Griffith Jenkins and his younger brother Robert arrived in Saint John from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia some time prior to 1813, bringing with them their family tradition of shipbuilding. Griffith died in 1845 without issue, but Robert's descendants continued in that line of endeavor for two more generations, ending with the death of his grandson, William Henry Jenkins in Saint John in 1909...This book...brings together the extensive research on the Jenkins family's participation in shipbuilding in Saint John by Dr. Esther Clark Wright, who wrote 'Saint John ships and their builders' in 1975, and L. Norton Wyse, whose recently completed manuscript 'NB shipbuilders checklist' is at the New Brunswick Museum, 227 Douglas Ave., in Saint John" -- Back cover.
Andrew Somerville, son of John Somerville and Isabel Scotland, was born 1789 in Crook of Devon, Pertshire, Scotland. He married Janet Buchanan in 1813. They had eleven children. They immigrated to New Brunswick in 1816. He died in 1891 in West Scotch Settlement, Kings County, New Brunswick. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in New Brunswick.
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