List
of Burials at the Belding Cemetery or “Old Place” Cemetery on Graveyard Spit
located on Thompson Nature Preserve and being on the south end of the spit
between east shore Little Dipper Harbour and Belding Creek,
Chance
Harbour, Musquash Parish, St John County, NB
(Contributed by Harry MacDonald)
From
personal inspection, photographs, and various records compiled in the summer of
2005
Unknown
Soldier 1795
Belding David 1880 (b 7 Jan 1798 Family Documents, d 30 Apr or 1 May
1883 Newspaper Obits)
Belding Jesse 1838 – 1906 (b 12 May 1827 1901 Census, d Dec 1906 Family
Documents), His wife
Belding Mary 1834 – 1919 (b 15 Jul 1836 1901 Census, d 1921)
Belding Robert 1819 (b 12 May 1818 1901 Census) – 1902
(26 Mar 1902 separate gravestone), His wife
Belding Charlotte 1811 – 1885
Mawhinney Ola 1906
Hargrove William (6 years old 1871 Census, not on 1881 Census)
Hargrove Royden
Hepburn Jane 1872 (age 8 1881 Census) – 1904 (22 Dec 1904 Family Documents)
Cottle Nathanial (b 1821 1871 Census, d 20 Jan 1879 Newspaper Obit), His
wife
Cottle Eliza Cottle (b. 1831 1871 Census, d 13 Jan 1879 Newspaper Obit)
Thompson Mabel 1825(b. 12 Dec 1825 Family Documents) –
1864
Thompson George Thompson 1864 – 1865
Thompson Herbert Thompson 1879
Thompson Edgar Thompson 1891 – 1894 (From Parent’s stone in Baptist
Cemetery)
Tiner
James 1829 – 1884, His wife
Tiner
Maria 1829 – 1868
Tiner
Mary 1895 – 1907 (Living at 1911 census)
Tiner
6 Tiner Infants
“Erected by Chance Harbour Women’s Institute 1967”
Known Burials without
stones
Belding Daniel b. 29 May 1754 New Haven, Ct(Research Pamela Wood Waugh), d. 8 Dec 1846 Chance Harbour(Newspaper Obit and archived Diary of Rev Robertson of Musquash)
Bristol Mabel, his wife b. 10 Aug 1763 New Haven, Ct(Research Pamela Wood Waugh), d. 29 Jan 1851 Chance Harbour(Newspaper Obit)
Thomas Jane, b 1807(Undocumented), d Nov 1838 (Newspaper Obit) wife of David Belding (PANB Marriage Bond Jan 1825)
Thomas Felix b 1775 New Haven Ct (Inferred from Newspaper Obit), d 4 Oct 1849 (Newspaper Obit) at Chance Harbour