Fredericton's Old Burial Ground - Seann Chladh

James Willox [Wilcox] was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland. He came to Fredericton in about 1817, and two years later married Margaret King. James was a founding member of the Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew, and was one of the organising “stewards” for the Feast of Saint Andrew in 1828. He was also one of the founding members of St Paul’s Church, and served as a founding trustee.  James was a leather merchant and saddler in Fredericton. His business was located on Queen Street, across from the present-day Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, and the Willox family lived next door. He prospered, and in 1839 owned 25 acres on Maryland Hill, 200 acres in Hanwell Settlement, and 100 acres in the Parish of Woodstock in Carleton County. He also owned shares in the “splendid steamer"  New Brunswick , which plied the river St John between Fredericton and Saint John from 1839 to 1848.  By 1845, passengers wishing to travel by stagecoach to Boiestown or Newcastle could book their reservations...

The Honourable William Pagan was the first President of the Saint John Society of Saint Andrew (the first such Society in Canada). He was inaugurated as President in 1798 and served again in 1799, 1800, 1806 through 1812, and 1815. He owned property in both Saint John and Fredericton.  Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1744, William Pagan was descended from a long line of commercial wealth stretching back to the 1650s. As David Macmillian and Roger Nason have noted:  The Pagan family had been active in the rising commerce of Glasgow since the 1650s. William Pagan Sr, a prominent sugar refiner there, established a strong commercial reputation through trading activities in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean, and along the Irish coast. In 1754 he and his brother John became burgesses and guild brethren of Glasgow, positions open to them because their father, David, had been admitted to the city as a merchant earlier in the century. Another brother, George, set up as a merchant in G...