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BURNYEAT, JOHN (1786-1843)

BURNYEAT, JOHN, visiting Anglican missionary; bap. Loweswater, Cumberland, England, 27 Dec 1786, s/o John Burnyeat and h/w Alice; m. 1823, Lavinia Dickson, of Truro, N.S.; d. there, 8 Apr 1843.

John Burnyeat was a thirty-two-year-old university graduate and ordained priest of the Church of England when he was assigned as visiting missionary for New Brunswick in 1819 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. From his home base at Sackville he made a seven-week visit to the Miramichi in the summer of 1820. During that time he held services at the courthouse in Newcastle and conducted baptisms and marriages. He also gathered information for a report, in which he stated that there were between sixty and seventy families on the Miramichi of Church of England origin and that subscriptions were being taken for a church.

Burnyeat's visit prepared the way for the arrival of the Rev. Samuel Bacon as resident priest some eighteen months later. In the meantime, Burnyeat was appointed visiting missionary for Nova Scotia. He lived in Truro for the rest of his life, as missionary until 1835 and then as rector of St John's Church until his death in 1843.

Sources

[bap] LDS-IGI [m] City Gazette 8 May 1823 [d] Times (Halifax) 11 Apr 1843 / Hoddinott; Lee, G.; scrapbook #25; Spray (DK and ENC)


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