Family History 2.43

Bigelow History post-1630

From Bigelow Society Pages

 

John BIGELOW,

 son of Amasa ⁵ ( Isaac ⁴, Isaac ³, Samuel ², John¹)  and Rosina (CONE) BIGELOW, was born 24 September 1775 at Cornwallis, Kings county, Nova Scotia. He was married, in ______ 1798, to Sarah Tyrxa Newcomb.

 Sarah was born 31 August 1780, the daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Sanford) Newcomb.

 They lived in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. He died there 10 May 1845. She died _ March 1852  at Palmerston, Nova Scotia.

             

Children of John and Sarah T. (Newcomb) Bigelow:

 

Amasa, b 17 Feb 1799; d 20 July 1886 Centreville, NS; m (1) Margaret Woods, and (2)10 Oct 1877 Allison Walton; res Boston, MA. 3 known children.

 

Benjamin, b - 1801; d ____ ; m Rachel Richards.

 

John, b 10 Mar 1803; d 22 Nov 1885 Palmerston, NS; m (1) 31 Jan 1833 Jane Smith (b 1817; d 18 Apr 1835); m (2) Mary Ann Calkins  (Rockwell?);   

 

Isaac Newton, b ____ 1810; d ____ 1884; m (1) 03 Mar 1850? Margaret Lucille Eaton; m (2) Sarah Elixa _____ ;

 

Elizabeth, b ____ ; d _____ ; m Hezekiah Hull; 4 children: Jane, Judson, John Prior, and Mary Alice Hull.

 

Tyrzah Sarah, b __ 1814 Pugwash, NS; d ____ 1879 New Zealand; m 1834 Levi Woodworth Eaton.

 

Gideon, b 27 Dec 1817; d 27 July 1894 ; m 11 July 1844 Caroline Eaton; res Centreville, NS. 6 children.

Alice; b ca 1817-1820; d ____ ; m (1) 1836 Nathan Harris Eaton; 10 children (many died as infants)

 

It is interesting that several of this family married members of the Eaton family. It was on one of the Eaton family ships, George Henderson, that John and Mary brought their family to New Zealand in 1860.

 

Later in 1860, the ship was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Taranaki. A few days before this painting shows troopships from Victoria landing soldiers and marines for the defence of New Plymouth. George Henderson is lying head-on in the centre of the picture, right under the mountain.

(More about the voyage in the next post.)

 

 

 I have been in email contact with present-day members of the Rockwell family in Moncton, New Brunswick, who confirm that Mary was originally a member of their family.