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Hello – trying to see if I can uncover more information (or confirm/correct information) about my Dumeresq ancestors. My great-grandfather was Louis P. Dumeresq (bn. March 7, 1850 in L’anse au Cotard), son of Philip (bn. abt. 1824 perhaps in Blanc Sablon) and Adelaide Taylor Pike (bn. 1833 in Carbonear, Newfoundland). I’m confused by a photo of a newspaper article about the family.
see – https://www.flickr.com/photos/eewolff/2340197129/in/photostream/
The article (reprinted from Diocesan magazine 1930) retells the story of a shipwreck and the recue by the Dumeresq’s of a young woman with the last name of Pike. The person telling the story indicates that she (Pike) married a friend of the Dumeresq’s from East St Modeste by the name of Henry Lilly. According to my research my great-great grandfather Philip married Adelaide Taylor Pike (of Carbonnear, NF) in West St Modeste about 1848. To make me more confused Philip had an older brother, James, who married a woman named Melvina Lily, (close to the spelling of Henry Lilly’s last name). If anyone that knowledge of this/these family could give me more information it would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
MaureenHi. They are my third great grandparents. Adelaide born Feb 1834 in Carbonear. Baptized June 8, 1834 in Methodist church. Philip was her first husband. She later married Abraham Hudson at WSM in 1875. Philip’s family came from Channel Islands and Adelaide’s from QC.
According to the Diocesan Magazine article a Ms. Pike married Henry Lilly’s father (and became Henry’s parents).
Hi Tom,
Ok so sounds like we have the same Adelaide Pike in common. I did not know that she remarried. I have the Philip died in 1870 so sounds likely. Do you think the ‘Miss Pike’ in the article who married Henry Lilly is our Adelaide Pike? I wish I could find a marriage record of ‘Miss Pike’ to Henry Lilly, maybe that Pike had a different fist name. I find the story if the shipwreck interesting because my father (94) tells us that his grandparents meet by a shipwreck in Labrador but the story may actually be that his great-grantparents meet that way.
Are you descended from Selina Dumeresq and Edward Beals?Yes. Adelaide married Philip D (1824-1870) in 1848. She then married Abraham Hudson (1851-1905) on 12 Mar 1875.
Diocesan mag states “the story told
by Mr. Henry Lilly, of how his father
and mother met and wed well on for seventy years before”. So it would be his parents that wed (Ms. Pike and Henry’s father). I will ask some family members who may know which Pike married Henry’s father.They are my gggrandparents. Do you have anything on his father Henry Beals?? Thanks.
Hi Anthony,
I don’t really have any information on the Beals except that Edward Beals married my great-grand aunt Selina Dumeresq (bn about Jan. 1951 L’ Anse au Cotard). She seems to have had 10 children, Henry (bn abt 1880).Thanks. Still looking for info on who Ms. Pike was. My cousin says he thinks it was someone from Red Bay. It’s too bad the article didn’t give the ships name.
Hummm…the ship was going from Halifax to Carbonear so I made the jump that ‘Miss Pike’ was from Carbonear and my gggrandmother Adelaide Pike was born in/near Carbonear. I will keep digging too. Thanks for looking.
Let me know if you can open this link – http://ngb.chebucto.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=654&p=8391&hilit=Henry+Lilly#p8391
It shows Henry Lilly’s parents as being a Pike and Lilly but the dates don’t match the date of the shipwreck, which is either 1860 or 1880 as both are mentioned in that article.
Yes I see it, thank you. And you’re right, they dates are way off. The whole thread is kinda confusing to follow…I think I would need to make a timeline and tree of all those people! I did just send an email to the staff of the Gateway to Labrador Visitor Centre in L’Anse-au-Clair and a staff member is going to forward my question to family members still in the area, so I may be able to get some information from them too.
There was a post on the thread that I also found interesting, when the writer was discussing when William Lilly left MA afterthe Battle of Lexington, a ‘United Empire Loyalist’ he called him. My 3rd great-grandfather, James Dumeresq, married Marie Louise Bonenfant. Marie’s father was Thomas Bonenfant but he was born (1758) as Thomas Goodchild in Boston, MA. He left the Colonies before or during the Revolutionary War. I am amazed by the information found in the Colonial Secretary’s Letterbook…even though not my family members it was so interesting to read. It’s amazing what is out there.
Thanks for your help!
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