Richard Fogarty (1793-1840), was a merchant from Waterford, Ireland, who established a trade in provisions with St. John's in the early 1800s.
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.
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.
Flora (Blake) Baikie (1890-1988) was born in Mulligan, Labrador, to Sarah Jane and Thomas Blake. Flora Baikie’s mother died when she was 2 years old, and her grandmother, Lydia Campbell raised her, until her father married Mary Goudie. Flora married Freeman Baikie on August 4, 1910, and had 10 children.
Henry Francis Fitzsimmons (fl. 1803-1815), Catholic priest, was born in Ireland circa 1783. He was ordained a priest in the Order of St. Francis and was known in religious life as Father Luke.
In 1803, Rev. Fitzsimmons accepted an appointment as a chaplain to the Gaelic-speaking Highlanders of Lord Selkirk's colony in Prince Edward Island. When the colony later moved to Glengarry in Upper Canada, Fitzsimmons accompanied the settlers. However, the differences between Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic made his mission untenable, so he left the area and spent some time in the United States.
In 1808, Bishop Joseph Octave Plessis of Quebec gave him an appointment in the Bay of Charleurs region, with residence at Paspabiac. He left there in 1812 and came to Newfoundland, where he ministered initially in the parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, Harbour Main, and then in Holy Apostles' Parish, Renews. He left Newfoundland in 1815 and returned to Ireland, where he died circa 1819.
Rev. Fitzsimmons was described by his colleagues as slightly eccentric in his piety. He supposedly raised a flag staff with a cross upon it above a large rock at Renews where he celebrated the mass. Later, the site was commonly referred to by the residents of Renews as the "Mass Rock."
William FitzPatrick (1846-1881), Catholic priest, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, on 23 January 1846, the son of William and Mary (Morey) Fitzpatrick. After completing high school at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1866), he began his studies for the priesthood at All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Thomas Joseph Power in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's in 1870.
Rev. FitzPatrick served as a curate at the Cathedral Parish in St. John's from 1870-72. In 1872, he was appointed a professor at St. Bonaventure's College, and he became president of the college in 1878. He died of tuberculosis in St. John's 4 January 1881. He was buried in his family's plot, Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's.
Shortly after his death, an article in The Adelphian, a St. Bonaventure's publication, noted that during his time at the college, Rev. FitzPatrick had been in ill-health and had often been confined to his room. Nevertheless, he made a significant impact on the students. He was also a supporter of the Irish Christian Brothers, providing accommodations for them in St. Bonaventure's College during the construction of Mount St. Francis Monastery.
Ambrose Fitzpatrick (1787-1818), Catholic priest, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. As a young man, he entered the Order of St. Francis, and was ordained a Franciscan friar.
Rev. Fitzpatrick arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland circa 1800 at the invitation of Bishop James Louis O'Donel, Vicar Apostolic of Newfoundland. He was appointed parish priest at Harbour Grace, succeeding Rev. Patrick Phelan, who had drowned in 1799. Fitzpatrick remained at this parish from 1800 to 1806. From 1806 to1815, he served as a parish priest in the ecclesiastical district of Ferryland, with his residence at Ferryland.
In July 1815, Fitzpatrick left Newfoundland for Prince Edward Island, with the permission of Patrick Lambert, Vicar Apostolic of Newfoundland, to seek a new appointment in a warmer climate. Bishop Joseph Octave Plessis of Quebec, whose jurisdiction included the territory of Prince Edward Island, initially questioned Fitzpatrick's clerical credentials. Nonetheless, the bishop eventually instructed his vicar general, Rev. MacEachern, to place Fitzpatrick in spiritual charge of the people in Charlottetown, where he ministered for approximately one year.
In a letter dated 30 April 1816 (Archives of the Diocese of Charlottetown), Rev. MacEachern wrote: "In one of my excursions visiting the sick late in the fall to Three Rivers and East Point, Mr. Fitzpatrick took his departure in a transport for Halifax. I never heard of him since but learned the other day that he was to return to Newfoundland...." Fitzpatrick went to Boston in 1818. The place and date of his death are unknown.