My g-grandfather, William Henry Fairn, and his younger brother, James Hennigar Fairn, were orphaned in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in the 1850s. Their parents, Francis Fairn of Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia, and Frances Sayre Chapman, birthplace unknown, were married about 1847.

After their parents died, the two boys were brought to Annapolis Co. and raised separately by Fairn relatives. In 1874, James married Annie Ryan of Digby Co., NS. James and Annie lived in Hebron, Yarmouth Co., NS. James died accidentally in 1876 while working for the Western Counties Railway.

James and Annie had two children, a girl named Alma born in 1875 and a boy whose first name I don't know born early in 1877, a few months after his father's death.

According to my grandfather, Annie took the two children to Saint John, NB, and eventually gave them up to be raised by others. My grandfather said the boy was raised by "Pastor Hennigar", but he did not know what had become of Alma.

I am looking for information concerning a Pastor Hennigar in Saint John in the last part of the 19th century.

I don't know how "Hennigar" came to be James Fairn's middle name. I know of no one else with that name in the Fairn family.