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White Bay Region ~  Baie Verte District


1836 Census
Rogues 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

    


	
	
	
				
		
		

		
		
		

			Joseph Ridout
			Planter
			  1
			  0
			  2
			  1
			  1
			  1
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  1
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  12
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  5
			  0
			  0

		

		

			John Noble Jr.
			Planter
			  1
			  2
			  1
			  0
			  2
			  2
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  1
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  5
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  0
			  7
			  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.

		
		ROGUES HARBOUR


FN


A John Rideout "operated salmon fishery at Nippers Harbour, 1804." There is no mention of Joseph Rideout. 


John Noble is recorded at Rogue's Harbour in 1851.


ENL


"Although it is likely that the harbour had seen some earlier use by the French, traditionally the first settler of Rogues Harbour is regarded as having been Joseph Rideout.  Rideout and one other fisherman, John Noble, were resident in 1836 when the first Census was taken, Rogues Harbour having a population of 12. Although land to build on was extremely limited, a few other people settled and there was a population of 40 by 1857.  In addition to Rideout and Noble other known residents in the mid-1800s include fishermen named Kelley, Peters and Knight.  It was also at some time in the early 1850s that one Solomon Giles settled at Rogues Harbour, across the harbour from the Rideouts.  Thereafter virtually every recorded resident of the community was either a Rideout or a Giles, while the two sides of the harbour were known as Rideout's Side and Giles's Side. For three generations the two families lived at Rogues Harbour, fishing grounds just outside the harbour for cod and a few herring or lobster."
		
		

  



           

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