DANIEL  LOCKHART  HARVIE

 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 in America to take up lands in what was to be known as the township of Newport in Hants County. About 1793 his son Andrew married Rebecca Lockhart who was a daughter of John Lockhart and Abigail Trask. Daniel was tenth born of their twelve children.
    The Australian death certificate of Daniel's only son Walter gave his father's occupation as an orchardist. Daniel purchased the homestead portion of Roseway Farm, on which the house and orchard were located, from his father Andrew in 1841. It was in this house built by their great grandfather on portion 1A of the 1st Division of the Newport Grant that the five above listed children from 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 ². Neither the site of his grave nor that of either of his two wives has been found. 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 as in the 1871 census four years before her death she was listed as a widow living 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. After Daniel's death she had two more children by unknown fathers named Oscar J. and Ida who were respectfully born in 1853 and 1858 and were listed in the Scotch Village household in 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 Sarah resided there which if so would have been a case of her marrying the boys next door - not unusual in those days!
    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 then James and his son Weston occupied the property excepting for some sections sold off to third parties shortly after the auction purchase. The 1854 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 the mortgage not having been discharged. Some other farming land in Daniel's estate, which had been sold by Andrew to his sons in 1831, was similarly auctioned by a 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 similarly the mortgage not discharged by his son Andrew who had been 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.  His son Weston Harvie served in the U.S. Civil War and afterwards 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 Roseway house built by John Harvie, to which Daniel Lockhart's father Andrew made extensions, burned in the 1940's and was replaced by a house built in similar style. In 1997 the property, which has the postal address of 221 Avondale Road,  Newport, remains in the ownership of a Parker descendant being owned by Ms Eva Evens who has a photograph of the original house ¹².
    In respect of Daniel Lockhart's Harvie's first wife Jane Ann Burton little is known. She was the daughter of Walter Burton of Windsor who was listed there in the 1838 census with a family of 8 children ¹³. Likewise to the Harvie family the Walter Burton family were of the Presbyterian faith. In the newspaper notice of Jane's death at the age 22 or 23 years her father was just named as W. Burton of Windsor and her husband erroneously as David Harvey. However the erroneous husband naming gives no reason to doubt identity as the notice also recorded the three days later death of Daniel Lockhart's mother Rebecca Harvie nee Lockhart in the same Newport household ³.

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