Catherine 1. In 1880 Ralph had 50 acres of land between the MacLeod and David Lawson Jr. properties, and in the same year William Carr 's holdings across the bay had increased to 133 acres. William and Elizabeth had six children: John and Ellen married and moved away; James lived in Head West as a farmer, carpenter and shipbuilder ??? he built the Fanny and the Jane E in 1888 and 1890, the last two ships built at ; Mary Elizabeth married Henry Curtis Lawson and lived in Stanhope ; and Ralph farmed with his father. Grandparents, parents, and children were all living under one roof in 1881; see the genealogy below. In 1871 William's remaining son, David, bought 100 acres of land around from George Lawson for $600. A barn and work?? shop were on the property, and a house which is still in use today; thus it is one of the oldest houses in the community. David carried on a mixed farming operation ??? potatoes, grain, vegetables and fruit, cattle and pigs. Round there was also a quantity of "marsh hay", much prized by the early settlers. On October 10, 1871 David was married by the Rev. James Allan to Jessie Stewart , daughter of John Stewart of Road; they had seven children. David served as a reeve in 1878, and as well as farming he worked for several winters in ; he also spent several summers aboard the S.S. Gilmore , which was surveying the Newfoundland coast. In 1877 he bought a further 100 acres from Henry Lawson , to the north of his first 100 acres and between the properties of Malcolm MacAulay and Isaac Foster . Of David's children, Theodore, the eldest, was drowned in his 21st year while cod fishing on May 29,1895. He did not show up when his father and his brother Ramon went to meet him, and the two walked the shore until nightfall with no success in finding him. Next day while searching the Tracadie shore, a fisher?? man told them, "I've got bad news for you. I found your dory drifting in the sea". Theodore's body was never found; it was thought he had reached for a cod buoy, lost his balance, and fallen overboard. That same year, tragedy came again to the Carrs: the second eldest daughter, Lizzie, had been teaching in Mermaid , P.E.I , since she was 16, and was taken suddenly ill with appendicitis. The Carrs got word of her illness, but she died on December 4, 1895, before they could reach her; there was no doctor in Mermaid . David and Jessie's eldest daughter, Christina, married Murdock Balderston as his second wife and went to live in Southport ; they had four sons. Murdock's first wife, Maggie MacRae , had taught in Stanhope before her marriage, and had boarded at David Carr 's. On her death bed she told her husband to go to David Carr 's for his next wife, which he eventually did. Ira, the eldest surviving son, worked on the family farm until he married Jane Millar , when he moved to 297