MILITARY CEMETERY
(Notes revised by William J. Patterson, September 2019)

Although the Military Cemetery was opened in 1812 and functioned as such until 1815, there is no indication in St George’s Burial Register as to whom was buried there. Arbitrarily, I made a decision on who in the Burial lists for 1812 and 1813 were military and have placed their names here. Some choices were easy: US Prisoners-of-War, Regimental officers and men, but wives or children of soldiers or veterans not so easy. The opening of a military cemetery took pressure off the LBG as did the conversion of the Military Cemetery into the UBG in 1815.

Unfortunately, there are no burials recorded for the year 1814, and indeed for the last half of 1813.  Based on observations by other researchers and my own, the conclusion reached was that a page of the Burial Register is missing. Only 1814 entries on the monuments in the LBG can be used. 

In 1815, the Burial Register indicates into which burial ground the remains were placed- “old ground or new ground” in other words the LBG and the UBG. Since I have gone through the Burial Register from 1809 to 1815, the dates of the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion, I have included in this new list the day and month of the burial 

By my reasoning, there were 70 named individuals and 20 unnamed US Prisoners -of- War listed in the St George’s Burial Register who were buried in the Military Cemetery from 1812 to 1813, and a few in 1815 who were obviously military.

In this my second rendering of the St George’s Burial Records, I have discovered some names that I missed the first time through, and I have corrected some errors. I have marked them with the word NEW.

*RNF: Royal Newfoundland Fencibles 
^GLIF: Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles
#10th RVB: 10th Royal Veteran Battalion

During the years 1809 - 1812 (before the War of 1812), there were seven military burials in the LBG,

McGuin,,John, 100th Regt, 9 August 1809
Davis, John, Veteran, 26 October 1809
Philips, Thomas, Veteran, 1 January 1810
Thompson, Manuel, child of veteran, 26 February 1810
Blain, George, Sailor, 2 May 1811
Ensign Gould, Child of Veteran, 10 April 1811
Poston, James, Veteran, 26 October 1811 

Military Cemetery, opened during the War of 1812

Anderson, David, sailor, 5 January 1813
Andrews, Joseph, RNF*, 3 December 1812
Aspey, Benjamin, sailor, 24 January 1813
Barnham, William, GLIF^, 6 January 1813
Bayne, William, child (49th Regt), 22 October 1812
Bennett, James, sailor, 2 December 1812
Blanding, Sarah, (49th Regt), 9 April 1813
Brown, John, RNF, 13 March 1813
Brownhile, Elizabeth, Veteran’s wife, 25 October 1812
Buchanan, James, 10th RVB#, 15 April 1813
Burney, Kennedy, Royal Artillery, 5 December 1815, NEW
Cago, Baptist, sailor, 4 December 1812
Campbell, Hugh, 70th Regt, 15 August 1815, NEW 
Chase, Philip, GLIF, 3 February 1813
Clapp, Joseph, Militia, 25 October 1812
Clifford, Peter, sailor, 13 January 1813
Conroy, _, son of soldier (49th Regt) 1 September 1812
Crosbie, Catharine, child, 70th Regt, 24 August 1815, NEW
Curtis, Elizabeth, (8th Regt) 9 April 1813
Cyrus, Donald, GLIF, 3 February 1813, NEW
Davidson, Christian, 70th Regt, 31 August 1815, NEW
Day, Cpl Jeff, 10th RVB, 3 January 1813
Deacon, John, 10th RVB, 3 March 1813
Donald, Cyrus, GLIF, 3 October 1813
Dunn, Sgt, John, 70th Regt, 2 October 1815, NEW
Edwards, Joseph, 49th Regt, 22 December 1812
Efferam, John, RNF, 13 January 1813
Elliott, John, GLIF, 8 March 1813
Emerson, George, 49th Regt, 12 January 1813
Fraser, Sgt William, 10th RVB, 27 January 1813, NEW
Gillespie, George, 70th Regt, 20 August 1815, NEW
Goode, William, Veteran, 30 April 1812
Healy, Michael, 49th Regt, 22 December 1812
Henham, William, RNF, 1 September 1812
Hewitt, Richard, 49th Regt, 7 January 1813
Hull, Daniel, Militia, 9 December 1812
Johnson, James, RNF, 2 January 1813
Jones, Francis, 10th RVB, 5 January 1813
Langan, Patrick, Assistant Commissary General, 24 September, 1813
Lewis, Morgan, Veteran, 4 April 1812
Love, Cpl John, 49th Regt, 19 November 1812
Markland, Dedrick, sailor, 21 November 1812
McCarty, Dennis, RNF, 31 January 1813
McCalkin, Archibald, 10th RVB, 1813
McLean, Mary, wife, 70th Regt, 2 September 1815, NEW 
Miron, John, RNF, 23 October 1812
Osborne, William, Militia, 26 October 1812
Patrick, Dennis, 49th Regt, 30 October 1812
Peters, Amelia, (Veteran’s Child), 13 October 1812
Porter, George, Child (49th Regt), 27 October 1812
Powell, Ensign Richard, 8th Regt, 14 April 1813
Powers, Alexander, Militia, 10 December 1812
Roach, Edward, sailor, 28 January 1813
Robison, Francis, Veteran, 9 June 1812, NEW
St Croix, Joshua, RNF, 31 January 1813
Salmon, John, RNF, 12 November 1812
Sampson, Capt, ___, son, 10 September 1812
Scales, William, 10th RVB, 3 February 1813
Simons, Benjamin, GLIF, 6 March 1813
Smith, Benjamin, Militia, 20 November 1812
Smith, ___, son of Edmund (Veteran), 8 September 1812
Soldier of the 70th Regt, 20 July 1815, NEW
Stubbs, Randall, 10th RVB, 15 January 1813
Hugh Toppings, 70th Regt, 31 October 1815, NEW
Vanderbiskin, Margaret, (Veteran’s Child), 30 August 1812
Walker, James, Royal Artillery, 23 September 1815, NEW
Webber, John, RNF, 2 January 1813
Welsh, Robert, RNF, 3 December 1812
White, Thomas, 49th Regt, 5 January 1813
Willis, James, RNF, 9 August 1812
Yound, Henry, Militia 21 October 1812