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Note: N2 Note: may be no relation, but a James Isbister was baptised 29 Oct 1817 in Birsay, Orkney Scotland, father James Isbister, mother Ann Spence. This couple were married 26 Sept 1817, at Birsay. Marriage registration, original record: “1817, Sept 26. James Isbister in the Parish of Harray was married to Ann Spence, Hunchaguey, without being proclaimed in the Church being a Sailor”. Rev. Andrew Anderson
Also note that James Isbister is a full generation younger than James Spence.
James Isbister, painter, of Saint John, petitioned for, but did not buy, a lot of land in Westmorland County in 1843: The petition of James Isbister of the City of Saint John, Painter, humbly Sheweth that he is a British Subject, and desirous of purchasing, for actual settlement 200 acres pf Crown Land situated as follows: Lots #16 and 17 Range 4, Mechanics settlement, Parish of Harvey, County of Westmorland, east of land applied for by John Rupell. Agreeably to the regulations passed in council on the 11th of May 1843. Signed James Isbister, St. John 18 Sept., 1843. The front or title page: James Isbiser, 200 acres Harvey. Westmor.? It was surveyed but “Not Sold” 7 Nov., 1843.
d. In this city, Saturday morn., 6th Sept., James Isbister, native of Stromness, Scotland, age 54, left wife, seven children. Funeral Monday half past 2 o'clock from his residence end of South wharf (St. John)
note: therefore born about 1819. The 1851 census would give a birth date of about 1823, but the 1871 census agrees with the 1819 date.
The 1851 census lists them as James “Ishboner” age 28, Scotch, Painter, date of entry 1830*, wife Mary age 25, susan daughter age 9, and son Oswald age 2 . Living in Saint John *Thus he must have come to Canada age 8 and thus there must be other family here
The Hutchinson Directory of 1865-1866 lists him as Painter and Boarding House
The Lovell Directory of 1871 lists him at 30 South Wharf, Saint John, Boarding House.
Listed in McApines Saint John City Directory 1871-1872 as a painter and boarding house, at 31 South Wharf, Saint John.
The 1871 census Saint John, Queens ward, lists James Isbister age 52, born island of Pomona, (this is Mainland, Orkney) religion Christian, origion Scotch, Painter, along with Mary M. Isbister, age 44, born in N.B., boarding house keeper, also Ann, aged 20; Alice, age 17; James age 15; George, age 13; Gertrude age 11; Tripoli age 7; Oswald age 22 and Phoebe Jane age 20. Also 6 boarders, one of whom is Ricmond (sic) Gibbon, age 20, born in N.S. , Church of England, no occupation given. Is this William Richmond Gibbon, son of William H. Gibbon and Rachel Fowler ? Thus Mary M. born about 1827.
On page 22 of the 1871 census under industrial establishments James Isbister is listed as a ship, house and sign painter, with floating capital of $500, working 8 months/year, employing 7 males, aggregate yearly wages $2000, using raw materials of paints & oil, gold leaf.
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