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Birth:
ca 1744
Death: 25 Mar 1808, Hopewell, Albert Co., New Brunswick
Married:
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Catherine\Isabella
GRIFFITH(S) born Abt 1751 <, , Ireland> Marriage:
bet. 1772 - 1773 died 17 Jan 1789 Newport, Hants, Ns This
union is shown on this page
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Jane
(MCCOLLOCH) Marriage: 15 Dec 1790, Windsor
Township, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada - for more on this
union click
here
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Ann\Nancy
COPP Marriage: abt. 1803, Hopewell Parish, Albert
Co., New Brunswick, Canada - for more on this union click
here
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Notes for Catherine Isabella GRIFFITH:
Catherine (or Isabella) Griffith(s)
was likely English or Irish. A Welch heritage is the family
tradition of James Hayward's descendants. At this time, we have
no knowledge of her birthplace. We know that she gave birth to
her eldest son George in late 1773/early 1774 while living in
Ireland where husband Henry was stationed with the British Army.
Ireland, therefore, cannot be ruled out as a possible
birthplace. Her name is shown as "Catharine" on son
George's baptismal record 20 March 1774; Nova Scotia records
indicate her name as Isabella or "Izzy," although it
is also possible that the latter was a second wife. This
possibility is strongly supported by the 8 year difference in
age between the second and third surviving children. However, if
wife Catherine did not travel to America with the army during
the Revolution, this too would account for the gap in children's
births.
Women did often accompany British
regiments during their tours of duty. The following are some
relevant notes from "The British Army in North America,
1775-1783," Robin May & G. A. Embleton, London, 1974:
-- "Written permission was
needed from an officer for...private soldiers to Marry...In
barracks at home - though true barracks only date from the 1790s
- husbands and wives were entitled to screened-off beds in
barrack-rooms." (pg. 10)
--"Women, whether wives or
'wives,' acted as laundrymaids and sometimes as nurses on
campaign. They and their children were fed from the public
stores, and clothed as well. There was at least one near mutiny
at Cork when a ship without women did not set out because the
redcoats aboard threatened to desert unless the matter was put
right. Sadly little is known of the ordinary women who went to
America..." (pg. 18)
Catherine allegedly died in
Brooklyn, NS, located about 10 kilometers SE of Windsor, NS, at
the junction of Trunk highway #14 and Collector Hwy #215 in
Hants Co. (5 km east of Provincial Hwy 01 off exit 5). There is
a Brooklyn Riverview Cemetery; could she be buried there? She is
more likely buried at the "Old Parish Burying Ground,"
Windsor, NS, per Eunice Franks nee Hayward, of Regina, Sask.,
Canada. There is another Hayward family tradition that she died
in Brooklyn, NY, rather than Nova Scotia. This is indeed a
possibility as her husband's regiment did serve in Brooklyn, NY
during the Revolution and requires more research.
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Henry HAYWARD and Catherine Isabella GRIFFITH S
They had the following children:
- George
Griffith HAYWARD (Henry)
born 1773 , , Ireland christening St. Pauls Church, ,
Dublin, Ireland died 24 Nov 1856 , , New Brunswick Married
to Abigail
COPP (cousin to Nancy Anne Copp - 3rd
wife of Henry) . 1797 - 1798, Hopewell, New Brunswick,
Canada or Horton, NS, Canada born 17 Apr 1780 Hopewell,
Albert, New Brunswick, Canada died 13 Mar 1860
- James (twin) HAYWARD
(Henry)
born 16 Dec 1785 Windsor Twp., Hants, N.S.; died 3 Jul
1858 Goshen, New Brunswick; Married Elizabeth STEVENS
19 Oct 1808 (Elizabeth born ca. 1790).
- Bruce Hunter (twin) HAYWARD (Henry)
born Dec 1785 Windsor Twp. N.S.; died Dec 1785 at birth.
born 9 May 1787 Windsor Twp., N.S.; died 1 May 1876 St.
Cloud, Minn. Burial: June 1875, North Star
Cemetery, St. Cloud, Minnesota
; Married ca. 1808/1811 Margaret SCHECK/SHECK
in Kingston, Kings Co., New Brunswick,
Canada, daughter of Christopher SHECK and Mary WAGER.
She was born Abt. 1786 in Sussex Corner, Kings Co., New
Brunswick, Canada, and died December 25, 1872 in Baring,
Washington Co., Maine.
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