Daniel Lockhart Harvie

Daniel Lockhart Harvie was born on 1 Jan 1811 ¹ at Avondale, Hants County, Nova Scotia; died ca. 1851 ². He married in Hants County, (1) Jane Ann Burton, born ca. 1823 in Windsor, Hants Co.; died 29 Jul 1845 ³ in Newport, Hants Co., daughter of Walter Burton. He married in Hants, County, (2) Sarah Lewis Harvie née Lavers, the widow of his brother Andrew Harvie (1809-1841), born 15 May 1820 ⁴; died 16 June 1875 ⁵in Hants Co., eldest daughter of William Henry Lavers (1793-1884) and Susan Robertson (1795-1881) ⁵.

Children of Daniel Lockhart Harvie and Jane Ann Burton were ⁶:
+   1     Walter Harvie
     2     Jane A Harvie

Children of Daniel Lockhart Harvie and Sarah Lewis Harvie née Lavers were ⁶:
 +  3    Ellen E Harvie
 +  4    Caroline Susan Harvie
 +  5    Danielena Harvie

         Daniel Lockhart Harvie was a grandson of John Harvie (1730-1822) who arrived in Nova Scotia in May 1760 from Scotland, via Rhode Island, America to take up lands in what was to be known as the Newport grant. About 1793 his son Andrew married Rebecca Lockhart, a daughter of John Lockhart and Abigail Trask, and Daniel was the tenth born of their twelve children. The Australian death certificate of Daniel's only son Walter gave his father's occupation as orchardist. Daniel purchased the homestead portion of Roseway Farm, on which the house and orchard were located, from his father Andrew in 1841, and it was in this house built by their great grandfather on portion 1A of the 1st Division of the Newport Grant that the five children of Daniel's two marriages would have been born ^{7, 8}.
         Daniel died circa 1851 as a result of injuries he received in an accident in a gypsum mine he part owned and neither the site of his grave nor that of either of his wives has been located ². He died intestate and the Hants County Court of Probate estate administration records named his five children as - Walter, Jane, Ellen, Caroloine and Damielena ⁶. He would likely have been buried in the burial ground in the old orchard located directly across the road from the Roseway homestead. It appears his widow Sarah did not remarry after his death, for in the 1871 census only four years before her death she was listed as a widow residing with a seaman in Scotch Village ⁹. From her first marriage to Daniel Lockhart's older brother Andrew, a mariner who died 5 May 1841, Sarah had only one child William Andrew (known as Andrew). After Daniel's death she had two more children by unknown fathers named Oscar J. and Ida, born respectively in 1853 and 1858, who were listed with her in a Scotch Village household at the 1871 census. The 1871 A. F. Church Map of Hants Co., compiled sometime betwen 1868 and 1871, had the farm adjoining Roseway occupied by a "W. Lavers". It seems possible back in the 1840's that Sarah resided there which if so would have made it a case of her marrying the boys next door - not unusual in those days! Her parents William and Susan Lavers later moved to Kern County in California to join two of her brothers.
         Daniel Lockhart's portion of Roseway Farm and some other lands were acquired after his death by his brother James Harvie at a mortgagee auction held on 11 Mar 1854 ¹⁰. From that time James and his son Weston occupied the property excepting for some sections sold to third parties shortly after the auction purchase. The auction arose when a mortgagee foreclosed, as a consequence of Daniel Lockhart's father Andrew having mortgaged the property for £600 14 years before he sold it to his sons in 1841, and having never discharged the mortgage. Some other farming land in Daniel's estate, that had been sold by Andrew to his sons in 1831, was similarly auctioned by Court Order on 14 Jul 1855 ¹¹. In that instance the land had been mortgaged by Daniel's grandfather John Harvie before his death in 1822, and the mortgage not discharged by his son Andrew who was bequeathed the land in his father's will. The balance of the property, valued at £1086 in 1866, was apparently also later acquired from Daniel Lockhart's estate by James Harvie whose son Weston Harvie served in the U.S. Civil War and after the war as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Nova Scotia militia. The property was sold by him to the Parker family in the early 1900's. The original house built by John Harvie, to which Daniel Lockhart's father Andrew made extensions, burned in the 1940's and the replacement house was built in similar style to the original. The property today (1997) remains in the ownership of Parker descendants and is owned by Ms Eva Evens who has a photograph of the original house. It has the postal address of 221 Avondale Road, Newport ¹².
         Little is known of Daniel Lockhart's first wife Jane Ann Burton who died when aged about 22 years. She was the daughter of Walter Burton of Windsor who was listed there in the 1838 census with a family of eight children ¹³. Likewise to the Harvie family the Walter Burton family were of the Presbyterian faith. In the newspaper notice of Jane's death her father was just named as W. Burton of Windsor and her husband erroneously as David Harvey. However there is no doubt as to identity as the notice also advised the death in the same Newport household just three days later of Daniel's mother Rebecca Harvie ³.

LINKS
Walter Burton Family of Hants County, Nova Scotia
Harvie | Harvey Family of Hants County, Nova Scotia

SOURCES:
¹   The Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly,  Vol. 6, No. 4, 1976. "John Harvie (1730-1822) of Newport, Nova Scotia: Three Generations of Descendants", by Robert P Harvey (source was the family bible listing the birth dates of all the Andrew and Rebecca Harvie children).
²    Letter written abt. Feb 1925 by Walter Harvie to his half sister Caroline Hill in Bakersfield, Kern County, CA, says their father died when the writer (born 1843) was abt. 8 yrs. of age. Letter published 1988 issue of Harvies' Bulletin - newsletter of The Harvie Family Association of Hants County.
³   Nova Scotia vital statistics from newspapers, 1844-1847, GANS, Item  # 1295, 1296. Extracted from death notices in the Nova Scotian, Monday, 11 August 1845 - at Newport in same house: #1295 ... +died 29 July 1. Jane Ann, 22 (23), wife of David Harvey, and d/o W. Burton, Windsor. # 1296.... + died 1 Aug.  2. Rebecca, 72, wife of Andrew Harvey, (Sr.). Whilst the cause of Jane Ann's 29 Jul 1845 death is unknown, it is quite certain she did not die whilst giving birth to her daughter Jane, such being established from daughter Jane of necessity having been over 21 years of age when she applied for a court order that was made on 23 Apr 1866 granting to her a distribution of her share of her father Daniel's estate (i.e. she was must have been born a minimum of 3 months before her mother's death).
⁴    June 1998 email from Rod McDowell of Kennewick, WA, USA, citing Lavers family group sheets prepared by Mildred (Boudreau) Lavers - dates from the Lavers family bible.
⁵    Bible in the possession of Ellen E. Harvie's grand daughter Ellen Nelson, Metford, Oregon.
⁶    Hants Co. Court of Probate,  Distribution of Personal Property Order, dated 12 Jun 1866.
⁷    Hants Co.  Registry of Deeds, Volume 26, Doc. 66, page 78.
⁸    John Duncanson, Newport, a Rhode Island Township in Nova Scotia, (1985) Mica Publ. p.251
⁹    1871 Census of Hants County, Nova Scotia  (Scotch Village, section A1, #81/83).
¹⁰  Hants Co. Registry of Deeds, Volume 35, Doc. 264, page 302. 11 Apr 1854 Conveyance
¹¹  Ibid  Volume 36, Doc. 370, page 420.  29 Sep 1855 Conveyance.
¹²  Letter dated 14 Apr 1997 from John D Wilson - President, West Hants Historical Society.
¹³  Census Index of 1838 - Hants/Kings County. Walter Burton, farmer, Windsor, Hants County. Vol. 449, file 158, p8.  Original documents kept at PANS in Halifax.