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Conception Bay North - Harbour Grace

Selected Harbour Grace Roman Catholic (HGRC) Records:

Following is a partial list of Harbour Grace Roman Catholic parish registers currently housed at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland (PANL-The Rooms). Sources: St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity Bay. National Museum of Canada, Microfilm #: 1947. Harbour Grace Roman Catholic Immaculate Conception Parish, Baptisms (1806-1828) Box 1. Abbreviations: TA-Trinity Anglican
1818
March
21st 		Cathn of Braziel Peter & Mary Ann Bask
Sps Richd Ragan & Cathn English 		Thos. Ewer
Note the burial of a Peter Brazil (noted Indian) [aged 49, b. ca. 1772] on Dec. 30, 1821, at the St. Paul's Anglican cemetery, Trinity, Trinity Bay, the particulars of the parish registers entry as noted below:
Record #: Name: Abode: When Buried:Age: By Whom the ceremony was performed
16 Peter Brazil
the noted Indian 		died at Trinity
but had no fixed
place of abode 		Dec 30th
1821 		49 J. Clarke
Note also the burials of two other Native or Aboriginal males in the St. Paul's Anglican cemetery, Trinity, T.B..
1788
Octr 29 		- Interred John August [ a Native of this Island] Servt of Jeffry & Street [TA]
1789
April 17 		- Interred Indian, Servt to Mr. John Jeffery, who fell overboard near Hearts Ease and unfortunately drown’d before any ? could get to him [TA]