Hello.
My husband is a Reid and we are searching for his ancestors.
His g-grandfather was an Abel Reid, born approx. 1901 in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. We have no knowledge of his parents or any siblings. He is a mystery at this point. We do know that he ended up moving to Nova Scotia at some point and married Celina LeBlanc. They moved to Ontario where they lived and died. Buried in Nova Scotia.
I have been searching online and see that there are many Reid families in Newfoundland.
Are there many different Reid families in Newfoundland or is just about all of these familes descended from some big Reid family from centuries ago?
Please reply if you can help,
also if you know of any great Newfoundland genealogy sites you think may help.
thanks,
Melissa & Scott (Reid

You could try the NL Census for Green's Harbor, Trinity Bay. I know there are/were Reid Families there back in the early 1900's.

Here is the link:

http://ngb.chebucto.org/index.html

My uncle Simeon Reid, from New Melbourne, Trinity Bay, had a brother named Abel. Simeon was born in 1898, so perhaps this is the Reid family you're looking for. Contact me if you want more information.

Lorne Harris

My uncle Simeon Reid, from New Melbourne, Trinity Bay, had a brother named Abel. Simeon was born in 1898, so perhaps this is the Reid family you're looking for. Contact me if you want more information.

Lorne Harris

Hello, I e-mailed you directly, perhaps you didn't receive it?
Here is the gist of the e-mail:

I would appreciate any information you have on this family of Reids. That's a pretty broad question, and not knowing for sure if it is the family I seek. Would you please send me information on Simeon and Abel's parents and siblings?
Abel has living children, I got word to his youngest and she remembers an "Uncle Sim". They knew his name was Simeon, though they pronounced it 'Simon' (I guess when they weren't calling him Uncle Sim). This neice of Sim recalls he was born in Trinity Bay and that he was older than her dad (Abel), but that they were just like one another. Perhaps if you can give me names of other siblings, I can contact these great aunts/uncles of my husbands and see if the names you can provide sound familiar to them.
If they do, then I can get in touch with you again.
Thanks again, this family though not so far back is a mystery to my husband.
He is Scott Reid, g-grandson of Abel Reid
-Melissa D. Matt

I'll check with my Mom, who was raised in Trinity Bay

could this be your Abel Reid in 1921 in New Melbourne

15 15 PYNN Francis M Head Married 1854 July 67 New Melbourne
PYNN Elizabeth F Wife Married 1877 Dec 44 New Melbourne
REID Walter M Step Son Single 1900 Apr 21 New Melbourne
REID Abel M Step Son Single 1902 Dec 19 New Melbourne
REID Dinah F Step Daughter Single 1903 Apr 18 New Melbourne
BURSEY Alan M Step Son Single 1909 Dec 12 New Melbourne
BURSEY Arthur M Step Son Single 1911 Apr 10 New Melbourne
BURSEY Franklin M Step Son Single 1916 Sept 5 New Melbourne

Hi,
Thanks Donna, it looks like the family, but I will have to do some work to confirm. It looks like Abel's mom remarried at some point. What I don't get are all the step-children named Bursey.
Thanks again,
Melissa.

Looks like Elizabeth married a REID, then a BURSAY and then a PYNN

Simeon Reid (1898 - 1988) was my uncle by marriage. Uncle Simmy, as we knew him, and I knew him well along with his wife and children, married my mother's sister, Rosanna Cummings, from Whales Brook (now Brownsdale), Trinity Bay. The family moved to Montreal in 1951.

Simmy's father was Moses Reid. His mother was Elizabeth Garland from Lower Island Cove, Conception Bay. Moses and Elizabeth had 7 children: Jonathon (died young, fell through the ice), Simeon, Walter, Abel, Dinah, Caleb and Ruby.
Moses died when Simmy was 8 years old. Elizabeth remarried to William Bursey and had 3 more children: Alan, Arthur and Franklin. (I married one of Franklin's daughters).
William died and Elizabeth married once again, this time to Francis Pynn, 23 years her elder. They had no children. Francis died and Elizabeth (Nanny Pynn as she was called) lived as a widow in Francis's house in New Melbourne. I met her several times before she died in the early 1960s on Bell Island, I believe (her daughter Dinah was living there).

According to the 1921 Newfoundland Census for  New Melbourne, Elizabeth Pynn and Francis Pynn were living at that time with 6 children in New Melbourne. Elizabeth was 44 and Francis was 67.  By 1921 Simeon had married Rosanna Cummings and they had 1 child, Sarah (Sadie).
 
The six children living with Elizabeth and Francis in 1921 were:Walter Reid, 21; Abel Reid, 19; Dinah Reid, 18; Allan Bursey, 12; Arthur Bursey, 10, and Franklin (Frank) Bursey, 5.

Contact me if you would like more information.

Lorne Harris.