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Daniel Sparks (abt. 1767 - abt. 1847)

Daniel Sparks aka Spark
Born about in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadamap [uncertain]
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Husband of — married 17 Feb 1787 (to about 1810) in Southhampton Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotiamap [uncertain]
Husband of — married about 1810 in Whites Cove, Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick, Canadamap [uncertain]
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Died about at about age 80 in Whites Cove, Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick, Canadamap [uncertain]
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Biography

Daniel Sparks was born about 1767 or 1769, the son of Robert Sparks and Joanna (Unknown) Sparks, possibly in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a colony of British North America, part of the British Empire.

Reportedly, Daniel's parents, Robert and Joanna, built a homestead and settled on Sparks Brook in Pettigrew Settlement in 1776 in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. [1] When his sister Mary Sparkes was born on December 19th of that year,[2] they were living in Franklin Manor, which is likely that same location.[3]

In 1785, Daniel Sparks (and Robert Sparks) were living within the watershed of the Hebert, Maccan and Napan Rivers, which flow into the Cumberland Basin in the northeastern most part of the Bay of Fundy, in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, [4] probably at the same Pettigrew Settlement homestead.

Daniel married Lucy, daughter of John and Jude Allen on 17 February 1787 in Southhampton Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. [5] This area may have been part of the Southhampton Land Grant, a 10,000-acre tract distributed to immigrants from England in 1785 following the seizure of the land from the Acadians, most of whom were deported in Le Grand Dérangement (Great Upheaval) in 1755.

The Rev. Thomas Shreve reportedly penned a document of births, deaths and marriages that includes some history of Robert Sparks’ family and covers the previous eleven years. [6] In September 1787, at the age of 32 and in his first years as Rector at the St. George Anglican Church in Parrsboro, Rev. Shreve very likely travelled to Sparks Brook, where he may have written this record. He was known to serve his parish by horseback, on snowshoe or on foot.

John Allen reportedly had nine children with his first wife Lucy, including:

They started their family in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia before moving to New Brunswick in about 1801. Daniel Sparks, wife Lucy and their seven children moved to Whites Cove along the shores of Grand Lake in Cambridge Parish, Queens County in1804 after farming for a few years in nearby Wickham. [8]

Daniel Sparks Petitioned land in Queen's County, New Brunswick in July 1802; land was originally granted to Richard Todd. Daniel Sparks was said to have cleared 12 acres, "7 Acres of which are now in Winter Grain and Summer Grain and about one Acre in Corn and Potatoes."

After farming there for a couple of years he then sold these same 12 acres of land in 1804 to Thomas Cory. Daniel on the Petition was said to be from Wickham, Queens County.

Daniel’s wife Lucy died 6 years later, March 1, 1810 in Whites Cove.

In 1810, Daniel married his second wife, Hannah (maiden name unknown), and together had four more children, including:

Daniel worked as a mill man at Whites Point, in operations established by William White (b. 1759).

The Sparks and the Drost family were very close to one another. Three Sparks women married into the family of Peter and Mary (Bradley) Drost.

Daniel died in 1847 in Whites Cove at the age of 79.

Research Notes

A Daniel Sparks is listed as living in 1783 by historian Esther Clark Wright in her famous tract on the Loyalists of New Brunswick. [9] But the profile history above establishes Daniel as born in Nova Scotia to parents who immigrated from England in 1749, not as Loyalist fleeing the American Revolution in the Thirteen Colonies in the 1780's. Could this be a different Daniel Sparks? Does anyone have access to her book to look for clarifying details and context?

Acknowledgements

The WikiTree profile Sparks-337 was created through the import of Richard Roberts Family Tree.ged on Aug 13, 2011 by Irene x.

Sources

  1. ↑ Photograph with text shared by edsparks1 on FamilySearch on 19 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "St. George Anglican Church Parish Records, Parrsboro. Nova Scotia. -- Births, Marriages, Deaths - Mary b. Dec 19 1776 d/o Robert and Joanna / Hannah b. Jan. 31 1779 2nd d/o Robert and Joanna then marriage of Robert's and Lucy's only son, Daniel b. 1768 to Lucy and finally their 1st born daughter Sarah b April 24 1787. The Rev. Thomas Shreve, in September 1787, age 32 in his first years as Rector at the St. George Anglican Church in Parrsboro, very likely travelled to Sparks Brook. He was known to serve his parish by horseback, on snowshoe or on foot. This document of BMD of the history of Robert Sparks’s family covers the previous 11 years. He would have very likely recorded this at their kitchen table in Sparks Brook." Shared on Family Search by edsparks1 on 19 May 2019.
  3. ↑ Franklin Manor was located within the Franklyn Manor District of Cumberland County, probably on the River Herbert, which flows into the Cumberland Basin in the northernmost reach of the Bay of Fundy, and just downstream of its confluence with the Halfway River, near Pettigrew Settlement and Sparks Brook, just east of the Franklin Manor Indian Reservation 22 of the Mi'kmaq Nation. See map, accessed 24 February 2024.
  4. ↑ Nova Scotia Archives. Census Returns 1767-1787. Daniel Sparks. Napan, Macan and Hebert, Cumberland County - 1785. Commissioner of Public Records, Nova Scotia Archives, RG 1, vol. 443, no. 37.
  5. ↑ Nova Scotia Archives. Township Records at the Nova Scotia Archives. Southampton Township, Cumberland County. Marriages - Southhampton Township Records. See a copy of the page listing the marriage of Daniel Sparks and Lucy Allen and their parents. Accessed 24 February 2024.
  6. ↑ St. George Anglican Church Parish Records, Parrsboro. Nova Scotia. Births, Marriages, Deaths. Recorded by the Rev. Thomas Shreve in September 1787, Rector at the St. George Anglican Church in Parrsboro. Image available on FamilySearch.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 New Brunswick Genealogical Society, Inc./Société Généalogique du Nouveau-Brunswick, Inc. First Families. Family Profiles. (membership requiresd). SPARKS: Daniel Sparks. Source: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. MC80/2895 Donald Williams’ Fayer Weather friends: the Fairweather genealogy, page 78.
  8. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/234172207/daniel-sparks: accessed 16 September 2022), memorial page for Daniel Sparks (1769–1847), Find a Grave Memorial ID 234172207, citing White's Cove United Church Cemetery, Whites Cove, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada; Maintained by Wallace Howe (contributor 50213999)
  9. ↑ Esther Clark Wright, The Loyalists of New Brunswick, Lancelot Press, Hantsport, NS, 1981. Volume/Page330. Cited by Genealogical Research Library, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s. [database on-line]. Ancestry.com. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

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Bobor-6 Rebecca Bobor
Sparks-7594 and Sparks-337 appear to represent the same person because: Same (approx) birth year, same death year and place, same findagrave reference, same child (also a duplicate, Jane “Durost”), two different wives, both mentioned in both bios
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