HENRY

The HENRY ancestors consisted of a group of British immigrants who settled in Prince Edward Island in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Most of these people were farmers and many of their direct descendants continue to farm on the original properties.

ALEXANDER HENRY (1780-1860) came from England as a young man and settled on a farm

in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island. He married Isabella MacWilliams and together they had eight children, namely;

1. Isabella (1806-1869) 2. Charles (1808—1865) 3. Mary (1810 -1865) 4. Edward (Mar. 10, 1814 — 1892) m. Grace Hacker b. May 19, 1820. They lived in Granville and started the first grist mill in the area. Before this Edward worked as a blacksmith for Alexander and James Simpson, BayView Mills. He was responsible for getting his brother, Dougald, to study the blacksmith work and settle in Stanley Bridge.

Edward also owned a 150 acre farm in Granville. 5. Barbara (1815—1898) 6. Dougald (1817-1905) - {see below} 7. Catherine (1820 -1877) 8. Flora (1823-1900)

DOUGALD HENRY (1817—1905) stud- ied the trade of blacksmithing in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island and worked as a blacksmith in Charlottetown at the lower end of Queen Street for two or three years. Dougald states that he left the land of his birth, Malpeque, in 1840. He learned blacksmithing and worked for his older brother, Edward, at BayView Mills in the shipbuilding business of Alexander and James Simpson. The Simpsons used to launch at least two vessels a year. Dougald worked there for about five years before moving to Stanley Bridge and buying a small acreage of land. He worked at Bell’s Shipyard located on the Mill River above the present Stanley Bridge. Dougald also had a blacksmith shop on his property in the village.

In Dougald’s first marriage to Isabelle

Paynter they had ten children. After

First Henry Settler -fr0m Malpeque Isabel’s death, he married Jane

Dougald Henry MacDonald, Wheatley River. They had two

children. Included in the first marriage, was one child named George Henry who farmed the Henry land.

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