mulley family starts with this link: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mulley-253
• Parsons: Joseph Parsons was fishing at Blackhead in the summer of 1708 with his wife 4 children and 2 skiffs, which was recorded by the Census of that year. The Parsons were an old family who had settled in Clown's Cove (CO 1 census for 1675, 1676 & 1677). In 1768 William Parsons was in Blackhead with the intention of establishing a plantation on the southside of Blackhead. Perhaps this is the property the Parsons held in 1708. In September of that year his building was blocked by Joseph Yabsley. William went to court (<reference> Colonial Office Secretary Letter Book for Sept 30 1768 #123.) The Court ruled that, William Parsons is not to be obstructed by Joseph Yeabsley or anyone else in building fishing works at Blackhead. And noted that enclosures or fences to meadows or gardens are not considered fishing works."
• Whelan (Whalen Whealon: David Whelan arrived in Blackhead about 1766 when he leased 1 meadow of John Mulley (Sr.) of Broad Cove (likely part of Mulley's Cove that borders Broad Cove) who cut it out of woods. He purchased property in Broad Cove in 1766. HIs profile can be found in the Broad Cove One Place Study.
• Yabsley: Joseph Yabsley was in Blackhead by 1768 when he is recorded in the Colonial Office Secretary Letters in a Blackhead property dispute with William Parsons. He and wife Elizabeth had only one child who married Thomas Moores. She inherited her father's plantation. The link to Yabsley information is https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yabsley-122

Population

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