Black Cat Cemetery Preservation Survey –
In June, Robyn Lacey and Ian Patey of Black Cat Preservation submitted a detailed survey of the 235 headstones in Greenspond that need repairs. They documented every stone they could locate in each site with a photo, details of the deceased, and their recommendation for repair. In total, there are 235 gravestones across seven burial grounds that need restoration work. The Greenspond Historical Society (GHS) is working with Robyn and Ian on restoring every cemetery in Greenspond. We also had people contact us about cemeteries in resettled communities such as Port Nelson, Newells Island and Pinchard’s Island.
If anyone would like a copy the Survey please email me, lindawhite@nl.rogers.com and I will send you a copy.
There were eight (8) burial grounds on the island of Greenspond, NL. Seven (7) of these sites have historic gravestones present, and 235 gravestones were identified during this survey, detailed in the Survey. Work was carried out on June 13-14, 2022. Sites were given arbitrary letters to identify them for the purposes of this project. Those denotations are as follows:
- Site A – ‘Sailors’ Grave’
- Site B – Old United Church Cemetery
- Site C – Roman Catholic Burial Ground
- Site D – Unnamed Burial Ground D
- Site E – New United Church Cemetery
- Site F – Salvation Army Cemetery
- Site G – New Anglican Cemetery
- Site H – Old Anglican Cemetery
Site A was identified near English Harbour by individuals on the Greenspond Historical Society Facebook page, but we were unable to locate anything on the surface to identify the site. It is not included in this report, as a result. * Update: Thanks to Edgar Blackwood this cemetery was located –
Appendices 1-7 detail the gravestones which are recommended for restoration in the future. When possible, the names of individuals commemorated are noted in this memo to aid in identifying the gravestones. The gravestones have also been given arbitrary numbers (e.g. B001), for the site and stone, for our records. Some gravestones at Sites B and C were buried and unable to be photographed. Stone condition is assessed as Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor, as noted during the fieldwork. The appendices will also include material type for each gravestone.
All recommendations for gravestone restoration follow the most up-to-date ‘do no harm’ conservation practices utilized by gravestone conservators within North America.
Two burial grounds have been designated with Borden numbers. Borden number is a number assigned to Canadian archeologists by their licencing agency for each site researched. The number notes a co-ordinate on a gridded map for all of Canada. A Borden number is a number from a map of Canada with a grid, created by an archaeologist named Borden. Each region in the grid has a letter and number co-ordinate, so site locations can be mapped across Canada. This number goes on all reports about the site and on all the things from the site. Without a Borden number, an archaeologist cannot work properly or legally in Canada.
- Wings Island Burial Ground: Borden Number: DgAj-07
- Roman Catholic Burial Ground: Borden Number: DgAj-08
The following headstones were identified as needing repairs:
Old United Church Cemetery
- Gravestone B-001 House, George
- Gravestone B-002 Lang (Right)
- Gravestone B-003 Lang (Left)
- Gravestone B-004 Lang (in Lang Plot)
- Gravestone B-005 Lang
- Gravestone B-006 Unknown
- Gravestone B-007 Bishop, Richard
- Gravestone B-008 Burry, Henry
- Gravestone B-009 James D.
- Gravestone B-010 Anne
- Gravestone B-011 Oakley, Louisa
- Gravestone B-012 Unknown, left of Louisa. Footstone reads JTO
- Gravestone B-013 Julia
- Gravestone B-014 Unknown, right of Julia
- Gravestone B-015 Baxter, Robert and Leah
- Gravestone B-016 John W.
- Gravestone B-017 Burton, Louisa
- Gravestone B-018 Granger, Robert
- Gravestone B-019 Bourne, Martin
- Gravestone B-020 Burry, Mary
- Gravestone B-021 Robert
- Gravestone B-022 Unknown
- Gravestone B-023 Unknown
- Gravestone B-024 Unknown
- Gravestone B-025 Unknown
- Gravestone B-026 Burry, Benjamin
- Gravestone B-027 Unknown
- Gravestone B-028 Burry, Isaac
- Gravestone B-029 Unknown
- Gravestone B-030 Unknown
- Gravestone B-031 Unknown
- Gravestone B-032 Unknown
- Gravestone B-033 Unknown
- Gravestone B-034 Unknown
- Gravestone B-035 Unknown
- Gravestone B-036 Unknown
New United Church Cemetery
- Gravestone E-001 Lush, Hannah
- Gravestone E-002 Burry, George
- Gravestone E-003 Unknown
- Gravestone E-004 Lush, Henry Thomas
- Gravestone E-005 Meadus, Emily
- Gravestone E-006 Meadus, Malachi
- Gravestone E-007 Burgess, James
- Gravestone E-008 Burgess, Effie
- Gravestone E-009 Harding, James
- Gravestone E-010 Osmond, Walter
- Gravestone E-011 Osmond, Julia Annette
- Gravestone E-012 Cheater, John
- Gravestone E-013 Cheater, James
- Gravestone E-014 Saunders, Frederick
- Gravestone E-015 Meadus
- Gravestone E-016 House, George and Myra
- Gravestone E-017 Unknown
- Gravestone E-018 White, Maryanne
- Gravestone E-019 Burton
- Gravestone E-020 Burry, Thomas Wilber
- Gravestone E-021 Norris, Joanna and Easton, Richard
- Gravestone E-022 Burton, Josephine
- Gravestone E-023 Wicks, Stanley
- Gravestone E-024 Stratton, Stephen
- Gravestone E-025 Burton
- Gravestone E-026 Hiscock, Drucilla
- Gravestone E-027 Joshua and Ellen levinia
- Gravestone E-028 Coward, Arthur
- Gravestone E-029 Coward, Hannah
- Gravestone E-030 Coward, Minnie
- Gravestone E-031 Stratten, Joseph
- Gravestone E-32 Dominy, James
- Gravestone E-033 Hay, Sarah
- Gravestone E-034 Unknown
- Gravestone E-035 Maidment, Rhoda
- Gravestone E-036 White, Eunice
- Gravestone E-037 Rebecca
- Gravestone E-038 Bourne, Edward
- Gravestone E-039 Bourne Obelisk
- Gravestone E -040 Bourne Tablet
- Gravestone E-041 Marjorie
- Gravestone E-042 Unknown
- Gravestone E-043 Burry, Alexander
- Gravestone E-044 Burry, Julia Ann
- Gravestone E-045 Burton, Deborah
- Gravestone E-046 Meadus, Mary Frances
- Gravestone E-047 Harding, Peter
New Anglican Cemetery
- Gravestone G-001 Unknown
- Gravestone G-002 Hunt, William
- Gravestone G-003 Carter, Mary
- Gravestone G-004 Carter, Mary Ann
- Gravestone G-005 Unknown (near Hutchins)
- Gravestone G-006 Carter, John
- Gravestone G-007 Pond, Eleanor
- Gravestone G-008 Peckford, Amelia
- Gravestone G-009 Carter, Caroline
- Gravestone G-010 Pond, Robert
Old Anglican Cemetery
- Gravestone H-001 Oakley, Robert
- Gravestone H-002 Lucy Sophie
- Gravestone H-003 Daw, Joseph
- Gravestone H-004 Daw (small)
- Gravestone H-005 Daw, Joe
- Gravestone H-006 Unknown
- Gravestone H-007 Goodacre, Rev John
- Gravestone H-008 John D. Charles
- Gravestone H-009 Dominy, Leah
- Gravestone H-010 Dominy, Harry
- Gravestone H-011 Downing, Robert T.
- Gravestone H-012 Unknown
- Gravestone H 013 Granter, Nathaniel
- Gravestone H-014 Unknown
- Gravestone H-015 Unknown
- Gravestone H-016 Margaret Mary
- Gravestone H-017 Dawe, William
- Gravestone H-018 Crocker, Joseph
- Gravestone H 019 Unknown
- Gravestone H-020 Lydia
- Gravestone H-021 Unknown
- Gravestone H-022 Lush (Plot 1)
- Gravestone H-022-2 Lush (Plot 2)
- Gravestone H-023 Sussanah
- Gravestone H-024 Unknown
- Gravestone H-025 Cross, Mary
- Gravestone H-026 Kerry, George
- Gravestone H-027 John W.
- Gravestone H-028 John P.
- Gravestone H-029 Parsons, George
- Gravestone H-030 Marshall, George W.
- Gravestone H-031 Pitts, John Tucker
- Gravestone H -032 MacDonald
- Gravestone H-033 Oakley
- Gravestone H-034 Oakley, Benjamin
- Gravestone H-035 Caines, Joseph
- Gravestone H-036 Oakley, John Thorne
- Gravestone H-037 Gains, Joseph
- Gravestone H-038 Peckford, Sarah
- Gravestone H-039 White, James
- Gravestone H-040 White, Darius
- Gravestone H-041 White, Stephen
- Gravestone H-042 James
- Gravestone H-043 White, Stephen
- Gravestone H-044 White, Thomas and Rebecca
- Gravestone H-045 Lush, Robert
- Gravestone H-046 Blandford
- Gravestone H-047 Blandford, Amelia
- Gravestone H-048 Alice
- Gravestone H-049 Alice
- Gravestone H-050 White, John
- Gravestone H-051 White, Deborah
- Gravestone H-052 Unknown
- Gravestone H-053 Unknown
- Gravestone H-054 Evans, Samuel
- Gravestone H-055 Unknown
- Gravestone H-056 Weakly, Henry
- Gravestone H-057 Unknown
- Gravestone H-058 Unknown
- Gravestone H-059 Unknown
- Gravestone H-060 King, Martha
- Gravestone H-061 Hill, Rebecca
- Gravestone H-062 Jamie
- Gravestone H-063 Bragg, Abram and Henry ( 2 stones)
- Gravestone H-064 Leonard, Patiences
- Gravestone H-065 Granter, William
- Gravestone H-066 Osborn, Aubrey
- Gravestone H-067 Carter, James
- Gravestone H-068 Burry, Gertrude
- Gravestone H-069 Peckford, Ellen
- Gravestone H-070 Pickford, Prisilla
- Gravestone H-071 Hardy Plot (2 stones)
- Gravestone H-072 Granter, John
- Gravestone H-073 Granter, John
- Gravestone H-074 Burgess, Emma
- Gravestone H-075 Waye, Nathaniel and Waye, Annie
- Gravestone H-076 Green, Daisy
- Gravestone H-077 Carrie
- Gravestone H-078 Wheeler, John
- Gravestone H-079 Unknown
- Gravestone H-80 Young Family Stone
- Gravestone H-081 Barrow, Sophie
- Gravestone H-082 Oldford, Susanna
- Gravestone H-083.1 H-083.2 Children of Squires (83.1) Children of Samuel and ? (83.2
- Gravestone H-084 Downer
- Gravestone H-085 Pond, William
- Gravestone H-086 Pond, Mary
- Gravestone H-087 Reginald George
- Gravestone H-088 Edgar, Edwin (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-089 Edgar, Ann (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-090 Unknown (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-091 Unknown (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-092, H-093 Unknown (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-094, H-095 Unknown (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-096 Edgar, Maria (Edgar Plot)
- Gravestone H-097 Young, Thomas
- Gravestone H-098 Young, Dinah
- Gravestone H-099 Young, John
- Gravestone H-100 Unknown
- Gravestone H-101 Cains, Deborah
- Gravestone H-102 Unknown
- Gravestone H-103 Dave, Ann
- Gravestone H-104 White, Ellen
- Gravestone H-105 Stone, Mary
- Gravestone H-106 Unknown
Salvation Army Cemetery
- F-001 Harry M
- F-002 Robert
- F-003 White, Lydia
- F-004 Burry, Benjamin
- F-005 Pond, Jamie (foreground)
- F-006 Pond, Louis
- F-007 Burry, Allan
- F-008 Burry, Alfreda Blanche
- F-009 Cooze, Evelyn
- F-010 Oram, Hughie
- F-011 Oram, Edie (?)
- F-012 Naomi Jane