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1851 Gisbourne Survey


While we have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there could be some typographical errors. Source:

Frederic Gisbourne manuscript collection
Provincial Archives of Newfoundland (PANL-The Rooms)
MG 89
Microfilm Reel 6.   Submitted by an anonymous researcher. 




Newfoundland & London Telegraph Station Operating Clerks
1851 Gisbourne Survey


 

The following is a list of all telegraph station operating clerks employed by the Newfoundland & London (later Anglo-American) Telegraph Co., for each section of the telegraph line, during the preliminary stages of the survey, as extracted from the 1851 F. Gisbourne manuscript collection currently housed at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland (PANL-The Rooms). The format included herein gives the name of each telegraph operating clerk, the telegraph station at which each operator was employed, and the associated wages earned for each for services rendered.
 



 



    Record of Frederic Gisbourne

March 1st.,  1850

Chief Eng.r

Newfoundland, Newfoundland & London 

Telegraph Comp. 
  
                                                                                                     
219                                                         
           
  






Clerks Names

Station	
Wages



 Jas. Matthews
Piper's Hole	
  	24




 Jas. Cantarell 	Long Harr	 24


Capt. Hally	    		Bay Despr	 24

A. J. M. McKay  "De Lievre"?	 24

Fy. J. Wood		     Port aux B.	       24

Nathaniel Barnes	 Grandy`s Brk.	    24


James Murphy	   Renews		    24

William Beavis	     Garria Bay	    24

Michael McCarthy		    Cutteau		 24

 Carter T. Tessier (… illegible)  
 






 

 




 



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