Julia Ann Herridge of John

HERRIDGE, Julia Ann
      Born: baptized on 09 October 1879
      Died: about 1899-1900
      Father: John Herridge
      Mother: Sarah (Caines) Baker
      Children:
           [1] Arthur Albert Herridge, born 1897 at Lobster Cove

Note: Arthur Albert Herridge was raised by John Herridge, brother of Julia Ann, and his wife Jane Thornhill. Arthur knew only his mother’s name and that she had died when he was about two years old. His father’s identity was not known, although there is a possibility that his father was a Thornhill, perhaps related to “Uncle Albert” Thornhill. There may have been a reason why Albert was Arthur’s middle name. “Uncle Albert” and Arthur were always close and it is known that when “Uncle Albert” was dying, he asked for Arthur to come see him. Julia Ann apparently married in 1899, at 20, widower Edward Osborn, 28, of Reuben, Lobster Cove. No other Julia Ann appears in the records. Julia Ann may have died shortly after her marriage, which would explain why her son Arthur went to live with John and Jane Herridge when he was about two years old. It would also explain why there appears to be no mention of Edward and Julia Ann after their marriage.

HERRIDGE, Arthur Albert
      Born: 26 October 1897 at Lobster Cove, Long Harbour, Fortune Bay
      Died: 13 September 1972, aged 75, at Fortune
      Father: unknown
      Mother: Julia Ann Herridge
      Spouse: Lucy Harriett Matthews
      Born: 03 April 1896 at Grand John, Fortune Bay
      Died: 03 April 1980, aged 84, at Fortune
      Father: Henry Matthews
      Mother: Mary Ann “Polly”?
      Children:
           [1] Mabel Herridge, born 22 July 1919 at Grand John
           [2] Elsie Herridge, born 10 August 1921 at Grand John
           [3] Henry Herridge, born 06 September 1923 at Anderson’s Cove
           [4] Fay Herridge, born November 1925 at Anderson’s Cove

Note: Arthur and Lucy lived at Grand John when they first married, moved to Anderson’s Cove, Long Harbour, Fortune Bay in the summer of 1923, then moved to Fortune on 31 July 1954. Arthur was a fisherman all his life.

HERRIDGE, Mabel
      Born: 22 July 1919 at Grand John, Fortune Bay
      Died: 1987 of lung cancer; buried in the All Saints Anglican Cemetery at Fortune
      Father: Arthur Albert Herridge
      Mother: Lucy Harriett Matthews
      Spouse: William Pope
      Born: October 1908 at Stone’s Cove, Long Harbour, Fortune Bay
      Died: buried in the All Saints Anglican Cemetery at Fortune
      Father: Henry “Harry” Pope
      Mother: Jessie ?
      Children:
           [1] Harvey Pope, born at Anderson’s Cove, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland; married Helga from Germany while in Air Force; daughter Christina Fay [born 1868; married 08 August 1992 Douglas Reid Clarke at Barrie, Ontario
           [2] Donald Pope, born at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; married Henrietta Hickman of Grand Bank [divorced]; children: Jennifer and Christopher

NOTE: William and Mabel lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for many years while he fished on the deep-sea draggers. They returned to Newfoundland in the early 1960s, living first at Grand Bank, then building a house at Fortune.

HERRIDGE, Elsie
      Born: 10 August 1921 at Grand John, Fortune Bay
      Died: 21 Apr 2006, at Nursing Home in St. Lawrence, of Alzheimer’s Disease
      Father: Arthur Albert Herridge
      Mother: Lucy Harriett Matthews
      Spouse: Verdena “Verd” Myles
      Born: circa 1916 at Little Bay East
      Died: 1978 at Grand Bank of cancer
      Father: William Albert Miles
      Mother: Hannah Jane Green
      Children:
           [1] Thomas Myles, born 17 September 1945, Little Bay East; died 24 September 2006, Nelson BC; married Rena.
           [2] Arthur Myles, born October 1948, Little Bay East; married Joyce Hynes of Fortune [daughter of Bernard]; children: Heather and Penny.
           [3] Frank Myles, born 13 September 1955, Grand Bank; married Jennifer Hynes of Fortune [daughter of Bernard]: children: daughter Beverly.

NOTE: Verd Myles was a seaman all his life and spent many years as Skipper of deep-sea draggers. Tom Myles trained as a dentist and worked as a dentist for many years, until he decided it was becoming too stressful and a change was needed. He sold his practice, bought a boat and went fishing in BC. Several years before his death, Tom learned that he was in the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease and, in 2006, he took his own life. Tom was very intelligent and would have known what PD held in store for him in the years ahead. It is surmised, therefore, that he either felt he could not handle it, or that he did not want to put his wife through it.

HERRIDGE, Henry
      Born: 06 September 1923 at Anderson’s Cove, Fortune Bay
      Died: 10 February 2010, Blue Crest Home, Grand Bank
      Father: Arthur Albert Herridge
      Mother: Lucy Harriett Matthews
      Married: 27 October 1947, Anderson’s Cove
      Spouse: Sophie Nurse
      Born: 12 August 1926 at Freshwater, Trinity Bay
      Died: 20 December 2004 at the Burin Health Care Centre, Burin (heart attack, a result of many years of diabetes)
      Father: Berkley (Williams) Nurse of Pool’s Cove
      Mother: Eliza Helen Bailey of Freshwater
      Children:
           [1] Fay Herridge, born 10 July 1948 at Anderson’s Cove
           [2] Marie Herridge, born 05 May 1953 at Anderson’s Cove

HERRIDGE, Fay
      Born: November 1925 at Anderson’s Cove, Long Harbour, Fortune Bay
      Died: 18 March 1945, aged 19 years 6 months, at Anderson’s Cove
      Father: Arthur Albert Herridge
      Mother: Lucy Harriett Matthews
      Married: 1944
      Spouse: Freeman Hatch
      Born: 1923 at Anderson’s Cove
      Father: Henry Hatch
      Mother: Selina ?

Note: Family tradition indicates that Fay apparently died in childbirth, complicated by Tuberculosis; her stillborn child was supposedly buried with her, but is not mentioned on her headstone. Freeman Hatch later married Fay’s second cousin, Corella “Cora” Herridge, daughter of James and Ella.