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Placentia Bay ~  Upper Placentia Bay


Partial Land grants for Sound Island

Source: 

PANL-The Rooms 
Land Grants.  
GN 3/2/0
#1 - #13,162 (1831-1912), 
Reel # 2
B-6-4. 
Submitted by an anonymous researcher.








 No.   Granted   Situation of the Land   Advanced Amount       Constitution of Amount        Remarks

 
 		 
 		 
 		 
 
 		 


 1016   Philip Brown 1       Betty's Hole, Sound Island  2        2       22       5	 1857	
Oct. 6 		do

 3018     James Hollett  3        Sound Island   1        31        120 1869
                   10 Dec. 		 


 
 		 
 		 
 		 
 
 		 

 








Source: 



PANL-The Rooms 

Land Grants

GN 3/2/0

#1 - #13,162 (1831-1912)

Reel # 2

B-6-4




Transcriber Notes:



1 This is presumably the same Philip Brown listed as a supplier in the 1875 NL railroad survey (JHA 1876:85), and other historical sources,



2 The local place name or toponym Betty's Hole (sic.) may historically derive from the female first or given name Betty, perhaps as an abbreviation or truncation of the common name Elizabeth (Betsy). An origin from the family name Bettice, or Bettis, as if from Battiste [John] may also be remotely possible, although the former seems more reasonable. 



3 This is presumably the same James or Jas. Hollett, perhaps also John Hollett, as mentioned in the NL railway survey as referenced to above (JHA 1976:81,87), a planter, merchant trader-supplier of Sound Island-Piper's Hole, P.B., in competition with Philip Brown as noted above.





 

 
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