My Andrews Ancestry

My grandmother, Rachel C. Andrews, was born in Winterton, Newfoundland, Canada. Here she is a photo from the 1960's. She was a descendant of a long line of hardy Newfies. Below is a genealogy of her father's side, starting with the oldest known ancestor, Charles Andrews. Originally, Charles came from England.











My Andrews Ancestry
Generation No. 1
1. CHARLES ANDREWS was born 1762. He married HESTER. She was born 1752.
Children of CHARLES ANDREWS and HESTER are:
2. i. JAMES ANDREWS, b. 1802, Heart's Delight, Newfoundland.
ii. HANNAH ANDREWS, b. 1783.
iii. HESTER ANDREWS, b. 1788.
iv. AARON ANDREWS, b. 1794.
v. CHARLOTTE ANDREWS, b. 1805.
vi. JOHN ANDREWS, b. 1807.
Generation No. 2
2. JAMES ANDREWS (CHARLES1) was born 1802 in Heart's Delight, Newfoundland. He married ELIZABETH BRYANT October 18, 1831 in Heart's Delight. She was born 1800.
Children of JAMES ANDREWS and ELIZABETH BRYANT are:
i. AARON ANDREWS, b. 1833.
ii. GEORGE ANDREWS, b. 1840.
iii. CHARLOTTE ANDREWS, b. 1847.
iv. EDMUND ANDREWS, b. 1855.
3. v. JACOB ANDREWS, b. 1857, Scilly Cove, Newfoundland; d. 1896.
Generation No. 3
3. JACOB ANDREWS (JAMES2, CHARLES1) was born 1857 in Scilly Cove, Newfoundland, and died 1896. He married SARAH ADEY May 19, 1877. She was born 1860 in Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland, and died 1934.
Children of JACOB ANDREWS and SARAH ADEY are:
i. ALEXANDER ANDREWS, b. 1884; d. 1905, St. John's Fever Hospital.
ii. WILSON ANDREWS.
iii. THOMAS ANDREWS, b. 1877; d. 1970.
4. iv. SAMUEL ANDREWS, b. 1879, Scilly Cove, Newfoundland; d. 1963.
v. EDMUND ANDREWS, b. 1881; d. 1892.
vi. EBENEZER ANDREWS, b. 1885; d. 1931.
vii. ESAU ANDREWS, b. 1889; d. 1972, Portugual Cove, Newfoundland.
viii. JACOB ANDREWS, b. 1893; d. 1983, Milford, MI USa; m. ELLIE MAY GREEN; b. 1903; d. 1988.
Generation No. 4
4. SAMUEL ANDREWS (JACOB3, JAMES2, CHARLES1) was born 1879 in Scilly Cove, Newfoundland, and died 1963. He married JEDIHAH PINHORN July 07, 1903. She was born 1882 in Scilly Cove, Newfoundland, and died 1945.
Children of SAMUEL ANDREWS and JEDIHAH PINHORN are:
i. RACHEL CHARLOTTE ANDREWS, b. September 1903; d. November 1997;
ii. WILSON ANDREWS, b. 1905.
iii. SARAH ELIZABETH ANDREWS, b. 1908.
iv. NEHEMIAH ANDREWS, b. 1911.

Allison Andrews- Oral History

Newfoundland schoolhouse during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Allison Andrews (born 1916) was my grandmother Rachel Charlotte Andrews' first cousin. He was the son of my grandmother's 'Uncle Ebbie,' or Ebenezer Andrews. Ebbie married Elizabeth Florence Kelland, and had several children: Minnie, Allison, Margaret, Raymond, Lillian, Harold, & Robert. In the following account, Allison talks about his early schooling during the 'old' days in Newfoundland.
Part 1: School:
"I will always remember the first day I went to school because I had a piece of slate, a piece of pencil, and a bookbag to carry it in. When I got to school I had to sit on a stool with no back on it and if you leaned back you would end up in someone's lap. My little feet were just swinging off the floor. I had a bookbag that my mother made out of calico which is the same kind of material an apron was made out of. My mother never had enough calico to make the strap so she made it out of a different material. The strap was so long that one day the bookbag hit off my leg and broke my slate.
"The first thing you had to do in the morning was take a junk of wood to school with you for the stove. You weren't allowed to take a dry junk so you had a soggy one. You were expecting to warm yourself with a wet junk down in school. You would go up to your house for recess at eleven o'clock and you might get a bit of bread and you might not. If you had two slices for your breakfast you wouldn't get any for recess. There was nothing on the bread, only lassie (molasses).
"While going to school, I got as far as grade three."