The Flower's Cove Parish is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. From 198?-1995, it included what is now the Green Island Parish. From 196?-198?, it included what is now the Plum Point Parish.
Churches include:
St. Matthew (Anchor Point)
St. Barnabas (Flower's Cove)
St. Boniface (Bear Cove)
St. Mark (Savage Cove)
St. Andrew (Eddie's Cove East)
St. Andrew (Green Island)
St. Andrew (Green Island Brook)
St. Andrew (Pines Cove)
St. Thomas (Sandy Cove)
St. Mary's (Black Duck Cove)
Church of the Advent (Plum Point)
St. Margaret (Reef's Harbour)
St. Paul (Main Brook)
Churches in: St. Barbe, Blue Cove, Brig Bay, Shoal Cove, Englee, and Roddickton.
Stephen Flynn (1850-1899), Catholic priest, was born in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on 25 January 1850, the son of Michael and Catherine (Fleming) Flynn. He trained for the priesthood from 1868 to 1874, and was ordained a priest in June 1875 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Harbour Grace, by Enrico Carfagnini, Bishop of Harbour Grace.
Rev. Flynn served as pastor of St. Patrick's Parish, Carbonear (1876-79) and as the parish priest of the newly-established St. Anne's Parish, Fortune Harbour (1879-85). In July 1883, he visited Mi'kmaq communities along the northeast coast of Newfoundland with Bishop Ronald MacDonald, Harbour Grace. In 1885, Flynn was appointed the parish priest of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Little Bay, Notre Dame Bay, where he ministered from 1885 to 1899.
Rev. Flynn died on 14 August 1899 at Little Bay. He was buried in the priests' plot of the Catholic cemetery at Harbour Grace.
Richard Fogarty (1793-1840), was a merchant from Waterford, Ireland, who established a trade in provisions with St. John's in the early 1800s.
John Forrestall (1812-1850), Catholic priest, was born in the parish of Montecoign (Mooncoin), County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1812. He was a brother of Archdeacon William Forrestall. After completing his education in the national school system of Ireland, Forestall studied for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary College, Waterford, Ireland. In the spring of 1838, he arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he was ordained a priest by Michael A. Fleming, Bishop of Newfoundland, in September 1838.
Following a devastating fire in St. John's in 1846, a committee was appointed and organized under the acting Governor of Newfoundland, and later directed by Governor Gaspard LeMarchant, to supervise the work of relieving the distressed and adjudicating their complaints and grievances. Rev. Forrestall was appointed to the committee with the observation: "No one knows better than your Reverence the hardships, the diseases, and the deaths entailed on the unhappy inmates by such exposure to the severities of this inclement climate."
Rev. Forrestall was also a member of the Roman Catholic School Board for St. John's in 1849. He died 11 November 1850 from tuberculosis, which he contracted while ministering to the sick.
The Forward family includes the descendants of George and Susanna Forward. George Forward (1786-1857), clerk, merchant, shipowner, was the son of Susannah (Hassell) and Ambrose Forward, a well-to-do cloth merchant of Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Forward married Susanna Taylor of Harbour Grace in 1815. He died in 1879.
Forward immigrated to Newfoundland with his brother Charles (b. 1783) in the early 1800s to work for one of the Poole mercantile firms in Carbonear. By the 1820s, the brothers had struck out on their own as planters. In 1825, he was part-owner, with his brother Charles, in a schooner. Charles does not appear to have had much part of the Forward business beyond the 1820s. George, however, accumulated considerable wealth and property, and was very active in public life.
In the 1830s, Forward formed a partnership with William Willis Bemister of Carbonear. They purchased the mercantile premises in Carbonear of Slade, Biddle & Company, a Poole firm that became insolvent. Forward's company became one of the principal mercantile firms in Conception Bay, engaging in the import-export trade, supplying and operating vessels in the cod and seal fisheries, purchasing fish, seal skins and other commodities, and dealing with fishing families as the truck (or credit) system. Forward also was deeply involved in the Labrador cod fishery. Between 1825 and 1857, his name was associated with the ownership of 16 vessels. In 1839, he supplied five vessels for the seal hunt, four of which he owned. In 1842, he purchased shares in the Newfoundland Steam Navigation Company. He also had interests in the Mutual Insurance Company of Conception Bay and was a Justice of the Peace for Carbonear district (from 1849 onwards).
Sons Henry and Mark Foward became master-mariners for other firms. Henry later become lighthouse keeper on Carbonear Island. The family home, referred to as "The Mansion," later devolved to his son Mark.
George Forward (1786-1857), clerk, merchant, shipowner, was the son of Susannah (Hassell) and Ambrose Forward, a well-to-do cloth merchant of Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Forward married Susanna Taylor of Harbour Grace in 1815. He died in 1857.
Forward immigrated to Newfoundland with his brother Charles (b. 1783) in the early 1800s to work for one of the Poole mercantile firms in Carbonear. By the 1820s, the brothers had struck out on their own as planters. In 1825, they were co-owners of a schooner. Charles does not appear to have had much part of the Forward business beyond the 1820s. George, however, accumulated considerable wealth and property, and was very active in public life.
In the 1830s, Forward formed a partnership with William Willis Bemister of Carbonear. They purchased the mercantile premises in Carbonear of Slade, Biddle & Company, a Poole firm that became insolvent. Forward's company became one of the principal mercantile firms in Conception Bay, engaging in the import-export trade, supplying and operating vessels in the cod and seal fisheries, purchasing fish, seal skins and other commodities, and dealing with fishing families as the truck (or credit) system. Forward was deeply involved in the Labrador cod fishery. Between 1825 and 1857, his name was associated with the ownership of 16 vessels. In 1839, he supplied five vessels for the seal hunt, four of which he owned. In 1842 he purchased shares in the Newfoundland Steam Navigation Company. He also had interest in the Mutual Insurance Company of Conception Bay and was a Justice of the Peace for Carbonear district from 1849 onward.
Forward operated a very successful trade until he died at the age of 71 years. He lived on an estate in Burnt Head, which he acquired in several parcels from previous owners. His home, referred to as "The Mansion," is believed to have been purchased for him by his father. It later devolved to his son Mark.