Frey, Bernard

  • Finda GRAVE link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92070750/bernard-frey
  • FG profile notes:
    • Bernard Frey was listed as 1st Lieutenant in Captain William Caldwell’s Company of Butler’s Rangers paid £121.12 at the rate of 8 shillings per day for 304 days of service from 25 Dec 1777 to 24 Oct 1778. (Pay Rolls of Butler’s Rangers 1777-1778)
    • In a Muster Roll compiled for Butler’s Rangers, Bernard Frey was commissioned a Captain in Butler’s Rangers on 2 Oct 1780. He was originally an officer in the Indian Department.
    • In “Return of Persons Under the Description of Loyalists, Specifying the Number Age & Sexes of each Family In Captain Bernard Frey’s Company in the Corps of Rangers Niagara 30th November 1783” Captain Bernard Frey was listed aged 26, issued 1 ration with Mrs Frey 24 and Elisabath Frey 11 years 7 months.
    • Inscription – Sacred to the memory of Captain Bernard Frey of his Majesty’s late Corps of Butler’s Rangers, who was killed by a cannon shot at Niagara, 22nd day of November 1812, age 58.
    • Gravesite Details
      unable to find location for Captain Frey. He passed away 44 years before Victoria Lawn Cemetery was established. I double checked location of his wife’s grave marker and there’s no mention of him.
  • Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=3016