Companion, Delphina

John married Brake, Marie about 1867. Marie (daughter of Brake, Joseph Mathews and Michell, Mary) was born in Jul 1848 in Curling, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland; died on 24 Nov 1925 in Woods Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; was buried in , Newfoundland, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1849 list of inhabitants - Deep Cove, married 2 children, 4 in family
Head stones at Petries Point, Bay of Islands.

Joseph Brake
Joseph was referred to by J. B. Jukes in 1839 (1993:52) as an Indian:
On the opposite side of the sound to the old man's house we found an Indian wigwam, with an old Indian woman and her two daughters, one of the latter of whom has a daughter married to one of the old man's sons opposite. The old woman had a kind of moustache tattooed on each cheek, and spoke nothing but Indian, but one of the daughters could speak English. An Indian man, the husband of one of the daughters, was living with them, but was now away in the woods.

This daughter of the old Indian woman was Mary Mitchell. The old woman's husband was Captain Jock Mitchell
[antecedent of Matthew Mitchell].

J. B. Jukes 1839: Joseph Brake 3 in family, Listed as a Native, Barbers Cove, age 27
Joseph Brake is listed in Bishop Edward Feild's "List of Inhabitants 1849" as having 2 children with a total of 4 in the family living in Deep Cove, Bay of Islands. In Bishop Feild's journal on his voyage of visitation around the island of Newfoundland in 1849 (pp. 48-49) he writes:

August 3, 1849. We went on shore directly after breakfast to visit a family who had returned from the fishery yesterday evening. The man is a Brake, brother to the Brakes mentioned before. The mother is a Micmac Indian from St. George's Bay... Her father, she said, was Captain Jock. Four of their children were baptized with the conditional form.

Buried:
Petries Point Cemetery

Joseph married Michell, Mary. Mary was born about 1818 in Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; died on 25 Jul 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Mitchell may have been a native of Nfld. (Source Robert (Bob) Brake)
Head stones at Petries Point, Bay of Islands.

Notes:

Ralph Brake was born in Yetminster, Dorset and was apprenticed to the fishing trade in Newfoundland by a Charity when he was 13 Years Old. He settled in the Bay of Islands, married and had eight sons and two daughters (proof in his will) . All Bay of Islands Brakes desend from Ralph.

Contents of Ralph Brakes Will as sent from Diana Southern email - DianaMSouthern@aol.com

Briefly, here are the contents of Ralph Brake's will dated 1838. It was
proved at it's third attempt in 1866, previous years, 1844 and 1848, but by
that time only one son, William Matthews Brake survived. Apparently Edward,
the educated one, had intermeddled with his father's estate in England and I
don't know what happened to the money. It is all down on the administration
of 1866 in "black and white"

In the will Ralph left:- son, John Matthews Brake - £40, son, Joseph
Matthews Brake - £100, daughter Elizabeth Matthews Brake, wife of Thomas Park
- £20, daughter Jane Matthews Brake, wife of William Wheeler - £20, son,
Robert Matthews Brake - £100, remainder after payment of debts etc. to sons,
Robert Matthews Brake, Ralph Matthews Brake, William Matthews Brake, Thomas
Matthews Brake, and Edward Matthews Brake equally as long as these six
remained in partnership with each other, but if any of the sons came out of
the partnership before Ralph's death, then he was to be paid £100 in full
discharge of his share. If any of the brothers in partnership should died
before Ralph's death, then the business was to be diviided amongst the
remaining brothers in that partnership.
William Blanchard of the BOI and Joseph Bird from England were the executors.

Ralph married Matthews, Jane about 1795 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Jane (daughter of Matthews, Old Man) was born about 1773 in Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; died about 1819 in Bonne Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; was buried in Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly a native from the southwest coast of Newfoundland

Buried:
Sacred to the memory of Jane BRAKE who departed this life|August the 23, 1819 age 46 years.