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Notre Dame Bay Region ~ Notre Dame Bay West / Exploits

1836 Census

Wards Harbour

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
John Rousal Planter 1 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
Thomas Paddock Planter 1 4 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
Joseph Rousal Planter 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Henry Hewlett Planter 1 3 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0
Young Burton
1 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 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.

WARDS HARBOUR

FN
A Joseph Rousell is recorded here in 1844. No John Rousell [or Rousal] is recorded. A John Rousell 'of Exploits' is recorded in 1846, and a John Rowsell is recorded at Round Harbour in 1847.

Thomas Paddock is recorded here in 1843.

A Robert Hulett is recorded here in 1846, but no Henry Hewlett [Hulett].

An Abraham Burton is recorded here in 1842, but no Young Burton is recorded.

ENL
"The 1836 Census, the earliest reference to permanent settlement on Long Island, recorded 14 people living at Wards Harbour ...Tradition holds that Joseph Rowsell and Abraham Burton were the first settlers. By 1845 there were 31 people living at Wards Harbour ...Principal family names there in the late 1800s were Burton, Croucher, Heath, Paddock, Rideout and Rowsell."

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