William FAWCETT Jr.

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  Death Notes:

William was shot to death through a kitchen window on the evening of 19 June, 1832.

  Burial Notes:

Inscription:

HERE
Lieth the
Body of
WILLIAM FAWCETT
Who was a plain industrious
hospitable & deeply pious man
whose uniform christian conduct
gained him the respect of all who
became acquainted with him.
While reading one of Mr. Wesley's
sermons his immortal spirit was
instantly precipitated into the
Eternal world to take possession
of its final rest by some monster of
iniquity that will be discovered
at the last day who intentionally
shot him dead through the kitchen
window on the evening of
June 19th 1832 in the 63 Year of his age
Reader be thou also ready

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Emigration: Yorkshire Migration, in 1774, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
William and Ann Matson Fawcett of Hovingham, England, emigrated to Upper Sackville in 1774 along with about 1000 people from Yorkshire. This event was shared from William FAWCETT Sr. who also shared it with Ann MATSON (1735-1812), John FAWCETT (1766-1837), Mary FAWCETT (1767-1847), and William FAWCETT Jr. (1769-1832).

2. He resided at William Fawcett House about 1816 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
William Fawcett II built a house on land his father had given him that was about half-mile from Four Corners. In his will dated April 1814, William Fawcett I left his son William II his farm, whereon he lived, extending from the Highway to the road leading through Tantramarre containing forty two acres.
(William Fawcett House, 129 Pondshore Road, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.)

William married Sarah HOLMES, daughter of Samuel HOLMES and Elizabeth FOUNTAIN, on 3 August 1809 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. (Sarah HOLMES was born in 1777,⁹³⁵ died on 15 February 1845 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada ⁹³⁵ and was buried in February 1845 in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada ⁹³⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. They have conflicting marriage information of 21 August 1809 and Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. ⁹³⁶