Newhook, Charles Newell^{[1, 2]}

1806 - 1871  (64 years)

• Name	Newhook, Charles Newell  [3]
  Born	18 Oct 1806	New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Jun 1871	New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
  Buried	Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
  Person ID	I273	Loder
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Newhook, Charles,   b. 12 Dec 1778, St Pauls, Trinity, NL. ,   d. 13 May 1839, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Newell, Catherine,   b. Aft 11 Jun 1763, Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. Apr 1810  (Age ~ 46 years)
  Married	17 Jan 1804
  Family ID	F357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Landers, Sarah,   b. 1810, Poole, Dorset, England ,   d. 10 Jun 1901, Unknown Location  (Age 91 years)
  Married	4 May 1831	Trinity, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada   [4]
  	MARR: RIN MH:FF35
  Children	1. Newhook, Rosie,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Newhook, Susie,   b. New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Newhook, Sarah,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Newhook, Roseanna,   b. Dildo, Newfoundland ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Newhook, Thomas Lander,   b. 1832, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Newhook, Charles,   b. 1834, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. 6 Jun 1915, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada  (Age 81 years)   7. Newhook, Hannah,   b. Feb 1845,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Newhook, Jessie,   b. Jul 1849,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Newhook, John Newell,   b. 1852, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. 10 Dec 1934, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada  (Age 82 years)   10. Newhook, Robert,   b. 1856, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada ,   d. 8 Jul 1880, New Harbour Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada  (Age 24 years)   11. Newhook, Isabell,   b. 1873,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2018
  Family ID	F142	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He From "Pot Heads and Drumhoops, A Folk History of New Harbour, Trinity Bay" (1995), by Garry Cranford with Raymond Hillier: "Newhook was married at Trinity, in Garland's parlour in 1821, apparently at the tender age of fifteen years. The following is the entry from "Newhook Master Shipbuilders" article. This is the section about this Charles. "Charles Newell Newhook (third), 1806-71 Born at New Harbour in 1806, eldest son of Charles Newhook (second). He must have been educated at Trinity or Harbour Grace, or some other place with a better school than would have been found at New Harbour. He wrote a fine hand, and was for many years, down to his death, the Justice of the Peace, and the leading inhabitant, at New Harbour. I feel he was the best educated of all the Newhook stock in Newfoundland, until the emergence of his grand-nephew, the late Doctor William H. Newhook, M, D., who died at Whitbourne about 1963. About 1830 Miss Sarah Lander, daughter of the deceased sea-captain, Thomas Wise Lander, came out from Poole, England, to visit her re-married mother, then Mrs. William Davis Cross, at Trinity, A fortune-teller had told the young lady that the first man she would meet in Trinity would marry her. Sure enough, Charles Newell Newhook (third) was the first to help her off the vessel in Trinity, and in 1831 they were married there, where their first child was born next year. Then he moved from Trinity to New Harbour, where he succeeded his father as master shipbuilder, presumably for the Garland firm or its successor in business, and his father moved back to Trinity. In New Harbour, Charles Newell Newhook (third) took over the plastered house, and some of his fifteen children were born in it. But about 1845 he purchased, from its then owner, the large house that the Garland firm had built for their agents' residence, together with the extensive land and premises, on what is now called Newhook's Point. This house was occupied in our day by his son, Postmaster John Newhook, whom I first met there one Sunday in 1928; it was taken down by its last owner, John's daughter, about 1958. Charles Newell Newhook (third) was both a master shipbuilder and a merchant, or merchant's agent, during his life at New Harbour. Philip Tocque refers to him, on page 138 of his book "Newfoundland as it was and as it is in 1877" as "merchant and shipbuilder." His grandson, Mr. Robert F. Newhook, of 29 Amherst Heights, St. John's, tells me that he had some connection at New Harbour with the St. John's firm of Charles Fox Bennett k Co. Archdeacon Edward Wix, in his book "Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary's Journal," relates on page 18, first edition, that he walked from Spaniard's Bay across to Trinity Bay one day in February 1935. He goes on to say, "... by half past seven p.m., I reached the house of Mr. Charles Newhook, junior of New Harbour, a late worthy parishioner of the Reverend William Bullock at St. Paul's Church, Trinity, whose father is of French Huguenot extraction." This Charles Nieuhook, junior, was Charles Newell Newhook (third), and his father, then living at Trinity, was Charles Newhook (second). On page 82 of volume one of his book "Excursions in and about Newfoundland," John B. Jukes relates that the small ketch in which he was journeying anchored in New Harbour on 17 July 1839, and that next day "...... Mr. Newhook, of New Harbour treated us very kindly, and piloted us out in the morning ......" This was Charles Newell Newhook (third). A letter, written from New Harbour and signed A Rambler, in "The Patriot," a St. John's newspaper, on 8 October 1853, speaks of Charles Newell Newhook (third) thus: "...... It is but justice to say of Mr. Newhook that he is a double honour and a double credit to this little settlement, a man justly respected and esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Newhook is the father of twelve children, and I question whether a family of more exemplary moral training is to be found within the precincts of our country ......" I n an obituary of John Newhook (Postmaster at his native New Harbour and last surviving son of Charles Newell Newhook), in the St. John's "Evening Telegram" of 12 December 1934, H. F. Shortis writes in part as follows: "Charles Newhook built the brig Charles for C. F. Bennett k Co., St. John's. She left St. John's at 4 o'clock one Friday evening in 1834 and on Sunday week Mrs. C. F. Bennett attended morning Divine Service in Bristol Cathedral. There are scores of other vessels built by the Newhooks that were noted for their great sailing qualities." Mrs. Bennett was obviously a passenger on the short crossing. Page 3 A page-long column in an old St. John's newspaper, entitled "Memorable springs and other information, Seal Fishery," has this to say concerning the year 1833: "Celebrated for the loss of the schooner Union, Capt. Jno. Delaney, with a picked crew of 28 men from Trinity; built by Charles Newhook of New Harbour for Jno. B. Garland, merchant; capsized while under full sail. April 23rd, the schooners Active and Avon took some of her seals and towed her for 2 days, but had to let her go." The foregoing builder of the Charles and the Union was, I assume, Charles Newell Newhook (third), although he might have been Charles Newhook (second). Lawrence O'Brien, merchant of St. John's, advertised in "The Public Ledger" of 8 December 1840 as follows: "On sale a new brig (not yet registered) of about 150 Tons Burthen, built at Trinity Bay, of the very best materials, by that established Ship-builder, Mr. Newhook, and under inspection of the owner; having extra BREAST HOOKS and FASTENINGS, BEAMS, kc, and is of a superior description, being intended for the Seal Fishery and the general trade of the country; was launched in June last, and now laying at the wharf of the Subscriber (advertiser)." The foregoing builder of this new brig was, I assume, Charles Newell Newhook (third), although he might have been either of his two uncles, William Newhook (Trinity) and James Newhook (Norman's Cove), for whom see below. Charles Newell Newhook (third) died at New Harbour in 1871, and his body was taken across the bay to Trinity for interment in the family vault in the Anglican cemetery No names or particulars are known to me of other vessels that Charles Newell Newhook (third) master-built or repairedFrom "Pot Heads and Drumhoops, A Folk History of New Harbour, Trinity Bay" (1995), by Garry Cranford with Raymond Hillier: "Newhook was married at Trinity, in Garland's parlour in 1821, apparently at the tender age of fift een years. N. C. Crewe: "In New Harbour ... some of his fifteen children were born ..." N. C. Crewe: "... died at New Harbour in 1871, and his body was taken across the bay to Trinity for interment in the family vault in the Anglican cemetary"

  
  

• Sources

  [S118] Schreck Web Site, Charlotte Schreck, Charles Newell Newhook (Reliability: 3). Added by confirming a Smart Match Smart Matching Source is for role as:2000045 [S38] Short Web Site, David Short, Charles Newell NEWHOOK (Reliability: 3). Added by confirming a Smart Match Smart Matching Source is for role as:2007296 [S68] Michael Cooper. [S87] St. Paul's Anglican Church, Trinity.