The Parkhurst Cemetery

The Parkhurst Cemetery is located just outside of Ste. Sylvestre at a site next to 244 Craig Rue [route 269] in Ste. Patrice de Baurivage, a rural town about 50 km south of Quebec City.

This cemetery is cared for by private family donations (Send to Dr. Curtis Lowry, 14 Cookshire, Sawyerville Que. JOB 3AO).

The Parkhurst Methodist Church once stood next to this site. A photo of the church can be seen here. The photo is courtesy of Neil Broadhurst. James Orr and his brother Robert Orr helped to build the church. 

These people have stones in this cemetery:

• ??, Mary A, born ~1819, wife of David Lowry born ~1793, died 9/17/1883 at 64 yrs.
• Ashcroft, John, born 1855, son of Richard Ashcroft born 1800, died 1897
• Ashcroft, Richard, born 1800, died 1896. [stone says he was a native of Armagh Ireland]
• Bain, Ann, born ~1783, wife of Robert Neill born ~1782, died 5/3/1854 at 71 yrs.
• Bain, John Thomas, born ~1860, son of Richard born ~1789, died 12/7/1862
• Bain, Richard, born ~1789, died 10/18/1855 at 66 yrs.
• Baker, Elizabeth, born ~1817, wife of John Nutbrown born ~1862, died 1/15/1883
• Brennen, Ellen, wife of Thomas Evans, died 10/??/1890
• Brennen, Mary, born ~1820, wife of John Stroughton, died 1/2/1873 at 53 yrs.
• Brennen, Nathaniel, born ~1845, died 1/18/1915 at 70 yrs.
• Brennen, Wallace P.B, born ~1871, died 6/15/1933
• CASCADDEN - no other inscription on stone (is possibly for Margaret (lowry) Cascadden)
• Colvin, James, born ~1820, died 3/28/1890 at 69 yrs.
• Colvin, Joseph Jr, born ~7/??/1866, died 11/14/1890 at 24 yrs, 4 mos.
• Colvin, Thomas, born ~1791, died 12/2/1878 at 87 yrs.
• Colvin, Thomas, born 3/4/1857, died 4/24/1891 at 34 yrs, 1 mos, 20 days.
• Evans, Ann, born ~1807, died 3/2/1874 at 67 yrs. [inscription is on stone of Rebecca Jane Mackey]
• Evans, Eliza, died 11/22/1918
• Evans, Evans, husband of Ellen Brennen, died 7/??/1892
• Gallagher, Barbara, born ~1854, wife of Joseph Fillon, died 9/24/1926 at 72 yrs.
• Gorham, Robert, born ~1812, died 9/11/1889 at 77 yrs.
• Hammon, Ann, born ~ 1805, wife of John Scott, died 4/9/1864
• Herren, Eliza, born 1814, wife of Richard Ashcroft born 1800, died 1903 [stone says she was a native of Armagh Ireland]
• Lowry, David, born ~1793, died 9/1/1873 at 80 yrs.
• Lowry, Mary, born ~1839, wife of James McVety,born 4/3/1836, died 8/15/1875 at 36 yrs.
• Lowry, Thomas, born ~1778, died 5/9/1868 at 90 yrs.
• Mackey, Alex, born 10/7/1848, died 6/3/1871 at 22 yrs.
• Mackey, Joseph, born 12/15/1817, died 12/28/1875 at 57 yrs.
• Mackey, Mary, wife of John Edwards born 8/3/1825, died 5/12/1861 at 30 yrs.
• Mackay, Rebecca Jane, born 2/20/1857, died 1/9/1875 at 17 yrs, 11 mos.
• McKey, Ruth, born 1789, wife of Thomas Lowry born ~1778, died 11/13/1867 at 78 yrs.
• Mackey, Thomas, born ~1828, died 12/23/1869 at 41 yrs
• Mackey, William, born ~1790, died 1/1/1861 at 70 yrs.
• Mackey, William, born 3/1/1821, died 1/11/1856 at 34 yrs.
• Mackey, William, born ~1845, died 12/2/1878 at 33 yrs.
• Mackie, Thomas, born ~1764, died 7/21/1847 at 73 yrs.
• McLean, Flora, born ??, wife of George Stoken born ~1776, died 11/22/1866
• McVety, James, born ~1796, died 2/8/1865 at 69 yrs.
• McVety, Joseph, born ~1839, died 6/23/1877 at 38 yrs.
• McVety, Sarah, born ~1836, wife of John Shortun, died 4/4/1877 at 41 yrs.
• Morrison, Christiana, born ~1803, wife of Thomas Colvin, born ~1791, died 4/28/1890 at 87 yrs.
• Morrison, Esther, born ~1813, wife of Robert Gorham born ~1812, died 9/9/1853 at 40 yrs
• Morrison, Mary, born ~1800, wife of William Mackey, born ~1790, died 6/1/1852 at 52 yrs.
• Morrow, John, born ~1823, died 8/30/1887 at 64 yrs. He was a native of Donegal Ireland.
• Neill, Jane, born ~1789, wife of Richard Bain born ~1789, died 10/18/1855 at 66 yrs.
• Neill, Robert, born ~1782, died 1/24/1867 at 71 yrs.
• Nelson, Thomas, born ~1861, died 2/11/1893 at 32 yrs.
• Nutbrown, John, born ~1812, died 10/20/1878 at 66 yrs.
• Orr, Agnes, born ~1833, wife of James Baker, died 11/27/1861 at 27 yrs.
• Orr, Andrew, born ~1822, died 3/23/1847 at 24 yrs, 8 mos, 18 days.
• Orr, Harriet, born ~1855, wife of Robert Neill, died 5/17/1881 at 25 yrs, 8 mos, 18 days.
• Orr, John, born ~1809, died 4/29/1896 at 87 yrs.
• Orr, Agnes, born ~1768, died 2/10/1845 at 77 yrs.
• Orr, Joseph, born ~1839, died 2/9/1845 at 6 mos.
• Orr, George, born ~1846, died 2/4/1852 at 6 yrs.
• Orr, Edward, born ~1848, died 1/28/1852 at 4 yrs.
• Orr, John, born ~1858, died 9/10/1877 at 19 yrs.
• Orr, Mary, born ??, wife of Bartholomew Kelly, died 1/16/18??
• Orr, Robert, born ~1798, died 5/15/1894 at 96 yrs. He was a native of Armagh Ireland.
• Orr, Ann, born ~1802, wife of Robert Orr born ~1798, died 8/7/1884 at 82 yrs.
• Orr, Robert - TWIN, born 9/??/1876, daughter of Robert Orr born ~1840, died 5/18/1877 at 8 mos.
• Orr, Mary - TWIN, born 9/??/1876, daughter of Robert Orr born ~1840, died 5/18/1877 at 8 mos.
• Orr, William, born ~1807, died 6/17/1862 at 54 yrs, 10 mos.
• Orr, Caroline, born ~1841, daughter of William Orr born 8/??/1807, died 2/1/1864 at 23yrs.
• Rainey, Elizabeth, born ~ 1798, wife of James Orr, died 5/1/1842 at 44 yrs.
• S ?? Daughter W.H.S and Son M.J.S died 1848
• Scott, Adam, born ~1872, grandson of William Scott born ~1796, died 10/26/1877 at 5 yrs, 3 mos.
• Scott, William, born ~1796, died 1/4/1871 at 75 yrs.
• Scott, William, born ~1833, died 6/12/1856 [inscription on stone of Ann Hammon]
• Scott, John, born ~1834, son of William Scott born ~1796, died 1/21/1879 at 45 yrs.
• Scott, William, born ~1859, grandson of William Scott born ~1796, died 11/21/1877 at 18 yrs, 9 mos.
• Simpson, William, born ~1795, died 1/23/1856 at 61 years.
• Simpson, Robert, born ~1824, son of William Simpson born ~1795, died 10/20/1863 at 37 yrs.
• Stoken, George, born ~1776, died 6/21/1836 at 60 yrs.
• Stoken, Ann, born ~1846, daughter of John and Mary Stoken, died 4/28/1862 at 15 yrs, 11 mos.
• Sutherland, Fanny, born ~1824, wife of John Orr born ~1809, died 3/1/1896
• Sutherland, John, born ??, died 1855
• Sutherland, ??, born ~1797, wife of John Sutherland who died in 1855, died 5/10/1857 at 60 yrs.
• Sutherland, Susan, born ~1836, wife of G.L. Ware, died 11/15/1905
• Thompson, Catherine, born ~1825, wife of Robert Gorham, died 1/18/1878 at 53 yrs.
• Thurber, Frances, born ~183?, wife of B.T. Summervelled, died 1/13/1869 at ~30 yrs.
• Wark, Jane, born ~1833, wife of John Morrow born ~1833, died 9/3/1880
• Wilson, Clara A, born 1867, wife of John Ashcroft born 1855, died 1949 and is buried in Manchester NH.
• Wilson, Margaret, born ~1796, wife of William Simpson born ~1795, died 4/12/1872 at 76 yrs.

• Cameron, Ellen Murray, born ~1805, wife of deceased Murdock Cameron, died 10/22/1877 at 72 yrs.
• Ferguson, John William, born ~1855, son of James Ferguson and Anne Brodie, died 4/2/1858 at 1 yr, 3 mos.
• Gillander, Catherine Rhinehart, wife of George Gillander, died 6/7/1878
• Gillander, John, son of David and Mary Rinehart Gillander
• Hanran, Maggie, daughter of Rev James and Sarah Hill Hanran, died 9/24/1873
• Hopper, John, died 7/28/1886. He was from Broughton.
• Mann, Ann Sharp (could be Maw), born ~1811, wife of deceased James Mann, died 12/29/1866 at 75 yrs.
• Mann, John, born ~ 1815, died 9/6/1879 at 64 yrs. Elizabeth Ann McCutcheon, died 11/20/1882
• Planche, John Paul, born 1000, died 11/28/1875
• Rowe, Annie, born ~1846, daughter of David Rowe and Jane Stewart (ref to St. Giles), died 8/7/1870 at 24 yrs.
• Sample, Janet Blank, born ~1788, wife of John Sample, died 6/12/1876 at 88 yrs.
• Sample, John, born ~1786, died 11/6/1876 at 90 yrs. Death certificate signed by son Dougald Sample and son-in-law William Buchanan.