Hefford: Difference between revisions

| text = One of the earliest Newfoundland references to the Hefford family concerns a William Hefford, who in 1675 was fishing out of New Perlican, Trinity Bay. William was reported to have had three boats, four stages, a flake and eighteen servants. By 1753 the Hefford family was well established in the Trinity Bay area and in particular at New Perlican. The following Hefford families were living in New Perlican, circa 1750-1800: James and Elizabeth, William and Honor, Simon and Martha and James and Mary. Listed in the William Warn Ledger (1749-1759) is a William Haeffeard.

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The article also lists the family of a William and Mary Hefford of New Harbour (about 30 km south of New Perlican), including a son William-b1810{{efn|name=fn3}} baptized at age 13 years in 1823 (so born ca  1810).  This is consistent with some of the New Perlican Heffords moving further up Trinity Bay to New Harbour<ref name=Foot03/>.  William-b1810 may have been the father of the Elias who settled in Snook's Harbour, although this is doubtful.