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• Residence: 2015, Kingston, Ontario

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Scott Craft is a direct descendant of Loyalist John T Craft who served in the volunteer cavalry in Col. DeLancey’s Regiment, is commanding officer of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) at Sussex, Kings, NB, the oldest armoured unit of the Canadian Armed Forces, originally founded as the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry in 1848 by the regimentation of a number of independent cavalry troops whose history goes back to cavalry units that served in the American Revolution, in particular to 1775 in the Colony of Virginia, where a Captain John Saunders raised a troop of cavalry (Saunders’ Horse) at his own expense to fight for the Crown against the colonial rebels, which unusual troop included riflemen, grenadiers, artillery and cavalry and never knew defeat until the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1783. In September 1783, Saunders’ horse as an entity was dispatched to New Brunswick where a large number of these Loyalist solders settled in the Saint John and Kennebecasis valleys. The New Brunswick Militia Act of 1825 permitted the raising of cavalry troops by voluntary enlistment for attachment to the various county infantry battalions. Many amongst those who enlisted in these troops were the sons and grandsons of those who served with John Saunders in Virginia. By authority of Militia General Order Number One on 4 April 1848, eleven independent troops were united to from a regiment entitled the New Brunswick Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. It is this date that is officially recognized as the formation of the Regiment. The regiment was the first volunteer cavalry regiment in British North America.

Scott married Margot MANNING. Margot was born est 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2013, Kingston, Ontario

Robert married Elsie Evelyn HICKMAN on 16 Jan 1953 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Elsie (daughter of Harold Havelock HICKMAN and Nettie Cooper CRAFT) was born on 28 Jan 1932 in Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick; died on 7 Mar 2015 in MacDonalds Point, Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2008, MacDonalds Point, Wickham, Queens, New Brunswick

Perry married Jennie Elizabeth STRAIGHT on 11 Nov 1927 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Jennie (daughter of William Allan STRAIGHT and Alice May PARKS) was born on 11 Sep 1903 in Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick; died in 1996; was buried in Maces Bay Cemetery, Dipper Harbour, Saint John, New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Alice
• Census: 1921, Cambridge, Queens, New Brunswick

Harold married Nettie Cooper CRAFT on 7 Jan 1920 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Nettie (daughter of Frank CRAFT and Lucy) was born in Jan 1897 in Saint John, New Brunswick; died on 12 Jul 1991 in New Brunswick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]