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Note: Rev. Walter Bugden of the United Church Performed the marriage of Joseph Roberts Smallwood and Clara Isabel Oates in Carbonear on Nov 23, 1925. Joseph Smallwood brought Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949 and was premier of Newfoundland until 1972. Joey was named Joseph after Joseph Chamberlain and Roberts after Lord Roberts, Commander of the British forces in South Africa. --------------------- The Following is an excert reprinted with permission from: Holy Cross Church: Eastport, Newfoundland. Published Sept 1989.
From Random Island and Beyond, 1991, pages 179 - 180 by Wilfred B. W. Martin
Bugden, Walter. Walter was born at Petley in 1868. He was one of eight sons born to Elizabeth (nee Jestigan) and James Bugden, the first Bugden family to settle at Petley (then known as Lance Cove). Walter taught school for 30 years in different parts of Newfoundland including Badger's Quay, Eastport, Pool's Island, Salvage and Twillingate. In addition to those years as a school teacher, he was a school inspector for 6 years. His years as an inspector were spent on the Great Northern Peninsula. After a 36 year career in education, he offered himself for the Church of England ministry. In 1922, at the age of 52, he entered Queen's College, St. John's to study for the ministry. His years of study and work in the field of education stood him in good stead and he was ordained to the priesthood in 1923. From the time of his ordination until 1929, he served his church at Bonne Bay, Badger's Quay, New Perlican and Tack's Beach. Rev. Walter Bugden was a scholar, a teacher, a priest, a carpenter and a poet, - an artist with a chisel and pencil (Sparkes, 1981) He had a book of poetry, The Sheaves, published in England in 1938. On the title page of this book Walter Bugden is described as a retired associate educationalist in orders 1925-1938. Some of his poetry was published in The Newfoundland Quarterly. He wrote a series of six chapters on "The Beothics of Newfoundland" that was published in this magazine during 1938 and 1939. During his teaching and preaching careers throughout Newfoundland, he became very well known for his carpentry skills. While at Eastport, from the early 1890s to 1907, he built his own two storey house, designed and built chairs, an altar, bishop's chair, litany desk, two prayer desks and a baptismal font cover for Holy Cross church in that community. When this church purchased an organ in 1898, he became it first organist. Peddle (1986:38) reported that furniture hadcrafted by Rev. Mr. Bugden can still be seen in Anglican churches around Newfoundland, including Holy Cross at Eastport, St. James at Pool's Island, St. Peter's at Upper Gullies. The oak pedestal and the inlaid sanctuary step in All Saints Church at Petley are also examples of his craftsmanship. In 1890, Rev. Walter Bugden married Hannah Jane Laite of Petley. They had nine children, four of whom (Carrie, Cyril, Hannah,and Theodore) became school teachers. Upon his retirement from teaching in 1915, he built a house at Petley. When he retired from his career as a clergyman in 1929, he returned to Petley and remained there until his wife's death in 1942. He passed away in St. John's in 1946.
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Note: 10 Jun 1890, Walter [signed] Bugden, age 22, Bachelor, School Teacher, of Lance Cove Smith Sound, son of James Bugden-fisherman, married Hannah Jane [signed] Leate, age 24, Spinster, of Lance Cove Smith Sound, daughter of John Leate-fisherman. Wit: James [x] Bugden, Martha Jane [x] Bugden.
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