Four Generations of Vincent Men

RD Vincent

My great-great-grandfather was baptized at the Wesleyan Church on 29 Oct 1865 as David Robinson Vincent, the son of John William Vincent & Mary Ann Rogers.  He was born the 22^nd of September, 1865 at River John, Nova Scotia.  He died on the 11^th of December, 1927 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Mabel Erroll Marshall

It is a mystery why he changed his name, but he lived as Robert David, or “RD”. He met and eventually married Mabel Erroll Marshall, the daughter of Henry John Marshall and Mary Susan Lawson Boyd.

His obituary indicated that he was pioneer business man who first came west working for the CPR.  He was reputed to have driven the first Royal Mail Wagon and held the mail contract for the area between 1911 and 1921.  He started his own hack business (horse-drawn taxi service) and then started the Imperial Dray Company – a cartage business.  He was a race-horse owner and a well respected member of the Winnipeg Driving Club.

Charles Henry Vincent

Mary Clara Baynham

 My great-grandfather, Charles Henry Vincent was born 20 Oct 1888 in Winnipeg and died in Saanich, BC in 1961.  He married a Mary Clara Baynham, the daughter of Charles Henry Baynham and Clara Biggins.  

He was an accountant who served in PPCLI during WWI, liked leatherwork, astrology and was a Theosophist.

Bryan Marshall Vincent

My grandfather, Bryan Marshall Vincent was born in 1916 in Winnipeg and died in 1995 at Penticton, BC. He married a Neilsine Christianson, the daughter of Neils Christiansen and Ane Marie Anderson.  Neilsine was born in Manitoba but her parents were from Denmark.

Neilsine with first son

Bryan was a school teacher who liked astrology, woodwork, stained glass and carpentry – he and his sons built a house or two together!  He was a heavy-weight boxing champion and at one point, had to ask to be discharged from the army to compete and then returned to the RCAF.

My father, Marshall Neil Vincent was born in 1941 and died in 2002. He married Pearl Rebecca Hubley from the Hubley clan who helped to establish the Lunenburg & Seabright areas of Nova Scotia.  So we have the Vincents from the North Shore and the Hubleys from the South Shore!

He met her while he was posted in Nova Scotia with the Navy. When he left the military, he went to work for the Marconi Wireline Co and eventually volunteered to go to Vietnam during the war as an electronics technician.

Pearl Rebecca Hubley

Marshall Neil Vincent

How do we fit into the Vincents out of Yonkers?

My 4x grandfather, John William Vincent, was the son of Joshua Vincent who was the grandson of the first Charles to come to Nova Scotia around 1785.  

Because THE Charles Sr (1650) had two great-grandsons who settled in the Maritimes, they are often times mixed up.  The Nova Scotian Charles gets confused with his 2nd cousin Charles who married a Hannah Burling, but that pairing settled in New Brunswick 

'Charles of Fishkill' who settled in Nova Scotia stems from Leonard Vincent (1690), while the 'Charles of Dutchess' (NB) stems from Leonard's brother, who else but...well...Charles!

If my work is correct, I have 11 generations of Vincents going back to Charles Sr!! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!