SIX MONTHS OF A NEWFOUNDLAND MISSIONARY'S
JOURNAL:
By Edward Wix
FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1835
The significance of this book is that it may have been the origin of the
legend that the Newhook family of Newfoundland had it's roots in France.
This is an issue that I have still not adequately resolved, but hope to
soon.
I do not know where Wix got his information, nor even, from the wording of
the sentence on page 18, whether he was referring to Charles Newhook or
William Bullock when he makes his comment about a French connection!
However, the spelling of Newhook Wix uses suggests he was referring to
Charles. In any case, on page 18 we find the famous reference to
Huguenots, and on page 20, another reference to a French influence in
Trinity...
[Page 18]
[Page 20]
"I broke into the ice of one brook on my way, and half-past seven P.M.,
reached the house of Mr. Charles Nieuhook, jun., of New Harbour, a late
worthy parishoner of the reverend William Bullock, at St. Paul's church,
Trinity, whose father is of French Huguenot extraction."
"There were fourteen communicants after the morning service at church, and
I also administered the same sacrement to an aged person, a man of
seventy-seven, in his own house, who remembered the French being in
Trinity Bay in 1766."
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