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Year End Review - 1916

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PUB. DATE	DETAILS
Where no place is mentioned, the residence of the deceased was in the city of St. John’s.
December 30, 1915	Hon. John Harris, President of the Legislative Council, 55. John T Butt, Grand Bank, 70. Mrs. Jonathan Noseworthy, 62. Mrs. Sarah Hiscock, Brigus.

January 1, 1916	Mrs Aram Downton, 81. Samuel Gillespie, Carbonear.
January 2, 1916	Mrs. Ann Armstrong.
January 4, 1916	Mrs Botwood, widow of Archdeacon Botwood, in London, 71. Patrick Hannaford at Brooklyn, U.S.A.
January 6, 1916	Mrs. Catherine Malone. John Thomas, Carbonear.
January 7, 1916	James B. Lester, 59.
January 8, 1916	Mrs. Agnes Burke, Tor’s Cove, 80.
January 9, 1916	Mrs. Leonard C Mews, 29. Mrs .John Mathieson, 45.
January 10, 1916	Mrs Mary Higgins McRae, Harbor Grace, 70. John B. Wheeler, J.P., Musgrave Harbor, 70.
January 11, 1916	John E Mills, Naval Veteran, 41. Mrs. May Ann Cahill, 60.
January 12, 1916	Mrs Henry Hughes, Bell Island.
January 13, 1916	Mrs Mary Murphy, 76. John Walsh, 73.
January 14, 1916	Mrs. Robert Mews, at New York.
January 17, 1916	John Donovan, 38. Arnold Morley, 67. Mrs Joseph Cooper at Port Morien.
January 19, 1916	Walter J Rossiter, 33.
January 20, 1916	Eli Garland, 48.
January 21, 1916	George Neal, Sr., 89.
January 22, 1916	Mrs Bridget Clancey, 46. Edward Keough, formerly of Caplin Bay, 81.
January 23, 1916	William Hatcher, Harbor Grace, 81. John Crawley, Holyrood, 82.
January 24, 1916	Samuel Rose, 17.
January 29, 1916	Mrs. Mary Crawley, Holyrood.
January 30, 1916	Patrick Seward, suddenly in the R.C. Cathedral, 62.

February 1, 1916	Miss Helen J Laird, Monkstown Road.
February 3, 1916	Thomas Merchant Ebsary, 17. Chesley Ryall, 22.
February 4, 1916	John Oates, South Side Carbonear.
February 5, 1916	David J. Lawrie, Barnes' Road. W.E.P. Long, Prescott Street.
February 6, 1916	Mrs Mary Everett, 90.
February 7, 1916	Hedley Ash of Harbor Grace at Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
February 8, 1916	Mrs. Henry Leonard, 55.
February 9, 1916	Mrs Margaret Smyth, 69. Martin Furlong, K.C., at Montreal. James Jardine, H.M.C. 72. Mrs. Abram Bartlett, 73.
February 10, 1916	Miss Nora Peddle, 19. Miss Mary O’Neill, Bay de Verde, at Littledale, 15.
February 11, 1916	Mrs. M.A. Rabbits. Heart’s Content, 54. James R. Breaker, 46. William Day, Burin.
February 12, 1916	Mrs. Naomia Currie, widow of Rev. J.G. Currie, 80. Miss Maud Keefe, 21.
February 13, 1916	Edward Joseph Grant, 48. Mrs Rachel Ann Budden, Harbor Grace, 71. Mrs Sussannah Nicholas, Harbor Grace, 89. Mrs. Mary Ann White, Champneys, 65.
February 14, 1916	Mrs Philip O’Keefe. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson, Harbor Grace, 80. Joseph Pike, South Side, Carbonear.
February 15, 1916	William Taylor, — Harbor, 27.
February 16, 1916	Mrs. George Reid, 71. Patrick Costigan, 74. John Clancey, Patrick Street.
February 17, 1916	Mrs. Jane Lawrence, Hayward’s Avenue. Mrs. Mary Ann Westcott, 80. Mrs. Selina Daley, 70.
February 18, 1916	Mrs. Mary Wiseman, 84.
February 19, 1916	John Kavanagh, North River, Brigus, 82. Mrs. Ann Wakely of Little Placentia, at Halifax, 76.
February 21, 1916	John Brophy, Colonial Street, 79. Mrs. W.T. Long, 55. James O’Brien, Outer Cove.
February 23, 1916	Mrs. Margaret Gibbs, 72.
February 25, 1916	Mrs. Anabella Farrell, 74. Mrs. Fanny Mitchell, Quidi Vidi, 84.
February 28, 1916	Francis H Chown, 83.
February 29, 1916	Mrs. Francis Chown, 93. Mrs. Mary Churchill, Quidi Vidi. 74.

March 1, 1916	Michael Coffey H.M.C.
March 2, 1916	Miss Annie J Furneaux, Barnes Road. James Wall of Harbor Grace, in St. John’s.
March 3, 1916	Mrs. Mary Brennan, Otterbury, Harbor Grace, 70. Robert Parsons, South Side, Harbor Grace.
March 4, 1916	Maurice Hurley, Carbonear.
March 6, 1916	Hon. Mr. Justice Emerson, 63. John O’Brien of Holyrood, at Butte, Montana.
March 7, 1916	Capt. James Wilson, 68. Mark Seager Pike, Carbonear. James B Rendell, Heart’s Content. Mrs. Merrigan, Carbonear.
March 8, 1916	Mrs. Margaret Morris, Long’s Hill, 85. John Snow, Harbor Grace, 65. Mrs. Annie Glasco, 71. John C Taylor, Pleasant St. Joseph Morris of Wittless Bay at Halifax, 33 Peter Connors, Clattice, P.B., 77.
March 11, 1916	Philip Howlett of Petty Harbor, aboard S.S. Erik at Badgers Quay. Mrs Maurice Hurley, Carbonear. John C Pike, Southside, Carbonear.
March 12, 1916	Mrs. Clementime Cook, 88. Mansfield Pettipas, Whitbourne, 84. John White, Victoria, 83.
March 13, 1916	Miss Catherine Sullivan. Mrs. Mary Rebecca Fowler, 66. Thomas Woods, Carbonear. Mrs. John Brown of Harbor Grace, at Boston.
March 14, 1916	Alfred Northfield.
March 16, 1916	John Newman, Harbor Grace, 70. Miss Rita Hartigan, Placentia.
March 17, 1916	Mrs. Catherine Bridge, 85. Mrs. Ash, Carbonear, 89.
March 18, 1916	Andrew Cowans, 80. Mrs. Mary Costigan, 75. Mrs. Matilda Burton, 53. George Wells, of Harbor Grace, at Lynn, Mass, USA.
March 19, 1916	June Fewer, 67.
March 20, 1916	William Rendell, Heart’s Content, 18. Patrick Fox, Carbonear. Mrs. Mary Morrisssey, Harbor Grace, 85.
March 24, 1916	William Collins, Burin.
March 26, 1916	Annie Tracey, Cabot Street. James O’Keefe of Bay Roberts, died suddenly aboard S.S. Erik, at Icefields. Rev. Mother Genevieve O’Mara, Belvedere Convent. Frank Tetford, Harbor Grace, 19. Mrs. Catherine Daley, Salmonier, 74.
March 27, 1916	Richard Ryan Warden, H.M. Penitentiary, 80. Douglas Mercer, Bay Roberts, 23.
March 28, 1916	Mrs W.C. Hawker, Carbonear, 80. Eliol Noel, South Side, Harbor Grace, 8.
March 29, 1916	Edward Moakler, 45. Richard Costigan, H.M.C., Bell Island, 50. Mrs. John Cody, Harbor Grace, 67.
March 31, 1916	John P Jeans, H.M.C., 80. John Reid, 89. Mrs.Peter Wall. Mrs. Charlotte Martin, Harbor Grace, 86.

April 1, 1916	John F Roberts, 31. Mrs. Henry Parsons, Harbor Grace, 70.
April 2, 1916	Mrs. Alice Elson Scott. Mrs. Catherine Fogarty.
April 4, 1916	Miss Minnie Dalton, at Avon, Mass, USA.
April 5, 1916	Patrick Joy, H.M.C. Carbonear, 78.
April 6, 1916	Joseph Emberley, Bay de Verde, 68.
April 8, 1916	Dr. Walter Russell Thomas of Valleyfield, at General Hospital.
April 10, 1916	Patrick Downey, Beckford. David Kennedy, Conception, 82.
April 12, 1916	William Thomas Bell, 82. Mrs. Fergus J Donnelly, at Lake Saranac, U.S.A.
April 13, 1916	Mrs. J J Skinner, Southside. Mrs. Theresa Downey, 62. Mrs. Ellen O’Brien, Harbor Grace, 60.
April 14, 1916	Richard J Kelly, George Street. Mrs. Terrence Kennedy, Harbor Grace, 79.
April 16, 1916	John S. Clarke, Devonshire Inn. Sergeant Loughlin, Holyrood.
April 17, 1916	Miss Emma Ireland. William John Holwell, Herring Neck.
April 18, 1916	Thomas Williams, 78. Arthur Prideaux at Lynn, Mass, U.S.A, 34. Widow Patrick Moriariaty, Harbor Grace.
April 19, 1916	Mrs Henry O’Grady. Thomas Mulcahey, 70.
April 20, 1916	Mrs. Ernest Hiscock. William Savin, Jr.
April 21, 1916	T.J Lawlor, 72.
April 22, 1916	Patrick Redmond, 43. Nathaniel March, 74.
April 23, 1916	Joseph Ryall, 69. Miss Sarah J Olsen, 20.
April 24, 1916	Mrs William Feaver, 72.
April 28, 1916	Mrs. Hubert Toms, La Scie.
April 29, 1916	James Power, Moore Street.

May 1, 1916	Patrick Mullaly 80. Mrs. W.H. Tilley, Kelligrews, 74.
May 3, 1916	Thomas Stevens, Mortier Bay, 80.
May 4, 1916	Mrs. G.F. Young, Heart’s Content.
May 5, 1916	William Kelly Morrissey, H.M.C. 80.
May 6, 1916	Francie Marhar.
May 7, 1916	Mrs Bridget Fowler, 62.
May 10, 1916	Mrs. Annie M. Power.
May 11, 1916	Rev. J.W. Donnelly, 32. Mrs. Frank Collins, George Street.
May 16, 1916	Miss Hilda Janes, Carbonear, 19.
May 17, 1916	Annie J. Egan, at Roxbury, Mass., U.S.A.
May 18, 1916	Patrick Healey, 85. Mrs. George Tizzard.
May 21, 1916	Miss Mary Cummins, formerly Matron of Poor Asylum, 80. John Russell, Musgrave Harbor, 90. James Macdonald, Western Bay, 73.
May 22, 1916	Ethelbert Churchill at Boston, Mass, USA. Dr. Herbert Smith, Burin, 67. Samuel Coffin, Little Bay Islands, 84.
May 24, 1916	Mrs Maria Williams, Forest Pond, 82. Capt. Frank Jackman. Mrs Mary Ann Kelly, Riverhead, Harbour Grace.
May 25, 1916	Miss Mary Gordon, Harbor Grace, 14.
May 26, 1916	James Kavanagh, Water Street.
May 27, 1916	Miss Gladney, Portugal Cove, 72.
May 28, 1916	William Maddigan, in New York.
May 29, 1916	James John Parmiter, 94. Mrs. Netta Malcolm Jones, St. Thomas Rectory, Midway, N.S.

June 1, 1916	Richard Kearney, New Gower St. W.T. McDonald, at Truro, N.S.
June 2, 1916	Mrs .James Henebury, 22.
June 3, 1916	Miss Jessie E Foote, Allan Square, at Bell Island. Ernest Henry Thomas, 19.
June 4, 1916	Miss Frances Ryan, Flowers Hill, 18.
June 7, 1916	Chesley Parsons, South Side, Harbor Grace, 18.
June 8, 1916	Miss Margaret O’Mara, Freshwater Road.
June 9, 1916	Wm. J. Clarke, Young St., 75. Mrs. Alex Thompson, Colonial St.
June 10, 1916	Joseph Kearney, Cuddihy St.
June 11, 1916	Rev. George Paine, 68.
June 13, 1916	Michael Hartigan, Rencontre, 52. Mrs Ford Winsor, 62.
June 14, 1916	Rev. Dean Roche, Witless Bay, 74. Miss Mary Morrissey, Housekeeper of the late Bishop Mullock, 101.
June 15, 1916	Alice Cooper, Field Street.
June 17, 1916	Dermot Keegan, 18.
June 18, 1916	Mrs. J.T. English, Branch. 49. Mrs. Joseph Parsons, La Scie.
June 19, 1916	Mrs. James R. Stick.
June 20, 1916	Archibald Hall, 51. John C. Kelly, 75.
June 21, 1916	Mrs. B.S. Williams. Miss Florence Clarke, Grand Bank, 14.
June 22, 1916	Mrs. Innis, of Bonne Bay, at General Hospital.
June 23, 1916	John McCarthy, Carbonear, over 80.
June 24, 1916	Mrs. Patrick Walsh, Bona, P.B. 42.
June 25, 1916	William Bentley, Cable repairer, 79. Michael Hickey, 90. Mrs. Sussanna Martin, Harbor Grace, 88.
June 27, 1916	Mrs. Thomas Winter, at Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A.
June 28, 1916	Mrs. Nicholas Peddle, Bristol’s Hope, 86.
June 29, 1916	James Hunt, 52.

July 2, 1916	Mrs Nicholas Murphy 74. Albert Stevenson, Harbor Grace, 51.
July 4, 1916	Peter Mackey.
July 6, 1916	Mrs. F.B. Wood, at Brooklyn, U.S.A.
July 8, 1916	Mrs. Patrick Dalton.
July 10, 1916	Mrs Thomas Phillips.
July 11, 1916	Thomas Phillpot of Kings Cove, at Independent Harbor, Labrador. 50.
July 12, 1916	James Dwyer, 79.
July 14, 1916	James Alward, 75. George R. Forsey, J.P., S.M., Grand Bank. 73.
July 15, 1916	Const. Michael MacKey, 70.
July 17, 1916	Patrick Broderick, 69.
July 18, 1916	John Conway dieds on the fishing grounds, 49.
July 20, 1916	J.W. Nichols, F.S.A., 69. Capt. Roger O’Brien, Harbor Grace, 52. Mrs. Job Shenton at Sackville.
July 21, 1916	Malcolm G. Furneaux, La Scie, 24. E.M. Jackman at Montreal, 48. Samuel Fogwell at Port Arthur, Ont. 72.
July 24, 1916	Hugh Charles Clift. Mrs. Robert Martin, 96, New Gower Street.
July 25, 1916	Mrs. Josiah Manuel, (Exploits), 81.
July 26, 1916	Mrs. Joseph H. Edgar, Freshwater Road. John T Murphy, 89.
July 27, 1916	Mrs. Cicely Spracklin, Cupids, 64. Miss Agatha Sinnott, 22.
July 28, 1916	Arthur Devereaux, Logy Bay. Miss Mary Connors, Swans, Placentia.
July 30, 1916	James J. Molloy.

August 1, 1916	Mrs. Charlotte A Foote, 72.
August 3, 1916	Mrs Richard Walsh, Spaniard’s Bay, 64.
August 4, 1916	Mrs. Jean Glendenning, 86.
August 5, 1916	C.L. Kennedy, Harbor Grace, 81. Francis Hoyle, 32. Mrs. Fannie Smith at Chicago.
August 7, 1916	Michael T Knight, 85. Miss Annia Power, Flowers Hill.
August 9, 1916	John Baird, Patrick Street, 70. Andrew Coish, of County Wexford, 90.
August 10, 1916	Mrs. Julia Gordon, Gordon Lodge, Harbor Grace, 88. James Hunt, Harbor Grace, 83.
August 12, 1916	Mrs. Ann Hollett, 87.
August 13, 1916	Mrs. Sarah Bowering, 81. Mrs. John Aitkins, New Gower St.
August 14, 1916	Mrs. Emma Ireland, 84.
August 15, 1916	John Conway, Colliers.
August 18, 1916	Solomon Brown, Spencer St. On S.S. Sagona.
August 21, 1916	Stephen House, Trinity, 79. Mrs. Margaret Kielly, 87. Miss Hazel Churchill, 16.
August 23, 1916	Mrs. Maria Snelgrove, Southside. Miss May Taylor, Bristol’s Hope, 28. Mrs. Arthur Boyd, wife of former Lloyd’s Surveyor, of West Hartlepool.
August 24, 1916	Edwin Cleary, Harbor Main. Mrs. Kate Laracy, Conception.
August 25, 1916	Mrs. Mary A. O’Mara, Duckworth St., 87.
August 27, 1916	Mrs. John Connors, 33.
August 28, 1916	Mrs. Kate Honeywell, Victoria, 96.
August 29, 1916	Mrs. Annia Dunne, King’s Bridge, 26

September 1, 1916	Hon. H.J.B. Woods, Postmaster General, 74. Robert John Andrews, 65.
September 3, 1916	Mrs Francis Hall, 47. Mrs. J.J. Murphy, Buchanan St.
September 5, 1916	Rev. George Forsey of Grand Bank, at Chicago, 75. Mrs. William B Wardlaw, Beaumont Street.
September 6, 1916	Mrs. Peter O’Neill, Boggy Hall, 56. Mrs. John Clare.
September 7, 1916	George Brusell, 39. Walter Dunn, Cupids.
September 8, 1916	Richard Churchill, Trinity. 78.
September 9, 1916	Mrs Wilfred Howell, 32. Mrs. Elizabeth Patrick, 79.
September 12, 1916	Peter Miller, Portugal Cove.
September 16, 1916	John W Bryan. Mrs Maria Gosse, Torbay.
September 17, 1916	Mrs. George Long, Carbonear, 31.
September 18, 1916	James Parsons of Harbor Grace, at Boston, 37.
September 21, 1916	Miss Agnes J. Brennan, Bay Bulls.
September 22, 1916	Patrick Haggerty, Queen St. 79. Mrs. Johnson Bradbury, Bear’s Cove, Harbor Grace, 52. Mrs. Shirran, Bonavista. 70.
September 24, 1916	Mrs James Gordon, Witless Bay, 85.
September 25, 1916	Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, Field St.
September 26, 1916	Rev. Canon Bullock, Native of Trinity, at Halifax, 88.
September 27, 1916	W.P. Lake, Fortune. Catherine Brophy, 72.
September 28, 1916	Joseph Collins, 80. Maurice Wade, Conception. Miss Mary Duggan, Chapel’s Cove.
September 29, 1916	Miss Myra Louise Escott, 16.
September 30, 1916	Stephen Churchill, Harbor Main. Miss Mary Churchill, Trinity.

October 1, 1916	Mrs. Julia Soper, Carbonear, 92.
October 3, 1916	James Tibbs, Trinity. Mrs. Thomas Kennedy, 62.
October 4, 1916	George Parsons, Bryant’s Cove, 81. Joseph Powell, Bonavista, 79.
October 5, 1916	Mrs. F.C. Snelgrove, Catalina.
October 7, 1916	Edward Whitten, 2.
October 8, 1916	Matthew Martin, Harbor Grace, 80.
October 9, 1916	Mrs George Butt, 62. Robert Butt, Crocker’s Cove, Carbonear, 66.
October 10, 1916	S Caldwell of St. John’s, at San Francisco.
October 12, 1916	Patrick Summers, Cooper, 78.
October 13, 1916	William Kent, 83.
October 14, 1916	Mrs. Mary Ann Murray, Bond St. John Bendell, Dockyard at Halifax, 75.
October 15, 1916	Miss Gertrude Kiley, Postmistress Brien’s, Holyrood.
October 16, 1916	Mrs Mary Coonan, 90.
October 17, 1916	Peter de Cartwright, 78.
October 18, 1916	George E Penney, Western Bay, 19.
October 19, 1916	William Cook, 75. William Smithwick, 39.
October 21, 1916	G.E. Charlton, Heart’s Content, 84.
October 23, 1916	Mrs, Margaret Daley, St. Joseph’s, 25.
October 24, 1916	Mrs John Nichol, Crocker’s Cove, Carbonear, 50.
October 26, 1916	William J Burke, St. Jacques, 65
October 27, 1916	Miss Mary Agnes Morrissey, Carbonear, 14.
October 28, 1916	Elias Pike, 41.
October 29, 1916	Rev. Dr. Sprague, native of Lower Island Cove, at Sackville, N.B.
October 30, 1916	Mrs. Thomas Smith, Dildo, 48. Mrs. Richard, Finn, Spaniard’s Bay, 93.
October 31, 1916	Capt. James Parsons, H.M.C., Harbor Grace, 79.

November 1, 1916	Mrs. Julia Smallwood, 77. Mrs Mary Hynes, Portugal Cove.
November 2, 1916	Joseph S Pike, 49. Miss Annia H Morey. Mrs Sarah Noseworthy, South Side, 67.
November 3, 1916	Ex-Constable Ambrose Sparks, 62. Rev. Samuel Snowden, at Keighley, Yorkshire.
November 5, 1916	John Fitzgibbon.
November 6, 1916	Mrs. Arthur Angel, Petty Harbor.
November 7, 1916	Dr. Thomas Hannahan, Superintendent of Education, Harbor Grace, 54. John Reddick, Herring Neck, 91.
November 8, 1916	Mrs Hannah Pike.
November 9, 1916	Mrs John Ford, 71.
November 12, 1916	James J O’Brien, Outer Cove, 62.
November 13, 1916	T.S. Pooke at Toronto.
November 14, 1916	Richard Dunn, 67. Miss Annie Murphy Colliers. James Power, Rennies Mill Rd.
November 15, 1916	James Bradbury, 79.
November 16, 1916	Michael Ryan, Harbor Grace, 104. ***
November 19, 1916	Mrs. Ellen Martin, Barter’s Hill. William Fahey, Western Bay, 76.
November 22, 1916	Mrs Jane Clatney, Pilot’s Hill. Mrs .Edna Bishop, 84.
November 23, 1916	William H Goodland, 57.
November 25, 1916	Mrs. John Anderson at Edinburgh.
November 26, 1916	Mrs Emma Piggot Lord, at Toronto, 92.

December 1, 1916	Joseph Collins, 36.
December 2, 1916	Hannah Mary Bennett, 16.
December 3, 1916	Miss Katie Atkins, Hamilton St.
December 4, 1916	Mrs Peter Cowan, Topsail Road. 46.
December 5, 1916	John Hearn, 77. Evan Pugh, Heart’s Content, 80. Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins, 83.
December 6, 1916	Stanley K Abbott, formerly of Musgrave Harbor, 43.
December 7, 1916	Mrs. Carrie W. Evans, formerly of Grand Bank. Mrs. Michael Loughnan (nee Henderson) at Bournemouth, England.
December 9, 1916	Michael Malone, King’s Road.
December 10, 1916	Albert Noel, Southside, Harbor Grace, 43.
December 11, 1916	Alexander Furlong, 79. Mrs. John Noseworthy, Harbor Grace, 73.
December 12, 1916	Mrs. Eli Saunders, Whitbourne. Thomas Carig, Kelligrews, 84.
December 13, 1916	John Alexander Duncan. Mrs. George Roberts, Twillingate.
December 14, 1916	William Bidgood, Petty Harbor, 60.
December 16, 1916	Alphonsus Rolls, 64.
December 17, 1916	T.D. Holmwood, of Holyrood and Holmwood, in Switzerland.
December 18, 1916	Mrs Ellen Mulrooney, 69.
December 19, 1916	Miss Florence Andrews. James Quigley, 20.
December 20, 1916	Frank W. Cunningham at Montreal, 30. William Nicholas, Harbor Grace, 71.
December 22, 1916	Henry Rolling, Curling. Michael Kerrivan, 80.
December 23, 1916	Thomas Symth. James Aspell at Montreal, 45.
December 24, 1916	Horatio George Thylor, South Side.
December 25, 1916	Patrick Mahar, 34. John Rice, 66.
December 26, 1916	William Boggan.
Dec ?? 1916	Joshua Hiscock, Winterton.
December 27, 1916	James Hayter, Trinity, 18.
December 28, 1916	Richard Hopkins, Shipwright, 73.
December 29, 1916	Mrs. Benjamin Tulk, 30. Reuben Reid, Lock’s Cove, Hare Bay, 18. Miss Catherine Thomey, Bristol’s Hope, 17.
December 30, 1916	Lawrence O’Neill, 62.