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Ruck, Thomas
Persona · 1659-[172-]

Thomas Ruck Jr. (1659-172-), New England shipowner and merchant, was born on 9 July 1659 in Salem, Massachusetts, son of Damaris (Buffum) and Thomas Ruck (d. 1704), and one of seven children. Thomas Ruck Jr. married Mary Clark on 18 September 1708. His death date is not currently known.

Ruck was a mariner and a vessel owner. He was listed as master of the brig Fraternity (1706), part-owner of the brig Dolphin (1710) and master of the brig Swallow (1711). His firm, Thomas Ruck & Company, was extensively involved in the Newfoundland trade during the period 1713-22. Ruck dealt with Newfoundland planters (settlers) and English migratory fishing crews in harbours and coves along the English Shore, from Ferryland to Bonavista. Most of his dealings, however, were concentrated in St. John's and adjacent outports, including Petty Harbour, Bay Bulls, Quidi Vidi and Torbay. Ruck specialized in bartering West Indian products, rum and molasses, and New England produce, foodstuffs, hardware and lumber, for salted cod. He also sold supplies for bills of exchange.

Ruck was one of many New England traders (or, as they were sometimes called, " hucksters" or "interlopers") involved in the Newfoundland trade in the early eighteenth century, playing an important role in supplying early settlers.

Fitzsimmons, Henry Francis
Persona · fl.1803-1815

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."

Kitchen, William Philip Hogan
Persona · 1879-1946

William Philip Hogan Kitchen (1879-1946), Catholic priest and author, was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, on 26 May 1879, son of Mary Josephine (Hogan) and Thomas Kitchen. He died at St. Clare's Mercy Hospital, St. John's, on 4 September 1946. He was buried in Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's.

Kitchen completed his primary and elementary education in St. Patrick's Hall School, St. John's and his high school education in St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1889-96). In October 1896 he matriculated (first division) from the University of London. Kitchen pursued his studies for the priesthood at the Sulpician Seminary of Issy, Paris, France, where he studied philosophy (1896-1898). He enrolled as a student in the University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, where he completed his doctoral course of studies in philosophy. He completed his four year course of studies in theology in the University Seminary of Louvain (1898-1902), under the direction of Monsignor Mercier, who subsequently became Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlin, Belgium. Kitchen was ordained a priest in Louvain on 2 May 1902.

Rev. Kitchen served as a curate in St. Patrick's Parish, St. John's (1902-06), and in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Parish, St. John's. In May 1907 Kitchen was appointed as parish priest of the newly established St. Joseph's Parish, St. John's. While there he supervised the construction of a church and convent. In January 1921 he returned to St. Patrick's Parish as Rector, and remained there until 1932. In November 1925 he was named a Domestic Prelate by Pope Pius XI, with the title of Monsignor. In 1932 Archbishop Edward Patrick Roche appointed Rev. Reardon as Vicar General of the Archdiocese, and acting Administrator of the Cathedral Parish, positions he occupied up until the time of his death.

Kitchen also published extensively. His literary works appeared for many years in many American and European periodicals.

Lambert, Patrick
Persona · 1754-1816

Patrick Lambert (1754-1816), Catholic bishop, was born in Gurtinminogue, Kildavin, County Wexford, Ireland in 1754. He died in a friary in Waterford, Ireland, on September 1816.

Lambert joined the Order of Friars Minor at Capranica, Italy in 1775. In that year he also began his studies for the priesthood at St. Isidore's College, Rome. He was ordained as a priest in Rome (1776) as a member of the Franciscan Community at Wexford, where he was engaged as a professor of a seminary attached to the convent. In 1781 he was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at St. Anthony's College, Louvain, Belgium. Between 1783 and 1805 Rev. Lambert was active in the administration of the Franciscan order. In 1783 he was appointed guardian of St. Isidore's Friary in Rome, returning to Ireland in 1785. In 1794 he was elected one of the definitors (consultors) to the Reverend Provincial, with residence in Wexford, (1794-1801). In 1803 he was elected custos (assistant provincial) of the Irish Franciscans and a few months later, on the death of the Provincial, he became Vicar Provincial.

On 2 August 1805 Lambert was appointed by Pope Pius VII as Vicar-Apostolic of Newfoundland, with the right of succession to Bishop James O'Donel. Lambert was consecrated Bishop on 4 May 1806 in the old Franciscan church in Wexford; he became Vicar Apostolic of Newfoundland on 1 January 1807.

During his episcopate, tolerance towards Catholics became noticeable, the penal restrictions became more relaxed and the Roman Catholic population rapidly increased. In 1807 Lambert covered about 60 miles of coastline and confirmed 7400 people while visiting Conception Bay. During his tenure of office he brought several new priests to Newfoundland from Ireland. He extended the old chapel on Henry Street, St. John's and built a comfortable wooden building, which he used as an episcopal residence and an administrative centre. Before his death the government granted Lambert's request for the first Roman Catholic cemetery in Newfoundland and the right for Roman Catholic priests to witness the marriages of Catholics.

Bishop Lambert's health began to fail around 1813 and he left Newfoundland in 1815. He died at Wexford, Ireland, on 23 September 1816.

Barrett, Barbara
Persona · 1922-

Barbara Bettine Micklethwaite Barrett (1922 - ), journalist, dramatist, teacher, musician, actress and director, was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, on 3 November 1922, the daughter of Edith Eveline (Dredge) and Irvin Micklethwaite. She married Arthur Barrett of Curling, Newfoundland, during World War II. They had two children: Helena Margaret and John Irvin.

Barrett attended Greenhead High School and the local technical college in Huddersfield. She subsequently trained under prominent drama directors at Bishop Otter College, Cirencester, England, Memorial University of Newfoundland and York University, Toronto.

During World War II, Barbara was an air raid warden volunteer and a farm labourer in England, where she met and married Arthur Barrett. In 1946 they moved to Newfoundland and subsequently lived in several locations, including Curling, Gander, Corner Brook, Stephenville and St. John's.

Barrett played a prominent role in promoting the performing arts in Newfoundland and in preparing dramatic groups for annual provincial drama festivals. She founded the Avion Players, Gander and, together with her husband Arthur, was associated with the establishment of the Gander Community Centre. She was a member of the Stephenville Players and the Corner Brook Playmakers. She became involved with local theatre in St. John's and was, for 17 years, artistic director of Basement Theatre at the St. John's Arts and Culture Centre. She was also founder and director of the Phoenix Theatre Group.

Barrett was also active as a writer and journalist. She wrote columns for The Western Star newspaper (Corner Brook) called "Tots & Teens" (under the pseudonym Ivy Joyce) and "War Brides Corner." In Gander, she interviewed prominent figures whose flights took them through the international airport, continued her "Tots & Teens" column and wrote "Gander Notes." She also served as a correspondent for the International News Service in New York and the Canadian Press. In Stephenville, she was the local correspondent for The Western Star, contributed to the Officer' Wives Club magazine, Howl, and was moderator of a public affairs program on CFSN-TV "Face to Face In Newfoundland," a program continued at CBYT-TV in Corner Brook (1964-73). In 1992 she hosted a series of interviews on VOWR Radio with performers involved with music and the theatre in St. John's.

During her career, Barrett was associated with the presentation of 1014 shows, including both professional and amateur productions. Up to 1991 she had directed more than 40 plays and adjudicated at numerous high school and adult drama festivals. She wrote plays for various groups and instructional guides in playmaking. Barrett nurtured numerous performers, including Joan Morrissey, Maxim Mazumdar, Sylvia Wigh, Jim Payne, Ed Kavanagh and Michael Cook, as well as numerous theatrical groups and school drama classes. Barrett was artistic director of the annual Summer Festival for nine years and co-authored scripts for the 1980 series of shows. She directed cultural activities for the Canada Summer Games '77 and co-chaired Soiree '88, the centenary celebration of municipal government in St. John's. In the 1980s, Barbara was a member of a committee that developed a performing arts course for the province's high schools.

Barrett received many citations, including awards for best director and best production. In the early 1960s, she was a nominee for citizen of the year award in Stephenville. In 1995, she received the Order of Canada for her work in community and theatre. In April 2003, she was made honorary life member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Society. Still very active in her 80s, Barrett won the award of best supporting actress at the 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival.

Burgess, Samuel
Persona · 1790-1833

Samuel Burgess (1790-1833), Catholic priest, was a Franciscan, originally from Ireland, although his date and place of birth are unknown. It is documented, however, that he was Guardian of the Convent at Roscrea, County Galway in 1815.

Rev. Burgess arrived in Newfoundland circa 1820 and returned to Ireland circa 1827. He died at Cork, circa 1833. Burgess signed the sacramental registers with the initials SFFB and SFB. Little else is currently known about Rev. Burgess.

Hunter, George W.
Persona · [18-]

George W. Hunter was a shipping agent and commission merchant of Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Hunter had moved to Boston by 1855. The Boston Directory for that year shows that Hunter and Thomas W. Johnson were doing business at 6 Commercial Wharf as commission merchants under the name of Thomas L. DeWolf and Co. By 1860, the DeWolf name had been dropped, with their interests handled by the firm of Johnson, Hunter and Company at 5 Commercial Wharf. Five years later, the office was moved to 1 Commercial Wharf, where the successor firms of Hunter Ryder and Crawley (1869) and George W. Hunter & Co. (1870-1875?) conducted business. When the 1869 partnership broke up, Benjamin Crawley, possibly from Nova Scotia, opened his own office in Philadelphia. Hunter's last partner was George Lovitt, who may have been connected with the Lovitts of Yarmouth.

Stone, Harry
Persona · 1914-

Captain Harry (Henry W.) Stone (1914- ), mariner, marine inspector, and harbour master, was born at Monroe, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in 1914. He married Ethel Eileen Hewitt, Halifax, Nova Scotia. They have two children.

Stone went to sea at the age of 14, initially employed as a deck hand on a schooner. He commanded two home trading vessels before earning his mate's coastwise certificate. Stone took his master's home trade certificate in order to join the navy in 1941, and worked with the Atlantic Convoy as head officer on a fleetsweeper. Following 1943, he was stationed overseas, on a minesweeper in the English Channel and the Irish Sea.

After the war, Stone received his first mate's foreign going certificate and made frequent voyages to the Falkland Islands and the Antarctic. In 1957 he accepted employment with the federal Department of Transport in St. John's as a tackle inspector on cargo ships. In 1960 he was appointed St. John's harbour master, a position he retained until his retirement in 1979.

Clarke, Michael J.
Persona · 1845-1914

Michael J. Clarke (1845-1914), Catholic priest, was born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1845. He died from cancer on 24 June 1914.

From the age of thirteen Clarke attended Carmelite College, Clondalkin, Ireland. In 1863 Clarke entered St. Patrick's College, Carlow, Dublin, to study for the priesthood.

Following the completion of his course of studies at the college, Clark was invited by Bishop Power to serve in the Diocese of St. John's. He was ordained a priest, by Bishop Power on 24 June 1871. Rev. Clark was initially stationed as a curate in Fortune Bay area (1871-73). He was subsequently appointed as a curate in Holy Rosary Parish, Portugal Cove, under the pastoral leadership of Archdeacon Thomas O'Connor. Rev. Clarke was assigned responsibility for Torbay, where he resided, and where he exercised an active ministry from 1873-84. When Torbay was erected as a parish in 1884, Clarke was appointed as the first parish priest (1884-1911). While there, Rev. Clark supervised the construction of a convent, rectory, hall and several schools.

Rev. Clark also initiated the foundation of a Total Abstinence Society for the moral and social betterment of his parishioners (On 8 November 1909, he was awarded $3,000 for a libel action he had taken against a local newspaper, the Plaindealer.) In the spring of 1911 he retired from active work due to impaired health and returned to Ireland, taking up residence in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin.

Willoughby, Percival
Persona · fl.1606-1643

Percival Willoughby (fl.1606-1643), settlement promoter, council member of the Newfoundland Company, member of parliament, was born into the Kentish branch of the house of Willoughby d'Eresby in the latter sixteenth century. He married his kinswoman, Bridget (also spelled Bridgett) heiress of Francis Willoughby of Wollaton, Nottingham, and acquired substantial property in both Kent and Nottingham. They had at least three sons, one of whom, Thomas, was also involved in the Newfoundland ventures. Willoughby died in England in 1643.

The Nottingham estate was riddled with debt, and by 1606, Willoughby was threatened by the prospect of debtors' prison. Lured by the promise of iron, copper, and silver profits in North America, he became a subscriber and council member of the Newfoundland Company, probably influenced by a major creditor, John Slany, the company's treasurer. But like other members, he was also genuinely interested in establishing a self-sufficient colony on the island and developing its fishing, agricultural, potash, and mineral potential. Two years later, he also became subscriber to the Virginia Company, but the focus of his interest remained the Newfoundland venture.

Willoughby's anticipated allotment lay between Conception and Trinity Bays, north of a line drawn between Carbonear and Heart's Content. In 1612, he sent his wayward third son, Thomas, with his agent Henry Crout and six apprentices, to the company's colony at Cuper's Cove (Cupids). He also sent a surveyor named Oliney to survey his lot and Bartholomew Pearson from the Wollaton estate to assess its agricultural capacity. Few of the party were impressed. Only Crout expressed any hope of the land's potential in mineral wealth. Faced with disappointing prospects, the hostility of migratory fishermen, and the coastal raiding of pirate Peter Easton, Thomas returned home in 1613, only to incur his father's wrath for lack of commitment. Sir Percival relented in 1615, intending to transfer the title of his Newfoundland lot to Thomas and another son, Edward. In 1616, he sent Thomas back to Newfoundland. But Thomas' name was written out of the family pedigree by 1631, suggesting that his father finally disowned him.

Before this estrangement, Thomas advised his father: "If efver you looke for your monney agayne in this country you must send fisher men." (1616). Unfortunately, Sir Percival did not heed his son's counsel. Although his lot included the rich fishing grounds off Baccalieu Island, Willoughby continued to pursue his hopes of mineral wealth. He was not successful in persuading the company to grant him the rich iron ores of Bell Island. During 1616-17, Willoughby also purchased a half share in the company for his son Edward from John Browne, and then tried to inveigle the company into granting the valuable St. John's lot to Browne without mentioning that his son was Browne's partner. This effort was also unsuccessful. When Willoughby officially accepted his allotment in 1617, it was for the original, more northerly portion.

In 1618, Willoughby entered into a partnership with William Hannam and Thomas Rowley, transferring to them his share of land in Trinity Bay for a nominal rent and their commitment to explore the potential of farming, mineral deposits, and trade with the Aboriginals. Constant squabbling and Willoughby's distrustful nature drove the partners apart within a few years. By 1626, Willoughby was in danger of losing the Trinity Bay portion of his lot because he had not managed to find colonists, thus defaulting on one of the conditions set by the company. His creditor John Slany managed to maintain the company on Willoughby's behalf, but with very little thanks from Willoughby, who claimed that his investment, so far from turning a profit, had actually cost him about œ500.

By 1631, Willoughby was negotiating with Nicholas Guy to settle on his land. Guy had been on the island since 1612 and had already moved from Cuper's Cove to Carbonear, where he was fishing and farming profitably in 1631. No further evidence of Willoughby's involvement in Newfoundland exists beyond Guy's letter to him of 1 September 1631. Despite various setbacks, Willoughby's interest in Newfoundland had lasted for at least twenty-one years, making him one of the island's most tenacious, if not most successful, promoters of settlement.