James Edward Northrup (1825 - 1864)

Born 7 Sep 1825 in Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick, CAN

Husband of Joanna Barlow (Benson) Northup — married 17 May 1849 in Springfield, Kings, New Brunswick, CAN

Descendants

Died 30 May 1864 at age 38 in Springfield, Kings, New Brunswick, CAN

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Biography

Son of James Sturges Northrup (1795-1865) & Susannah Cox (1799-1868). His grandfather, Benajah Northrup, was born in Fairfield, CT and came north as a Loyalist refugee from the American Revolution in 1783.

James and his wife Joanna Barlow (Benson) had eight known children, the last was born just ten days after his father's death. The boy was named James Edward to honor his father (though this child died in 1866).

Whether James died of an injury or illness, at 39 years, in unknown. He was buried at Springfield Anglican Cemetery in Kings County, New Brunswick.

James E. Northrup's widow married his cousin, Benjamin James Northrup in 1870.

Sources

• William Francis Ganong, A Genealogy of the New Brunswick Branch of the Descendants of Thomas Ganong, A Loyalist from New York State to New Brunswick by the Spring Fleet of 1783 (St. Stephen, NB: Gilbert White Ganong, 1893).

• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (http://archives.gnb.ca/ ); Federated Database; New Brunswick Cemeteries: NORTHRUP, James E --------Died: 1864-May-30, Age: 39 Years, Cemetery: Springfield Anglican Church, Kings County.

• Ansel Judd Northup, Northrup-Northrop genealogy : a record of the known descendants of Joseph Northrup, who came from England in 1637 (New York, NY: Grafton Press, 1908).

• Mary Josephine Genung & Leon Nelson Nichols, Genung, Ganong, Ganung Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Jean Guenon, of Flushing, Long Island (Brooklyn, NY: A. W. Heinrichs Printing Co., 1906).