Families of the South Arm of Bonne Bay

We at the Bonne Bay Historical Archive Committee are thrilled to add to our website one of the most important contributions to the history of Bonne Bay, Roy Osmond’s “Family Names of the South Arm of Bonne Bay 1800s-1930”. This unique source of genealogical information was reproduced privately in 1987, and has been long since unavailable, except in some libraries and a few private collections.

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Having grown up in Woody Point, Roy started to trace the generations of his own family, but soon expanded his research to include 91 families who had once lived in Bonne Bay or were still there.  The book also contains a brief history of the area, several “bits and pieces” from the Western Star, household directories and census information from 1894 to 1936, and a list of 92 vessels registered to Bonne Bay.

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We are grateful to Roy Osmond for allowing us to reproduce and make once again available to the public this very valuable compilation.