Newhook, Catherine^[1]

1824 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Newhook, Catherine
  Born	1824
  Gender	Female
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I4530	Loder
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Newhook, James,   b. 22 Dec 1788, Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Green, Elizabeth,   b. Abt Jun 1792, Scilly Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland or Heart's Content, Trinity Bay ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	28 Dec 1811	St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
  	MARR: RIN MH:FF57
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  When I was a small boy at Elliston, Trinity Bay, the grand old lady of the place was Mrs. Robert Tilly. Her husband, the first resident supplying merchant, had died as far back as 1872. I recall her speaking to me about three times; I had even then come to know that she used to say three things about herself. First, that she was born at New Harbour, Trinity Bay, to the name of Catherine Newhook; secondly, that her father and his father, were shipbuilders in Newfoundland; thirdly, that her paternal grandfather was a Frenchman.   Mrs. Tilly died in 1912 at the age of 88, and I attended her funeral. The officiating English-born curate said, in a short address, that her soul was now in Paradise. This doctrinal statement was seriously questioned by my foster-father and his fellow Salvationist, Bobby Hobbs. They were of opinion that clergyman ought to have said Heaven, not Paradise, which the latter place was unknown to them as a country eternal.   In 1928 I married her grand-daughter. Ever since then, I have been gathering data on the Newhook stock, for compiling the family trees of my wife and children. It is my opinion that I now have, on file or in my head, more information about the Newhooks, from their origin in this Province down to the present time, than is known to any other living person, and more than has been known to any other person in the last seventy years.   In the course of research, I have contacted several elderly Newhooks, but all of generations younger than Mrs. Tillys. BIRT: RIN MH:IF5912 DEAT: RIN MH:IF5913

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Short Web Site, David Short, Catherine Newhook (Reliability: 3). Added by confirming a Smart Match Smart Matching Source is for role as:2026248