Who’s Who at Sherbrooke Meeting Room, QC

Sherbrooke Meeting Room, Melbourne, Sherbrooke, Estrie, Southeast Quebec, Canada

(EB) +1851-1908; (TW) 1909-1973+

Correspondents

• James Thompson +1878-1927+
• Francis Mather, Jr. +1889+
• Francis Mather +1894-1903+
• Frederick Davis +1896+, +1911-1927+
• W.H. Thompson +1911-1917+, +1944-1951+
• Robert Mouland +1944-1951+
• Alexander Hodge +1949-1966+
• Robert J. Mouland (same?) +1962-1973+
• H.N. Atkinson +1962-1966+
• L.G. Holwill +1973+

Early Alumni +1851+

Stevens family

• Jerusha Fox Stevens (b. 1785 Wilmington, VT - d. 1870 Mills, Potter, PA) +1851+
  • dau. of Amos Fox (b. 1736 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT - d. 1820 Cornwall, CT) & Jerusha Dix Kilby-Fox (1744-1799 Wethersfield, CT). Amos built the very first frame house in Wilmington, VT, on Road 59.
  • Jerusha lived with the Wales family in Melbourne, Sherbrooke in 1851.
  • 1806 @ Wilmington, VT m. Henry Stevens (b. 1783 Killingsworth, CT - d. 1832 Freetown Corners, NY)
  • ch: Chester Allen, Minerva, Riley, Pamelia, Henry, Chauncy, & Kilby Stevens

Wales family

This family was Congregational in 1861, Bible Christian in 1871

• Grove Wales (b. 1804 USA - d. 1887 Melbourne, QC) +1851+ farmer
  • m. Sept. 18, 1851 @ Danville Cong., QC, officiated by A.J. Parker
• 2nd wife: Mary Ann Armstrong Wales (b. 1824 CAN - d. 1893 Richmond, QC) +1851+

Niece:

• Rebecca Jemima Joana Poulter (b. 1845 Shipton, Sherbrooke, QC - d. 1883 Bristol, Eng.) +1851+
  • dau. of William Poulter (1814-1876) & Mary Ann Wales (1810-1882)
  • m. Frederick James Stone (b. 1848 Bristol, Eng., m. 1872 @ Cambridge, MA; d. 1914 Bristol, Eng.)
    • Emma Ann Elizabeth Stone (b. 1876)
    • George Frederick Stone (1878-1879)

After Rebecca's death in 1883, later that same year, Frederick remarried Ellen Mahoney (1868-1926), and they had several more children.

Children:

• Margie Wales (b. 1853 QC)
• Grove H. Wales, Jr. (b. 1853 QC)
  • m. Lottie H. Crawford (b. 1860), dau. of Isaac Crawford @ Lucas, IA
• Ruben K. Wales (b. 1856 QC)
• Georgina Wales (b. 1857 QC)
• Florence Wales (b. 1859 QC)
• Mary Wales (b. 1863 QC)
• Herbert N. Wales (b. 1865 QC)

1871 neighbors: Alfred (b. 1833 QC) Catholic blacksmith & his wife Zoe Boisvert (b. 1832 QC)

Others

• Mr. Barnard (b. 1831 USA) +1851+ engineer
  • possible brother of John Fiske Barnard (b. 1828 MA) Episcopalian RR civil engineer who gave transportation to John Nelson Darby.

• Elisabeth Wilson (b. 1834 CAN) +1851+