Lefurgey Family

John Lefurgey m. a MissJoyce and had two children before moving to PEI and settling in Lot 19, along Bedeque Bay, with other Loyalist families.

Family tradition claims the Lefurgey forebearers were French Hu- guenots who fled from France during the religious persecutions. They escaped to Holland, then to the Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands before crossing the Atlantic to America. John, who had settled with his

family in Westchester, New York, enlisted, along with his father, with the Loyalists forces in the American Rebellion. They had to leave New York at the close of the war and settled on the River Remsheg, Cumberland County, NS, whereJohn married.

John Lefurgey and Miss Joyce had 11 children:

William b. 7 Feb 1788 in NS, d. 1Jan 1842 at Wilmot, bur. Central Bedeque Baptist Cem., m. Catherine Munroe, b. 10 June 1791, bur. Central Bedeque Cem..They had 6 children.

Mary Polly b. 9 Feb 1790, d. 12 July 1872, bur. Central Bedeque Cem., m. 18Jan 1810 Caleb Schurman, b. 20 Apr 1782, d. 25 Dec 1855. They had 12 children.

Elizabeth Betsy b. 1792. Jane Jennie b. 1 Dec 1794 at Wilmot, d. 11 Nov 1872, bur. Central

Bedeque Cem., m. 4 May 1812 Isaac Schurman, b. Nov 1774/75, d. 22 Apr 1859. They had 9 children.

Ann Nancy b. 9 Apr 1798, d. 27 Dec 1871, bur. Central Bedeque Cem., m. Peter Mabee Huestis, b. 1791. They had 6 children.

John b. 1799.

Sarah Sally b. 1801, m.James Connell, b. 1800, d. 1884. They had 5 children.

James b.c. 1804, d. 13 Nov 1871, bur. Wilmot, m. 28 March 1830 Rachel Hamilton, b. 1813, d. 1839. They had 4 children.James farmed the home property.

George b. 1807, d. 6 Oct 1864, m. 23 Dec 1830 Hannah Baker, b. 3 Sept 1812, d. 9 Apr 1889. They had 15 children.

+Comelius Neil b.c. 1808.

Charity b. 1831, lst. In. Benjamin Heustis; 2nd. m. Richard Town— send. Charity is mentioned in her father’s will.

Cornelius Neil b. 1808 at Wilmot, d. 5 Apr 1877, bur. Cape Traverse Free Church of Scotland, son of John Lefurgey and Miss Joyce, m. 25 June 1834 at St. Eleanor’s Anglican Church Elizabeth Betsy Matthews, b. Sept 15 1802, d. 27 Sept 1883, bur. Cape Traverse Free Church of Scotland.

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