FindAGrave - Rev Richard Flood 1795-1865

• Title	FindAGrave - Rev Richard Flood 1795-1865
  Short Title	FindAGrave - Rev Richard Flood 1795-1865
  Publisher	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136899859/richard-flood Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 April 2018), memorial page for Rev Richard Flood (1795–8 Feb 1865), Find A Grave Memorial no. 136899859, citing Woodland Cemetery, London, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by George DeKay (contributor 47945128) .
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  Text	Rev Richard Flood BIRTH1795 County Galway, Ireland DEATH8 Feb 1865 (aged 69– 70) Delaware, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada BURIAL Woodland Cemetery London, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada PLOTSec. Q MEMORIAL ID136899859 · View Source --- Explanation of A.M.T.C.D. after his name on the tombstone photo, as shown to right: "Artium Magister, Trinity College, Dublin" (the first part being Latin) literally means a Master of Arts degree (A.M./M.A.) from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He married Frances Mary Blake (1812-1880) daughter of Rev. Dominick Edward Blake and Anne Margaret Hume of County Wicklow, Ireland who were married in 1799. The father died in Ireland. The widowed mother journeyed to Canada with children about 1832 and died in London, Ontario Dec.19,1872. Frances (Blake) Flood died in Nassau, The Bahamas, from yellow fever. Richard and Frances were married on Feb.27,1834 at St. Ann's Anglican church, Adelaide, Middlesex County by Frances' older brother, Rev. Dominick Edward Blake Jr. who had recently been posted to that parish. Rev. Flood, an Anglican priest, was a S.P.G. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) missionary at the new mission established among the Munsee (Munsey) or Delaware Indians at Caradoc on the Thames River, near London, Ontario, from 1834 to 1845, and at the Indian Mission of Munsee town, twelve miles from Delaware, Ontario, from 1841 to 1855. The majority of the Indians at the mission were Munsees, a branch of the Delaware nation who had come into Canada to assist the British against the American colonies. They were a remnant of those Delaware refugees from the United States, who for many years during the colonial period, had been the object of Moravian care. During the 1880s they lived in three villages: Munsee Town, Moravian Town and Grand River in Ontario. Flood's first convert was the leading chief of the tribe, Captain Snake, who was baptized in 1838. Flood's ministrations extended also to the Potawatomies, the Oneidas and the Chippewas in the neighbourhood. Flood was also involved in translations into the native language. Children: (1) Catherine A. (Dec.1834-Feb.12,1836) (2) Richard (Nov.8,1835-Jan.14,1885) (3) Annie M. (1838-Jan.18,1852) buried in father's plot2 (4) Kathleen Wilhelmina (ca1842-Dec.15,1897) moved to Winnipeg, MB and after to Prince Albert, SK with her husband, Rev. John McLean (1828-1886) who was appointed as the first Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan by the Archbishop of Canterbury. (5) Edward (July 29, 1843-Mar.24,1911) (6) William Hume (1845-Jan.21,1883) buried in father's plot (7) Charles H. (ca1847-aft.1871) - could not find him listed on any record, census or otherwise in Canada or USA after 1871 so he may have died in the 1870s, although there is no evidence of a registered death in Ontario. (8) Ernest Augustus (Sept.1849-Mar.16,1867) (9) Frances H. (July 1851-Nov.30,1931) unm. (10)Robert McGhee (May 19,1857- June 5, 1883) - buried in father's plot ------------------------------------------------------------ From an srticle titled "Looking over Western Ontario", The London Free Press, Dec. 19, 1936 Richard Flood was Beloved as Indians' Friend Missionary from Ireland Threw Himself Enthusiastically into Work Was Long, Active in the Delaware District Underwent Hardships Cheerfully as he was Gifted with Spendid Health Perhaps one of the greatest missionaries that Western Ontario has ever known was RICHARD FLOOD. His name has been carried down in the tales of the Muncey Indians and today his memory is revered by them as the "great white benefactor". Richard Flood was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1795. In 1814 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and after graduation he met Benjamin Cronyn, who later became Bishop of Huron (Ontario). He followed Cronyn to Canada in 1833. Flood was given permission to settle anywhere in Canada. He lived at Perth a short time but yearning for adventure and with thoughts of doing missionary work, he moved to Caradoc. He termed it "the darkest and most benighted corner of the province". He was the first Church of England missionary in that vicinity. In Delaware and Caradoc at that time there were about 100 white families. Many were hostile to religion of any kind and for a time Flood found his work trying. Much of his time was devoted to the religious education of the Indians of the Muncey tribe, about 200, living along the Thames River. Flood paid a visit to Bear Creek in 1835, where he found the people of a trusting, childish nature and the tribe took an instant liking to the white giant. Flood was a perfect, physical specimen, standing over six feet in height and had a pleasing disposition. He was unable to speak the Indian language which somewhat hampered him but interpreters were employed. They were Half-Moon, Chief Snake and Hoff, of the Muncey tribe. BUILDS MISSION Later he built a mission at a cost of 100 Canadian pounds but it remained unfinished for some time on account of lack of funds. The Indians were invited to the mission and as time went on it became a general meeting place. Upon the opening of the mission a large group attended and observed the services with a solemn mien. Flood was aided by Capt. James Snake, Muncey chief, who became one of the earliest converts to Christianity. An interpreter of no mean ability, Snake was forceful and preached to his people "on the wrath to come" with such zest and fire that the matter of converting the Indians became easier. But Richard Flood's work was not easy. On one occasion he wrote that it took five hours to go 12 miles from Caradoc to the Indian village. His horse was lame and he had to go on foot. "Starting in the early morning but having to walk through a densely entangled forest by an Indian footpath, jumping from fallen tree to another to avoid swamps and the mud holes, devoured by mosquitoes and under a burning sun, it was noon before I arrived." Often he did not reach home till after nightfall. For all his efforts Flood received little or no income although occasionally a small pension came from England. Even facing these difficulties, he created a marked success in his field. A travelling missionary, Thomas Green, who was well known in Port Burwell, visited Flood occasionally and spoke well of his efforts among the settlers. He married Frances Blake, a cultured young woman and they had 10 children, six boys and four girls, who were born in the big white house which still stands in Delaware village. He died in February 1865 and was buried in Delaware. In 1924 the remains were moved to Woodland Cemetery in London where a stone monument marks his resting place. Richard Flood had two burning ambitions in life, one an almost uncontrollable desire for adventure in foreign fields and the other was that some day the results of his missionary work would bear fruit.
  Linked to (11)	Annie M. Flood Catherine A. Flood Charles H. Flood Edward Flood Ernest Augustus Flood Frances H Flood Kathleen Wilhelmina Flood Rev. Richard Flood Robert McGhee Flood William Hume Flood Family: Rev. Richard Flood / Frances Mary Blake