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HAMILTON, JOHN (1811-1890)

HAMILTON, JOHN, parish school teacher; b. Co. Clare, Ireland, c1811; m. 1835, Ann McKenzie; d. Newcastle, 14 Sep 1890.

The census of 1851 states that John Hamilton entered New Brunswick in October 1832. In February 1835, when he was married to Ann McKenzie, he was of Blackville parish and she of Newcastle. For most of the rest of his life he taught in the parish schools. He worked principally in Newcastle, where he was a property owner, but also in Glenelg parish in the 1840s and in North Esk in the 1870s. In 1850 he received a training allowance to qualify for a 2nd class teacher's license at the Normal School in Fredericton.

Hamilton's prose was literate and lyrical and his 'copy slate hand' exceptionally fine. In the words of Father William C. Gaynor, he was a "picturesque and agreeable pedagogue," who "in moments of relaxation sang with much feeling and gusto the alluring invitation, 'Won't you come to the Bower that is shaded for you'?" He was Catholic and his wife Presbyterian. They had at least six children, most of whom married late or not at all, but they left descendants through their daughter Louise Hamilton, the wife of William Lawlor of Newcastle.

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[m] official records [d] Advocate 24 Sep 1890 / Advocate 28 Aug 1878; JHA 1851; Memories


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