PivinFamily20150813 - Person Sheet
Misc. Notes
Laurence and Margaret (Farrell) Kavanagh, emigrated from Waterford, Ireland, to Cape Breton, in 1760
The following is an attempt to relate the houses designated in the plan and map of 1768 (MAC 146), prepared by Lieutenant-Governor Franklin and Samuel Holland, respectively, to the Block numbers used by the French: French Block No. - Occupied By: - State - type - 1768 Map & House Numbers #4, Storehouse of Mr. Kavanagh, Merchant, tolerable, wood, 109 Mr. Kavanagh, Merchant, tolerable, wood, 110
CHIEF INHABITANTS DURING THE BRITISH GARRISON OCCUPATION
Most of the information concerning the civilian population can only be found in selections and memorials of the time. The petition of Louisbourg inhabitants in 1766 gave the names Moses Freeman, Sam Blackden, Richard Wheeler, William Russell, I. Rockett, Alexander Ley, Thomas Wheeler, Thomas Merthe [?], Matthew Roe [Rowe?], John Moss, John Ley, Lawrence Kavanagh, and William Brimigion. [28]
An enclosure in a letter of Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Imperial authorities in 1767 gave a list of inhabitants of Louisbourg, who had been residents in that area for at least seven to eight years, and who had been granted, by the Government of Nova Scotia, licences of occupation for land to be used in the extension of their fisheries. Francklin expressed the wish that the expenses of these people be considered in order that they "may not become sufferers when a distribution of these lands shall take place". The names designated were John Robin, who received "a fish lot at Peter de Grale"; G. Cottnam, who was issued "six hundred acres at Little Lorembec or Gordon Harbour"; William Russell - "a Lot at the north East Point of Louisbourg Harbour with sixty acres adjoining a lot on the harbour of Labaleine. A lot in Little Bradore with the Gardens belonging to them, and five hundred acres at said Bradore"; Lawrence Cavanaugh and James Gethings - "Five hundred acres between the west end of Little Saint Peters and the East end of Port Lewis". [29] All seemed to have been expanding their fishing operations beyond the bounds of Louisbourg.
Moses "Mogue" Doyle the fore father of the Margaree Doyles came to St. Peter's, Richmond County, Cape Breton around 1799 and worked with or for his uncle, Lawrence Kavanagh. He applied for Lot of Land at Cap Le Rond in the Bay of St. Peter's. Before receiving the grant, he returned to Ireland in 1802 or 1803 after the passing of the Act of Settlement which granted pardon to the Irish Rebels.
The following is an attempt to relate the houses designated in the plan and map of 1768 (MAC 146), prepared by Lieutenant-Governor Franklin and Samuel Holland, respectively, to the Block numbers used by the French: French Block No. - Occupied By: - State - type - 1768 Map & House Numbers #4, Storehouse of Mr. Kavanagh, Merchant, tolerable, wood, 109 Mr. Kavanagh, Merchant, tolerable, wood, 110
CHIEF INHABITANTS DURING THE BRITISH GARRISON OCCUPATION
Most of the information concerning the civilian population can only be found in selections and memorials of the time. The petition of Louisbourg inhabitants in 1766 gave the names Moses Freeman, Sam Blackden, Richard Wheeler, William Russell, I. Rockett, Alexander Ley, Thomas Wheeler, Thomas Merthe [?], Matthew Roe [Rowe?], John Moss, John Ley, Lawrence Kavanagh, and William Brimigion. [28]
An enclosure in a letter of Lieutenant-Governor Francklin to Imperial authorities in 1767 gave a list of inhabitants of Louisbourg, who had been residents in that area for at least seven to eight years, and who had been granted, by the Government of Nova Scotia, licences of occupation for land to be used in the extension of their fisheries. Francklin expressed the wish that the expenses of these people be considered in order that they "may not become sufferers when a distribution of these lands shall take place". The names designated were John Robin, who received "a fish lot at Peter de Grale"; G. Cottnam, who was issued "six hundred acres at Little Lorembec or Gordon Harbour"; William Russell - "a Lot at the north East Point of Louisbourg Harbour with sixty acres adjoining a lot on the harbour of Labaleine. A lot in Little Bradore with the Gardens belonging to them, and five hundred acres at said Bradore"; Lawrence Cavanaugh and James Gethings - "Five hundred acres between the west end of Little Saint Peters and the East end of Port Lewis". [29] All seemed to have been expanding their fishing operations beyond the bounds of Louisbourg.
Moses "Mogue" Doyle the fore father of the Margaree Doyles came to St. Peter's, Richmond County, Cape Breton around 1799 and worked with or for his uncle, Lawrence Kavanagh. He applied for Lot of Land at Cap Le Rond in the Bay of St. Peter's. Before receiving the grant, he returned to Ireland in 1802 or 1803 after the passing of the Act of Settlement which granted pardon to the Irish Rebels.