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Notre Dame Bay Region ~ Fogo / Twillingate District

1836 Census

Robins Cove

Note: There was a miscellaneous column at the end which was left blank.
Transcribed and contributed by Isabel Taylor.
While we have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there may be typographical errors.
FAMILY


MALE
FEMALE
NUMBER OF SERVANTS
FISHING BOATS
(Quintels)

Number and Denomination
of Churches & Ministers
Head of Household Occupation Dwelling Houses Under 14 yrs 14-60 yrs Upwards of 60 yrs Under 14 yrs 14-16 yrs Upwards of 60 yrs Male Female Under 15 15 to 30 Upwards of 30 Heads of families who are servants Acres
in possession
Acres
under cultivation
Bushels of potatoes yearly Bushels of oats & other grains Tons hay Horses Neat
[domesticated]
cattle
Hogs Sheep Schools Male pupils Female pupils Protestant Episcopalians Protestant Dissenters Roman Catholics
James Bound Planter 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0

Transcriber's notes on the census

It looks as if fishing boat capacity was measured in quintals, not in tons. The writing is definitely qtls. There are problems with the number of members of religious denominations exceeding the number of inhabitants (i.e. at Indian Burying Place). The following notes are based on checking the census transcription against the entries for the various communities in the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (ENL), and surname entries in Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland by E. R. Seary (FN). They are supplemented, in the section on Fortune Harbour, by notes from John Carrick Greene`s Of Fish and Family. These extracts illustrate the difficulties created by surname variations. Thanks are due to Dave Anstey and Jill Marshall for their transcriptions, which were helpful in deciphering some of the trickier entries.

ROBIN'S COVE

FN
There is no record of the Bound surname in FN, as previously noted.

NE
There is no entry for Robin's Cove.

Errors or Additional information
Name in Record Description My Name
James Bound This may be of some value to those researching the area. Regarding the information on this excerpt, the name is supposed to be Bown, although it was often misspelled by the enumerator as is the case in Change Islands and Frederickton. Robins Cove is in Twillingate and still referred to Robins cove and on the map still also Robin D

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