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Erica Clark Kenny's mother is Mary Evoy, wife of Eric Clark - and the daughter of Thomas Evoy and Dorothy (nee Nichols). Interesting that Erica's second name is Nicole - from the Nichols connection (?) Dorothy was from Deer Lake, Newfoundland while Thomas Evoy was from St. Mary's Bay, NF. Thomas was born in 1917 and died in 1969. In addition to Mary Evoy, Dorothy and Thomas had a daughter Cecelia (who lived in Bracebridge, ON), a son Joseph - and another daughter and son of whom I'm not yet aware. There is a Thomas Evoy at Haricot (Avalon South Region - St. Mary's Bay District) in McAlpine's Directory of 1898 - who may be a relative. The first name of Thomas Evoy's father is unknown - but his mother's name was Mary Butland. Perhaps his father was 'Joseph' since that was Thomas' second name - or perhaps Joseph was Mary Butland's father (?). There is a Thomas Evoy and wife Mary Ann Evoy (1928), buried at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in St. Mary's Bay, NL. These may be the parents of Thos. Evoy (husband of Dorothy Nicols.) Thomas Evoy is buried in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, in Wight's Road Cemetary, (which is located in the Bay of St. Georges District). He is buried in the Roman Catholic section of the cemetery and his grave is - marked by a veteran’s head stone. THOMAS
JOSEPH EVOY
Dorothy Beatrice (Nichols) Evoy - wife of Thomas, is buried in the Nichols family cemetery - the Nicholsville Cemetery, in Deer Lake, NF. Brown speckled stone tombstone . . . EVOY |
Other Evoy Material of Possible Relevance . . . 1800 Census - Ferryland, Newfoundland
Voters List for Caplin Bay 1840 - 1859
Newfoundland's 1935 Provincial Census District of Placentia and St. Mary's Community of HARICOT (St. Mary's District)
1945 Census Placentia & St. Mary's Haricot
EVOY, Frank, Haricott, St. Mary's Bay. Killed in action in France, Jan. 28, 1917. THE HISTORY OF CALVERT - Expanded Settlement in the Early 1800s. The population of Caplin Bay grew steadily over the next three and a half decades with the influx of additional Irish and English into the area. According to a census taken in 1836, there were 193 people living there . . . The resident population, previously concentrated near the main beach, had now spread out around the bay, from Stone Island on the north-eastern headland, to Deep Cove midway along the south side of Caplin Bay. About 1840, at Stone Island, the families of William Wade, Robert Swain and Edward Keough were joined by two others, Joseph Sullivan of Co. Wexford who married Swain's eldest daughter and James Meaney, a first-generation Newfoundlander, born at Ferryland. The next cluster of settlers was farther west inside the bay, about a mile away. The families of John Rossiter initially, and then Matthew Morry, son of Matthew, the Devonshire merchant, along with Patrick Evoy and his step-father James Walsh, Richard Reddigan and Patrick Condon occupied the "middle" of the north side of Caplin Bay. By this time as well, the native born sons of Matthew and Ann Ryan, the pre 1800 settlers, had married and occupied land that strung out west to meet the land of the Gatherall family, whose land extended almost to the beach at the head of the bay. |