Newell, Jonah

Notes:

JONAH1 NEWELL (4377) (It is not proven that Jonah is the father of Jonah b. cir 1728 but is likely the case)1 lived on October 18, 1730 at Trinity,
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.1
Children of Jonah1 Newell (4377) include:
2. i. JONAH2 (609), born circa 1728; married (--?--) Hannah (610).

Family/Spouse: Catherine. Catherine died about 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They buried a daughter named Catherine on June 14, 1763.

From: "Cecil Vivian"
To: "Chaz and Lori Strong"
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [NFLD-LAB-L] NEWELL of Trinity, TB

...

> I have NEWELL connections on my Father's side. I have the Jonah/Hanna
> family, including the Thomas b 1758 and Katherine b 1762 but nothing later
> on them as my link is through their sister Grace b 1771.
>
> Going back earlier, I have 1727/8 as the birth/bap date for Jonah, father
> of Thomas & Katherine. His father, another Jonah, had brothers Edward,
> James, Nehemiah, and Thomas (no dates for any of them) and their father was
> a Thomas b/bap 1645/6 (don't know where in England, but died 30 Jun 1724 at
> Trinity, Nfld).
>
> I hope this will add something to what you already have.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecil Vivian

Family/Spouse: Mears, Hannah. Hannah was born about 1736; died about 1788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A Thomas Newell had a daughter named Elizabeth who married on July 28, 1813 (St. Paul's, Trinity).

Family/Spouse: Wadman, Christian. Christian was born about 1774; died about 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1. Likely the daughter of Jonah Newell ( a prominent Planter) J.P. at Tinity, 1780.
2. Also, likely a decendant of Thomas Newell buried at Trinity East on his plantation site, June 20, 1724.
age 78 years. (See the oldest headstone article, Downhomer May 1999 issue)
3. Mary Newell remarried years later to Dennis Kitt

Mary married Jones, Captain Robert on 6 Sep 1788 in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. Robert was born about 1759 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England; died before 1801. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Kitt, Dennis. Dennis and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Pot Heads and Drumhoops, A Folk History of New Harbour, Trinity Bay" (1995), by Garry Cranford with Raymond Hillier: Charles Newhook II was the town's leading citizen. When his wife died, a scribe at Trinity recorded, "Monday, 2nd April, 1810, Charles Newhook arrived from New Harbour in a schooner with his wife's corpse on board". There are two baptism records on the same date, one as Catherine and one as Katherine.

Catherine married Newhook, Charles on 17 Jan 1804. Charles (son of Newhook, Charles W. and Wilcox, Elizabeth) was born on 12 Dec 1778 in St Pauls, Trinity, NL.; died on 13 May 1839 in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; was buried on 19 May 1839 in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Grace married Hosier, Giles on 12 Jan 1789 in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. Giles died about 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard Headstones, Trinity: James NEWELL, son of John [sic] & Hannah NEWELL, died 3 Jun 1776, age 2 yr 6 mo.

Notes:

Elizabeth's first husband (William Alexander) died in 1828. No record has been found of her marriage to William Sweetland.

Births, Deaths, Marriages in Newfoundland Newspapers (1825-1890).
Alexander, William (merchant) native of Campbelltown, Argyleshire died at Bonavista, aged 44. July 3/28

Births, Deaths, Marriages in Newfoundland Newspapers (1825-1890).
Sweetland, Elizabeth. Relict of late William Sweetland, died aged 73, on 24th June at Bonavista July 31/69

Family/Spouse: Alexander, William. William was born about 1784; died about 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sweetland, William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Sweetland, William about 1828. William (son of Sweetland, Henry J. and Carter, Anne) was born about 1788 in Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; was christened on 23 Sep 1788 in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; died on 20 Feb 1864 in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sweetland, Archibald. Archibald and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Angel, Mary. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Purchase, Joseph. Joseph and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Pittman, Elizabeth on 11 May 1818. Elizabeth (daughter of Pittman, William and Sarah) was born about 1801; died about 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fowloe, Mary. Mary was born about 1805; died about 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonah married Pechkam, Mary on 18 Nov 1817. Mary (daughter of Peckham, John and Cook, Susannah) was born on 5 May 1794; died about 1840; was buried on 30 Aug 1840 in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He From "Pot Heads and Drumhoops, A Folk History of New Harbour, Trinity Bay"
(1995), by Garry Cranford with Raymond Hillier: "Newhook was married at
Trinity, in Garland's parlour in 1821, apparently at the tender age of
fifteen years.
The following is the entry from "Newhook Master Shipbuilders" article. This is the section about this Charles.
"Charles Newell Newhook (third), 1806-71
Born at New Harbour in 1806, eldest son of Charles Newhook (second). He must have been educated at
Trinity or Harbour Grace, or some other place with a better school than would have been found at
New Harbour. He wrote a fine hand, and was for many years, down to his death, the Justice of the
Peace, and the leading inhabitant, at New Harbour. I feel he was the best educated of all the
Newhook stock in Newfoundland, until the emergence of his grand-nephew, the late Doctor
William H. Newhook, M, D., who died at Whitbourne about 1963.
About 1830 Miss Sarah Lander, daughter of the deceased sea-captain, Thomas Wise Lander, came out
from Poole, England, to visit her re-married mother, then Mrs. William Davis Cross, at Trinity,
A fortune-teller had told the young lady that the first man she would meet in Trinity would marry
her. Sure enough, Charles Newell Newhook (third) was the first to help her off the vessel in
Trinity, and in 1831 they were married there, where their first child was born next year.
Then he moved from Trinity to New Harbour, where he succeeded his father as master shipbuilder,
presumably for the Garland firm or its successor in business, and his father moved back to Trinity.
In New Harbour, Charles Newell Newhook (third) took over the plastered house, and some of his
fifteen children were born in it. But about 1845 he purchased, from its then owner, the large
house that the Garland firm had built for their agents' residence, together with the extensive
land and premises, on what is now called Newhook's Point. This house was occupied in our day by
his son, Postmaster John Newhook, whom I first met there one Sunday in 1928; it was taken down
by its last owner, John's daughter, about 1958.
Charles Newell Newhook (third) was both a master shipbuilder and a merchant, or merchant's agent,
during his life at New Harbour. Philip Tocque refers to him, on page 138 of his book "Newfoundland
as it was and as it is in 1877" as "merchant and shipbuilder." His grandson, Mr. Robert F. Newhook,
of 29 Amherst Heights, St. John's, tells me that he had some connection at New Harbour with the
St. John's firm of Charles Fox Bennett k Co.
Archdeacon Edward Wix, in his book "Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary's Journal," relates
on page 18, first edition, that he walked from Spaniard's Bay across to Trinity Bay one day in
February 1935. He goes on to say, "... by half past seven p.m., I reached the house of Mr.
Charles Newhook, junior of New Harbour, a late worthy parishioner of the Reverend William Bullock
at St. Paul's Church, Trinity, whose father is of French Huguenot extraction." This Charles
Nieuhook, junior, was Charles Newell Newhook (third), and his father, then living at Trinity, was
Charles Newhook (second).
On page 82 of volume one of his book "Excursions in and about Newfoundland," John B. Jukes relates
that the small ketch in which he was journeying anchored in New Harbour on 17 July 1839, and that
next day "...... Mr. Newhook, of New Harbour treated us very kindly, and piloted us out in the
morning ......" This was Charles Newell Newhook (third).
A letter, written from New Harbour and signed A Rambler, in "The Patriot," a St. John's newspaper,
on 8 October 1853, speaks of Charles Newell Newhook (third) thus: "...... It is but justice to say
of Mr. Newhook that he is a double honour and a double credit to this little settlement, a man
justly respected and esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Newhook is the father of twelve children,
and I question whether a family of more exemplary moral training is to be found within the precincts
of our country ......"
I
n an obituary of John Newhook (Postmaster at his native New Harbour and last surviving son of
Charles Newell Newhook), in the St. John's "Evening Telegram" of 12 December 1934, H. F. Shortis
writes in part as follows: "Charles Newhook built the brig Charles for C. F. Bennett k Co.,
St. John's. She left St. John's at 4 o'clock one Friday evening in 1834 and on Sunday week
Mrs. C. F. Bennett attended morning Divine Service in Bristol Cathedral. There are scores of other
vessels built by the Newhooks that were noted for their great sailing qualities." Mrs. Bennett
was obviously a passenger on the short crossing.
Page 3
A page-long column in an old St. John's newspaper, entitled "Memorable springs and other
information, Seal Fishery," has this to say concerning the year 1833: "Celebrated for the loss of
the schooner Union, Capt. Jno. Delaney, with a picked crew of 28 men from Trinity; built by
Charles Newhook of New Harbour for Jno. B. Garland, merchant; capsized while under full sail.
April 23rd, the schooners Active and Avon took some of her seals and towed her for 2 days, but
had to let her go."
The foregoing builder of the Charles and the Union was, I assume, Charles Newell Newhook (third),
although he might have been Charles Newhook (second).
Lawrence O'Brien, merchant of St. John's, advertised in "The Public Ledger" of 8 December 1840 as
follows: "On sale a new brig (not yet registered) of about 150 Tons Burthen, built at Trinity Bay,
of the very best materials, by that established Ship-builder, Mr. Newhook, and under inspection
of the owner; having extra BREAST HOOKS and FASTENINGS, BEAMS, kc, and is of a superior
description, being intended for the Seal Fishery and the general trade of the country; was launched
in June last, and now laying at the wharf of the Subscriber (advertiser)."
The foregoing builder of this new brig was, I assume, Charles Newell Newhook (third), although he
might have been either of his two uncles, William Newhook (Trinity) and James Newhook (Norman's
Cove), for whom see below.
Charles Newell Newhook (third) died at New Harbour in 1871, and his body was taken across the bay
to Trinity for interment in the family vault in the Anglican cemetery
No names or particulars are known to me of other vessels that Charles Newell Newhook (third)
master-built or repairedFrom "Pot Heads and Drumhoops, A Folk History of New Harbour, Trinity Bay" (1995), by Garry Cranford with Raymond Hillier: "Newhook was married at Trinity, in Garland's parlour in 1821, apparently at the tender age of fift een years. N. C. Crewe: "In New Harbour ... some of his fifteen children were born ..." N. C. Crewe: "... died at New Harbour in 1871, and his body was taken across the bay to Trinity for interment in the family vault in the Anglican cemetary"

Charles married Landers, Sarah on 4 May 1831 in Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. Sarah (daughter of Lander, Thomas Wise and Taverner, Sarah Way) was born in 1810 in Poole, Dorset, England; died on 10 Jun 1901 in Unknown Location. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in 1864?

Notes:

Jonah Newell NEWHOOK, of Charles and the late Catherine Newhook, was baptized on June 25, 1810 (St. Paul's, Trinity). Jonah Newhook, his father listed as "CH(S)", was buried on June 4, 1811 (St. Paul's, Trinity).