Jane Brandon Quinn (1811

Jane Brandon Quinn (1811 - 1892)

Jane Brandon Quinn sampler, 1818
Collection of the Fredericton Region Museum, 1969.2800.1

Jane Brandon was born in Scotland and immigrated to New Brunswick in 1846. She married William H Quinn in 1850, and together they operated a grocery store at (present-day) 147 Westmorland Street - corner of Westmorland and Brunswick. Their son William A Quinn became a lawyer in the City.

Jane made this needlework sampler in 1818, when she was 7 years old. It mourns the death of her brother:

Brother thou art gone before us and thy saintly soul has flown.
Where tears are wiped from ever eye and sorrow is unknown.

Jane Quinn is buried in the Quinn family plot in the Old Burial Ground on Brunswick Street. Her sampler now rests in the collection of the Fredericton Region Museum.

Scots in the Old Burial Ground

SCOTS AND THE OLD PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND, FREDERICTON by Dr. Ellen MacGillivray, c. 1991 When John Ross and I were co-historians of the Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew from 1985-1987 we had not yet started to sort the Society's documents left in John's care by late Dr. D. J. MacLeod. We became interested in finding the burial plots in the Old Public Burial Ground of the Chartered Members of the Society as well as those of others who came later. But first some notes on the place itself. THE OLD PUBLIC BURIAL GROUND According to Dr. Lillian Maxwell (1937) on August 2nd, 1785 the Governor-in- Council appointed Trustees to lay out Fredericton. One of these Trustees was Lieutenant Dugald Campbell who made the survey in 1785-1786: "The Town Plat as first laid out extended from Smythe street to Sunbury street and from the river to Charlotte street. The blocks were laid out to cover four and a half acres, the streets one chain wide. A square was laid out in the middle of th...

Piper Robert Gowan (1800 - 1879)

Prior to 1927 there had always been a Society Piper. The first was Robert Gowan, who joined the Society in 1826. He arrived in New Brunswick from Ireland in 1818 as a piper in the 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot, and was garrisoned here from 1818 to 1823. Robert assisted John Baird as a teacher in the Barrack School for children of the regiment, and when his unit departed, stayed in Fredericton and opened a "Painting, Engraving and Writing" shop on the corner of Regent Street. This is where he was hired to engrave the Society's mull horn in 1826. He later became a bookkeeper in the lumbering firm of Robert Rankin & Co. Later, when the Central Bank of New Brunswick was established in 1834, he was appointed bank cashier, and then in 1839 he entered the Crown Land Office. There he kept meticulous accounts of all lands granted in the province (his six-volume leather bound ledgers are preserved in the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick). Robert Gowan was also a res...

Introduction

Fredericton's Old Burial Ground is located between Brunswick and George streets, on the traditional territory of Wolastoqey People. This Local Historic Place has been recognised as one of the most important cemeteries in New Brunswick. It serves as the final resting place for many individuals who founded New Brunswick, amongst whom are many individuals of Scottish birth. Since 2025 marks the 200 th anniversary of the founding of our Society, we are pleased to share with you the stories behind the memorials you will discover within these serene grounds.

Fredericton's Old Burial Ground - Seann Chladh

Search This Blog