Brake, Joseph Mathews

Abt 1812 - 1850  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Brake, Joseph Mathews  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	Abt 1812	Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1 Aug 1850	Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada   [2]
  Buried	Curling, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland
  	Petries Point Cemetery
  Person ID	I1647	Loder
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Brake, Ralph Jr.,   b. 30 Mar 1760, Yetminster, Dorsetshire, England ,   d. 4 May 1842, Humbermouth, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Matthews, Jane,   b. Abt 1773, Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ,   d. Abt 1819, Bonne Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Married	Abt 1795	Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada   [4]
  Family ID	F965	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Michell, Mary,   b. Abt 1818, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ,   d. 25 Jul 1850  (Age ~ 32 years)
  Children	1. Brake, Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1836,   d. Abt 1917  (Age ~ 81 years)   2. Brake, Marie,   b. Jul 1848, Curling, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland ,   d. 24 Nov 1925, Woods Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2018
  Family ID	F574	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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S99] Jonathan Brake Web Site, Jonathan Brake, Joseph Matthews Brake (Reliability: 3). Added by confirming a Smart Match [S122] FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 18 Feb 2018), entry for Ralph Brake, person ID L5YC-CCT. (Reliability: 3). [S104] Park Family Web Site, Iris Park-Goosney, Joseph Matthews Brake (Reliability: 3). Added by confirming a Smart Match [S122] FamilySearch Family Tree (https://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((https://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 18 Feb 2018), entry for Ralph Brake, person ID L5YC-CCT. (Reliability: 3). ;Contributor: Brian J. McDonald