I found this map:
It is from an Atlas of Saint John City and County, New Brunswick, 1875 by F. B. Roe and N. Geo. Colby
It is of the village I grew up in, since 1901 called Lorneville. Most of us preferred the old name and still refer to it as Pisarinco, and call ourselves Pisarinconians. Stories have it that Pisarinco is a Malecite name that means "Safe harbour abounding in fish", there's no real evidence that that is what it means, so it's probably horseshit.
On the map below I have put a red dot by all the names of people I am descended from. On this map our family name is spelled "McCarver", not surprising, back in Ireland it was spelled McAver. It is a variant of MacIvor. One branch of the family settled in Boston and there they are known as McCarvers. Tim McCarver the baseball player s one of that bunch.
The area below the yellow line is what I consider to be Lorneville/Pisarinco, although the western part of the Peninsula has been named both Irishtown and Seaview at various times. The purple dot is roughly where my parent's house is.
Most of the families listed on this map came from a small village called Derryogue, Kilkeel Township, County Down, Ireland. Apparently it is the only instance, out of the massive Irish migrations in the 1800's, where a group of people came from the same place in Ireland and then stayed together in Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the U.S.A.
The property lines on this map were grants that were awarded by lottery to English Colonels between the French Indian wars and the American Rebellion. Even in 1875 they were no longer accurate and most of the properties that my ancestors bought were 100 acres or less. Pretty much everyone earned their living from fishing and farming (though the soil was and is terrible) and usually they would have some skilled sideline like cobbling or coopering as well. On the map there is listed an H. McCarver, S. McCarver, and J. McCarver, they are, respectively, My Great-great-great-great-grandfather, Hugh, my Great-great-great-grandfather, Stephen, and my Great-great-grandfather, James.
In order from my son back, the direct male line of descent is:
Stephen Lorn (my son)
Stephen Andrew (me)
Stephen Lewis (my father)
Harry Edward (my grandfather)
Stephen
James
Stephen
Hugh
Hugh McCavour had 7 children (that lived), my direct ancestor, Stephen, being the youngest. I am descended from 5 of them through various inbred pathways. I worked it out once that not only are my brothers and sister my siblings, they are also my 4th and 5th cousins. Thank God my dad married outside the village! My Mom's family (Ogdens) are descended from Loyalists from new York and Connecticut.
Anyway, Pisarinco was a great place to be a kid. We had feilds, woods, beaches, mud-flats, boats, bikes, good ponds for skating in the winter and good hills for sliding. I wish I'd been able to give my kids the same.
