WILLIAM GENGE Abram Genge, now an old man, sent to Yeovil, England, for a brother’s son, and William Genge came and settled at Anchor Point. A sister’s son, Absalom Robbins, also came out. He was a great favourite with the settlers, and was called Rabby. He never married. William Genge met a daughter of William Buckle, whose family came to Buckle’s Point in St. Margaret’s Bay every winter. They were married and became the ancestors of all the Genges in the Strait of Belle Isle. When Bishop Field made his first episcopal voyage to Labrador in 1843, he visited Anchor Point, and was loud in his praise of Mrs. Genge, who have been there for thirty years without seeing a clergyman. She had brought up a large family of modest, well-behaved children, and almost wept for joy when the bishop, with two other clergymen, landed and came to her house. One of the clergymen was Dr. Harvey, who afterwards worked in the parish of Port de Grave for thirty-seven years, and was my own childhood parson. She was the mother of Thomas Genge, who gave me the history of the first settlers on the French Shore. On this visit, Bishop Field consecrated at Anchor Point the first cemetery to be used in northern Newfoundland.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:09:12 +0000
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