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See Branches of Plymouth Brethren to explain abbreviation types (although in short: OB (& TW-P) are Halls & Chapels within the "open brethren" (although GH's (generally) maintain a separate network from the Chapels). EB/TW/TW-N are "Careful" Brethren (similar to OB Halls), and BC are (generally) independent community churches with early or indirect PB influence, and will (usually) not consider themselves "Brethren").

The above primer link expands on the abbreviations, and also contains introduction to this (and other) sheets within the overall History. There have been scores of branches with their own distinctive networks and strengths within the history of the PB, and many branches continue to flourish today, and while no assembly or gathering is identical to the others, each is thought to maintain a fervent desire for simplicity in gathering around the Lord Jesus, though practices and secondary doctrines may vary culturally and/or preferentially as autonomous (yet inter-dependent) local churches.

Assemblies are sorted geographically, and will, D.V., eventually have further history within. Red links on Brethrenpedia are presently undeveloped, and blue links contain data. Appreciate patience with our progress, and if you'd like to help, please contact any of the editing team, preferably via social media.

Northern Central NS

Annapolis County

Bridgetown

  • Bridgetown Meeting Room, NS (EB) +1861-1893+
    • c/o Capt. Hugh Fraser +1861-1893+ (b. 1824 Inverness, Scotland - d. 1893 Bridgetown, NS]]
      • work: 1871: sea captain, owned a schooner named Fanny, built in 1852; took voyage (1870-1871) from Ardrossan, Scotland to Plymouth, England, then to Newport, England, then Wexford, England, then Liverpool, England then Dundalk, Ireland, the voyage on a brigantine named the Kate Upham, constructed in 1864.
        • +1881-1891+: hardware merchant;
      • wife: Eliza Frasure Frazer +1881-1893+ (b. 1830 NS), later Presby.
      • sister-in-law: Miss Helen Quirk +1881-1911+ (b. 1833 Wilmot, Annapolis, NS - d. 1921 Bridgetown, NS), dau. of John Quirk, Jr. (b. 1783 Isle of Man - d. 1853 Bridgetown, NS) & Phebe Tupper Quirk (b. 1796 Annapolis Cy., NS - d. 1873 Bridgetown, NS);
      • c/o John Carr @ Lequille +1911+

Colchester County

Manganese Mines

  • Manganese Mines Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1927+
    • c/o Frederick Johnson (b. 1885 Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, NS - d. 1978 Halifax, NS), son of James Smith Johnson (b. 1857 Newton Mills, Colchester, NS - d. 1918 Westbank, Central Okanagan, B.C.) & Elizabeth Johnson (1860-1895 Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, NS);
      • wife: Rebecca Dell Archibald Johnson (b. 1892 Manganese Mines, NS - d. 1957 Truro, NS), dau. of John Henry Archibald (1864-1925 Manganese Mines, NS) & Mary Alice Clifford Archibald (1864-1899 Manganese Mines, NS)

Truro

  • Truro Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1904-1927+
    • c/o William Nathaniel Brennan +1904+ (b. 1870 Montreal, QC - d. 1943 New Glasgow, Pictou, NS), evangelist; wife: Margaret Broome Brennan (1870 Quebec City, QC - d. 1968 Truro, NS)
    • c/o C.F. Archibald @ 129 Arthur St. +1927+, possibly a Truro druggist in 1921, and Presby.

Cumberland County

Port Howe

Pugwash Junction

  • Pugwash Junction Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1904-1927+
    • c/o Joseph Howe Eaton +1904+ (b. 1849 Pugwash, NS - d. 1932 Toronto, ON), son of Stephen Eaton (b. 1819 - d. 1883 Pugwash, NS) & Mary Desiah Parker Eaton; wife: Mary Adelia McPherson Eaton (b. 1853 - d. 1922 Northfield, Summit, OH); son: Cyrus S. Eaton, "noted Cleveland industrialist and financier". Joseph was credited in an obituary in the Boston Globe as "one of the leading shipbuilders of the Maritime Provinces, as well as a lumber magnate". It was also noted that he "came to Toronto many years ago". Three daughters: Mrs. F.I. Woodworth (Sagamore Hill, OH), Miss Florence Eaton (London), & Mrs. T.B. Webb (Rome). It was also noted that a nephew, William R. Eaton, was a member of Congress from Denver.
    • c/o Hiram Franklin MacLeod +1927+ (b. 1865 - d. 1938 Pugwash Junction, NS), son of Frederick MacLeod (b. 1830 NS) & Annie Angevine MacLeod (b. 1842 NS); wife: Eliza Eudora Piers MacLeod (b. 1874 - d. 1961 Pugwash Junction, NS), dau. of Nelson William Piers (b. 1840 NS - d. 1926 Pugwash Junction, NS); Hiram was the father of assembly evangelist Oswald Lorne McLeod (b. 1902 Pugwash Junction, NS - d. 2002 Hickory, Catawba, N.C.) of the Hickory Gospel Hall, NC.

Hants County

Hartsville

  • Hartsville preaching point +1911-1920
    • c/o Rebecca Trider DeMont +1911-1920 (b. 1853 NS - d. 1920 Windsor, Hants, NS). Husband: Peter DeMont (b. 1845 - d. 1922 Windsor, Hant, NS). Peter was registered Baptist.
      • Ida Jane DeMont Cochran (b. 1870 Forks, Hants, NS - d. 1952 Windsor, NS). Husband: Frederick Richard Cochran (b. 1869 Wolfville, Kings, NS - d. 1956 Windsor, NS), son of Charles Henry Cochran (1842-1921 Windsor, NS) & Isabella Jane Baron Cochran (b. 1846 NS - d. 1918 Windsor, NS).
      • Jessie Maud DeMont McDonnell (b. 1875 Hants Co., NS - d. 1946 Leominster, Worcester, MA). Husband: Herbert Earle McDonnell (b. 1875 Leominster, MA - d. 1831 Boston, Suffolk, MA), son of Michael Eugene McDonnell (b. 1840 New Ipswich, Hillsborough, NH - d. 1912 Worcester, MA) & Sarah K. McDonnell (b. 1840 MA - d. 1919 Leominster, MA).
      • Archibald "Archy" DeMont (b. 1877 NS)
      • Ernest Dexter DeMont (b. 1879 Windsor, NS - d. 1951 Brockton, MA). Wife: Bessie Louise Hatch DeMont (b. 1885 MA - d. 1958)
      • Edith Mae DeMont Cochran (b. 1883 Masstown, Colchester, NS - d. 1941 Windsor, NS). Husband: Charles John Cochran (1880-1943 Windsor, NS), brother of Frederick Richard Cochran.
      • Roy Percy DeMont (b. 1888 Currys Corner, Hants, NS - d. 1973 Newton, Middlesex, MA)

St. Croix

  • St. Croix Meeting Room, NS (EB) +1880+
    • @ Loran Smith's mill
    • c/o Loran Smith (1853-1921 St. Croix, NS), son of Nathaniel Dill Smith (1814-1871 St. Croix, NS) & Margaret McDonald Smith (b. 1814 Hants Co., NS - d. 1878 St. Croix, NS); wife: Eugenia Harvie Smith (b. 1869 Hants Cy., NS - d. 1903 St. Croix, NS), dau. of Benjamin Harvie (b. 1838 NS) & Margaret Salter Harvie (b. 1840 NS);

West Hants RM

Hantsport

  • Hantsport preaching point, NS (EB) 1869-1885
    • c/o Silas Tertius Rand 1869-1885 (b. 1810 Cornwallis Park, Annapolis, NS - d. 1889 Hantsport, NS); son of Rev. Silas Rand (b. 1778 NS - d. 1842 Cornwallis Square, Kings, NS) & Deborah Tupper Rand (b. 1778 Kentville, Kings, NS - d. 1812 Cornwallis Square, Kings, NS);
      • Baptist preacher, missionary, ethnologist, linguist and translator, with focus on the Mi'kmaq people of Maritime, Canada, and was the first to record the legend of Glooscap. Became PB in 1869 via an itinerant in Halifax, until expelled in 1885, and returned to the Baptists. See Biographi.ca.

Pictou County

New Glasgow

Pictou

Southern Central NS

Halifax RM

Bedford

  • Bedford Assembly (G-EB) +1894+
    • c/o B.C. Greenman

Halifax

  • Dartmouth Meeting Room, NS (EB) +1880+
    • c/o Major John Oldright (b. 1802 Whitechapel, London, England - d. 1891 Dartmouth, NS); wife: Elizabeth Oldright (b. 1802 Halifax, NS - d. 1884 Dartmouth, NS);
    • PB @ 1861 in Toronto, ON. Served 1811-1836+ in the 81st Regt. of the British Army at the Rock of Gibraltar.
      • His son, Capt. John Edward Oldbright was born at Gibraltar, and later a pioneer citizen of Austin, Texas, a "veteran Texas ranger captain, soldier, traveler and scholar", who lived in Austin from 1868-1918, then relocating to California where he died in Glendale.
  • Halifax Meeting Room, NS (EB) +1871-1911+
    • @ Temperance Hall +1880-1882+; Room 4, Cameron Bldg., Duke & Barrington Sts. +1911+
    • Meeting Times (1911): Su B 11am
    • c/o William E.C. Howe +1877-1882+ (b. 1816 NS)
      • Supreme Court Registrar of Probate +1863-1889+
      • lived @ 32 Bishop St. +1875-1887
      • wife: Margaret Howe +1871+ (b. 1819 Scot.); Children:
        • Douglas Howe +1871+, +1911+ (b. 1851 NS), law student in 1871. @ 18 Mitchell St. +1911+
        • Isabella Nixon Howe Pennington +1871-1903 (b. 1854 NS - d. 1927 Montreal, QC?); She married James Pennington (b. 1843 Strafford, Essex, England - d. 1935 Montreal, QC), and were both in fellowship with the EB in Halifax until 1903 when they relocated to Montreal. According to his obit in The Gazette (Montreal), James was a longtime Montreal resident, and a brother of William Pennington, of Halifax, "one of the survivors of the historic charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava". It also indicated that he was "born and educated in England", and arrived in Halifax at the age of 30 representing the Cunard Steamship Line, and he remained there for 30 years, where he married Isabella, where it is noted that she was a grand-niece of "Hon. Joseph Howe, one time Secretary of State for Canada, and also Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia". James' father, Albert Pennington (b. 1811 Islington, Sussex, Eng. - d. 1874 London, Eng.), was a schoolmaster in 1851 in West Hackney, Middlesex, England.
        • Francis C. "Frank" Howe +1871+ (b. 1858 NS); foundry clerk in 1910 @ Providence, R.I.)
        • Agnes P. Howe Holloway +1871+ (b. 1859 Halifax, NS - d. 1939 Bethlehem, Lehigh, PA), She married William Holloway, Jr. (b. 1872 Halifax, NS), a published author living in Manhattan, N.Y. in 1910. He was living in New York City as early as 1891, when he was employed as a bookbinder. William was raised Baptist, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1901, and Agnes in 1904.
    • c/o James Pennington, Cunard's offices +1877-1903
      • see Isabella Nixon Howe Pennnington

Southeastern NS

Cape Breton Island (RM)

  • Sydney Assembly, NS (OB) 1850-1885+
    • c/o Samuel Frederick Kendall 1850-1885 (b. 1818 Bristol, England - d. 1885 Cape Breton, NS)
      • "Thirty-five years he laboured in isolation, with much discomfort amidst the coldness and bleakness of that country; but little can be traced of how he was supported. The records are above. He fell asleep in 1885." (from Charles Brewer's My Book of Remembrance from 1909, via BrethrenArchive.
      • also see Union Church, NS, established by Kendall in 1866 on Mitchell Island.
      • wife: Emily Long Kendall (b. 1825 London, England); Children:
        • Dr. Arthur Samuel Kendall 1861-1879+ (b. 1861 Sydney, NS - d. 1944) studied medicine @ Mount Allison College, Halifax Medical College, Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Manhattan, New York, graduating in 1884, and at Guy's Hospital Medical School in London. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1884, and was Medical Health Officer for Cape Breton, according to his wiki. He represented Cape Breton in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly 1897-1900 & 1904-1911, and the House of Commons in Canada 1900-1904 as a Liberal member. See his wiki.
          • Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the United States, founded in 1736 in NYC's first permanent almshouse at City Hall Park. It is also presently one of the largest hospitals, with 844 beds, a 25-story patient care facility, an attending physician staff of 1200, and an in-house staff of 5,500. It is regarded a safety net hospital, providing healthcare for individuals regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay, handling over half a million patient visits annually, according to Wikipedia.

It opened the first maternity ward in the U.S. in 1799, and by 1867, Bellevue physicians were "instrumental in developing New York City's sanitary code, the first in the world". The school was founded in 1861, the first medical college in New York, followed by the first nursing school in the U.S. in 1873, based on Florence Nightingale's principles, the first children's clinic in 1874, the first emergency pavilion in 1876, and a psychiatric hospital in 1879, considered "revolutionary" at the time.

        • Dr. Henry Ernest Kendall 1865-1883+ (b. 1865 NS) served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia from 1942-1947, the oldest person to hold the office in the province's history, appointed at the age of 78. See his wiki.
  • Sydney Mines Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1917-1927+
    • c/o Thomas Hamilton +1917-1927+ (b. 1873 Scot.)
      • In 1911, Thomas was living with Presbyterian family in Victoria, Cape Breton, but identified as PB. By 1917, he was living at Sydney Mines, with his wife Elizabeth, and three children, who identified as PB in a 1921 census.
      • also see Victoria Gospel Hall, NS
      • Wife: Elizabeth Hamilton +1921-1927+ (b. 1894 Scotland); Children:
        • Elizabeth Heart Hamilton Ferguson +1921-1927+ (b. 1917 Sydney Mines, NS - d. 2013 Toronto, ON); married John Wilfred Ferguson (1906-1959 Sydney Mines, NS), raised Presby.
        • Archibald Hamilton 1919-1927+ (b. 1919 Sydney Mines, NS)
        • William John Hamilton 1921-1927+ (b. 1921 Sydney Mines, NS)
  • Union Church, NS (OB, etc.) 1866-present
    • founded by Samuel Frederick Kendall (see Sydney Assembly, NS), the historic Union Church in what is now Point Edward on Mitchell Island, in 1866, an inter-denominational church building, used primarily as a preaching station for the North Sydney Calvary Baptist Church.
  • Victoria Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1911+
    • c/o Thomas Hamilton (b. 1873 Scotland)
      • In 1911, he was living with his brother-in-law, Robert Gillan (b. 1844 Scot.), and his wife Maggie Wotherspoon Gillan-Hamilton, and their seven children, living in Victoria, North Cape Breton. Both Thomas and Robert were coal miners at the time, and Thomas identified as PB by that point, though his brother-in-law's family were all Presbyterian.
      • also see Sydney Mines Gospel Hall

Lunenburg County

Nineveh

Pleasantville

Southwestern NS

Digby County

Weymouth

Yarmouth County

Port Maitland

  • Port Maitland Meeting Room, NS (TW) +1911+
    • @ home of H.H. Perry
    • Meeting Times (1911): Su B 11am, R 7pm; Wed P 8pm;
    • c/o H.H. Perry; A. Diack @ Yarmouth

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Carlyon

  • Carlyon Gospel Hall, NS (OB) +1927+
    • c/o J.C. Carter
      • there was a J.C. Carter that traveled in 1919 from Winnipeg to Halifax.
    • possibly Carleton Village, Shelburne County???
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