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HENDERSON, JAMES (1846-1879)

HENDERSON, JAMES, teacher; b. Dumfriesshire, Scotland, c1797; m. 1846, Elizabeth Armstrong, of Chatham, also a native of Scotland; d. Chatham, 19 Apr 1879.

James Henderson applied in April 1827 for a license to teach school at Napan, declaring himself to be a native of North Britain, aged twenty-eight, Protestant, and a resident of New Brunswick for four years. He taught in Glenelg parish from 1827 to 1829. In January 1830 he was the teacher of "St Andrew's School" in Chatham, where he was also offering night classes in "Universal Geography." He was still at this school in 1833. He stated in 1844-45 that he had been in the same Chatham school for 168 months, or some fourteen years, which accounts for his being regarded as "a steady man."

Henderson was still licensed in Chatham in 1849, but in 1851 he was teaching in Newcastle parish. He taught for "half a century" altogether, conducting one of the only parish schools which was considered to be up to the standard of the common schools of Great Britain. He was nearly fifty years of age in 1846 when he married Elizabeth Armstrong, a woman in her early twenties. They had three or more children.

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[m] Head Quarters 29 Apr 1846 [d] Telegraph 2 May 1879 / Advocate 7 May 1879; Gleaner 5 Jan 1830


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