Richard and Maria, Buckland Filleigh
(mine!)
Notes for James * GORVEATT, SR.
arrived PEI in 1840 from Devon, England. Arrived on same boat as Horriell family. Settled 9 Mile Creek area.Buried at Canoe Cove, Presbyterian Cemetery
in 1841 census states that James Gorvat, lot 34 Shoemaker not yet purchased land only recently arrived. spelled "James Gorvat"
will on microfilm at Archives thusly:
LOT 65 W. LIBER 8 FOLIO 775 FILED FEB. 25, 1875
On baptism certificate of William, son of James and Mary Ann ( 6 August
1826 ) James is described as "Labourer, of Farthingland, Shebbear.
Apparently Farthingland was (and still is) a hamlet on edge of Shebbear.
(these details came from Jim Gorvett, who Anne put me in touch with.)
1833 Quarter Sessions, Devon England
James Gorvett [30]
Committed by John. D.I. Fortescue, esq, and William B. Coham, clerk, charged with having been found in a certain wood and inclosed plantation, in the parish of Buckland Filleigh, between the hours of ten at night and four in the morning, on the 5th of December instant, having a gun, for the purpose and with the intent to take and kill pheasants, and did kill two cock pheasants, and one hen pheasant, the property of John Inglett Fortescue, esq. Warrant dated 8th December, 1832.
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