Amos was born about 1850 in Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia (information taken from marriage record). He married Marguerite LeBlanc on Nov 28, 1876 at Minudie RC.[1]
↑https://archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=45571 (Cumberland County marriage registration at PANS, Year: 1876, Book: 1809, Page: 137, Number: 165; Amos gives his age as (26), he is a bachelor, a fisherman, birthplace and residence Minudie. His parents are named as ‘Dominique et Marguerite’, Dominique is a farmer. Amos married Marguerite LeBlanc (his mother had also been named ‘Marguerite LeBlanc’) on Nov 28, 1876 at Minudie. Marguerite gives her age as (21), she is a spinster, residence Joggins Mines, parents Damase et Pélagie, Damase is a farmer. Witnesses to the marriage were C.J. Arsenault et Mary V. LeBlanc, and the couple were married by Rev. T.M. Gay. The registrar who recorded the information was clearly literate in both languages, spelling the Acadian names ‘Brun’ and ‘LeBlanc’, also spelling ‘Dominique’, ‘Damase’, and ‘Pélagie’ correctly. There were two other marriages performed by Rev Gay at Minudie that day, viz. Line 166, Eustache Brun (a widower, age 40, fils de ‘Peter and Mary’) m. Emily Babin (spinster, 22, fille de ‘Moses & Rosalie’), and Line 167, Fidèle LeBlanc, (bachelor, 25, b. Memramcook, fils de ‘Sylvain & Ann’), m. Mary Bourque, (spinster, 22, fille de ‘Pascal & Marguerite’)).
↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWP3-NRR : 2 March 2021), Amos Brine, 25 Jun 1904; citing Whitman, Massachusetts, v 98 p 56, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,069,926.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/136639725/amos-brine : accessed 31 May 2021), memorial page for Amos Brine (Jan 1851–25 Jun 1904), Find A Grave: Memorial #136639725, citing Saint Patricks Cemetery, Rockland, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Deb Robichaud Belcher (contributor 48207434) .
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