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There
were two Coveduck plantations one purchased by William Coveduck and the second
Stephen Coveduck inherited from his father in law through marriage in 1760.
William had a daughter who married a Warford and her sons John Warford and
Henry Warford inherited their grandfather William Coveduck's land in 1830. Stephen
Coveyduck's land is the now the historic homestead of Dragheda which still
stands at the head of South River" and is currently owned by Melvin
Morgan a direct descendent of John Coveduck of Porte De Grave. The Earliest Record I have found with the COVEYDUCK spelling is in 1807 for Peren Coveyduck; Guppy traced the surname Coveyduck in Cornwall and Newfoundland and found. Coveyduck: A Newfoundland variant apparently not recorded elsewhere of the surname of England Cobbledick, Cobledick, associated with the surname Cobbold, from the old England personal. name (Cuthbeald) which contains the elements (Famous and Bold).... (Bardsley, Reaney).
John
Coveduck born 1825 married Francis Anne (Wells) their children were Emily
Coveduck 1856, Mary Olivia Coverduck 1859, Eliza Jane Coverduck 1860 , Selina
Bertha Coveyduc 1864 and James Coveyduc 1866.
( DPHW 34 Archives of Newfoundland) John
Coveduck’s daughter Selina Bertha Coveyduc
worked as a cook for a Newfoundland man, Robert Mesher in 1881 in Cape
North, Labrador. She Married his
son Reubin Absalon Mesher and the Coveyduc / Mesher connection begins in
Labrador. John Coveduck’s son James Coveyduc is most likely the first Coveyduc recorded in the Coveyduc Family Tree and is the connection to the Nova Scotia branch. William Coveduck
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