Ellen (Roberts) Campbell (1865)

Born 27 May 1865 in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Campbell — married 4 Jan 1883 in Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland

Descendants

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Biography

"Helen Roberts Campbell and Peter Campbell lived many years in Newfoundland and produced a family there. Peter worked as a fisherman. They were very proud people who tried to ignore the facts of their early humble existence and when he retired they moved to Boston Mass. and pretended that Peter was a retired minister."^[1]

Birth

Name Ellen Roberts
Event Date 27 May 1865
Event Place Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland
Gender Female
Father's Name Robert Roberts
Mother's Name Anne^[2]

Marriage

Peter Campbell (bachelor, age 26) of Little Bay Islands married a Ellen Roberts (spinster, age 17), of Little Bay Islands, on Jan. 4, 1883 in Little Bay Islands.^[3][4] Witnesses William Jack, Martha Campbell.

Residence 1921

Census of Little Bay Islands. In household:
Peter Campbell Head Male 66 Little Bay Island
Ellen Campbell Wife Female 56 Little Bay Island
Cecil Campbell Son Male 21 Little Bay Island
Margaret Campbell Daughter Female 19 Little Bay Island
Arthur Campbell Son Male 17 Little Bay Island^[5]

Residence 1930

Census of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. In household:
Peter Campbell Head Male 72 Newfoundland
Ellen R Campbell Wife Female 64 Newfoundland
Jacqueline L Campbell Daughter Female 41 Newfoundland
Martha Campbell Daughter Female 38 Newfoundland
Margaret W Campbell Daughter Female 28 Newfoundland
Arthur R Campbell Son Male 26 Newfoundland^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ See the extended story of the Campbell family of Little Bay Islands. Fanny Campbell Abrahamson, 1980? Transcribed by Brad Foley, 2020.
2. ↑ "Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Y-QK2C : 8 May 2015), Robert Roberts in entry for Ellen Roberts, 27 May 1865; citing Birth, Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland, Canada, Provincial Archives, St. John's.
3. ↑ Newfoundland's Grand Banks Site, PRE 1891 REGISTRATION RECORDS Green Bay District, Volume 91. Pages 1 - 24 Little Bay Islands, Methodist Marriages 1867 - 1886. Donna Kirk, 2015. Accessed 2017.
4. ↑ "Canada, Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Y-MN4M : 23 February 2021), Peter Campbell and Ellen Roberts, 04 Jan 1883; citing Marriage, Little Bay Islands, Green Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, Provincial Archives, St. John's.
5. ↑ "Canada, Newfoundland Census, 1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1W-TMNG : 8 March 2021), Peter Campbell, Little Bay Island, Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada; citing p. 135, household ID 25, line 17, Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; FHL microfilm 2,166,637.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQGT-4FS : accessed 20 July 2021), Peter Campbell, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 31, sheet 9A, line 34, family 269, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 915; FHL microfilm 2,340,650.