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Black Burials
The following is a list of black persons, or persons likely to have been black, interred in the Loyalist and Rural Cemeteries. Burials before 1856 took place in the Loyalist Cemetery. Except for the Stewart and Norris families, these persons are not known to the writer to have burial markers. The All Saints burial record is itself but a partial record of the many black persons known to have lived and died in St. Andrews. •
#7 All Saints Burial
July 25, 1816
Moses Matthews, a black man
#27 All Saints Burial
Oct. 8, 1817
Kesiah (?) daughter of Rubin a black man
1819
All Saints Burials
Jeffery. Age 30
[possibly "Black Jeffrey" so called, father of Hannah Alexander]
#56 All Saints Burial
June 20, 1819
William Alexander - a black boy. Son of Robert
#57 All Saints Burial
July 1, 1819
Robert Alexander, a black man
#85 All Saints Burial
Feb. 1820
Philip Lyman, a man of colour
#87 All Saints Burial
March 10, 1820
Stewart, a girl of colour. 16 yrs
#90 All Saints Burial
April 15, 1820
Phyllis, a woman of colour. Servant to J. or T. Dunn, Esq.
#107 All Saints Burial
July 10, 1821
Martha Ross, a girl of colour. 15 months. [Cf. David Ross, barber, 1851 census]
All Saints Burials
Oct. 11, 1821
J. Matthews, from Tobago.
[see Moses Matthews, 1816] 39 years
#210 All Saints Burial
May 3, 1825
A woman of colour
#236 All Saints Burial
Aug. 30, 1826
Richard and Maria Stuart, convicts, executed for murder
#312 All Saints Burial
Dec. 13, 1829
Susan Stewart, a woman of colour. 56 yrs.
All Saints Burials
June 30, 1829
Jane Bohia, a woman of colour
St. Andrews. 68 years
#317 All Saints Burial
Feb. 23, 1829
Charles Stewart, a boy of colour. 1 yr 9 months.
All Saints Burials
Feb. 28, 1831
Cluinda? Jones, woman of colour
St. Andrews, 56 years
#360 All Saints Burial
Nov. 23, 1832
Margaret Stewart, a girl of colour. 18 yrs.
[possibly the daughter of Maria Stewart, chief witness in her prosecution for murder]
#367 All Saints Burial
Feb. 5, 1832
Claudia (?) Jones (?) woman of colour. 50 yrs.
#375 All Saints Burial
1832
Celia [Julia?] Brush, a woman of colour. Buried in the Poor House ground
#378 All Saints Burial
Aug. 30, 1832
Edward Bannister. 49 yrs.
[father of Edward Bannister Jr., artist]
All Saints Burials
October 17, 1833
James Thomson. Man of Colour. Brig Ontario. St. Andrews. 25 years
#454 All Saints Burial
Dec. 28, 1835
Miss Ross a coloured woman
St. Andrews
#546 All Saints Burial
May 4, 1841
Louisa Brother, a girl of colour. Child
#548 All Saints Burial
May 31, 1841
Hanna Brixon. Infant
[known to be black]
[Evidently the Brixon family was stuck by an epidemic]
#552 All Saints Burial
July 27, 1841
Susan Brixon, 32 yrs.
[known to be black]
#553 All Saints Burial
Sept. 27, 1841
Julia Ann Brixon. 35 yrs.
[known to be black]
#555 All Saints Burial
Oct. 28, 1841
James Brixon. 8 yrs.
[known to be black]
#578 All Saints Burial
March 30, 1843
Jane Alexander, a woman of colour.
#603 All Saints Burial
Nov. 24, 1844
Edward Sidney Brixon. 9 yrs.
[known to be black]
#658 All Saints Burial
Nov. 27, 1847
Susan Alexander, coloured girl. 10 yrs.
#690 All Saints Burial
July 21, 1850
Alexander Stewart, coloured. 16 yrs.
#707 All Saints Burial
July 28, 1852
Violet Alexander, coloured woman. 90 yrs.
[The Black Violet of Grace Helen Mowat's history of St. Andrews]
Rural Cemetery Burial
Almira Bounds
Age 30
Lot 26B
Sept. 22, 1869
[daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Stewart, wife of Theodore Bounds, black barber]
All Saints Burials
April 10, 1872
David Ross. St. Andrews. 87
[black barber, Bermuda]
All Saints Burials
May 29, 1872
Betsy Ross. Alms House
St. Andrews. 51
[born 1821; brain-damaged in fire of 1859; daughter of David Ross, black barber]
#331 All Saints Burial
Nov. 6, 1876
Clara [Clarissay] Richardson. 80 years. Alms House
[known to be black]
#314 All Saints Burial
Jan. 10, 1877
Betsy [Elizabeth] Stewart. 89 years
[wife of Moses Stewart, interred in the Moses Stewart plot]
#345 All Saints Burial
March 12, 1880
Gerry Cole. 78 years
[brother of Polly Bignall, Cole? Known to be black]
#377 All Saints Burials
June 6, 1882
Clifford Norris. 8 weeks
#457 All Saints Burials
Dec. 17, 1888
Moses Stewart. 95 years
#521 All Saints Burial
Jan. 18, 1894
Eliza Stuart. 69 years
[probably Eliza Cole, wife of George Stewart, son of Moses Stewart]
All Saints Burials
November 8, 1894
William Bignall. St. Andrews. 84 years
[probably black]
#554 All Saints Burial
Jan. 13, 1897
Mary Bignall. Alms House. Age unknown, over 80 years
[probably black]
All Saints Burial
1898
Kitty [Kathleen] Norris, 10 years
#611 All Saints Burial
Oct. 29, 1901
Jessie Norris. 28 years
All Saints Burial
1915
Charles E. [Edward] Norris, 36 years
#796 All Saints Burials
May 29, 1922
Maria Norris, 73 years.
#920 All Saints Burial
July 6, 1942
Helen Norris
#973 All Saints Burial
Aug. 28, 1948
John Cadman Norris. 58 years